Golden Egg - Dome Village Vision for Mentigi Bay Community

Mentigi Bay
Lombok - Indonesia

THE GOLDEN EGGS

We loved the idea of the egg and started researching it’s deeper meaning in culture and mythology. We found that the earliest ideas of an "Egg-shaped Cosmos“ comes from Sanskrit scriptures. The Sanskrit term for it is Brahmanda (Brahm means Cosmos’, Anda means Egg’). The Upanishads elaborate the Cosmic Egg floating around in the emptiness of the universe for a while, and then broke into two halves which formed Heaven and Earth.

These concepts existed in nearly every ancient culture, as well as in the Chinese Mythology of Pango, a god who grew in an egg and broke it into two halves, creating heaven and earth. Or the Egyptian god Ra was contained in a cosmic egg, laid by the mystic bird Anubis.

In popular culture the idea of a cosmic egg was used in comics and science fiction such as in Isaac Asimovs novel "The Gods Themselves“ where baby universes, in their cosmic egg stage, are used as alternative fuel. However, the Egg is highly symbolically charged. We decided to use the form's immanent creative power for our project.

But who would design and build those egg shaped luxury villas?

THE ARCHTECT
We needed someone who would be sharing our vision, who would take pleasure in developing something completely new and bold and beautiful.
Wolfgang a painter and architect has lived in Indonesia for over 30 years.

Wolfgang Widmoser studied painting at the Vienna Acadamy with professor Ernst Fuchs, a widely known artist of surealism. Widmoser also studied in Figueres with THE icon of surealism: Salvador Dalí.

Widmoser also studied architecture and was trained at the office of the famous designer Frei Otto, who was the first to use organic forms in 1972 at the Munich Olympic Stadium.

We approached him, he agreed to take a look at the estate and we all travelled together from Bali to Lombok on one of our beautiful boats the 'Al Isra', being rocked gently into peaceful slumber by the swell of the Lombok Strait.
In the early morning we arrived and the 'Al Isra' ankered in front of the bay.

Wolfgang was ignited by his very first view.
He took his sketchbook and sketched, scribbled and drew until night fell.

Mentigi Bay - Lombok - Indonesia

Telephone: +62 353292447 - Email: mentigibay@hotmail.com