Winners Announced for Gotong Royong City
The winners of the idea competition for the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) 2009 in collaboration with Ikatan Arsitek Indonesia (Indonesian Institute of Architects Jakarta Chapter) have just been announced. The IABR introduced this competition to ‘explore to what extent architects, with their knowledge, skills, and imaginative powers, can contribute to solving urgent problems in contemporary society. It therefore challenges the design disciplines, using the specific expertise of architecture, to conduct “research by design” and to develop concrete proposals, based on the Biennale’s theme’. The theme of this year’s competition Gotong Royong City (translated to be “mutual assistance”) is took create an “urban condition that enables diverse cultures and lifestyles to coexist….in the context of the extended metropolitan region of Jakarta.”
First prize was awarded to Jakarta Bersih!, second place was awarded to Let’s Catch the Water! Jakarta Sponge City, third place for Field Estate: A Platform for Symbiotic Urbanism, and special mentions to Ojek City: Permeable Mobility, Stitching the Strip, and Eco Gate as Border Device.
Winning project descriptions and images after the break.
NUNC architecten
Steven Brunsmann
Johan Krol
João Bentes
Floor Moormann
Tanja Van der Laan
Jakarta bersih!, a vertical cleaning kampung (condensed community) addresses Jakarta’s issues of overpopulation, pollution, shortage of green area, poverty, floods and vast waste-volume. The idea proposes that the kampungs become two-sided high-rise structures. By relocating the kampungs, there will be space to create open green areas. A waste processing machine will sit on top of the high-rise, thus providing jobs for those who are struggling financially.
mamostudio + UPH University
Adi Purnomo and David Hutama
with Carolina Setiawan, Steven Rendi Willyvans, Irene
Setiawati, Tifani Veronica, Cicilia Angelia, Arsheila Kinan,
Ayudya Paramitha, Kelly, Conny Andriani Yosisca
Let’s catch the water! Jakarta Sponge City, the competition’s second place winner, encourages the collection of rain water. The idea consists of nine watersheds that will be strategically distriubted around Jakarta to turn ”a natural disaster into something beneficial to the community.”
GABPA architects
Gesa Buettner and Alejo Paillard
with Alvar Mensana
Field Estate: A Platform for Symbiotic Urbanism finished third with the idea to ”achieve a city-scape of typological diversity and cooperative coexistence, combining normally segregated urban conditions into strategic partners.” Two main elements, towers and platforms, play different roles in the city. The towers provide density to the urban atmopshere with their formation mimicking a water lily, while platforms adapt to the existing infrastructure.
LABO Architecture+Design Ojek City: Permeable Mobility is an organic temporary shelter designed to be constructed anywhere. The flexible shelter can turn lost spaces into social spaces, easily maintained by and belonging to the community. Dimitrij Zadorin Stitching the Strip, a contemporary ”corporate strip”, is a metaphoric symbol amending the existing urban structures to reconnect kampungs by a series of bridges and reorganize the space around skyscrapers. Budi Pradono Architects The last honorable mention winner, Eco Gate as Border Device, responds to Jakarta’s drastic population increase due to suburbanization. The project aims to stop the development As seen on designboom. All images courtesy of the International Architectural and Urban Design Competition.
Deddy Wahjudi PhD, Nelly L. Daniel PhD,
Hamal O. Pangestu, Mariska Pratimi, Angga Rosiawan
Budi Pradono, Anton Suryono, Yuli Sri Hartanto, Rina Nur
Aisah, Adam Modigliani Prana, Adryan Fernando Hutagaol,
Primaldi Perdana
of gated communities in an effort to create a new ”cohabitation between various industries and individuals”.
hope it will be realized some day….
Jakarta is on crisis…always so many plan, but never been realized…
Don’t worry about it. the current crisis means that this will not be realized.
Putting people into high-rises to create green space? How very Corbusian of you! Nice utopian vision, however it seems to lack a real understanding of modern social dynamics.
oh so true, the lack of social and cultural understanding is godsmacking
Are you kidding me!?!? …This is so wrong in every level. Has any of the jury ever lived in Jakarta, or visited this city?
Lot of cute little fantasy that doesn’t work; (“A waste processing machine will sit on top of the high-rise, thus providing jobs for those who are struggling financially.”) ..what..?!, carved out mosque – with living units stacked above it?, circulation ramp? what do you think these people suppose to do with it?… ooh.. aahh, then what? urgh… ouch?
Put this proposal somewhere else. Jakarta has far deeper problem to solve and it would take couple of more generations to go through before it can integrate such theory.
Other entries may have not seem so fantastical, but perhaps more understanding and sensitive. who knows.
Yes, I do believe this projects will never be realized. The core of the problem is way too complicated to be fixed by high rise building with circulation ramp. Most of Indonesian people are not educated enough to follow complicated instruction for waste processing machine. I think, instead of creating projects that only shouts with no action; why not create a competition that let architects to deal with the culture of people living in kampong. Working inside out, instead of outside-in? We need to look into each area, how their system works, identify the problems and solve it. But not removing the whole lot and put them in a high rise building.
But, I do have to give a compliment on the effort. A small step is a step after all.
11:30 AM Jul 16th
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