Network of Humanities’ Desire; ‘Prize/Price Highway)”
‘An architecture which incites occupants to move from one place to another through personalized cost options and incentives accommodated by the quantification of intangible data.’
Site Project
Areas around Blok M, South Jakarta Perancangan Arsitektur 4
Mentor Ir. Ferro Yudhistira, M. Ars, Ph. D.
1. Access to Blok M Plaza
2. Entrance to Progress Highway (Scanner)
3. Surveillance and Operator Area
4. Rest Area (Outdoor)
5. Rest Area (Indoor)
Data-Driven Design
‘Fueled by their desire, people move’.
Normalized to the abundance of information in their everyday life, humanity has come to the era where they expect all aspect of their life to be quantifiable, affecting their perception of cost and reward more than they ever had. Aspects of life which may be neglected before, may now become an aspect of reward, both consciously or not.
Architecture should be able to enbridge the ambiguity between cost and reward in such a way that the occupants’ will want to pay the cost for the reward that they personally sought. This would be achieved by enforcement of accomplishment and progress, personalized scenery and or experience, destination oriented, and give concrete value to the reward which they sought, all through a quantified meaning available through the use of technology integrated.
Progress Highway
The main program of PriCe/PriZe Highway lies within the architecture of Progress Highway, the main means of travel from one node to another.
Equipped with systemically adjustable boundary, it results in a different perception and experience of the context which it locates, which, after calculated quantifically by the system, gives occupants a sense of personalized experience and prize choosing, encouraging the occupants to choose the route with the most rewards resonating with their best interest.
South Senegal Elementary ‘Manjak School’
‘A modular architecture consisting of structures and panels which aims to propagate and speed up the avalability of elementary education in South Senegal.’
Site Project
Any flat site around Casamance, South Senegal
Kaira Looro 2023 Competition Entry
in collaboration with Heidy Sekardini
Sekar Nabila Prajwalita Reka Pravyana
I Gusti Agung Shintya Dewi
Muhammad Rizky Irhansyah
Modular
Childrens grow, so should the architecture which nourishes them.
This statement serves as the primary design concept of Manjak School, a modular system of an elementary school, which could cater to any site on which the school was chosen to be built. Such systems aim to help propagate and speed up the construction process to support the availability of elementary education in South Senegal as it is the main issue currently faced by the country.
Inspired by the Manjak Fabric, a traditional Senegalese fabric, the architecture features a repeating modular system, forming a synergy between the shapes to form hexagons. The hexagonal hives are formed by disparted hexagonal-based shapes, such as triangular, parallelogram, and trapezoid, improving the range of spatial needs fulfillment.
The initial hive serves as the heart of the school, consisting and fulfilling the school’s primary needs and programs.
Uniting the Hives
The center of the hive, void of boundaries, brimmed with water from the great gift of fogs harvested from the air, utilizing fog catchers, which will be used as a life support for buds of vegetation as a representation of the children’s limitless potential of growth, slowly nourished of life and becoming the center of society’s growth.
Legend;
1. Concrete foundation
2. Rammed earth flooring
3. 15 cm diameter bamboo column
4. 4 cm diameter double bamboo column
5. 4 cm diameter bamboo beam
6. Pre-fabricated OSB wall panel filled with compressed plastic waste
7. Rosewood door panels with louvers
8. Rosewood pivot window panels with louvers
9. 4 cm diameter bamboo truss
10. 3 cm diameter bamboo joist
11. 15 cm diameter half bamboo slat roofing
The Construction
Bamboo is chosen as the main material for the structure of the modular system, fitting, as it is the very embodiment of growth, for when the children grow, so do the modules to fulfill their needs. Contrary to the view of not using bamboo due to desertification, we see bamboo as a sustainable material for its rapid growth. The straightforward design of the modules is taken into account when choosing bamboo as the main material, as it does not require the workers to alter from its natural form.
Sheeps’ Nurturing System; ‘baa’-mbooeD
‘An architecture created from a modular architectural system that takes advantage of the flexible nature of bamboo, that enable adaptation to environmental conditions. This project provides healthy sun exposure and optimal farmer supervision to maximize sheep welfare and wool quality produced through different scenarios of adaptations.’
Site Project Mentor
Can be applied anywhere; Rote Ndao, NTT, Indonesi;a (example) Perancangan Arsitektur 3
Ir. Erick Budhi
The Module System
As the sun becomes a main deciding factor for the wool’s quality, a sun and shading analysis should be done to determine the best module composition in according to the chosen site.
The optimal composition should be chosen based on amount of healthy sunlight to be received by both humans’ and sheeps’, while also considering movement and workflow efficiency for the farm’s logistic’s needs.
Site conditions, such as; pre-existing trees and contours, would be accomodated by the flexibility of the modules. Voids on the roof will accomodate the position of existing trees and the preferred interior in order to maximize efficiency and workflow of the farm, while the flexibility of bamboo’s length will accomodate for the different contours which it will be placed on.
Performative Modularity
The applied module composition may be adjusted to the preferred flow of work of the whole sheep farm, taking account not only on the natural factors but also utilities of how the sheep should be transported in-and-out of the farm.
main unit;
‘Water refinement facilities which processes (filters) nature’s energy in the form of sunlight, sun heat, mountain wind, river water, and human movement in order to generate green energy to provide clean water for surrounding residents.’
Site Project
Along reservoir Saguling, West Bandung, Indonesia Perancangan Arsitektur 3
Mentor Alvar Mensana
‘Porifer(A)’
Filtering Nature
Inspired by the porifera phylum (sponges), the building is shaped and forged by nature, processing everything that passes through it and releasing it back into nature. Porifer(A) processes natural elements such as sunlight, solar heat, air, river water, and human movement into energy and spatial elements which would benefit itself and the occupants inside or around the building.
Porifer(A) is a building that can generate clean energy, sustaining itself and the community around it.
Refining Communities
Having a clean water outlet of 1,042,000 liters per day, Porifer(A) can meet the needs of approximately 7,000 people (around 1 district) in a day.
The Porifera units is a long-term project that can help clean the entire water system from upstream to downstream, from the Saguling reservoir to the Jatiluhur reservoir.
Kalibaru Sea Hub; ‘Merang-Mereng’
‘An architecture integrating the three main essences of the people of Kalibaru, Fishing, Cooking, and Trading into one whole architecture which a Kalibaru’s society.’
Site Project
Kalibaru, North jakarta, Indonesia Perancangan Arsitektur 4
Mentor Ir. Anthony Sihombing, MPD. Ph. D.
Programming the Essence
Kalibaru Sea Hub proposes to integrate the three main essences of the people of Kalibaru, which are Fishing, Cooking, and Trading into one whole architecture. By combining those three life essences into one whole architecture, Merang-Mereng will become a growth catalyst for the whole sub-district’s economic activities. The spatial qualities of Merang-Mereng will allow visitors to experience living in Kalibaru through understanding and witnessing the whole process of living of the people of Kalibaru, starting from fishing (passively and actively), sorting and storing the fishes in the storage or market, selling the fishes, to cooking and eating the fishes in the restaurant.
As the project focuses on topdown design method, precedent analysis regarding related program’s typology (Restaurant, Market, and Dock) is done to understand the essence of said typologies.
Contrasting Acoustics
Markets and dining areas are both spaces which requires rather specific acoustic quality.
Market requires a space which is not too quiet, yet not too crowded, highlighting the bustling quality of a busy market; needing a space which sound can travel equally (needing a diffuser), meanwhile a dining area requires gaps between each dining table to ensure each group of customer retains their privacy in a public setting; needing a space which sound can be audible only to the table which they are sitting at (needing an absorber as a medium).
