why are you shopping in my backyard?

Modernization, globalization, and colonization have forced a domestic transplanting in neighborhoods globally and created social segregation and individualist living. The two dualities that exist in Jakarta, the kampungs, the informal organic dwelling, and the new typology of the neighborhood above the mall, shows the extent and evolution of what housing has become in the city.

This thesis is interested in looking at the architectural tools that h ave devised this transformation. Through looking at the social frameworks, and how it has affected ideas and reveal invisible power dynamics in the neighborhood. As well as looking at what happens when the imported architectural system that was once unfamiliar, colonizes itself within the Indonesian domestic and how it has taken erased values of cohabitation, mutual assistance, autonomy, sociability, and intergenerational living, that was once an intrinsic element in the neighborhood.

This thesis aims to highlight the structural problem and reveal the peculiarities that have been formed through these imported systems. What happens when the new accepted systems are glitched and hack to reveal the defects it has caused in our understanding of domestication.

Thesis Preparation Professor Marcos Parga ARC 508 Fall ’22