BUILDING ANALYSIS
MUSEUM BANK MANDIRI The new cultural boutique hotel will be implemented in a historical building within the Old Town area called Museum Bank Mandiri. This historical banking museum, completed in 1933, was originally a Dutch colonial bank. After Indonesia’s independence, the government claimed the ownership of the building and declared it as a national banking institution. It evolved into a museum in 1998, and since then, has been displaying the history and collections of the Dutch and the Indonesian banking activities. The four-story Art Deco style building has maintained its original construction to this day and has never been renovated. It only went some repainting throughout the years. In its day-to-day operation the museum is open for public visitations. However, its daily turnovers is considered quite low compared to the neighboring banking museum in the area. This gives an opportunity to creatively transform the purpose of this building into a boutique hotel. The museum itself can actually merge with the other banking museum to display a more comprehensive histories and collections of Indonesian banking systems. This idea of transforming the museum into a hotel is in alignment with the government’s future program and is also based on the fact that the Old Town Jakarta area does not have many existing hotel accommodations. Repurposing this particular building into a cultural boutique hotel can strategically create more and more opportunity to develop the neighborhood into a sophisticated tourist destination. 30