EAST ASIA 2013 DEPARTEMENT OF ARCHITECTURE INSTITUT TEKNOLOGI BANDUNG
106 was. So I just kept blabbering, then I knew he was not asking about the things I answered about. Poor me. Our first final review was terrible. The professor said we have not done anything except closing the second gate and not letting the car go inside on the site. We still had not got the point of the issues, the analysis and the big idea. Everything is still shattered. The UF students were too focused on the design without went deep into the issue and the big idea. Some of the UGM and ITB students were the opposite. Yet we couldn’t discuss and combine it well. We separated the design proposes into many parts. Each person got one part to be designed, but we had no time to combine it and discuss more about it, so it was going to be too fragmented. One fatal thing we forgot to discuss was the urban scale aspect. We forgot what Ndalem Pujokusuman‘s role is in Jogjakarta and the surrounding. I felt completely down. Near the second final review time, all we did was discussing the issue, meeting the professor and talking about what design we are proposing. We started to face communication problem. In many discussions, the Indonesian students use Bahasa instead of English. For some of us, it is because of the limited English skill. Bethany and Leon let us speak Bahasa, but we knew if it was important to be discussed together, we had is so important. ROMO Ndalem Pujokusuman has a deep history that attracted me to know deeper. First time we visited the site, we met the landowner. We called him Romo. The 4th Sultan to use English. For that reason, having the good ability to speak in foreign language Hamengkubuwono gave his father the land. He lives in a private place beside the Pendhopo. I was amazed when he let us to get into the back room. I saw so many royal things that were from the Sultan, such as pictures, mirror, cupboard, and bedstead. Everything was made from high quality wood. We had to visit the site for two to three times. On the site visit, we talked so many things with Romo. Although it was a little hard for him to talk, he was still on fire to tell us everything about Ndalem. It was a pleasure to talk to him. One night when we chatted with him, his wife served us a glass of hot Javanese beer. That was so awesome! We all liked it. LAST FINAL REVIEW According to the evaluations of the first and second final review, I made the storythe pendhopo, so we thought it contrasted with the existing too much. There DAILY JOURNAL