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Bringing Back Community
Priyanka Augustina 08111740000048
Sustainability in architecture has always consisted of three aspects: economic, social, and environmental. In the early days, people used to only focus on the economical aspect, as to how the building can profit the most. It was only around the last twenty years that environmental aspects are considered alongside the economic aspects. With the two combined, architecture has been trying to create the so-called sustainability architecture. But, while many have done studies regarding economic and environmental sustainability, social sustainability on the other hand is still underdeveloped.
According to Berkeley Group, social sustainability defines as combining the design of the physical environment with a focus on how the people who live in and use a space relate to each other and function as a community. It is enhanced by development that provides the right infrastructure to support a strong social and cultural life, opportunities for people to get involved, and scope for the place and community to evolve.
The world has gotten digital, everything can be done inside your house, with one device, connecting people across the world. But what happened with the ones physically close to us? Human is a social species whose lives depend on others. But people nowadays lack physical interaction, even physical activities themselves. This then will lead to a lack of sense of belonging. The neighbourhood won’t evolve if the community doesn’t engage themselves in it, which then leads to what is called social autism and economic polarization.
Based on the issues above, this project chose public space as an answer. According to Victoria State Government, public spaces are those areas in the public realm that provide a public use or recreation function, such as parks, plazas, and street spaces. Public spaces accommodate a diversity of activities and provide interest and amenity for people.
With the theories of form and function, this project experiment on how architecture will look like if it focuses on the people, the community who inhabit them, with the objective to improve the quality of life of the sheltered community
Located in Raya Jemursari Street, Surabaya, this project is in a form of a park that sheltered two categories of users: inhabitants and outsiders. Inhabitants are the ones who inhabit the site — as it is located in a housing area, while outsiders are people who constantly use the area — as it is located on the busy fast lane. It mainly explores the program and accessibility bases on the lifestyle of the community, the activities they have done, and what they needed.
Nature Making Form in Ruined Land: Ex-Mining SIte as Ecotourism
Elia Susanti 0811184000001
“Form follow Function”. It is a famous architectural line believed by many. And it is not wrong, by conjectures it can be concluded “Nature making Form”, because nature decide function and thus nature decide the form.
Most of the current building aren’t aware of the nature and the life within. And not all building adjusting with the nature as a form. Nature awareness is a must, in the state the world now. It’s starting to decay
Sustainability is developing towards the “future”, but how much longer the future world stretch on without nature? Then it means nature focused sustainability, it leans towards ecology.
By combining ecology with architectural form which adjusting to nature, then it would make the “future” may be longer. Recovered land and water ecosystem combined with the shelter of human, resulting in the art of building.
Ex mining site, the place where the land is damaged and the water is polluted. The one who managed it irresponsibly say ‘for tourism’. With that kind of treatment, the land is to remain desolate and deprave of life.
Bringing life back to destroyed land, we need to bring nature first, plant and trees. A design for the recovery of the nature, of course focused on plants first. By making the land and the trees luscious and green, and the water sparkling and clean. Then the human shelter will settle among them without snatching the sunlight and the land nutrition.
The side of the lake full of water plants, thus the building will be placed on the middle of the lake, where it couldn’t disturb any living things. And the building on the land will be placed up on top of trees, so it wont steal the land. And when the building and the nature coexist, the human and the surrounding itself will be pleasing in living
Architecture-ing Vegetation
Rusyda Tamma Hidayat 08111840000023
Zero Waste Ecotourism
Most of the waste in the world is waste from construction materials, which is closely related to the discipline of architecture. Waste generated by processes carried out by humans, not the least that reduces the quality of the environment to even take natural assets. There is broad consensus about the substantial increase in biodiversity loss that could cause destructive effects on ecosystems. As a result of over-harvesting natural resources and emitting more CO2 than regenerative capacity can absorb, people consume 1.7 more natural assets than nature can regenerate, and its become an unsustainable benchmark for a healthy ecosystem.
The demands of human needs for nature have exceeded the biocapacity which represents ecological assets so that over time the natural assets have been exhausted, and humans can no longer use nature as the main resource.
Speculating about build a building without building materials, so that the resulting development is construction without construction waste and does not damage the environment by building nature as a means of returning assets from humans to nature.
Get the conclusion that applying the concept of sustainable design can be done by building nature. The development that can be carried out by humans can be in the form of physical buildings to the scope of the surrounding environment (constructing nature). So that in the application of the sustainable concept, it can present new energy sources by utilizing the artificial nature that was built.
From a mangrove plant object, it is equated with the fundamental concept of a building. For example, twigs and leaves become elements of the roof of the building, stems from mangroves become solid elements in the form of walls, and the roots become the foundation elements that support the entire building. The unity of the elements in the mangrove plant, when associated with several other plants, will produce a simple space. If the example is done on a larger scale, it will create a building.
Edurgy Center (Education Energy Center)
M. Faisal Kurniawan 08111840000044
Architectural collaboration between nature (wind, hydro & plant) with technology makes space unlimited which makes human activities diverse. But on the other hand, nature can also limit the room with periodic/final time, supported by technology that supports changes over time. Not only limited but also maximizing design power and can be used as a power plant center
Also collaborating with the community to introduce education about energy in the future which is increasingly expanding from energy sources, materials to the industrial revolution
HUMAN SERVE, NATURE MAKE IT!
Wastra Dulu: Retracting Digitalization
Syarifa Aqila 08111840000049
Human advancement has triggered the rapid improvement of computers and telecommunication technologies, allowing digitalization to be massively used by human and now keeps on emerging on every aspect of life.
Digitalization is also present in architecture and it changes the way architecture is built in some manners, however the biggest change it has given is the way architecture is portrayed physically and visually. The continuous emergence of digitalization in architecture results in questioning the relevance of building real space when interactions can be done just as well, or might be better in virtual spaces with people logging in into the architecture digitally and in separated places. However, the question was debunked by the fact that digital and virtual communications that happen in virtual/digital place still occur in real places in reality. One thing that still lingers is that the real places now might only serve as the media of digital and virtual interactions and hold no presence of real social interactions at all.
Humans area social creature that need interactions to occur on a daily basis, and keep interactions as the essential aspect that keeps their life going. The emergence of digitalization, especially internet has made interactions more accessible to most people, however interactions are shifting into digital and virtual social interactions that happen digitally and in separated places.
Through its presence, digital interactions has made real places lost its meaning of accommodating human interactions as these places now only serve as the medium of digital interactions. This brings out the idea of shifting into conventional interactions once again, as if digitalization and internet has been destroyed and run into massive problems until their usage are very limited and hard to get.
In order to get a real connection and interactions of people that use the building, the subjected site holds an emphasis on this design. Its subjected site is a form created from the residue areas in the centre of Bandung, city with the highest internet usage in Indonesia. Rather than claiming a big empty site with “ideal” sizing, site from residues is thought to be better fitted as a connector of people, and nature and building.
Musee Culturel
Hertian Yusuf Febriyadi 08111840000066
The use of fossil fuels and glass materials has a huge impact on the environment and living things, such as a mechanization wave driven by steam engines, electricity, and coal-fueled oil supporting the increasing supremacy of the city. It covers all aspects of the urban renewable energy revolution, illustrating a cultural and economic shift to local and regional autonomy and adequacy, embodied in land use and transport efficiency, finance, regulation, demand management and distributed renewable energy generation technologies. The logic of high carbon architecture is so removed from thermal information design that it becomes inevitable to rethink buildings in their respective climatic locations and conceptualize them as responsive structures on a daily basis, so in this design I built a museum that can minimize and proportionate the use of fossil fuels , and also maintain local culture so that it does not rub off due to urbanization that occurs.
Silent Life: Energy for Sustainable City
Graciani Cahyadresta Dewanda 08111840000079
Silent life is an architecture that gives energy for sustainable city. Based on the theory of Beyond Sustainability: Architecture in Renewable City as Peter Droege said, this design focus on how architecture can contribute to energy for the city to make city more renewable. This design also based on architectural theory, namely material-immaterial theory that put forward by Leon Bautista Alberti (1486), Juhani Pallasmaa (1996), and Jonathan Hill (2006). This theory is debating about the principle of materials, and also rethinking about it as immaterial that also being concerned in architecture.
Because of these theories, this design named Silent life to represent energy as immateriality, so we can say it’s silent. The phrase ‘silent’ here also can be interpretated as the other immateriality that had been experimented in the design. Silent life was born based on the issues of energy consumption in the city that increasing and it made the invention of battery more destroying the nature. We pull this issues in the future with the magic word of ‘What If?’. What if power plant in the future will be being done everywhere? What if the consumption of energy will increase more? What if the use of battery still high? What if battery mining on the land will more destroy the nature? And, what if there will be an invention of battery’s mining technology in the deep sea saltwater? And yes, we found it now that there is an invention of battery’s mining technology in the deep sea saltwater by using lithium extraction. By constructing this context speculation, the design speculation is the architecture as a power plant also energy saver that using renewable resources and it can be distributed to the city and giving immateriality by the distributed energy and the experimented of human experiences in the design. This design speculation is packaged in the Science Education Center as the building typology.
The concept of Silent life is playing with the sea. The main feature is the installation of lithium extraction by solar energy. This installation installed on the masses above the sea. This design is experimenting element of architecture used in the mass. The criteria was to give immateriality through new human experiences. To aim this criteria, experimentation used to give immateriality by ‘cooking’ the floor and how to make this mass adapting through the water surface — by make it floated and stable. The floor used is a flexible floor, so it can shaking by following the motion of water surface. And the idea of this flexible floor is implemented also in how to make it in a conference room that having a tribune on it. So the idea is putting in the water in the building to make the floor also shaking. The roof of this room is transparent plastic using pneumatic structure. There are also screens for people in the conference room enjoying the education video or others. And that’s why the roof is transparent so people can enjoy the screen while in the room.
Symbiotic Space
M. Iffrin Delifiano 08111840000089
Urbanization impacts biodiversity and ecosystems both directly and indirectly. By 2030, more than 60% of the population will live in urban areas. According to research conducted by the Mc Donald team in 2014, urban growth of 10 percent of all ecoregions would account for nearly 80 percent of the estimated loss of living species. If all the land above the land has been used by humans to live, then what is left is on top of other buildings, in the air, and on water. In this design, the designer uses media above the river to create a habitat for flora that does not disturb so as to create a natural impression. The design that is built will later become a new habitat for flora as well as provide a symbiotic relationship of mutualism with the components contained in the river ecosystem so as to create a symbiotic space. The elements that are built to achieve the natural concept, then these elements must maintain and not disturb the existing ecosystem such as light received by natural components of rivers, streams, and others. The design role in the river concept is like a stone that does not interfere with the river ecosystem, even stone is also a medium for moss or algae habitat. With this, the ecosystem that already exists in the river will not be disturbed by the design to be built.
