CD Progress

When I asked one of my friend who lived in floods area in Jakarta,"according to your experience, what would they needed the most, and the hardest to find during the monsoon season?" According to his response, since it takes 1-4 weeks for the water recedes most people would like to have:
1. fresh water.
2. food.
3. electric.
4. shelter.

Not enough space for the water to circulates, the water entering inside the house, and destroy furnitures, and personal belonging. Circulation for the water giving the ideas of the new housing to sit on the stilts, that allows the water to circulates, while keeping the house dry. In order to be successful, the housing community need to have different programs for different activity, and be able to be self sufficient for the occupants.

The creation of the multi-purpose dikes is the main focal point, where its function can be transform to different purpose and activity during normal and dry season.
For example, in the morning activity inside the dikes can be use for tai-chi/exercise activities, there is a small market place for the resident to buy local, organic and fresh seafood and waters capes features that is open until late night for family to enjoy and spend time.
This type of activity is very commonly found in Asian countries.

Another important features in the North end of the Dikes the rainwater is collected and purified in the reed beds, so it can be use during emergency or dry season.

The modular housing system can be design to suit each owner, and place it on the stilts foundation system. While the house facade is not in traditional architecture in Indonesia, but the idea of the stilts houses on the water are well known in vernacular architecture in Indonesia. The modular house need to be plug into the grid walls (the girds that have many amenities are inspired from bamboo scaffolding that are commonly use until today) in order to have electrics, ducts, and plumbings into the house.

CD Progress

The experience of going into this place would be, a person would have to use the ramp to pass the store/restaurant entrance, before ascending to the residential area. This very idea of circulation was taken from RU-KO(store-house) placement, where the lower level serves as public area (store, small shop) and the higher level is for living (Private area) . Historically and traditionally, people would gather and socialize in lower level of the structures, while the higher become more secluded and private area.
Open underground lower level is make sense for comfort level by lowering the temperature for the pedestrians, and this system will also allowed the high water to re-channel and pass through.

Small Floods.

During High Floods condition.

Design Update

Instead of floating platform like my original design, this one has one core walls, where you can attach each houses (modular) to it. The house comes with hydraulic to allow the vertical movement for the house; in case there is a flood each of the houses can adjust their height.

The main entrance to each of this housing unit is accessible from main core wall, located bellow the grades. Entry path location is a moment where human elements embrace the connection between earth and water in human’s life. The idea comes from when the waves hit the shore, and when the waves recedes, it leaves a striation marks on the land. When the water connected the ground it creates a new creation, creation where human can appreciate and celebrate.

Feedback from SD review

-What is neighborhood means for the new floating house community?
-Why the buildings looks like what they are now?
-Show what would happened/ the aftermath/afterthought if we are not responding to the natures.

Section and Isometric view

WATER RECYLING

Site Plan Rendering

Ru-Ko

RuKo is Rumah(house) Toko(store) (so Ru-Ko is house and store in one building) : building usually from 2 to 4 storeys that is used for both a home and a store. The first floor is usually for store and the second floor is for living. Very little ornament and architectural features, flat roof concrete deck.

RuKo is the results of limited space and expensive land. The intention of RuKo is for people who need to have a dwelling and also source of income.
The style is usually uninteresting, flat, and really just as a function purposes.
The intention of having RuKo in the propose site to respond the existing condition, and to recreate the form to follow the function. Instead of having house and shop, actually combine with restaurant below and the RuKo to serve as a filter system for the sea water.

The Water Resources of Earth

Facts about water:
Over 70% of our Earth's surface is covered by water ( we should really call our planet "Ocean" instead of "Earth"). Although water is seemingly abundant, the real issue is the amount of fresh water available.

• 97.5% of all water on Earth is salt water, leaving only 2.5% as fresh water

• Nearly 70% of that fresh water is frozen in the icecaps of Antarctica and Greenland; most of the remainder is present as soil moisture, or lies in deep underground aquifers as groundwater not accessible to human use.

This is good opportunity to use the land and implement technologies like desalination in a smaller scale to obtain fresh water from seawater. seawater is pumped into main reservoir by the user , and then redirected through a reverse osmosis channel where it is chemically filtrated in order to be drinkable. Moreover, the remaining water is treated in distillation capsules and used for gardening or cleaning. The salt resulting from distillation is used as a construction materials.


the building rows are combination between stores, office, and restaurant. The idea was taken from traditional building in Indonesia called "ru-ko" or rumah(house)-toko(store), meaning can be use for both purposes.


Wind turbine can also be use for generating power of these buildings.

T4

Site Model

Program Narrative

Site Documentation

Below showing old maps of Jakarta (Batavia) harbor canal and photograph.

Precedent Study "Water Pavilions"

Looking back the history of architecture in Indonesia, Bali, in 1940s there is a floating palaces/ water pavilions called bale kambang. They are more poetically known, occupy a special place in Balinese architecture. This design may have originated in cosmographical terms as a representation of the Hindu-Buddhist universe with the ruler positioned at the center, his temporal powers sanctioned by the gods.
Similar ideas existed in Bali. The temple complex at Taman Ayun (Ayun's Park) in the former kingdom of Mengwi is completely surrounded by a moat and was built as an earthly replica of the heaves where the deified ancestors of the royal family of Mengwi are supposed to disport themselves in floating pavilions attended to by celestial nymphs. a delightful idea and one that was replicated in the ornamental lotus pools and bale kambang of Balinese palaces.

Sketch Study

Program

Study Living on Water

Waterstudio.NL combines architecture, urbanism and innovation for building in, on and at the water: buildings, functions, living-spaces on rivers, canals, lakes or half at sea.

The Netherlands has an extensive history with relation to building on water, a tradition which Waterstudio draws from, but is not confined to. The firm tries to develop the existing water-architecture and building-methods further to a new level. Waterstudio is working on this development in several areas of expertise. In urbanism Waterstudio goes beyond the well-known pier with a boat; water in the neighbourhood is exceptionally attractive as a living-quality, but by not only utilizing open water, but also pursuing higher densities, Waterstudio designs neighbourhood that are very much similar to the existing ones; the only difference is that the foundations are different, to give water a place. In the architectural field Waterstudio tries to modernize the typology of the dwelling-ark; modern houses and villas in and around the water that rival their counterparts on land in space and experience.

To make this possible innovation is essential. Waterstudio develops both new architectural and urban typologies, as well as technical solutions in dealing with the problems of dynamic watermanagement and building on water. The development of dwelling-, and working concepts provides a new notion of the layout of parcels and regions. Moreover, new techniques make new forms of buildings possible. Innovation is the main force behind the firm: Waterstudio has set itself the objective of converting innovative ideas into feasible and broadly applicable building concepts for the upcoming decades.

These studies were performed for the project bureau Living on Water in Amsterdam. One study focused on dwellings at the Slotervaart-canal that were situated half on land and half in the water and can cope with a fluctuation in water-level of 20 centimeters. The characteristic shape of the building is finished in wood and opened itself to the surroundings via a large glass facade. The shape itself seems to float above the transparent lower floor. The upper floor of this split-level dwelling is the living floor; the lower floor contains sleeping- and service areas.

In another study Waterstudio investigated the possibility of using the canals in Amsterdam as dwelling-boulevards; a series of linked floating houses, the roof of which can be used for either parking or as a boulevard.

Under Water City

Architect Moshé Zwarts says ""There has always been a lack of space in the city, so what we are doing is building a city under the city by using a new construction technique, which will not interfere with street traffic."- by draining and then building under the canals. And what does he propose filling it with? Parking, shopping and "leisure"




The engineers say it is doable. “It is both feasible and sustainable, creating a city beneath the city is not futuristic, it is a necessity in this day and age.” Zwarts says the geology is great for this. "Amsterdam sits on a 30-metre layer of waterproof clay which will be used together with concrete and sand to make new walls. Once we have resealed the canal floor, we will be able to carry on working underneath while pouring water back into the canals. It's an easy technique and it doesn't create issues with drilling noises on the streets."

In some ways the notion is quite clever; one can work under the canals without seriously disrupting life on the land. But we might question whether one should be digging up Amsterdam for parking and shopping, and they might have added public transit and bike lanes to keep us happy. Michael Hammond of World Architecture News has his doubts too:

"This scheme and its underlying drivers, fly in the face of every responsible principle of sustainability and current trends. The architects also claim that the proposal is CO2 neutral but when questioned by WAN, Professor Zwarts acknowledged that his calculations omitted the carbon generated by construction, which in a mammoth scheme like would take many decades to recoup, if ever.....That this project is technically achievable is not in doubt, but that does not
justify its flawed concept."

Floating Pavilion at World Expo 2010

TU Delft Deltasync team and the municipality of Rotterdam presented the design for a floating pavilion to the World Expo Committee in Shanghai. Sixty officials and three Chinese television channels were present as the team explained how they have applied their vision of a floating city to Shanghai, and in particular to the World Expo 2010.



Innovative strengths
Constructing a floating pavilion is an attractive project bringing together a host of Dutch innovative water and delta technology strengths, to demonstrate them to the world. Given that half of the world’s population will live in low-lying, vulnerable delta areas by 2030, floating is a favourable technology. Other sustainable technologies can also be applied in a floating pavilion, such as local drinking water purification and sustainable energy supplies.

Sketch Study

Check out this web

I've found this website where they transform the data into visual communications, and diagrams.
Who knows this might be useful for thesis research. The website is pretty similar with book of: Envisioning Information [Hardcover] by Tufte, Edward R. (the book that Denise recommended)

http://infosthetics.com/

Site Analysis Part 2

Building Program Analysis

The next progress is to go back with my site study, and place the programs in terms of the site condition. Or Material research.

Light Diagrams

For TOM

This light diagram to argues that domestic space should take into consideration the natural conditions that influences activities. How is the best way the building can benefit from daylight and create interior living conditions for different type of users and activities? Can daylight control create, not simply comfortable living conditions, but also bring different moods and atmospheres to the domestic space?

I think this study could help your site analysis study, since you did mention many times how natural lights are important for your projects.

Building Program Analysis(in progress)

The new building programs will be based on the survey of the demographic population and other important statistic in Jakarta.

Based on 2006 Survey

Population 8.961.680 = Male(4.483.001)+Female(4.478.679)
Household= 2.242.352
Avg House hold member= 4

Birth 128.757+588
Death 38.417
Marriage 15.847
Divorce 463
Adoption 1.766

Density 13.547 km2 from 8961.680/area(66152)

Working 3.531.799
Looking for work 134.292

Vacancies 18.768

In 2006, There were 47.706 persons who have social welfare problem. Proximately 22,44%(10,703 persons) were categorized as neglected elderly, the number of disable were 10193 (21.37%) The elderly institutions were about 5 units with capacity of 780 persons.

Hospitals 122
Beds 16.289
District Public health center 44

Poor household 160.480

Tourist (based on Inbound-Outbound survey) 1.216.132=US $1.578.184.706
+/-25 % tourist to visit Jakarta

Source from
http://bps.jakarta.go.id/

Game about sustainability

Interesting..

My Sust House is a Glaswegian approach to sustainable education, exposing kids and teenagers to issues of sustainability in design and planning through an accessible outlet: the Internet. This interactive game is narrated by two fetching Scottish cartoon characters and comes complete with an introduction on sustainability and two games dedicated to exploring “what sustainability means and how it relates to our homes.”

http://www.mysusthouse.org/

Site Analysis

Case Study 2: Tropical House

Thesis Presentation Board