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.