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.