TYPOLOGY  Housing

SITE   23.500 sqm

BUILDING  44.540 sqm

STATUS  Built 1st phase

RUSUN TONGKOL

2021 I ANCOL l NORTH JAKARTA

Located on the northern most of jakarta, we were challenged by three key issues, water, historical and social.

Elevating the existing land and creating clusters of water containers is one way to preserve rainwater harvesting while the perimeter functions as flood containment. Just like clusters of rice fields, the ground landscape is a semiaquatic floor which can be used as social space, and further collects water in a heavy rain event creating a non permanent ponds.

Historical walls of Batavia Castle were located 1.5-1.8 meters below the existing ground. The idea is open the historical memory by excavating on the corner of the fort and provide an open museum on the historical floor, while a mosque is set on top of it. Visitors will experience the time and space when enjoying the gallery’s displays with the Batavia walls as the background.

The crucial part of the design is to respond to the social context. How do we create a sustainable habitation with poverty issues in Jakarta? the design propose as low as 7-8 storey building with fragments of social space on each level. In order to do that, we used double loaded corridors to achieve efficiency, while skylights and voids connects each floor to provide shades and cross circulation. Massing studies are manage just like carving a stone into a permeable structures with lots of activity generator such as permaculture and workshops. Colors of the building is an abstraction of the historical fort color palette with grey as the subsidiary.

The three key issues were answered by a combined narrative given above rephrasing a means of cohabitation between water - historical - social to be a sustainable habitation.

Collaborative works with LABWRKS Architect in 2021.