Nengah Cultural Center

NENGAH CULTURAL CENTER Bali Art and Cultural Center Competition

evan kriswandi monokroma architect

Location: Jimbaran, Bali | Site Area: 36,180 sqm Typology: Art & Cultural Center | Period: Oct - Dec 2016 This competition invited architects to design a new art and cultural center in the heart of Jimbaran that reflect the richness of Balinese architecture as well as contemporary design style.

THE PROBLEM

Rapid globalization could threaten the existence of local wisdom and values. People will not be aware of their own identity and culture if it is not maintained, preserved, and promoted, especially to young generation. A developer in Bali wants to preserve and promote the local Balinese culture by designing a new art and cultural center for young people from around the world to learn and practice the richness of Balinese culture in a contemporary way of promoting popular culture.

THE SOLUTION

My team and I propose a concept that confront old traditional values with modern imagination in one place. With an open platform, we separate the contemporary style on the ground floor and the Balinese style in the first and second platform. The plan scheme is arranged according to “Sanga Mandala�,, an ancient Balinese principle of home masterplanning. The modern part is an open plan and always be flexible to change, while the traditional part will always be preseved as a remembrance of its cultural richness.

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PAST

Utamaning Nista

Madyaning Nista

Nistaning Nista

Utamaning Madya Madyaning Madya

Bali is rich in local culture that is very attractive to the international world

Nista Utama Platform 2 7467.5 m2

Memory

The philosophy of Bali is reflected in its ornaments, zoning, architecture, and rituals that always remind Balinese of its historical roots.

Global

The population and information distribution becomes easier nowadays. It makes universal values distibution unavoidable

Imagination

Platform 1 16271.7 m2

The development of civilization is always preceded by the development of the imagination.

Architecture can learn from the values of the past, but must also contribute to provide many possibilities for the future.

Madya

Rapid technological developments influence the way society thinks. Architecture should be able to follow these developments.

Utama

Tradition

The traditional values of Bali becomes the basic principle for its society, preventing it to lose its identity in the midst of technological advancement

FUTURE

Madya

Nistaning Madya

Local

Utama

Modernization

Ground Floor 17356.5 m2

Nista

Basement 13260.6 m2

TRI LOKA CONCEPT

Utama

Head

Madya Nista

Body Leg Museum

Complex Enclosed Ornamental Historic Platform Simple Open plan Bare Futuristic

Gallery

Amphitheater

Theater

2nd & 3rd Floor: Museum of Nusantara 1st & 2nd Floor: Art and Culture Exhhibition room with 1st Floor: optimum lighting Museum Soekarno

1st Floor: Amphitheater is Indoor Theater the core that blend dichotomy of traditional and modern values, Ground Floor: between spectators Exhibition opening, Ground Floor: and performers discussion room, Museum of Modern Art exhibition room with more open space

SPACE FLEKSIBILITY

The main part use the form of Balinese architecture the middle part takes on rchitectural images that reflect its time

2006 Conventional 2D arts

2016 Digital 2D arts

2046 ?

2026 Digital 3D Arts

BLOCK PLAN

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

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Restaurant Lobby Artist's Inn Amphitheater School Canteen Workshop Indoor Theater Office Mushola Gallery Museum Temple Museum Office

10 Treatment Pond 11 Art Market

7 2 6 1

3

4

5

11 10

10m 0m

30m

60m

Indoor Theater

Amphitheater

5m

Artist's Inn

30m 15m

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CIRCULATION & ENTRANCE

In every building, visitors can feel the change from modern to traditional ambience using vertical circulation Platform Traditional ambience Visitors feel authentic Balinese Ambience

Ground Floor Modern Ambience

Visitors feel Balinese modern ambience

Basement Service Area

5m 0m

Workshop

Amphitheater

Museum

30m 15m