Urban Design Portfolio

D e s i g nP o r t f o l i o KARINA WAHYUNI UTAMI

URBAN DESIGN 2013-2014

KARINA WAHYUNI UTAMI MA Urban Design Cardiff University 2013 - 2014

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Re-imagining Swansea High St. Swansea, Wales

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Breaking Down Barriers: Birmingham Central Mosque Birmingham, England

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High Quality, High Density, Sustainable Living: Barbican and Golden Lane London, England

R e - i m a g i n i n g S w a n s e a High Street nd Stra The

Welcome Lane

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Celebrating Heritage, Culture and Nature in Public Space

Swansea Castle Castle Square 0

50m 20m

100m

Design Strategies

This project was designed responding to a brief on the ‘making’ theme, celebrating Swansea’s creative industry.

entrances

retails

new building main meeting point

new building

Located next to Swansea main meeting point Castle, the project incorporates heritage, S i t e P l a n culture, industry and environment into the outcome.

entrances

workshop

route outside building

open spaces

cultural: Museum of Pottery retails

Underground Landuse retails & business space for students gastronomy

On the heritage aspect, Museum of Pottery is proposed to strengthen the link with the Castle as well as with Swansea’s history as a pottery-making town. The Castle wall ruins are integrated with the additional buildings: the museum, a tea room and a souvenir shop.

office outdoor video screening shared space residential

Ground Level Landuse

workshop / studio gallery / museum outdoor recreation green open space

In this project, the pedestrian flows become the design starting point, creating indoor and outdoor journeys. This proposal also works well with the sloping terrain.

To boost the creative industry, a proportion of landuse is allocated specifically for business, studios and workshops for artists and art students, thus contributing to Swansea’s art and economic growths.

gastronomy

route inside building

circulation

Upper Level Landuse

0

15 5m

30m

View from The Strand

museum, tea shop & castle wall museum building castle wall

tea shop

View from Welcome Lane documentary screening

S e c t i o n A - A’

The Strand

documentary circulation: screening ramp permanent gallery & retail

museum display

main piazza museum underground route

Public Space 1:Outdoor Exhibition

Worcester Place

Castle Building

Public Space 2:Documentary Screening

view towards the exhibition area 0

5 2

skylight

10

artwork display

main piazza towards museum entrance

the outdoor screening in night time view towards the outdoor screening in daytime The unique character of the public spaces in this project is the inter-weaving spaces, horizontally and vertically. This gives the pedestrian route full of experience, indoor and outdoor.

the main piazza

15m

view from Castle Cinema building

Breaking Down Barriers: Birmingham Central Mosque

Designing the Mosque Public Space for Community and Neighbourhood

Mosque Typology (1969 AD)

Functions

• centre for religious activities • welfare and charity centre • religious education visit • marriage bureau & family counseling • Muslim youth sport forum • community classes • library

Built Form

Experience

• the building as ‘monument’ • building layout: emphasis on functional rather than procession • the neighbourhood buildings surrounded by open space with • illegible route for mosque users and visitors low sense of enclosure • huge open space for parking; functions as funfair and stalls during conference or charity • ground floor: offices, classrooms, services and events. multi-purpose hall • upper floors: prayer halls

mosque entrances parking space ablution area

classrooms

prayer hall

ME CCA

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Birmingham Central Mosque

approach & entry axis

• Nolli plan analysis: to explore the complexity of the secular and religious layers in the mosque due to the varied users (Muslims and Non-Muslims).

• The open space is not strongly associated with the mosque due to its usage as carpark.

• The mosque as a foreign object because of the absence of relationship between the mosque and its open space.

• The religiousness of the structure is not generated from the journey of approaching the structure.

• The change between secular and religious transpires in a quite drastic manner. diagram of secular-religious layers

diagram of secular-religious layers in section

religious This project is part of a secular research-based design project.

Mosque and Public Space & Gürel 2011 (p.348): mosque courtyard is the space that mostly associated with social and religious activities.

The logic was to explore the •• Özaloglu Carmona et al. (2008, p.71): the community-centred model could lessen the gap “between user and provider of services” as the users are likely the organisers of the roles of the open space space. associated with the mosque • Rishbeth (2001, p.361): facility provision has been proved to be a successful approach in the UK and US due to its usefulness coping with in the UK. It also intended to society’s necessity. examine any advantageous • The multifunctionality of the spaces within the mosque complex could further enhance the roles of open space associated with the mosque. roles for both the mosque community and the D e s i g n S t r a t e g i e s neighbourhood area.

2: Designing for Procession 1: Facility Provision

In order to design an open space associated with the mosque in the UK context, several elements might be considered: the sense of enclosure, the allocation of religious and secular layers in the mosque, the visual and movement axis towards the mosque, the importance of transitional space and interfaces, and the multifunctionality of the space within the mosque.

3: Solid & Void In short, the mosque in the UK possesses a role that could be beneficial for both its community and neighbourhood. This can be pursued without neglecting its spirituality, which is generated from the overall journey experienced by the users.

commercial community

B open space surface treatment pedestrian movement

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enclosure: pergola enclosure: covered walkway

4 : Religious & S ecu l a r La yer s additional solid structure void boundary location for the ‘frame’

Ground Level Landuse

Site Plan

+0.00 A’ +0.60

+2.50

+0.00 +1.80 +0.60

+1.20

+0.10 +0.00 +0.10

commercial

education

procession route

procession: ablution & prayer hall

community-used structure

parking

office

open space

residential

services

Upper Level Landuse

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0

10 5m

20

S e c t i o n A - A’

+0.10

pave ment

+0.60

+0.00

mosque courtyard

parking spaces

walkway

+1.20

Highgate St

Elevation from Highgate Street

Religious Axis

Secular Axis

High Quality - High Density - Sustaina ble Li ving

Barbican and Golden Lane

03 Design Strategies Ease of Movement

Landuse Diagram

This project is a mixed use development, comprises of residential, business, retails and art-cultural centre located in the City of London.

Planning concepts promotes the notion of reclaiming a high quality public area enclosed by multi-functional spaces. Design with nature and context can be regarded as the guideline of this proposed scheme, creating a development that is not only beneficial for its users but also towards larger regions.

There is a range of housing types in the project. The northen part of the site is allocated for the affordable housing, while the southern part is the standard type.

The public activity area is marked by the Art Centre, located in the middle of the site. This is to avoid the public-private compund conflict.

Water Management

Green Space

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Ta l l B u i l d i n g Po l i c y

In terms of the variation of the blocks, the area designed for pedestrian The quality of the public spaces also becomes the priority, creating permeable priority. Serial view from one space to another is block size and limited proposed to create different experience as well as vehicular movement. legible spaces in such a large area.

Block Size

Master Plan

Ground Level Landuse

Affordable housing

Standard housing

First Level Landuse

Typical Level Landuse

6 Public Realms

Financial Feasibilities The baseline + 30% Current GDV : £2,351,942,150 Total cost : £1,650,235,000 Land Value : £701,707,150

St. Giles Cripplegate Churchyard

Sections Art Centre

Roof lounge overlooking the churchyard and pedestrian plaza

Conference Centre

Open-air cinema

Theatre

Lobby and restaurant on ground level Pedestrian Plaza Beech Street

Concert Hall on basement level

Beech Street: view towards St. Giles Church Section through Affordable Housing Area Balcony overlooking the street Dwelling

Dwelling

Goswell Road

Retail - active edges

Dwelling

Residents-only garden

Dwelling

public garden Residents-only garden New route

sunken ground level - private garden

Golden Lane

United Kingdom 2014