Worshop Handout by Christophe Girot

Designing the Ciliwung River An urban landscape study of Kampung Melayu

WORKSHOP and SEMINAR JAKARTA 15-19 MARCH 2013 SINGAPORE 19-24 MARCH 2013

Singapore ETH Centre for Global Environmental Sustainability

Dear Professor Hadi,

Zürich February 28 2013

ETH Institute of Landscape Architecture Professor Christophe Girot ETH Zürich HIL H 55.3 ETH Hönggerberg CH-8093 Zürich Switzerland T +41 (44) 633 29 87 X +41 (44) 633 12 08 www.girot.arch.ethz.ch www.futurecities.ethz.ch NUS National University of Singapore Professor Jörg Rekittke Department of Architecture School of Design and Environment National University of Singapore 4 Architecture Drive Singapore 117 566 Tel: +65 6516 3452 UI Universitas Indonesia Depok Professor Herlily Centre of Built Environment Design & Research (P3LB) Department of Architecture Faculty of Engineering Universitas Indonesia Kampus UI Depok, 16424 T +62 21 7863512 architecture.ui.ac.id IPB University Bogor Professor Hadi Susilo Arifin Professor in Ecology & Management of Landscape Head of Landscape Management Division Landscape Architecture Department Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) Jl. Meranti - Kampus IPB Dramaga-Bogor 16680 INDONESIA T +62-251-8422-415 M +62-811-11-7720 www.hsarifin.staff.ipb.ac.id hsarifin@ipb.ac.id

CONTENT

INTRODUCTIONS

KAMPUNG RULES

OBJECTIVES

JAKARTA SCHEDULE

SINGAPORE SCHEDULE

PARTICIPANTS

GROUPS

DEPLOYMENT MAP

EMERGENCY

LOCATIONS IN JAKARTA

LOCATIONS IN SINGAPORE

Map of the Ciliwung River 1897

INTRODUCTION

The Kampung and the CILIWUNG RIVER The Design Research Studio on the Ciliwung River in Jakarta is part of the ETH Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore and will involve architecture students for one semester on one of the most challenging sites in Jakarta: the Kampung Melayu. During the course of

the semester one workshop will be taught in March jointly with NUS, UI and IPB students in Jakarta and Singapore. The operational framework and methodology of the studio will involve landscape, architecture as well as urban design thinking and will follow the

precepts of a site-specific topological approach. Emphasis of the design work will be on the role of landscape and dwelling structures as they interact with the adjacent river in the flood prone neighbourhoods of Kampung Melayu and Bukit Duri in Jakarta.

Can the widening of the Ciliwung river corridor become an incentive to doubling the population density in the remainder of the

kampong? This would avoid the problem of population displacement, but would require a clear strategy in terms of landscape and architecture. The studio will operate at three distinct scales, the scale of the unit, the scale of the urban block and the scale of the

kampung. Students will be asked to develop prototypes on given cross sections of the river to be widened. This will enable advanced design experimentation and transformation of the sections under study. The goal of this studio, with the help of design tools is to

develop methodologies capable of dealing with the physical and spatial complexity of this highly urbanized â&#x20AC;&#x153;naturalâ&#x20AC;? environment. The underlying thesis is that landscape and architecture can be worked-out together, to bring forth solutions that can help restore the quality and purpose of the river withinits degraded context while allowing for higher living densities. With a healthy dose of

heuristic terrain analysis, prospection and design vision, students will be asked to develop a new positive foothold on the landscape

and architectural challenges posed by the Ciliwung River. The studio results will serve as example towards a new combined approach to urban landscape and architecture in Southeast Asian cities. The goal is to set some clear topological rules that can help define generative principles for both landscape and architecture as a way of restructuring urban river profiles in response to flooding,

overcrowding and insalubrious conditions. The studio will result in a set of comprehensive architectural and landscape design proposals that will serve towards the melioration of rivers in Jakarta.

Ciliwung River in the Kampung Melayu

KAMPUNG RULES

Stay always in group No individual venture will be accepted for security reasons Be very punctual at meeting points Be polite and friendly. Greet residents with „Permisi“ (= Excuse me) or „As-salam alaykum“ (= Good day, Peace be upon you) Always ask for permission first before mesuring people‘s houses Ask people before taking their pictures Bring only the necessary equipment and focuse on your assignment Always have a native speaker with you Please report position (WhatsApp) every 30 minutes (Group number: Location) Be respectful of costums, traditions and sacred places Only enter homes with agreement of the District Chief Before crossing the river on raft, make sure to have non slippery shoes Don‘t buy food or drink from street vendors Bring bottled water with you Do not touch animals

OBJECTIVES

Field trip to Jakarta and Singapore

site reading, architecture, landscape and urban design - developing a design hypothesis Students will develop a preliminary design hypothesis over the course of their field trip. The goal is to confirm or question certain architectural and landscape design ideas that appeared in phase 1. The proposed hypothesis must work at all 3 scales combined and needs to define a clear spatial and developmental organization for the kampung and its relationship to the city and river.

During the field trip and workshop, students will come together with students of the MLA programme at NUS, students of Architecture at U.I. Depok and students of landscape architecture at IPB Bogor. They will be asked together to think about the unit, the block and

the overall river landscape site, to determine a clear spatial hierarchy between them. The main question will be how to â&#x20AC;&#x153;invertâ&#x20AC;? the relationship of the kampung to the river? The inversion of the status of the river from garbage disposer and cloaca to that of landscape riverfront will become a key element to the solution of the block, its common public spaces and units. It is, therefore, important that

students constantly work their ideas through at different scales and imagine how some of these ideas may translate from the housing scale to the entire river scale. During the field trip students will be asked to concentrate their design on specific sections of Kanpung Melayu, Bukit Duri and Kampung Pulo.

Each student group during the workshop will be asked to present a clear design statement and formulate a future vision on: - The Kampung unit and its combinatory potential - The Kampung block and its specific answer to river edge conditions - Widening of the river with volume shifting and carving - Water collection systems (wadoks and cisterns) - Flood risks and levels - The new edge condition between River Park and City - Landscape vegetation strategies, such as urban forestry, habitat and urban farming

All these aspects are to be addressed by the kampong design project: - Water types, systems and surfaces - Vegetation, types, design and structures - Spatial qualities and ambiances - Urban uses and program - Architectural edges (water/land, open/built) - Maintenance and recycling(control/freedom) - Accessibility and circulation(facilities/restrictions)

JAKARTA SCHEDULE TH 14.03 13:30

ETH: check-in Z端rich

15:15

ETH: flight, departure Z端rich, Qatar Airways QR064

23:10

ETH: flight, arrival Doha, Flight transfer

FR 15.03 2:20

ETH: flight, departure Doha, Qatar Airways QR 672

15:15

ETH: flight, arrival Jakarta CGK, Terminal 2

15:45 - 16:30

ETH: transfer by bus to the hotel: Aston at Kuningan Suites Hotel, Jl. Setiabudi Utara, Kuningan, +62-21 526 0260

19:00

Informal meeting with students from ETH, NUS, UI, IPB

20:00

Dinner at local restaurant

SA 16.03 7:30

Breakfast