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Mapping-Stories research project interactive map stories layer
MAPPING-STORIES: Unfolding The Hidden Potential of Happy Urban Place
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The research addressed the issue of urban happiness as a critical aspect of well-being in urban living. The experience of happiness plays an important role in promoting the quality of life of urban actors. Urban spaces have significant role as the spatial settings where the experiences of urban living take place. The objective of this research was to reveal the phenomenon of spatial transformation of urban spaces as the setting for the events and experiences of happiness for urban actors. In particular this research attempted to identify the interdependence among actors, spaces, time and events as the ingredients of happy events and experiences, and to map such interdependence as a narrative of spatial experiences in a systematic way. The mapping process was based on the understanding that the experience of happiness in urban context could be comprehended as a narrative or a story (De Certeau, 1987; Psarra, 2009). Mapping becomes a main approach in this research as it becomes a creative approach of representation that could reveal the hidden potential of spatial contexts (Corner, 1999; Graafland, 2010). In this research, the stories of happiness of the urban actors were comprehended as spatial journeys, which happened throughout sequential events in certain spatial settings.
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explore an alternative way to draw the urban narratives in order to depict the quality of urban atmosphere
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The journey is attained by route. Throughout the journey, there are many decisions involved, in deciding the possibility of tracks or routes, orientations, actors, time, as well as necessary conditions for the complete optimal experience. As soon as the goals and decisions define a system of action, they sequentially generates social practise of happiness.
Mapping-Stories research project
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A systematic mapping procedure was developed in order to unfold the spatial experiences, and to understand how the ingredients of the stories of happiness were interrelated in urban spatial contexts. It opens the possibilities to “craft� our own tools (Silver, 2006) and explore the possibilities of representation through computational medium within the spatial journeys, which happened throughout sequential events in certain spatial settings.
Migrancy Script research project
MIGRANCY SCRIPT ON THE STACKED HOUSING IN JAKARTA The Asian Conference on Arts and Culture 2014, Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok
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This study seeks to explore how the act of journeying and the act of settling entail cultural work in the context of proliferation of movements and changes. This study attempts to reveal the spatial stories of migrancy to vertical living in Jakarta through grounded theory approach. Living in the stacked housing in Jakarta perceived or imagined as the idea of transit involves diverse points of origins, tracks, and orientations. This paper particularly investigates the notion of migrancy as the representation of a journey of changing nature of home. The journey represents the lived experience in which the concept of ‘home’ embodies and signifies, where the culture and ethnicity of a past meet the ambivalence of a present to form constructions of home for the future. The historical circumstances and inhabitation adjustments produce the flow of journeying and settling in the modes of dwelling. The study proposes that migrancy and the act of journeying and settling are intertwining themes that are embodied in the script. The spatial script will reveal the peculiar phenomenon of ‘limitations’ that are altered to the ‘potentialities’ of the act of journeying and settling. http://acacconference.com/2014/file/List%20of%20paper% 20ACAC%202014(on%20web)15-5-57.pdf
The scripting of the seven detailed cases of transitory experience suggests the active process of anchoring. Such active process of anchoring could be scripted through two main ideas: how the act of journeying and settling entails cultural aspect and how inhabitants reinstate the sense of homeliness.
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Migrancy Script research project
Since bu Aci moved to rusun APRON Kemayoran, she left her job and spending mostly her time as a housewife in the dwelling unit. This changing condition raises such kind of sensory adaptation that generated within the close relationship between units.
The permeability of the boundary conditions determine the extent of interiority. The sounds of troubled family from the next unit are experienced through the wall or an open circulation. The troubled family as her neighbor whose distinct auditory characterize their circumstances yet process of anchoring.
Aci moved to her family’s house in Jakarta . She began her career as secretary in the firm near the house.
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Aci was born and spent her childhood in the suburban a r e a , Pekalongan, Central Java.
By channeling major feelings that has continuity and is capable of growth, the occupants in the stacked housing such APRON Kemayoran often spend their time by chit-chatting with the other occupants in some shared access of places in the ground level area as the meeting point.
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Life-long Learning conference paper and presentation (3rd author) Yandi Andri Yatmo (1st author) Paramita Atmodiwirjo (2nd author) Verarisa Anastasia Ujung (3rd author)
LEARNING FROM PROBLEMS, FAILURES, AND UNEXPECTED IDEAS: A Reflection on Real Life Learning Experience Through Community-based Projects 3rd ICOLACE (International Conference on Learning and Community Enrichment) 2014, Singapore
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At the heart of any lifelong learning is the learning itself. In the pursuit of the knowledge learning, the potential of the community-based project suggests the interdependence between educators, students and community. Students as the learner take responsibility of their own project. Meanwhile, the whole community involves and contributes to the lifelong and lifewide learning efforts. Partnership between students, educators, and community improve the performance and build the enthusiasm to the development of the lifelong learner’s whole personality to be ready for any possible circumstances. This paper presents several cases of community-based projects that students have practiced at Department of Architecture, Universitas Indonesia in the Everyday and Architecture class. The objective of this community-based project is to expose the students with real life architecture intervention and experience of participatory design approach.
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The students found various underlying lessons in this community-based project which promote the collaboration between the students’ ideas and the community aspiration. They found the genuine layer of community culture, how to communicate and negotiate with the community. They learned that failures are an inherent part of the process. They discovered the layers of “unexpected ideas” within the learning process and learned how these ideas can be applied further. They learned to address the problems in different ways and took appropriate steps to respond and adapt to them. The whole learning process promoted the role of the students not only to learn to become experts in their field but also to be more sensitive with various everyday issues of the community. Keywords: learning, reflection, community, architecture
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House Vision 2050 research-collaboration project
An abundance of appliances generates the willing to purposefully renovate the balcony within placed objects. Whether it is a small piece of curtain, it promotes a physical and cultural relationship with its environment.
Revealing spatial stories of the room-based living in Jakarta 2050
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This study describes spatial stories of vertical housing in Jakarta 2050. The intention was to foster what way is the actual human relationship with space substantiated and addressed the possible living experience in room-based living. The relationship of man to his house is to be understood in the intimacy of his relationship with his body. The body here is not just a tool, through which space is experienced, but is itself an experienced space, and moreover the most originally experienced space, according to whose model all other spaces are understood. (Bollnow, 2011:262). This study attempts to engage a discourse that set out to challenge the spatial stories of a room-based living as events associated with objects, such as welcoming guests, eating meal, etc. Not only by reading spatial configuration but also by analyzing human / personal possessions and investigating materials. Research Coordinator: Evawani Ellisa (ellisa.evawani@gmail.com)
Presented on Atap Jakarta Monthly Seminar Series 15th February, 2014
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Hanging clothes activity is expanded into the inside of the room. It shows the act of renovation within the insertion of objects such as: hanger stack and clothes. The manner in which the occupants arranged the objects can suggest such movement and visual direction. The elements and movement which directed to it can effect the articulation of light and gradually transform the space.
APRON 2 - 2C503 MRS. WARSIH
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HOUSE VISION 2050 Multi Dimensional Appraisal of Jakarta Megacity for Designing Better Future
This placed object can influence the way in which the space is viewed and experienced.
Craftsmanship research project
CRAFTSMANSHIP: Indonesian Pavilion Venice Architecture Biennale 2014, Venice
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Central to the emerging dialogue between the curators and Indonesian contemporary architects and designers, a tendency to put the formal role of architect aside acknowledges the agency of materials and the making of architecture as central to the development of Indonesian experience on building things during last one hundred years. The theme “Craftsmanship”/ “Ketukangan” is a notion that addresses the way of making, and cuts across the broad range of craft dan design practices, of practitioners and practice, of matter and techniques, of refinements and appreciations, of dedication and determinations. This theme is perceived to engage the awareness of performative capacities of Tukang (craftsman) in relation to their inherent behaviours and skills, cultural identities, and material vocabularies. The curatorial process of Indonesian Pavilion intended to embrace the indigenous of Indonesian craftsmanship through the potential of craft as a vital practice in the twenty-first century. Reflecting upon increasingly complex matter in the making of objects, subjects and spaces in a haptic world, Indonesian Pavilion “Craftsmanship” revealed the continuity of the world in making that enables an inhabitation of the local identity as a counterpoint to the immensity of globalism. https://ketukangan.wordpress.com/2013/11/28/the-makingof-architecture/ The Curator Team: Avianti Armand (asmarishtar@gmail.com) Setiadi Sopandi (cungss@gmail.com) David Hutama (ginadi@gmail.com) Robin Hartanto (robin.hartanto@gmail.com) Achmad Tardiyana (adtardiyana@yahoo.com)
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‘But the craft of the hand is richer than we commonly imagine. [...] The hand reaches and extends, receives and welcomes - and not just things: the hand extends itself, and receives its own welcome in the hands of other.’ Martin Heidegger
‘All the work of the hand is rooted in thinking.’
Material Recovery and Transfer Facilities built project
“Waste is society’s dirty secret” Mira Engler
MATERIAL RECOVERY AND TRANSFER FACILITIES (MRTFs)
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This project intends to acknowledge the reality of material stocks and flows and their contribution on sustainability environment. Integrated Waste Management on campus will generate this very purpose by collecting and maintaining the waste from each department and public building in Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia.
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Material Recovery and Transfer Facilities built project Material Recovery and Transfer Facilities FTUI is suited to the enrichment of sustainable programs in FTUI. This project will act to recover local material waste in the whole campus area including department buildings, student classes and canteen, and yards. This project builds on the idea of vertical farming on the sides of the building. This idea incorporates the surrounding environments, academic atmosphere, to encourage greening of the space.
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Narrow But Exciting Alley joint studio and workshop project
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NARROW BUT EXCITING ALLEY Indonesian-Japan Student Collaboration
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2011, Indonesia THE INDONESIA-JAPAN JOINT STUDIO & DESIGN WORKSHOP 2011 was held from September 7th till 18th 2011. 19 students from University of Tokyo, Chiba University, and Tokyo University of Science and 20 students from UI (Universitas Indonesia) collaborated in loads of creative discussions, which excelled by the supports from university professors and young architects from both countries to facilitate tremendous process during the workshop period. 21 / 22
In Cikini Ampiun, a super high-density residential area, outdoor space as living space is an important factor. Above all, ‘Squares’ and ‘Alleys’ are main public spaces which provide the improvement of amenities of Cikini life. To clarify the configuration of the building environment, we focused on a square and some alleys as living space, and investigated the human activities and physical elements of the space. Team A focused on a square and motorbikes and investigated how the square are used during the day. The problems of relationship between human life and increasing motorbikes are now serious in Jakarta, and Cikini Ampiun is no exception to this issue. Team B focused on an alley which is a main street connecting the surrounding urban environment. By measuring the plan and cross-section, we found the alley triggers various characteristic activities in the gradational changing.
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Team B: Daichi Kanazashi, Shinpei Kasai, Robin Hartanto, Alline Dwiantina, Ayumu Yazaki, Verarisa Ujung
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Narrow But Exciting Alley joint studio and workshop project
This proposal brings two important solutions for the current problems caused in megacities. One is to create more space above and under the existing alley, while the other is the natural creation of private or semi-private spaces in high-density areas like Cikini-Ampiun. To create a more attractive alley, we have proposed a double layer acting as a bridge on the existing alley. This system can make soft border between private and public on the same alley. We proposed a bridge-like structure in front of the school in which the upper side is for private activities like resting, sitting etc... On the other hand, the space under the bridge is for public activities and this can keep existing activities of stalls. In the case of this private house, there are many walls as separation now. However, this bridge system is not only as public spaces for many people, but it also provides semi-private spaces for the owners.
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Body Percussion student project
BODY-PERCUSSION Spatial-Rhythm-Body Interplay Architecture Design Studio 5, Year 4 2010
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The objective of this studio was to design the space through the formulation of a formal type of function and schematic relationships after analyzing several precedents existing project. The generative idea is to design the kinesthetic institutional place included the definition of space and interaction of spatial moments within fields. The idea of body percussion performance intrigued me the most, due to the fact that the practice of beating on the body allows to feel the rhythm and to work psychomotor development and whole body interaction – kinesthetic. “Body percussion means internalizing the rhythm. Once you have it inside you, then you can express it in any number of ways – through other instruments or through other dance forms” (Locklear, 2006). In the building I design, I struggle to achieve a unity and sense of wholeness that can come from an internalization of rhythm within body through spatial interplay. Throughout an analytical process the investigation of numerous body percussion sounds were explored, in conjunction with the development of functional and formality. The idea of moment of entry, rehearsal, workshop, and performance were planned.
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Body Percussion student project The process of design: making models were the effort to get ready to get inside the beat – and to get the beat inside the building. This is the spirit of body percussion. It really is embodying.
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Variations of sound are possible through changing the interplay. For example, clapping the hands in various positions will affect factors such as pitch (from lowest to highest) and resonance. The spatial-rhythm-body interplay combines the aesthetics of gesture to the progress of rhythm. The progress of rhythm is applied on the diagram analysis and model making process that is a shutter step not a forward march – the progress of rhythm is simply a parallel route
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Relief is Now and Here student project
RELIEF IS NOWHERE (NOW AND HERE) IN SIGHT. Architectural Design Studio 4 Year 3 2010, Project 1
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Easily move around: designed to be light or compact enough to carry or move easily from place to place.
“On the night of 14th September, for about two minutes the very house was harshly shaken from side to side. An earthquake measuring 7,5 on the Richter scale shook the southern of Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. It severely damaged the area of Pondok Indah. Large numbers of town residents were sustained injuries. Several deaths could be directly attributed to the quake. The day after, the people were struggling to find friends and family and friends, walking around in shock with large band-aid covering the wounds. No one knows where to go with their injured and dead, or where to find food and water. Relief is nowhere in sight.“ We live on an unstable, restless and unpredictable planet. But there is always a space of optimism from our safety bed to the skin of this perilously active planet. Calls for quick relief to address immediate needs are essentially managed. In order for the proposed inhabitable temporary space to be removed and reused elsewhere, this project addresses the portable mechanism. It provides emergency support and medical care to people who need it. This healthcare center responded to disaster and promoted wellness.
The Team: Alline Dwiantina, Hasri Meiriza, Verarisa Ujung
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Constructed from factory-made elements, transported as a partly complete package, quickly assembled at the site
Relief is Now and Here student project
It is designed to be portable with modules, components, and some techniques. The making process was crucial to this project, dealing with range of materials and portable mechanisms. Within this context, processes of remaking and reassembly pointed poignantly towards the process of recovery that will support temporary living after earthquake. The modules work and have specific functions such as doors, windows, floors, and other utilities. The concept is pre-fabricated, and their combination could be customized according to patients’ needs.
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As part of a rapid response to a natural disaster ex: earthquake, each unit of this emergency healthcare is designed to be structurally stable. These portable mechanism are also deployed to be environmentally responsible and also easily transported to it's destination with up to five units per truck. They could also be used as temporary shelter in destituted areas while infrastructure and facilities were being constructed.
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Garbage: in Collage competition entry
Let’s Not Talk About Architecture, Let’s Make A Collage Let’s pick up the missing individual pieces and combine them to build a beautiful and harmonic arrangement! Hope we succeed to cover up those holes.
GARBAGE: in COLLAGE The mAAN*Y: Let’s Not Talk About Architecture International Design Competition 2010, Singapore While the city wakes up and prepares for its dweller, while people pack their bags and run for work, while streets are getting crowded with vehicles all around. Let’s take a walk and experience the city!
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As a part of the city, the existence of food street vendor is dilemmatic. On one side, they are providing the employer’s needs for food around offices, while on the other side, they become a distraction as they colonize on pedestrian spaces. What happens then is an imposition. Pedestrians are displaced, forced to walk on the vehicle’s main road. This situation leads to traffic jam, due to the lane constriction and subtraction on the main road. Let’s not talk about architecture. Let’s act like scavengers: collecting reusable urban garbage and recycle it to solve the problems.
Map of garbage in Jakarta
The Team: Avianti Armand (coordinator), Andro Kaliandi, Fauzia Evanindya, Robin Hartanto, Safitri Kurniasari, Verarisa Ujung
Let’s Not Talk About Architecture, Let’s Walk While the city wakes up and prepares for its dweller, while people pack their bags and run for work, while streets are getting crowded with vehicles all around. Let’s take a walk and experience the city!
main road for vehicles pedestrian street street food vendors and it’s components
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Garbage: in Collage competition entry
Let’s Not Talk About Architecture, Let’s Get Lunch Enough for the tiring long walk, now it’s time to have some meals. Take a look around the city and find one, or more.
Electricity source and supply
Water supply and quality
Waste Management
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Rain Water Free giveaway from mother nature used for nothing
Clean Water Bought from a particular water vendor used for washing and rinsing equipments and ingredients Hygienic Water Bought from a particular water vendor and then boiled to meet a certain hygiene standard used for cooking, drinking and other direct consumption
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Food storage and display
Garbage: in Collage competition entry
So, Why Not Talk About Architecture? Let’s Talk About It! Let’s talk about how architecture could respond the city issue and bring differences for the community. Let’s make a new taste with the new recipe!
The Making of Life-Size Model: Each number of jerrycan containers might be seen as an urban garbage material, the material, plastic, is known as one of the most-potential-material to recycle. The storage space that they have, occupies the creative way using it as daily storage, mostly for those whom often ‘interact’ with jerrycan disposals. it also can be fun! Such different colors of the cap can be arranged according to the type of the storage. The bright colorful arrangement may also attract the people who are passing by.
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Garbage: in Collage competition entry
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1.Sand 2.Palm Fiber 3.Charcoal 4.Stone Water purifier system plays the important role in this street food vendor’s problem solving. The cycle of “have been used-water” becoming “properly re-used water” helps the street food vendor to have a good standard hygienic water. Superimposition on schematic drawing
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Additionally, the water that has been used for washing the cooking materials and tools may also be re-used to water the plants.
Let’s Do Hair Do competition entry
LET’S DO HAIR DO L’Oreal Design Competition 2010, Indonesia straight
This project intends to create an interior atmosphere for a beauty parlour and treatment within the method of hair-do: cut - wave blonde
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By capturing the activity flow in the program by different exposure hair-do treatment, we produce a series of hairpieces as the inspiration of this interior project. A complex hairpieces combination generates the contour of spatial experience. The contour line indicates potential paths and furnitures The Team: Andro Kaliandi, Azalia Maritza, Verarisa Ujung
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Communal Place community project
COMMUNAL PLACE as Public Information Center Community Project | Everyday and Architecture 2009, Indonesia This community-based project was intertwined with Everyday and Architecture class that I took as an elective course at architecture department, Universitas Indonesia. Our intervention program was situated in the housing area occupied by residents in Jatinegara, East Jakarta. As a community-driven intervention, the community was deliberately promoted to unfold their potentials in creating better living environment.
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Through the mapping process we began to understand the context of living environment, community-aspirations and social relations among them. We uncovered localized approaches that emphasizes on the essences of the community: the social structure, local identity and specifically neighborhood engagement. While addressing the spatial conditions of the site, our interventions raised questions about the emergence of communal space as the community’ way to deal with the limited space they have in each individual dwelling. From our observation, we found that there were certain potential spots for anticipating the needs of exchanging ideas. This communal place was intended to be the center for their collective everyday activities.
https://communalspace.wordpress.com/2010/02/ 25/communal-space-in-jatinegara/ Project Coordinator & Advisor: Yandi Andri Yatmo (yandiay@eng.ui.ac.id) Paramita Atmodiwirjo (paramita@eng.ui.ac.id)
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In particular, the solution also extended further into an idea of participatory-based design which promotes the group of people in the community who share objectives, tools, resources and aspirations to collaborate for a limited time to build their own communal place.