From this point forward i will be blogging about the contents of my current architecture studio project. The studio theme I took this semester is 'Anti Urban'. In a sense it is the exact opposite of what I learned last semester in which design starts from the response to urban context. Anti Urban is a less idealistic view on how to design in the urban context. The anti-urban idea is an architecture design that is indifferent to its urban context, rendering contextual considerations unimportant to its existence. Designs starts from its program development, resulting in an inward oriented design. It develops from inside to outside.
The instructor argues that given that the urban development in this city differs from development theory so often discussed in western books on architecture, the urban development in Jakarta cannot be solved or studied properly by using the same theories in which western architecture theorist have applied on western cities.
This studio aims to reflect or even explore ways in which architecture in Jakarta can exist with the disjunctive nature of it development but at the same time become a part of the urban thread that has made Jakarta, in all its imperfections, naturally, Jakarta.
A point that i wish to explore in this studio concerns with boundaries. How does a building exist within certain strict boundaries, without either dominating the urban scape around it or alienating itself and the surrounding area. To answer this question, I proposed for an exploration on the design scheme for a prison in the city.
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