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The Urban Kampung Studio Project, UTAS 2010

 The urban kampung is the form of housing in which the majority of Indonesian families reside. Rather than ‘slum’ or ‘squatter’ developments, the urban kampung can be seen as a type of ‘informal settlement’

The Studio project, conducted with 4th year students from the School of Architecture, University of Tasmania, was based in the kampungs of Kricak, Sidomulyo and Bina Karya, Located approximately 5km to the north-west of the centre of Yogyakarta on the banks of the Winongo river. 

There were two key tasks in this studio – improvements to the existing kampung and redevelopment of the Bina Karya site:

a: kampung improvements

The first of the project focused on improvements to the established kampungs of Kricak/Sidomulyo. It was concerned with further improvement of the general environment, concentrating predominantly on public goods (those services and spaces that are used by the community as opposed to privately owned). The elements of upgrading included-

§ Improvements to site drainage and consideration of flooding;

§ Improved access and strengthening of the hierarchy of shared and public spaces;

§ Consolidation of dwellings where appropriate, particularly around major public spaces and where land is inefficiently used;

§ Locations and buildings identified for community services (such as public noticeboards, shaded structures, laundry facilities, shared latrines and wells, hawker areas (warungs), shops, workshops, education and health facilities etc);

§ Typical street edge redesign options (focusing on major streets).

Existing services, community buildings and significant public space within the kampungs should have, wherever possible, been incorporated into the planning proposal.

b: Bina Karya redevelopment

The second component of the project focused on the redevelopment of the Bina Karya site. Part of the challenge of the project was to develop an appropriate brief for the development through research into Yogyakarta and the existing kampungs (social and physical context) as well as analysis of appropriate precedents. Some issues considered include:

§ The relationship between the Bina Karya site and the existing kampungs, particularly the edge along the main road (scale, access, identity, facilities etc);

§ The mix of housing types and incomes (including consideration of procurement options from infrastructure + self-build to completed dwellings);

§ The accommodation of residents from the existing kampungs who may be displaced by the kampung improvement proposals;

§ The integration of community facilities, commercial enterprises and community-oriented opportunities for income generation;

§ Justification of the proposed housing density for the site.

Below is a selection of projects kindly supplied by a number of students who completed the studio… . A big thank you to all those willing to contribute.

To download, please visit - http://issuu.com/designwiththeother/docs/ds8_at3__nikki.h

To download, please visit - http://issuu.com/designwiththeother/docs/ds8_at3_g.phillips_a0_panel_final

To download, please visit - http://issuu.com/designwiththeother/docs/ds8.at3.davis-mcphee-melvin

Site update, Facebook page and current projects …

A big hello from the Design with the Other team !

Loads has been going on over the past few weeks with new research projects, site updates and getting our new Facebook page up and running. We have also finally registered our own domain name www.designwiththeother.org which should be active within the next day or two! The direction of the site is constantly evolving and being updated which is really exciting… and challenging. Our goal of creating communication opportunities and a resource for students, designers and researchers is slowly being realized. Recently we have started to compile student works from the ‘Urban Kampung Development Project’ designed by the 4th year students from the School of Architecture at the University of Tasmania. This work will be posted over the next few weeks with full resolution PDFs available for download. A big thanks to all students who have been willing to share their knowledge and submit their work !

DWTO is also currently working on two new research and design projects. The first is a collaboration with the LARC student office and Foundations.au (see our friends page for links). The brief for this project is to develop site specific programs for a Children’s Sanctuary in Bukinda, Uganda, and investigate ‘Blue print strategies’ for satellite health services in the Kabale District. Our focus on this project will be in providing the students within the LARC office detailed precedent studies and information regarding interactive learning and education spaces in third world countries.

The second project is an investigation into the issues faced by displaced communities and refugee groups trying to establish new lives in new places. Our research will be focusing primarily on the exiled Tibetan community of Dharamsala, India. We will post more about this in weeks to come, and as always your help and involvement is encouraged and greatly appreciated!

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Urban Fabric and housing - realities/strategies/opportunities

To download, please visit - http://issuu.com/designwiththeother/docs/light__ventilation_and_space_panel

Community building - realities/strategies/possibilities

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Sanitation and Water- realities/strategies/opportunities

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Realities/Strategies/Opportunities panels

Over the coming week we will upload a number of presentations that explore the realities, strategies and opportunities that our research on Urban Kampung revealed. Each panel will be available as a free download, just follow the links.

thanks, DWTO Admin

Similar project in past…

hi

sorry, im not an architecture/design student, but ive hear a project (1980-1986) by Y.B. Mangunwijaya, Pr  on code river.

you can browse some record of his work on http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=999

hope this helps

regards.

post by pasifikus christa wijaya

Here is an article sent in by a reader that was published shortly after a study trip undertaken by students from the University of Melbourne.   

Mural artist Samuel Indratma interestingly states that “Art is a window to invite people.  It does not matter if the art is not good enough.  It’s the beginning of talking and working together.”  This statement resonates with us and it is the hope that we can achieve this same outcome.

It is interesting also to note that a suggestion to penetrate the wall into an adjoining site (Binya Karya) was met with resistance by community leaders within the Kampung as the wall was seen as protection and the site seen as government property. Is this a common view by all inhabitants? Is there a general desire for greater outdoor space?

Hi all,

Sorry for continuing to discuss the painting on the wall in the Kricak/Sidomulyo kampung, but I am fascinated by it.

Analysing the painting has helped me develop a material palette which I believe becomes important to housing within kampungs?

The palette has been grouped in areas of construction from left to right. Starting with Base/Plinth, Flooring, Walling and finally Roofing.

I beleive the materials areas follows:

Base/Plinth: are heavily reinforced materials ranging from blockwork, stonework and rock and mortar construction.

Flooring: Ranges from earth, bamboo sheeting and stonework.

Walling: Ranges from heavy construction materials such as brickwork and blockwork at the lower levels to lightweight materials such as corrugated panels and bamboo panelling above.

Roofing: Ranges from lightweight materials such as corrugated panels and bamboo sheeting to heavy materials such as clay tiles, interlocking tiles and tiles over corrugated sheeting.

When viewing the existing photos of the kampung I can see a lot of these materials being used, however the way the materials have been organised in the painting from Base/Plinth to Roofing is interesting. The painting shows an order of heavy to lightweight materials as the building rises.

By analysing the materials it has also helped me to analyse the housing types in the painting. Interesting ideas start to come out of the painting such as the height of the Base and Plinth and the massing and spacing between individual houses. From this I have started to develop a set of diagrams which could possibly develop into a housing typology. During this process there are some elements that start to develop such as:

-a possible storage area under houses, being incoporated in the Base and Plinth.

-as the Housing is raised it creates a physical separation between private and public spaces, yet still allowing a visual connection.

-by raising the houses has also given more access to sunlight for drying clothes and food.

To sum up this blog I need your help (particularly people living in kampungs or have experience in kampungs) so that we can continue this development of ideas.

If anyone can let me know whether I am identifying the materials in the painting correctly or whether I am reading the painting totally wrong that would be great?

Does anyone believe the development of these housing diagrams could work in a kampung and if not would you have any suggestions on how the house should work?

Thanks

Brad

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