Creating a new typology to solve land use and density, prioritizing the use of prefabricated materials to form each unit in order to realize the mass production of micro-homes, easily replicated and assembled.
Project Name: Urban Restart
Student Name: Emmerson Juliano
University Name: Universitas Pelita Harapan
Social Media Accounts: Instagram @emmerson.juliano
Contact email: [email protected]
Location: Jakarta
Completion Year: 2021
Gross Project Area (m2/ ft2): 3,246 m2
Project Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
Program / Use / Building Function: Residential Tower
Photo/Illustrations/Render Credits: Emmerson Juliano
Photo/Illustrations/Render e-mail: [email protected]
Project Description
The year is 2021. Jakarta host an estimated of 30,539,000 residents in 3,225 km2 of space, scoring number 2 on the most populated city just below Tokyo. However, this isn’t the problem. The true complication of the stats mentioned will take place just nearing 2040. On that time, 80% of Jakarta’s region will be an urban region, and 90% of available land for housing will be occupied. Land will be a sacred currency, power for the rich, but a cause of malediction for the poor. A perfect tenet for a dystopian society.
Jakarta has taken several steps to solve land use problem, one of it being the “a million home” program aiming to provide 1,25 million micro-homes for the less-privileged. So this is not a question of “what” but a question of “how”. How will we be able to provide a million micro-home while reducing land use as much as we can. Thus a concept of new stacked housing typology appears, where we could place the rooms of a single unit upwards. This will maximize the number of units a building can hold with the same area of the building footprint.
The outcome will not be a standard model-apartment, where unit walls are pitted against each other, but instead create a stacked housing with breathing space on every floor. A place to act on Indonesia’s most fundamental culture; togetherness and mutual cooperation (gotong royong). The corridors of in between units that are nowadays stamped as circulation, will be a place of activity just like in a regular landed housing neighborhood. The urban restart project hopes to create a new typology to solve land use and density, prioritizing the use of prefabricated materials to form each unit in order to realize the mass production of micro-homes, easily replicated and assembled.
