N-COMMUNITY in Bali by budi Pradono

 

ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPT 

 

In order to meet the requirements set out by the government, we have divided this area complex into many parts, each of which has a public space or a green open area comprising between 20% and 25% of the total land area.

MASTERPLAN

Based on the idea of the concept that already exists in Bali, this master plan is being made with a general method for growth. A normal Balinese house is always built on land that is divided into nine parts. In the middle of the site is an empty area called a "zen space," which is the main place. All of the other rooms and buildings are set up in a way that makes sense in relation to it. These rooms include the dining room, bedroom, living room, and kitchen.

 

The special space we called “utamaning utama” that is frequently designated as a venue to worship at each corner on the north side or facing the sea is the corner section of the nine division. As a result, a family temple is typically established in this position.

 

How to think of ways to use Balinese ideas in modern city life by multiplying  the 9 divisions into several places and making that the direction of how the city is set up.

 

ORGANIC PUBLIC SPACE

We highlight this vacant area in an urban environment, namely as a public space, as a significant component in the overall layout of the room in this master design that we have created. There are two primary concepts contained within this master plan: The first fundamental concept is organic space, in which the whole region is split up into eight sections. Where each segment has an organic public space that is of a size that is relatively vast (broad), and where the main street and all of these public spaces are connected to one another via the secondary street. Each big public area is connected to one or more smaller public spaces by a branch. 

 

 

 

BUILDING HEIGHT 

The height of the building is being gradually reduced as it gets closer to the main road, and it is also being shorter overall, with the goal of making it so that people would feel comfortable strolling around it. 

While structures with multiple stories (up to a maximum of three levels) are located on the most distant boundary.

 

PILOTIS STRUCTURE

The primary structure is a pilotis, which gives the building legs and creates more open space on the bottom side of the building, particularly for public areas such as the conference room, as well as the dining room, and the fitness room. The purpose of this is also to ensure that the levels with the more private rooms are located higher up.

 

ATRIUM

The atrium was the open central court surrounded by enclosed chambers. In Roman atriums contained an impluvium, a shallow basin sunken into the floor to collect rainfall from the roof. 

But in this proposal, I envision an atrium as a source of energy for the residents, an inner garden or forest, and a source of light distribution throughout the building.

 

WATER 

Since water is employed as a heat penetration method, reflecting ponds are created in parts of the front side of the area in order to act as a cooler and as area markers. Therefore, there will be a reflecting pond that visitors will see as soon as they reach the neighbourhood.

 

FORM

 

1.   AMOEBA 

The fundamental form is analogous to that of an amoeba, with a void located in the midst of each amoeba. These atriums serve as a source of green energy for the structure, and they provide the impression to those who are within that they are outside. Additionally, it can act as a natural ventilation system.

This is for the apartment units, which are designed to be extremely simple and take the shape of boxes. The boxes are positioned in such a manner that each apartment unit has its own space for greenery as well as some privacy.

 

2.   MOUNTAINS

The plan is to create a "what if" scenario in which all of the individual housing units are merged together to form a single amoeba. This amoeba will then connect all of the individual apartment units to one another. Therefore, in terms of shape, this link creates numerous mountains that are connected to each other; the mountains in question contain gaps or atriums inside their confines. 

On the slope of the mountain crest, there is an area that has been made more open by installing a row of organic planter boxes, but overall, the area still retains the appearance of a mountain. After the formation of these mountains, this area will be able to be divided into the eight sections that were there previously.

 

3.   WOODEN LOUVRE

This rectangular box was decided upon as the best form to use because it is both functional and simple. Therefore, the plan is to articulate the composition of the spatial needs into many portions of building clusters, where the composition produces dynamic public spaces. 

 

with irregular sites and curved main roads. One option is to create a formal grid composition by dividing the nine parts of each unit. similar to how Balinese culture does it; in this case, Then, the middle area as an empty public space then we connect it with the road corridor in the form of a ramp where other buildings are around it and are interrelated with one another.the mass composition would be a mass composition of squares that would respond to each other between the solid and the void 

 

Only in public buildings, such as co-working spaces, fitness, and yoga rooms, are rooms designed to have an oval layout with semi-open walls that have planter boxes installed as louvres to allow for cross ventilation.

 

A wooden louvre system has been installed on the roof of the entire building so that the available sunlight may be used as efficiently as possible for urban farming.

 

 

 

 

 

Eco-Friendly Building and Urbanism

 

We aim to get as much natural light into the buildings as possible and include as much cross ventilation as possible into each structure, so that the overall appearance of this area complex is similar to that of a village in Bali. The planning for this entire area was done using the concepts of green architecture and urbanism.

 

Walkable community

Each of these areas is designed to be easy to reach and with a green atmosphere everyone in the area will feel comfortable to be able to walk with a maximum target of 5 minutes only.

 

 

Material Approach

When it comes to the walls, we can use rammed-earth material as heat insulation, but you can also replace it with other local items such as bricks from Bali. In general, we use local resources by using local artisans for tasks such as roofing or planting.

 

 

 

 

 

Cloudy House by Budi Pradono

 

Cloudy House merupakan sebuah rumah digital berada di bawah air, sebuah visioning tentang rumah masa depan. karya ini dibuat sebagai respon saat pandemi 2020 

Lorong Lungguh: An Anti-object Architecture by Budi Pradono

My proposal was selected during the Bintaro Design District 2020 which held on September 2022 creative event. I proposed an anti-object architecture called "Lorong Lungguh," a library that blends with nature in the middle of the Sampirien forest. Every wooden stick and every tree in the forest has a barcode that contains specific information for visitors. Lorong Lungguh will be an underground stopover situated in the middle of the forest.

Lorong in Indonesian means a small tunnel, and Lungguh in Javanese means “to sit.” So, instead of creating an object in the middle of Bintaro’s Forest, I tried to create a rare experience. Most people enjoy the forest from a distance, but in this case, people will be able to experience it from their cars. I have the desire to bring people here to experience the beauty of this nature, even more so after the pandemic when we now appreciate nature more. By going into the forest, we can satisfy our curiosity from within an architectural masterpiece buried in the ground.

Merleau-Ponty has described the human body as the beginning of human perception. According to this approach, all meanings related to the environment begin in the body. Approaches based on the body and bodily movement in architecture could find meaning in architectural phenomenology in terms of the body's experience of the space.

This project is an architectural masterpiece based on the concept of "anti-object" by Kengo Kuma. In his writings, he stated that Le Corbusier and Mies Van Der Rohe made nature the background of their buildings, as an object that stands out regardless of the concept of minimalism. However, Kuma appreciates what Bruno Taut did when he tried to bridge matter and consciousness. This is also reflected in several of Kuma's works that highlight the human experience of traveling and procession. So he makes his facades mostly out of pixels or even louvers to eliminate the object/product architecture, an attempt that was quite successful.

Lorong Lungguh is a very small architectural project, only measuring 33 square meters, compared to the size of the site, which is 13,89 Hectars. To experience the building, one has to walk around in the middle of the forest. And since it will be buried underground, no one can see it; all that will be visible is the louver covering the roof, floating like leaves. If people have to walk far, they can sit and enjoy the lowest area of the tree. This is a chance to feel the body-feeling space of underground architecture. In my opinion, this is the product of anti-object architecture, a reinterpretation of the theory proposed by Kengo Kuma. He advocated for plainness and formulated his ideology with the words "less is more," which formed the basis of the purism principle, an idea about doing away with all kinds of decorations and embracing simplicity.

Man's separation from the artificial environment is a fundamental problem that architecture tackles and sometimes even creates. Therefore, the relationship between subject and object should be the subject of care. Phenomenology, which plays an important role in architectural space research, aims to create spaces based on experiences and to address the senses in architectural design to prevent alienation from the environment.

I created spaces with a focus on the bodily experience. However, it is important to pay more attention to emotional and spiritual issues. My goal is to allow people to experience space with their bodies while also using a technological tool. Using their cell phones, visitors can scan every wooden stick along the path and read stories.

The Alastrawas gelato inside the Lorong Lungguh Pavilion will be a major site of attraction. People will be able to walk around and sit at the underground site. Lorong Lungguh tells the story of human life. Everyone has to go through a journey in life where, at some point, they have to sit back and reflect on the past, present, and future.

In short, Lorong Lungguh is a representation of a future library where literacy is spread throughout nature. Visitors will be able to take a literacy journey in the middle of the Sampireun forest. There, they will find points of information that will enrich their journey. In the final moment, they will find a place to relax and learn about the past and the vision for the future.

Lorong Lungguh is a completely anti-object architectural concept. In just ten days after the Bintaro Design District event, the structure will be disassembled, the excavation pit will be covered, and the building will cease to exist.

Dancing Tower Hotel by Budi Pradono

Dancing tower hotel 

Questioning the status quo of the building.

In big cities throughout the world's metropolises there is a tendency to make typical floors so that they are easy to extrude it. 

What happens is the generic facade, generic floor plan, generic window, this is the mantra of the international style followed by capitalism. 

these things have created the same architectural language "international style" which presents uniformity in all major cities in the world whether in New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo, San Francisco, Jakarta or Bandung. Generally in the form of a stupid box wrapped in glass. This has lost the identity of a place. Because there is a similarity in architectural language

The question is How to bring the new spirit. How to dismantle the stability of the box building without hurting it? This project tries to question the status quo of modernism.

Response to the urban fabric

Since the location of the hotel tower is very strategic, on Jalan Aceh. Besides being close to government buildings, this project is also close to shopping areas, especially clothing stores that sell various brands from around the world. Lots of factory outlets around the site. The city of Bandung is indeed known as a very developed city for the clothing industry which produces world brands such as Zara, Louis Vitton, Gucci and others. 

The site is only 1000 sq meters and surrounded by several buildings. One of the sides is the another 4 star Hotel next to it which was founded in the 90s, and only had a rigid hexagon shape like concrete with aluminum checkered windows which was the trend at that time. then behind it is a massive shopping mall, 

the problem is how this building responds to current and future urban conditions. we try to do an urbanity analysis and we know that almost all the commercial buildings in the vicinity, have a similar approach that is that they place their building mass in the center of the site. Responding to this condition, the dancing hotel has implemented a strategy to fragment the building mass, so that it appears to consist of 2 small masses. With the condition of marrying these 2 small masses, there are actually implications for building physics where the natural ventilation aspect can continue from the north to the south. so with this capital, it is hoped that the air conditioner will only be used in certain areas, especially the rooms, the rest will use natural ventilation.

Reading the history of Bandung

Remembering Bandung in 1928-1930 when the economic crisis in Europe hit and caused the aspirations of the Dutch East Indies to make Bandung as the new capital to replace Batavia fail miserably. Even though there were many architects from Europe who were designing many government buildings and elite housing at that time. Art deco style had in Bandung. This is a fundamental question for architects who have a specific site not far from a historical area to issue a proposal that answers today's challenges. Where the precast technology offers a variety of possibilities. Architects must have the courage to deconstruct the existing order.

Building facade

How to determine the facade of the building? Of course, the fundamental question is whether I should follow the old style, or should I follow the tradition of regionalism or minimalism? I feel that it is very important to build a new character in 2018, especially how to respond to the surrounding buildings. Indeed the response chosen is a form of the opposite. this means as an argument that this new character is also a representation of criticism of urbanity.

At the same time providing space for precast concrete technology. Provides flexibility for tilted glass.

Why do you have to dance?

The dancing form composition offers a dynamic building that gives color to the rigid fabric landscape. Dancing hotel is also a re-interpretation of traditional Jaipong dance which was banned by the government during the New Order government. ( during Soeharto’s period 1965-1998) This dance, which is sexy because it moves your hips and buttocks, is considered not according to Muslim norms. But we see this dance is very local and very popular among the common people. So that it should be appointed as a new force against the international style.

Innovation

The next question is; that there is a massive and generic phenomenon of hotel and apartment construction. this causes a lack of innovation because almost all of them use standard sizes. That's why we're back to questioning the wall. what if the walls were tilted so that it would give the space a very unique quality. The second is the window, does it have to be generic, square shaped and all the same? This sloping wall uses stopsol glass material where it will reduce lighting from the outside. On the other hand, at night, this stopsol glass functions like a mirror, so the room looks spacious. By tilting the concrete wall and creating a new glass diamond shape, this is my attempt as an architect to deconstruct the facade concept.

Interiors of the building

In the interior of the room, all materials are reduced so that we find the most basic ones, for example a wardrobe with only clothes hangers left. The other cupboards are just shelves. So that on the one hand you get a maximalist space but also reduce the furniture. The overall interior concept is super exposed where all the pipes are visible from the outside. on this side we can anticipate piping problems. This is also a way of thinking that dismantles the establishment, in general, hotels are always covered with a smooth facial finish with a large cupboard, but actually for travelers we don't need a wardrobe, because this hotel is designed as a 4-star business hotel

Programming Strategy

In designing this hotel, it is very important to do programming calculations for the whole area. so from this spatial analysis, we determine the semi-outdoor cafe is on the front side so that it can accommodate pedestrians. then we put the fitness area, bar, cafe and swimming in the top floor area. 

This is one of the programming strategies that will distribute visitors to stay on the groundfloor and at the rooftop. 

multi programming aimed at the public split into two. At the very top and at the bottom. This gives the distribution of humans below and above. By placing

swimming pool and bar in the roof top area as well as cafe and meeting room in the lower area make the middle side of the hotel rooms very private and exclusive.

Green building strategy

How to provide a green concept in this building? Strategy splits the building mass in two and keep the corridors open and allows the wind to continuously pass through

The corridors in between the building so that the AC unit is only used in closed spaces such as private rooms and meeting rooms so it will cut 40 percent of AC and electricity consumption.

A large tree as high as 8 m was planted soaring on the first floor and allowed to grow upwards, giving a strong symbol that this building is in a tropical country.

To get around the volume of space, the floor-to-floor height is made 4 meters. This volume gives the wide breadth of space in

Movement : lecture by budi pradono