Urban Transformation Phenomena in Bandung

CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION

L-R: The musical and fashion transformation phenomena

PHYSICAL TRANSFORMATION

L-R: Transformation of Jalan Braga, Bandung

BANDUNG TODAY

PHENOMENA OF THE CITY

URBAN FABRIC

Jalan Asia-Afrika/ Alun-Alun Kota Jalan Otista/ Pasar Baru Jalan Braga

URBAN FABRIC

Siliwangi Jalan Aceh Cilaki

Main Frameworks

RESEARCH REFERENCE

The Architecture of the City, Aldo Rossi 1984, MIT Press

Delirious New York, Rem Koolhaas 1978, Thames and Hudson

Project Zagreb: Transition as Condition, Strategy, Practice, Eve Blau & Ivan Rupnik 2007, Actar

THEORETICAL POSITIONING

Structural Anthropology, Claude Lévi Strauss 1972

The Theory of Permanence, Pierre Lavedan 1926

The Society of Spectacle, Guy Ernest Debord 1967

Reconsidering Indonesian Identity in Architecture at the New Millennium, Achmad Deni Tardiyana 2005

Systems Approach in Devising Research Perimeter

1.  Devise methods for immersing in the chosen urban condition. 2.  Devise ways of understanding the structure of the urban condition. 3.  Identify variables that make up and influence the urban condition. 4.  Investigate the relationship between the urban condition and the city’s fabric. 5.  Choose a moment within the urban condition and formulate an understanding of the relationship

between physical and social structures. 6.  Develop strategies for creating interactive relationships between physical and social structures. 7.  Devise appropriate methods of representation and communication. 8.  Define the perimeter and analyze the structure of this urban territory. 9.  Investigate the variables that make up this urban territory. 10.  Investigate different ways of transforming it into a potential territory of action for an urban hub. 11.  Devise appropriate methods of representation and communication. 12.  Prepare preliminary proposals for a direct hub at the architectural scale and an urban hub at the urban

scale.

STRATEGIC OPERATIONS

1.  Explore the potential of the designed direct hub as an urban component and explore its relationship to rule-based urban systems.

2.  Reassess the territory of action as a potential urban hub. 3.  Identify and make use of relevant agents and initiatives. 4.  Define and design the direct role of the urban hub by producing design simulations and other strategic

representations of the idea. 5.  Define the relationship between the proposal for the urban hub and the city's infrastructure, fabric and

rule-based systems. 6.  Speculate on the interrelationship between the three hubs: the situation, the direct hub and the urban

hub. 7.  Finalize the strategy for the urban hub, model and represent its spatial configuration. 8.  Finalize the rule-based systems required to procure and support the urban hub and devise appropriate

methods of representation and communication. 9.  Compile the whole process as a design thesis.

SPATIAL AND STRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS

TOPICS STRUCTURE

Prof. M. Danisworo (Jakarta) on urban design development in Indonesia.

Achmad Deni Tardiyana (Bandung) on urbanism, economic development and social needs in Bandung.

Adi Purnomo (Jakarta) on urban dwellings in Indonesia.

TOPICS STRUCTURE

Kevin Mark Low (Kuala Lumpur) on contextual approaches in tropical urbanism and architecture.

Winy Maas/ MVRDV (Rotterdam) on urban density.

Rem Koolhaas (Rotterdam) on globalism’s impact on urban transformation.

Caruso St. John (London) on character of buildings in urban context.

Peter Zumthor (Haldenstein) on tactile and sensory qualities of spaces and buildings.

TOPICS STRUCTURE

USER METRIC FRAMEWORK METHODOLOGY

Review of Existing Data and Literatures PROCESS

Interview with Stakeholders

Parametric Survey

Cultural Complexity SURVEY

Technological Density

Metropolitan Index

Hyperactivity of the City

Demographic Growth Patterns

PERFORMANCE OF THE CITY

Cultural Practice and its Complexity

Measuring the complex cultural composition based on: 1. Numbers of language or dialects used per sq.m 2. Numbers of cultural practices difference per sq.m

CULTURAL COMPLEXITY

SURVEY

Creative Practices

Assessing usage of of technology by dwellers based on: 1. Numbers of wireless hotspots per sq.m 2. Users of Facebook/ Twitter/ BlackBerry/ iPhone per sq.m

TECHNOLOGICAL DENSITY

Technology Usage

Quantifying globalization impact index on the city: 1. Numbers of Starbucks/ McDonalds/ Circle K, etc. 2. Idea per sq.m by the mapping of creative practices

METROPOLITAN INDEX

SURVEY

Understanding daily practices by measuring: 1. Frequency of traveling and commuting patterns 2. Speed of movement and commuting per hour

HYPERACTIVITY OF THE CITY

Traveling and Commuting Patterns

Demographic impact on varying socio-economic conditions: 1. Fertility rates or number of births per sq.m 2. Health impacts and mapping of diseases per sq.m

DEMOGRAPHIC GROWTH PATTERNS

Varying Socio-economic Conditions

SURVEY

Design Process Cycle

Hafiz Amirrol for Pre Thesis Seminar AR 6195