Recovering Public Space in Jakarta - A Landscape Architectural Approach

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201009.009How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Landscape Architecture, Jakarta, Public Space, Design Process, Multiplicity, Kampung

Abstract

As a profession which centres on the outdoor environment and its inter-relationships between people, the city and ecological processes, how does a landscape architectural perspective differ from the way urban designers and architects operate within a hyper-urban context such as Jakarta? This paper examines how landscape architects identify urban issues in rapidly growing Asian cities, discover opportunities through design interventions, and advance proposed interventions into sustainable strategies for the betterment of their residents. The argument is based on the outcomes of a Master’s level landscape architectural design studio offered by National University of Singapore. The primary study site for investigation is Kampung Kedaung Kali Angke in West Jakarta. The site is occupied by dense single-story housing blocks comprised of a mixture of formal and informal settlements, industrial warehouses and several gated communities, as well as undeveloped open fields. In addition to the site visit, informal interviews were conducted in order to clarify community-level spatial organization and its usage, challenges that residents face toward sustainable living. To obtain a better contextual understanding, students were tasked to also investigate the surrounding neighbourhoods, as well as city-wide geographical analysis to better understand the complex dynamics of the Jakarta as a whole. By referring to the students’ vantage points in their site analysis, concept development, and design narratives, the paper analyses the uniqueness on how landscape architects view the fabric of the city in a manner which differs from our neighbouring disciplines. This is demonstrated through the hypothetical recovery of multi-functional public spaces from otherwise uninitiated and underutilised locations hidden from plain sight and engrained within the cities tightly woven fabric.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Kenya Endo
AU  - Ervine Lin
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/10/10
TI  - Recovering Public Space in Jakarta - A Landscape Architectural Approach
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Dwelling Form (IDWELL 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 81
EP  - 92
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201009.009
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201009.009
ID  - Endo2020
ER  -