Mangrupuncture: A Tale of Coastal Remediation | FuturArc Prize 2024 Merit

Sunken homes and a damaged coastline depict ‘life before’ at Timbulsloko Village, Indonesia, which is currently inundated due to mangrove logging, changes in productive ponds, climate crisis and the construction of a nearby seaport. As such, the coastal village has been consecutively sinking from early 2010s. Their mangrove forest has been severely reduced due to logging, which sped up their demise.

Presently, the villagers have lost their agrarian land and homes due to the rise in sea level. They are now left with abandoned settlements, damaged biomes, radical environmental changes and barely surviving communities who do not want to give up their land.

The socio-environmental gap between community livelihood and mangrove ecosystem has arisen as a challenge in laying a blueprint for a new, sustainable ‘life after’, which the team has taken to signify a chance for liveability amidst the occurring major threats mentioned above. This remediation proposal offers a village-scale network of architectural intervention that situates, connects, protects and integrates itself to the mangroves, biomes and its people in a multifaced way. The architecture addresses the notion of temporality, adaptation and locality, cultivating the ‘decaying’ environment to become an inseparable part of the ecology.

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PROJECT DATA

Scenario
Climate Destruction

Location
Timbulsloko Village

Country
Indonesia

City
Demak Regency, Central Java Province

Site Area
30,475 square metres

FUTURARC PRIZE 2024: MERIT

Abraham Chintianto, Kenzy Arandha Irdham, Tasyarin Hasnaa Prisidiyani, Andianto Mahdi Prasasya and Adika Ramaghazy are fresh graduates with a diverse blend of expertise. Three members of the team hold professional programme titles in architecture, having graduated in 2023, while the remaining two hold experiences as research assistants in architectural design. Formed during their tenure as studio teaching assistants, the team shares common perspectives of the various pressing challenges in the built environment, from sustainability to locality. Their diversification of skill sets contributes to the different stages of the project—from conception to execution—that eventually propel the team towards developing innovative and impactful design solutions.

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