FuturArc Exchange and Exhibitions (FEX) | 4Q 2024

FEX events in major cities throughout the Indonesian archipelago serve to highlight and provide an avenue for knowledge-sharing amongst architects, designers and construction industry professionals who share a Green vision. Each session has been supported by various chapters of the Indonesian Institute of Architects (IAI), which allows for registered architects to receive credit points that add towards their professional advancement.

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Date 12 July 2024
Audience Jakarta
Venue Cosmo Amaroossa Hotel
Technology reviews Mulia Glass Block; RIIFO Indonesia; Super Teknik
Supported by IAI Jakarta

To some people, corporate architecture may be synonymous with airconditioned glass-and-steel towers. However, Chandra Pradita of LABWRKS Architects challenged this common (mis)conception by introducing open-air corridors that ‘cut through’ the masses of Bank Tabungan Negara (BTN) Ecopark office buildings. Seeking to challenge yet remain within the limits of the mortgage bank’s corporate identity guidelines, LABWRKS’s façade design lowered the window-to-wall ratio by punctuating the envelope with carefully oriented sky terraces, a feature that allows for cross ventilation and reduces solar heat absorption in Depok’s sunny climate.

Abimantra Pradhana and Osrithalita Gabriela of AGo Architects believe in the power of details, calling for the audience to “create good architecture and good practices, 1 millimetre at a time”. Acknowledging the transient nature of exhibitions, their installation Root Scape for the ARCH:ID trade show reuses previous years’ materials, including 50 per cent of wood from an Andra Matin-designed pavilion and 100 per cent of woven fabric for the ‘softscape’ of the seating area.

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Date 19 July 2024
Audience Yogyakarta
Venue Grand Tjokro Hotel
Technology reviews Biru Home; Mulia Glass Block
Supported by IAI Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta

After 15 years in the profession, Mario Andreti of Mario or Marjo (MoM) Architect decided that he will ‘retire’ from designing residential projects to focus solely on healthcare architecture. “My dream is to improve the quality and aesthetics of hospitals and medical clinics across Indonesia,” he declared. The office’s recent projects include an inpatient building for users of the government-run health insurance programme, as part of Mitra Husada hospital in Pringsewu, Lampung.

“Building for tomorrow is the essence of regenerative architecture,” said Yanuar Pratama of Aaksen Studio, explaining the design of Al-Kahf Mosque in the remote village of Poco Dedeng in Nusa Tenggara Timur. With scarce infrastructure for roads, electricity and water/sanitation pipes, the neighbourhood has limited access to necessary services, most crucially clean water. Hence, the design aims to bridge this gap by way of a roof that can capture and funnel rainwater, to be filtered and stored in above ground and underground tanks for a variety of communal uses.

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Date 9 August 2024
Audience Surabaya
Venue Wyndham Hotel Surabaya
Technology reviews Meval; NS BlueScope
Exhibitor Epson Indonesia
Supported by IAI Jawa Timur

“It is very important to foster an environment where different ideas can ‘collide’ with each other,” Andi Santoso of AER Design Studio believes. The firm adopts this philosophy to come up with fresh concepts, such as ‘remixing’ the typologies of a transport station with a café to create Cincau Station in Wiyung, Surabaya. Serving a local variation of grass jelly drinks, this beverage bar was designed to attract dine-in and drive-through customers alike to quench their thirst in the hot weather.

In the city of Makassar, temperatures range from 18–34 degrees Celsius depending on the season. For the design of DC Residence in this climate, Ikhsan Hamiru of MIV Architects devised a roof with wide eaves to protect the building from exposure to both rainfall and sunlight. A large atrium at the centre of the house allows for air to freely circulate, while thick double-layered brick walls ‘block’ heat from outside and helps to maintain comfortable temperatures indoors.

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Date 30 August 2024
Audience Medan
Venue Grand Mercure Medan Angkasa
Technology review RIIFO Indonesia
Supported by IAI Sumatera Utara

Andhika Nugraha Siregar of Studio Entitas presented their award-winning residential projects, including Batur House in Medan that accommodates three generations under its roof. The clients made specific requests, such as for the beds to not face the streets, for doors not to align in a straight line, and for the stairs to serve as a focal point of the home. These were taken into consideration in the design, resulting in a T-shaped mass with a ramp along the building spine, serving as a universally accessible mode of vertical circulation.

Gun Faisal of Studio Aruca showcased their recent projects that made use of software for Green analysis. As a case study, the design for Universitas Riau’s Agency for Research and Community Service (LPPM) headquarters implemented vertical gardens to improve sun shading, an inner court to enable cross ventilation, permeable paving to ensure that stormwater runoff could be absorbed into the ground, and rainwater harvesting for landscape use.

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Date 13 September 2024
Audience Bandung
Venue West Point Hotel
Technology reviews Biru Home; Mulia Glass Block
Exhibitors Bernadi Utama; Epson Indonesia; Solahart
Supported by IAI Jawa Barat; Ibu Arsitek

In this session, Shabrina Aryani of Office S A described the importance of instilling a sense of familiarity for residential projects, for example in Rumah Alam Elok in Jakarta. Built within a 120-square-metre plot of land measuring 6 metres wide, the three-storey house utilises an open, unpartitioned layout to allow for a freer spatial experience that can remind the owners of the expanse of their childhood homes. Green pigments were mixed into the custom-made flooring material, which created the illusion of the ground floor extending seamlessly to the modest-sized yet inviting backyard garden.

Similarly showcasing a residential design on a narrow plot, Osrithalita Gabriela of AGo Architects explained the process and philosophy behind 3500 Millimeter House, which had received the FuturArc Green Leadership Award in 2019.

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Date 20 September 2024
Audience Batam
Venue AP Premier Hotel
Technology reviews NS BlueScope; Saint-Gobain Indonesia; TACO
Supported by IAI Kepulauan Riau

August Ary Sofiar of Ary Sofiar Architect presented the office’s data collection, regulatory guidelines and conceptual design process for a Type C hospital near the coast of Batam. He shared how the flow of programmes is a crucial consideration for hospital buildings, and the architect’s duty is to focus on spatially ‘translating’ the standardised technical guidelines for the site context.

Inspired by the shape of tomes and ceremonial togas, Irwan Lubis of Bumi Design (BD) Studio designed Universitas Satya Terra Bhinneka in Medan to incorporate balconies on every floor, serving as vital spaces for learning and interaction between students. Throughout the mass, voids are carefully placed to ensure adequate natural lighting for the classrooms.

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Date 11 October 2024
Audience Bali Venue Swiss-Belresort Watu Jimbar
Technology reviews Damdex Indonesia; Owens Sarana Asia Pasifik
Exhibitor Kayu Asri
Supported by IAI Bali

“How does the character of a site inform our design approach?” This is among the first questions that I Gde Banyu Priautama of UOS Architecture Studio asks his team when embarking on a project. For every design, they seek to employ sustainable design rules of thumb for the tropical context, including the integration of inside and outside spaces, and optimising watershed infiltration areas—apparent in projects such as BT House that limits the built-up area to no more than half of the ground floor.

Permeability and continuity were also the theme of the presentation by Abimantra Pradhana of AGo Architects, who believes that architecture in Indonesia should aim for the accessibility for people, light and air alike at the human scale. He quoted Eliel Saarinen: “Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context … a room in a house, a house in an environment”. The continuity between inside and outside spaces was a particularly important consideration for their design of Garden House.

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