Green Initiative Week, Hamamatsu
“Woodification” is now becoming one of the most important policy making issues shared among the countries in the North as it aims at the replacement of the iron-and-concrete urban environment, which are considered a typical 20th century tendency, by wood materials with much lower environmental load. However, this task has not yet been acknowledged among the citizens of the South-east Asian countries which are paradoxically rich in forestry resource and endowed with high potential of wood use. The ratio of deforestation in these countries is now becoming much worse.
From this perspective, the campaign for the Green Initiative Week has been launched in order to connect the South-east Asian countries and Japan so as to form a cross-border forum for woodification. Its basic point resides, on the basis of the re-evaluation of the wooden tradition shared by all the Asian countries, in the enhancement of the transfer of the innovative wood design and technology, including CLT (cross laminated timber) to the cultural and environmental context of the South-east Asian countries. The first Green Initiative Week was successfully carried out in Indonesia in October-November 2017 with the participation of the experts of five counties
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Public Lecture – HNI, Rotterdam
Link : https://www.facebook.com/events/1123673327673016/
‘The Rise of Indonesian Architecture’ Public lecture in Rotterdam Speakers: Ahmad Djuhara (Djuhara+Djuhara) and Adi Purnomo (Mamo Studio) Time: Saturday, 28 November 2015, 14:00 – 17:00 Venue: Het Nieuwe Instituut (HNI), 25 Museumpark, Rotterdam-NL Free registration at: https://indonesian-architecture.eventbrite.co.uk/ Moderator: Harmen van de Wal (Krill Architecture) Brought to you by KBRI Den Haag, Rumah Budaya Indonesia, IAI Nasional and IAI-EU.
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Lecture MID-REKA, Kuala Lumpur
What has the world turned into at the start of this new millennium? Alas, a world of ubiquitous elements, places, spaces and things. With the advent of the internet and cheaper travel, and the easy
movement of goods, materials and services throughout the globe; we now have a rather uniform world where we all watch the same movies, play the same computer games, wear the same clothes, listen to the same music, drive the same cars, go to the same holiday destinations, live in the same air-conditioned environment, et al. In a nutshell, it is boring, predictable and also harmful to the natural environment.
Hence the theme of this design conference: “A Sense of Place”. How does a designer faced with a plethora of options and opportunities, exploit the special unique site conditions to create wonderful memorable places? How do they achieve that within a commercial environment where financial profit is the main motivator, and yet meeting the aspirations of their clients within the context?
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Tropicality Revisited, Frankfurt
TROPICALITY REVISITED Neue Ansätze indonesischer Architekten
29. August 2015 – 3. Januar 2016, 3. OG FÜHRUNGEN: Samstag und Sonntag, jeweils 14 Uhr
Architektur war in den Tropen nie nur auf den Schutz vor Regen und Sonne beschränkt. Mit dem Aufstieg der Moderne in der Architektur hatte die tropische Architektur plötzlich eine globale Relevanz und wurde für alle Klimazonen und Kulturen adaptiert. In der Nachkriegszeit erlangte die Wissenschaft eines klimatisch angepassten Bauens internationalen Erfolg. Für viele Generationen indonesischer Architekten waren die Tropen aber keine romantische Kolonie, sondern harte Realität mit sintflutartigen Regenfällen, Hitze und hoher Luftfeuchtigkeit. Heute wird die tropische Architektur häufig von verglasten und klimatisierten Hochhäusern oder den gefeierten Entwürfen für Touristenresorts publizistisch in den Schatten gestellt. Denn sie wird als selbstverständlich betrachtet mit ihren Steildächern und Dachüberständen. Dennoch ist sie für viele Architekten eine Herausforderung, neue Lösungen zu finden. In Zeiten des Klimawandels und der Energiekrisen feiert die klimatisch adaptierte Architektur nun ein triumphales Comeback. Diese Ausstellung bietet einen Überblick über neue Ansätze in Indonesien.
12 ARCHITEKTEN \ 12 PROJEKTE
Urbane Indonesia, Jakarta – Baiturrahman Mosque, Kopeng \ Yogyakarta
Achmad Tardiyana, Jakarta – Rumah Baca, Bandung
Adi Purnomo \ mamostudio, Ciputat – Studi-O Cahaya, West Jakarta
djuhara + djuhara, Ciputat – Wisnu Steel House, Bekasi
andramatin, Jakarta – Andra Matin House, Jakarta
Csutoras & Liando, Jakarta – Kineforum Misbar, Jakarta
d-associates, Bandung – Tamarind House, Jakarta
EFF Studio, Denpasar \ Bali – Almarik Restaurant, Gili Trawangan \ Lombok
Eko Prawoto Architecture Workshop, Yogyakarta – Eko Prawoto House, Yogyakarta
Studio Akanoma, Bandung – Ciledug Timber House, Ciledug \ Tangerang
LABO, Bandung – House #1 at Labo. the mori, Bandung
Studio TonTon, Jakarta – Ize Hotel, Seminyak \ Bali
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Public Lecture SUTD, Singapore
Date:
17 November 2014 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Venue:
SUTD Lecture Theatre 1 (Dover) 20 Dover Drive
Wood – a Material of the Past, or the Future?
The first cement factory in Indonesia was built in 1910. Since then, the landscape of building construction paradigm has changed almost in the whole country. Wood houses and buildings were considered as obsolete construction. Meanwhile in the contrast, the country has the second largest forest area and also the second biggest deforestation. The lecture will show some research on this topic that is still being held in the studio, together with some exemplary projects.
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Tropfix : Fabric, Darwin
In the segment Tropfix Fabric, Jo Best of Troppo Architects questioned the use of materials like concrete block in tropical climate. She also observed that of our buildings codes appear to be biased toward the ‘air-conditioned Esky’ rather than breathing buildings with fans.
The work of Adi Purnomo of Mamostudio seemed to approach architecture as strategic interventions with an urban-scale impact. Starting with an examination of what’s missing in an urban site context, the Bogor based studio’s work introduces smart moves like rainwater collection pools, green roofs, walls and grass berms into cities that have very limited green space and use vast amounts of electricity for cooling. It is not every day one gets to observe such creative ways of addressing energy use reduction, urban ecology and rainwater harvesting.
Ninotchka Titschkosky of BVN presented a number of large, institutional buildings around Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast, many of which explored the brise soleil (or sun shade) as a ‘dissolved’ wall of an outdoor room. Most notable was an auditorium that opened out into a large terrace space, where it appeared that the stage floor doubles as a part of a larger function space.
Link : http://wp.architecture.com.au/news-media/ausindoarch-tropfix-recap/#sthash.fHutzj5z.dpbs