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"Kampung Akuarium, a set of white apartment blocks on the waterfront of
Indonesia’s capital Jakarta, looks much like you’d expect accommodation in a
modern city to be: in its five-story towers, staircases connect corridors lined
with doors on each level.
But the building has some subtle design aspects that offer clues to its
ulterior purpose. In front of each apartment door, there’s a two-foot deep
space where residents can sell goods, and the sets of stairs are shallow, so
inhabitants can see and talk between the “half floors” directly opposite them.
“It’s made so that the residents can live in close proximity like they did
previously,” says Amalia Nur Indah Sari, an architect for the Rujak Center for
Urban Studies, a Jakarta-based nonprofit that supported the development of the
apartments.
The “close proximity” Sari refers to was a slum of the same name that occupied
the same hectare of land from which the Kampung Akuarium apartments now rise.
Designed and managed entirely by its hundreds of residents, the project is seen
as pioneering a new model of architecture – one that improves urban
neighborhoods in a way that works for, and is directly informed by, the needs
of vulnerable, low-income inhabitants.
This so-called “collective housing” model, where residents actively participate
in upgrading their communal living spaces in a way that respects their ways of
life could be a blueprint for quickly-growing cities across the globe like
Delhi, Lagos, Nairobi and Jakarta. More than one billion people now live in
slums or informal settlements — one in eight of the world’s population — and an
additional three billion will require adequate and affordable housing by 2030,
underlining the need for a housing model that works"
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
