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    Living with Flood, case study at Code Riverside Community, Yogyakarta thumbnail

    Living with Flood, case study at Code Riverside Community, Yogyakarta

    By Vicky Ariyanti on January 2, 2013

    In Indonesia, urbanization phenomenon into Java Island has created consequence in high population density. Combine this with the uncertainty of land status on many riversides areas and the high demand of housing in Indonesian cities, many riverside areas are common to become urbanized and changed from green belt areas into informal settlements. This informal settlement [...]


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    Garung Dam, A Life of 650 Years

    By Vicky Ariyanti on September 1, 2012

    Built on a natural water reserve, this dam is exquisite with its uniqueness. Its design is adapting an ancient crater, composed of adhesive lava, lapilli’s tuff, volcanic breccias and talus deposit together with artesian water formed Menjer Lake (a caldera). The permeability coefficient is 10-2 to 10-5 cm/sec.The water that flows into the lake is [...]


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    Interview with Architect: Raul Renanda

    By Vicky Ariyanti on June 23, 2011

    Raul Renanda, founder of desainrenanda, an architect, also a writer, told us his experience in architecture environment. Raul, who’s also a host in an Indonesian tv channel, METRO TV: “Dulux Inspire”, tells us his concern about the importance of tropical aspect in design as seen in one of his masterpiece, Rumah Bangka. Let’s take a [...]


    Old Mosques of Mataram Kingdom, Yogyakarta

    By Vicky Ariyanti on October 9, 2009

    Mataram Kingdom is located in central java, although in the history, the kingdom was split into two sub-kingdom, namely Ngayogyakarto (the city of Jogjakarta) and Surakarta (the city of Solo or Surakarta), the two shared the same root tradition and even came from a single family ancestor. What we about to see is an acculturation [...]


    Situ Gintung; Man Made or Natural Tragedy

    By Vicky Ariyanti on April 13, 2009

    A reservoir near Jakarta has recently overly flooded and not just some flood, it raised and overflowed the dam, cracked it widely, putting up all the concrete and soil from the side reservoir, 20 meters tall, tumbling to the surrounding, which unfortunately was overcrowded with human settlements. As seen on the picture, the damage was [...]


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    The Impact of Climate Change: We Need to Act, Not Simply React

    January 18, 2013

    The effects of climate change including sea level rise, extreme heat, storm surges, threaten water supplies, and negative effects on the infrastructure. Climate change harms public health, as it will threatens human health and well-being in many ways, including impacts from increased extreme weather events, wildfire, decreased air quality, diseases transmitted by insects, food and [...]

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    Local Wisdom Principe as a Greenship (Rating Tool) for Building

    September 28, 2012

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    Indonesia has abundant of natural resources in terms of renewable energy according to climate change, which has already mainstreamed in most of Indonesia’s policies. Meanwhile, lack of inter-department coordination, limited access to information, and poor policy implementation just become the main weakness. One of this poor policy implementation is greenship for building. Greenship as a [...]

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    Review of Indonesian Cities from European Perspective

    January 27, 2013

    This review was to expose general issues of Indonesian cities filtered through a framework of European urban standards, which were represented in two models of urbanity developed by Jacques Levy. The framework consists in 14 factors, with each one of them able to feed a separate lecture. It was read across from several Indonesian cities [...]

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    Times Square New York as a Public Place

    August 28, 2012

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    There are a lot of interesting places near Times Square, since this city relying their income from tourism sector. The Times Square located at the heart of New York City, and this place is always crowded for 24 hours. Stores and shopping centers are open everyday, as well as restaurants and cafes, many of them [...]

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    Culture Industry & Indonesia’s Traditional Markets

    June 7, 2009

    Background: Traditionally, markets in Indonesia were not just places to trade goods and services, but also a place of cultural and social exchange. In the ancient days, markets open once a week (the Javanese calendar only has 5 days in a week; Pahing, Pon, Wage, Kliwon, and Legi) because the population was not as dense [...]

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    Photograph of Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York

    March 12, 2012

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    The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (often referred to as “The Guggenheim”) was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, as one of the 20th century’s most important architectural landmarks, especially because it’s unique building shape (formed in spiral shape). The museum is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street), on [...]



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