Vertical informal settlement and waste recycling center

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    Project entry 2011 - Vertical informal settlement and waste recycling center, Jakarta, Indonesia: The vertical kampongs are self-suffi cient communities, encapsulating the traditional kampong dynamics in a high rise solution.

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    Presentation of Holcim Awards 2011 Acknowledgement prize for “Vertical informal settlement and waste recycling center, Jakarta, Indonesia” (l-r): S. Brunsmann, nunc architects, Netherlands, jury member M. Kaijima, University of Tsukuba, Japan, T. van der Laan, Plataan Architectural Design, Netherlands, J. Krol, nunc architects, Netherlands and J. Bentes, João Bentes Architect, Portugal.

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    Project entry 2011 - Vertical informal settlement and waste recycling center, Jakarta, Indonesia: Vertical kampong and waste recycling center.

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    Project entry 2011 - Vertical informal settlement and waste recycling center, Jakarta, Indonesia: Placement along Jakarta’s highways.

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    Project entry 2011 - Vertical informal settlement and waste recycling center, Jakarta, Indonesia: Community based waste management provides income

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    Project entry 2011 - Vertical informal settlement and waste recycling center, Jakarta, Indonesia: Lively public spaces.

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    Project entry 2011 - Vertical informal settlement and waste recycling center, Jakarta, Indonesia: Facilitating community based waste processing.

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    Project entry 2011 - Vertical informal settlement and waste recycling center, Jakarta, Indonesia: Aerial view.

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    Project entry 2011 - Vertical informal settlement and waste recycling center, Jakarta, Indonesia: Highway kampong, multiple uses of tollways.

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    Project entry 2011 - Vertical informal settlement and waste recycling center, Jakarta, Indonesia: River-cleaning kampong, replacing river bed shacks

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    Project entry 2011 - Vertical informal settlement and waste recycling center, Jakarta, Indonesia: Industrial kampong, intensifi ed use of factory plots.

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    Project entry 2011 - Vertical informal settlement and waste recycling center, Jakarta, Indonesia: Team portrait.

  • Awards Acknowledgement prize 2011–2012 Asia Pacific

This housing strategy in Jakarta aims to offer an alternative semi-organized structure, addressing people otherwise living in informal settlements that continuously face severe flooding. At the same time the project promotes waste recycling and thereby helps address a major problem and cause of flooding in Indonesia’s capital of ten million inhabitants, where the congested canal system is jammed with waste.

By Steven Brunsmann - nunc architects, Koog aan de Zaan, Netherlands and

Ideas: Urban Requalification, Economic & Social Empowerment, Housing Needs

This housing strategy in Jakarta aims to offer an alternative semi-organized structure, addressing people otherwise living in informal settlements that continuously face severe flooding.

At the same time the project promotes waste recycling and thereby helps address a major problem and cause of flooding in Indonesia’s capital of ten million inhabitants, where the congested canal system is jammed with waste.

Vertical informal settlement and waste recycling center

Project authors

  • Steven Brunsmann

    nunc architects

    Netherlands

  • João Bentes de Oliveira

    João Bentes Architect

    Portugal

  • Tanja van der Laan

    Plataan Architectural Design

    Netherlands

  • Johan Krol

    nunc architects

    Netherlands

Project updates

November 24, 2011 | Winners for Asia Pacific announced | Singapore

Holcim Awards winners for Asia Pacific announced in Singapore

Winners of the Holcim Awards for sustainable construction projects and visions from Asia Pacific have been announced, bringing the regional phase of the 3rd International Holcim Awards competition to a close. A total of USD 300,000 was presented to twelve groundbreaking projects at a ceremony in Singapore. The winning projects show how sustainable approaches to infrastructure for communities and innovative architecture can improve the built environment and enhance quality of life.

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July 28, 2011 | Regional Jury Report – Asia Pacific | Mumbai, India

“Addresses urban migration in a proactive manner that accepts its specific dynamics” – Holcim Awards Jury

The jury acknowledges the project as an innovative approach to turn problems that many cities in the world are facing into opportunities that all parties benefit from. It does not deny migration of the poor but addresses the situation in a proactive manner that accepts its specific dynamics. The semi-organized structures provide a necessary framework that safeguards basic human requirements but leaves that flexibility, which is essential for economic migrants. In addition it offers a resource stream upon which the inhabitants depend.

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March 31, 2011 | Project Entry & Details | Jakarta, Indonesia

Project Entry 2011 for Asia Pacific

This housing strategy in Jakarta aims to offer an alternative semi-organized structure, addressing people otherwise living in informal settlements that continuously face severe flooding. At the same time the project promotes waste recycling and thereby helps address a major problem and cause of flooding in Indonesia’s capital of ten million inhabitants, where the congested canal system is jammed with waste. In contrast to former housing projects, Jakarta Bersih focuses on the satisfaction of basic requirements of low-income settlements. The social coherence is maintained and affordable living space is offered by providing only a raw structure featuring basic electric and sanitary supply.

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