I am Rubi Roesli. I was asked by Bukalapak to share about identity of Indonesian architecture. I donít have the guts, to be honest. Why? because, for me, as Irwan said, Indonesia is huge. The culture is rich. To give it an identity would be very hard. Maybe what Iíll try today is, as todayís architect, architect in present dayÖ ...is how I search the Indonesia in my work. Our work. Critics are welcome. Letís observe it together. Since honestly, this has been my question. How can... how we get the character? Later, Iíll show you a work, a place to live. Another one is public house. Indonesian pavilion weíve made with Miranti and Dani. Identity of Indonesian architecture. Okay. Irwan mentioned it before, these are the traditional houses in Indonesia. Itís not precise. Maybe, these are nusantara (archipelago) traditional houses, to be precise. Since nusa and antara means among sea thereíre land. Lies between Sabang to Merauke. We can see thereís Karo Batak, Toba Batak, Minangkabau, Kenyah, etc. From here, based on the shape, we can see the influence. This is one example of it that we could be part of ancient austro-nesia. Back then people used boat, tree house and buffalo. Buffalo was considered as pride. Since itís expensive back then. Since it could provide meal for the whole village. These houses, as you can see as comparison. Japan, Batak Karo and Japan both have similar roof. India, as we can see of Balinese houses and Korean houses since itís the same, from the same area. If we see the traditional houses, we could identify its foundation, body and head of the house. The head shape looks like a boat. Some looks like a boat, other looks like a buffaloís head. The foundation was lifted because back then people lived upon trees. Thatís why itís lifted. And body part is living space for human. These are some examples of some areas like Sumba. It affected by its culture. Culture is as we can see, the proximity of human relation, horizontally and vertically. Here, in Sumba, the lower part is for animal, middle part is for human and God is ancestors, that why the roof is high Also Toraja. Thereís hallow, body and roof. Bugis looks the same. Body, head and foundation. This is Tongkonan house. The head illustrates buffaloís head. Thereís also transformation from boat to head to roof. These also become character in traditional house. Thereís what we call bio mimesia, in form of geometric. So, finding nature in similarity of flower, plant etc and they made it into carving. Breathable wall. Itís in tropical house. The different of tropical house is we just need roof as shield. We let the wind in, plenty sun light. Different with house in 4 seasons countries. They have a closed house. Weíll go thru a little from time... the history of Indonesian architecture. Or from nusantara. These are pre-Hindu-Buddhist period. Then Hindu-Buddhist entered We can observe the Hindu-Buddhist period on temples. Also, you can see the lower part start to have steps. The roof changed from saddle roof, itís like a horse saddle. Moving on to Islamic era. The difference was only on the roof. Stepped roof. 2 or 3. 2 actually. Then, entering colonial era. Itís really different. When entering colonial, when Dutch came to Indonesia, at the time Europe was in Late Baroque if I am not mistaken. Then neo-classic, post-renaissance. So the influence was brought to Indonesia. like that. We can see the old town of Jakarta, Fort Rotterdam. Then evolve, since Dutch occupied for 300 years, evolved by itself. Then in 1920ís it started evolving. That Villa Isola was modern architecture but it then begun to search, to respond the area of Indonesia. If you can see, it has lines. They are response of shadow. Since rain in Indonesia is heavy and the heat need to be held... ...the lines do the job. The one under it is ITB. Itís also a Dutch made. He tried to find traditional roof. But with western technology and influence. Then modern contemporary. It started with rumah jengki. Then tall buildings and nowadays Jakarta living space. This is the living space we made. From the history we see how, I as one of architects... ...am influenced and try to find, learn from the history and enter the nowadays work. The living space is owned by a family with 2 kids. At the time they were in junior high and primary school. The house is like this. Formal room and at the back with two stories, lower floor is public space and the upper is private space. If you see, what we attempted to do was foundation, body and head. The head is still saddle roof. Because of the rain. It must be held. And itís tropical in here so thereís cantilever to hold the head. Then the upper part is for private and lower area is for public. Thatís the structure. At the head, saddle roof could be equipped with louvre to let light goes in. Same with traditional houses where... how the say it? the strip is breathable but in here I donít let air in, just the light. At the bottom, since itís modern building, it reflects nowadays building. The rectangular space at the bottom is similar to storage. On top of it, the grey bricks. This is it. The bricks here are translation of breathable wall. On the other side of the bricks is service space. We want to let air in but out of sight. The language in the house the one reminds us to the one used in the Java back then. Then the woods. And what is this called? These, the doors and other parts of the house. This is what I said as breathable wall. The bricks are in. you can peek inside and let air in but block the view. The inside for this wall nowadays is in. Architects are trying to work with these bricks. Second is public building. This is at world expo in Milano. During world expo in Milano, weíre led by late Didi Petet. Weíre given a task by Didi, he said ìRub...î along with Miranti and Dani ìI want to make a house, Indonesia house in Milano. But I want it to be the nowadays house.î He said, ìI want them to know that we can be like them. But not off the Indonesia.î The task for me itís pretty hard. Because we thought of what we wanted. Looking back to traditional architecture, if we make one like Padangnese house, Balinese house or else, what about the others? If we make collage, itís just it. Then we made, well, what if we made a symbol that can represent Indonesia as a whole? A house. We inspired by the words tanah air (homeland). Tanah (land) and air (water). Where in terms of F&B, Indonesia is the source of various food from way back. And why western came to Indonesia back in time is exactly that. The source of food. And the theme was ëfeeding the planet energy for life.í Then we decided, tanah air (homeland) What can represent land and water? at the time, Mr. President was trying to promote maritime. Indonesia as maritime country. We decided to take maritime. What we can promote of maritime. Then we found this, bubu (traditional contraption). Is a tool to harvest fish. And what interesting is the weave. We thought what about we made the weave? From it, we translated the weaving using current method. Thereís a method nowadays called parametric architecture or computational architecture. If there are architects in here, youíre familiar with the term. Computational architecture is a method where architecture could be calculated using computer. We can calculate the point Y, X, Z not only in drawing but we could draw and calculate it. We tried to draw it then thatís the result. Our translation of bubu and its weaving. When we said traditional houses have different head, itís the same here. We lifted it up. We made a... we calculated it with computational architecture and made 63 different panels if I am not mistaken. We shipped it from Indonesia. brought to our Italian architect partner over there. Every curve is different and must be the same with... this is the shape. Every curve must be the same with the steels made in Italia. This was a new method but we still tried to bring, what is it? Local wisdom of Indonesia. Weaved in Indonesia. were completely handmade. Then lifted and installed in Italia. 72 00:12:23- 00:12:25 These are the photos. Well, thatís how those 2. An example of how I, or we, as todayís architects try to pull or search the character of Indonesia in our work. For me personally, this character is important to know the history passed. To know what to do next. Because for me the identity must keep on moving and changing. Because weíve had a candi that was the tallest building at the time. We once were advanced. Then what about today? In 1000 years or maybe 20? How we search the identity? On the left is an installation built by a robot. Itís in Germany. Now bricks made by robotsí arm could be counted. So, when is the future? Future is now. Weíve done computational. We donít know whatís next. So, for me, architecture identity, since back then has been made to respond the nature, its culture. The ability, carpentry technicality, material availability. 82 00:13: 44 --> 00:13:55 It must evolve and what weíre making now must be able to represent what we learn in the past and the future.