Department of Architecture

Universitas Indonesia

PENGANTAR KONTEKS PERKOTAAN

(INTRODUCTION TO URBAN CONTEXT)
SYLLABUS

Course Code : ENAR606017

Credit : 3 SKS
Course Schedule : Monday, 10.00-12.30
Instructors : Ir. Evawani Ellisa, M.Eng., Ph.D. (ellisa@eng.ui.ac.id)
Ahmad Gamal, S.Ars., M.Si., M.U.P., Ph.D. (gamal@eng.ui.ac.id)
Ir. Teguh Utomo Atmoko, M.U.R.P. (tiua@eng.ui.ac.id)
Dr. Ir. Achmad Hery Fuad, M.Eng. (heryfuad@gmail.com)
Ir. Antony Sihombing, M.P.D., Ph.D. (a.sihombing@eng.ui.ac.id)
Dita Trisnawan, S.T., M.Arch., STD (ditadesign@gmail.com)
Ir. Herlily, MUD (herlily@gmail.com)
Course Duration : 13 sessions of class lectures and discussion (Feb.5 – May 21, 2018)
Mid Test : March 26, 2018
Final : May 21, 2018

INSTRUCTIONAL GOAL
This course introduces students to topics about cities and the forces that shape them. It helps students to understand how city
infrastructure planning affects building design, and visa versa. It also provides students with basic analytical skill to understand cities.
At the end of the course, students will be expected to have the ability to incorporate their knowledge on urban context into their
architectural design.

EARLY CONDITION OF PARTICIPANTS

Students have a sufficient knowledge about the general scope of architecture as a discipline. As a pre-requirement, students would

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have taken Architectural Design Studio II and III, and Design Theory and Methods (Architecture and Environment) prior to taking this
course. Students are expected to be enrolled in Architectural Design Studio IV, which is focused on public intervention.

SCOPE
The basic principals of urban morphology: the shaping of cities, towns and urban spaces; urban public spaces; urban planning
(quantitative urban space) and urban design (qualitative urban space); planned and unplanned urban development.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Work for the class will includes reading, exercises, mid term assignments and a final assignment. Approximately 30% of your grade
will be based on the mid term assignment, 40% on the quality of your final assignment and 20% on class participation. It is essential
that all readings be completed in advance of each class. If you don't do the readings, you can't participate in class discussion.

GRADING

ACTIVITIES PERCENTAGES

Mid Term Assignment 30%

Final Assignment 40%

Class Participation & Presence 20%

The final course grade will be based on the following distribution:

100-94 points =A

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93.9-90 = A-
89.9-87 = B+
86.9-84 =B
83.9-80 = B-
. . . .
59.9 – 0 points =E

COURSE SCHEME

WEEK LEARNING TOPIC READING/ASSIGNMENT

OUTCOMES

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1 Understanding Introduction Videos:

cities and the 1. What is a city? 1. What is a city? How do you know it when you see it?
forces that 2. What is a. A video on Tokyo https://www.youtube.com/watch?
shape them urbanization and v=mglLF2_sLcg
urban b. A video on small towns at Washington State, USA
development? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWplD9TGDeA
3. What triggers c. A video on Jodipan, Malang
urban https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUFaHKBpDkA
development? d. A video on recent research on city as a system
How does it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZM3WqDbHic
happen? 2. What is urbanization and urban development?
4. What’s the A video on the history of urbanization (watch up to 2.45)
importance of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKnAJCSGSdk
understanding 3. What triggers urban development?
urban
development Homework:
when you are an Watch this video on the internal structure of a city:
architect? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrEUwOyGuZI
In a group of three, discuss the video and discuss the following:
1. Think of Jakarta. Which of the three models (concentric,
sector, multi-nuclei) suits Jakarta best?
2. Discuss a city you like/do not like. Can you describe the city
using any of the models and why you like/do not like it?

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2 Ways of seeing the Reading:

city (home 1. Lynch, Kevin: "the City Image and its elements" in the Image of
surrounding, the City, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 1960
neighborhood, 2. Jacob, Jane: "the Generators of diversity" in the Death and Life of
districts, city, region, Great American Cities, Random House: New York, 1961
country and the 3. Spreiregen, Paul: "Making a Visual Survey" in Urban Design,
globalizing world: American Institute of Architects and Mc Graw Hill, 1965
1. The structure of Assignment: Describe the places you use for your Architectural
the city Design Studio 4, then propose an architectural intervention and the
2. Physical elements corresponding program for the specific intervention.
3. Places in the city
3 Urban The growth and the Reading:
Morphology evolution of the 1. Martin, Leslie: Grid as Generatorin Urban Space and
human settlement Structure, 1972
2. Doxiadis: Science and Human Settlement, Ekistic, 1968
3. Hester, Randolf: Enabling Form: we got to know our
neighbors, in Design for Ecological Democracy, 2010
Assignment: share reading through presentation
4 The urban Reading:
development control 1. Eisner, Gallion, “the Zoning Plan” in the Urban Pattern, Van
part 1: Urban Design Nostrand: London, 1975
Guideline (setback, 2. Hopkins, Lewis, D., "How Plans Work" in Urban Development
FAR, development the Logic of Making Plans, Washington, DC: Island Press
incentive etc) (2001)
3. Permendagri 1978 (Fasum Fasos)
Assignment: UDGL application brief exercise (quantitative approach)
= creating a program for a particular area within the city with a
designated density, expressed in floor area ratio (FAR) and setback
requirements.
5 Urban spaces The urban Kaiser, Godschalk and Chapin: Urban Land Use Planning, 1993
development Assigment:

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planning: Creating a 3 dimensional program as a continuation of the

1. Urban Space and assignment on week 4.
Carrying Capacity
2. Urban Space and
Land Use Planning
6 Urban places Urban Space and Reading:
Urban Place: from 1. Gell, Jahn, Three types of outdoor activities; Outdoor activities
urban space into and quality of outdoor space in Life Between Buildings: Using
urban place: Public Space, Arkitektens Forlag, Skive (1971)
1. types of activities 2. Jacobs, J. (1961), ‘The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety’, in The Death
2. spatial and Life of Great American Cities, Penguin, Harmondsworth.
requirement for 3. A reading on the Urban Transect, TBD
activities 4. A reading on the Third Place, TBD
3. urban architecture Assignment:
as a result of UDGL application from previous assignment by improving the quality
activities in the of urban space  look for precedents as examples
urban public

8 UTS Materi s/d Urban Space

9 Master Plan Planned Urban Assignment:
Architecture Creating a Masterplan for an urban region (1:5,000 scale) and a
-peraturan zonasi District Plan/ UDGL (1:1,000 scale). Whenever possible, use the
-UDGL location discussed in the Architectural Design Studio 4 (Project 2)

Presentation: Students work in pairs for presentation on architectural

precedence.
10 Idem 09/04
11 Urban Duality: Urban Space in Reading:
Planned and Indonesian context: 1. McGee, T. G. and Yeung, Y. M., Hawkers in Southeast Asian Cities:
Unplanned kampung, planning for the bazaar economy, International Development
Urban Form privatization of public Research Centre, 1977

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space 2. Annette Miae Kim, Sidewalk City REMAPPING PUBLIC SPACE IN

HO CHI MINH CITY, University Of Chicago Press, 2015
3. Sudjic, Dayan: "the Architecture of the Endless City" in Burdet,
Ricky (eds.), Living in the Endless City: The Urban Age Project by
the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank's Alfred
Herrhausen Society, London: Paidhon, 2011.
Akkar, Muge, “Questioning the publicness of public spaces in post
Industrial cities”, TDSR Volume XVI number 11, 2005
12 Reading Discussion Presentation on Reading Assignment
13- Site Planning Implementation of Site Planning as the application of building code n UDGL on a
15 Exercise Site Planning in designated site
particular urban
context
16 UAS Site Plan Final Presentation