REST AREA CAN INSTIGATE  COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

KM-88 REST AREA

Rest areas along tollway corridors have been forgotten for their lack of contribution as people's places. They were merely utility. They are neither here nor there. 

But with the rise of megacities, connecting people's aspirations with real opportunities, these transient spaces should legitimately become people's places by articulating and advancing characters and qualities of cities they link and serve, near or far. These sound-byte places quickly becoming much more relevant urban-rural nodes that help create jobs, uncover local potentials, and even opening up more and more of perimeter regions to adaptive reuse of their current land uses, as in the context of Jakarta - Bandung economic corridor, to be closer to their best potential. Rest areas can indeed become a beacon for their surrounding communities, the kind of windows to the outside world, that works as magnet and hub for goods and services to channel through diverse programs not traditionally seen in a transportation corridor but in a more vibrant live-work-play environment. 

Rest Area Km 88 Cipularang Tollway  located in a corridor that connects the vibrant Jakarta with its dynamic second-tier city of Bandung is now envisioned to serve as a model for similar utilitarian facility around the country. While the 20 hectare oasis placed on the corridor towards Bandung is conceived as family-friendly nature immersion place to rest along this tollway corridor, another 20 hectare land toward Jakarta as its pair and placed on the corridor towards Jakarta will be transformed into urban eclectic entertainment immersion place. The traditional place for rest and respite is now offers connectivity, physically and digitally, showcases commitment to sustainability, and even bring local harvest and surrounding outputs to the high impact and high performing network of on-road travel facilities. Surrounded by mountain vista, these two connected places redefine architectural intervention to urban-rural connector into a high performing facilities that fully respect the tapestry of agricultural heritage, art and craft collectives, and human capital development needs. People can meet, greet and weed out ideas and collective actions in an environment that simulate common civic places in their respective urban centers. 

process

01.

Formulate Strategy to Expand Spatial Moments In Transportation Corridor Into A High Performing Place

Rest areas are generally invisible and are not considered as part of community's fabric of lives. Reconnecting hubs and layers of connectivity, land programming such as agriculture production, and human activation  deliver new perspective on the expanded land.  With about 20 ha. of land at each rest area, thematic concept was developed based on its context and potential, and in response to the specific characteristic of its patron.

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02.

Develop Land Program That Stitch Together Infrastructure And Human Dimensions In A New Way

Green infrastructure, sustainable resource management, and productive landscape strategies were the bases for building and open space system. Every programs are connected to relevant activities within the surrounding area for mutually beneficial partnership including sourcing commercial and food/beverage materials from the area cooperative entity or directly from market and production fields. 

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DETAILS

Location:
Karawang, Indonesia
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Client: 
Jasa Marga - Tollway Operator Agency

Involvements:
Visioning & Concept Master Plan
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Timeline:
completed

Media:
Selected to be featured at Indonesia's Architects Week Exhibition in Seoul, South Korea, 2017 (Global Architecture Congress); Related Traveling Exhibition, Book and Publications for the IAWS2017 Exhibition