CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE AND ADAPTABLE SYSTEM BRINGS OUT THE HERITAGE OF THE REGION

yogyakarta AEROTROPOLIS

As the next frontier in Asia, Yogyakarta fulfill its role as one of top ten second-tier cities of Indonesia with growing middle-affluent class (MAC) but with strong emphasis on being an inspirational place for competitive output then merely as a production center of technological city. This is align with local wisdom and branding aspiration to become the household name for creative economy in the region.

While the thesis of aerotropolis calls for creating dual roles of airline routers and global-local interfaces to make hub airports and their environs as business magnets and urban economic catalysts as they attract, sustain, and grow aviation-dependent firms, the important question is how Yogyakarta as the cultural capital of Indonesia can preserve its integrity and branding while moderating how the global meets the local in people and product flows. 

To bridge between today and the future, the New Yogyakarta International Airport (NYIA) will offer both philosophical and practical medium in its positioning as one of key aerotropolises in Indonesia with cultural intelligence and adaptable system as its core principles. Advancing global lenses with strong local senses, NYIA is then uniquely positioned as the business and leisure of cultural heritage tourism hub of its class within 20 to 30 minute travel time in any mode of transportations. This will also strengthen the synergy between Metropolis Yogyakarta and Aerotropolis Kulon Progo to serve truthfully for the benefit of its people. Together it forms a new face of Yogyakarta as a destination and as a trendsetter. 

process

01.

Promoting Cultural Intelligence  To Advance Traditional IQ and EQ Approaches To Technological Places

Cultural Intelligence approach allows NYIA to cross divides, and most importantly, thrive in multiple cultures that it will attract as a magnet city for talented generations to convene as well as to connect its diverse output with the global audience. It also equips NYIA to both speak and partner with global counterparts while being true to its commitment to highlight its own core cultural competence. NYIA will put forth programs that commit to promote four key interests to incubate its cultural competence and to welcome others to participate in both appreciation and advancement.

02.

A New Urban Form That Relies On Airport and Integrated Ground Transportation Infrastructure

NYIA facilitates creative economy industry along with other distinct drivers with adaptable system thinking and spatial modules to allow for each economic components to flourish and grow organically without burdening the overall system. Creative economy should be allowed to organically expand and contract, accelerate and hibernate, and even become foreground but sometimes background. 

Adaptable system thinking informs integrated facility planning and management as such that allows the reduce, reuse and recycle of space and places for people to work, live, and play in ways that align with emerging trends that require a conducive environment to first test their impact and longevity. A hub-and-spoke structure in varying scales can then further instill resilience to the overall language of solutions as adaptable and resilient spatial modules against externalities. 

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DETAILS

Location:
Kulon Progo, DI Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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Client: 
Wika Gedung

Timeline:
February - March 2017

Involvements:
Visioning