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1. ‘VERTICAL CITY’ IN JAKARTA
CCTV HEADQUARTERS
Buzz- Worthy
Building in 2012
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01 EditorsMailHouse
03 PrincipalPoint
04 RecentPublication / "VERTICAL CITY" in Jakarta
07 DesignNews / CCTV Headquarters
11 DesignNews / The Wow Factor CCTV Headquarters
12 DiscourseDiscussion / Big, Bold and Buzz-Worthy Building in 2012
16 DiscourseDiscussion / Concrete Green Building
19 ARKdesignProjects
20 InnovationTechnology
21 Events
22 StayInformed
4. 03
PrincipalPoints
Written by Paul Tan
Architects are like “ants” coming to places You can imagine what Jakarta would be like in a
where there is plenty of vibrant economic growth decade or even less. A little frightening?
A rchitecture
“sugar”, like Indonesia today. Particularly in
I certainly hope our energetic new Jakarta
support of urban developments in the big cities
governor and his deputy (who are in our
like Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, and Makassar.
mailing list) read these articles because
Last edition of AQ 10, we discussed “Urban what the private sector is planning, require
Technology
Living”, mainly from a personal point of view. huge infrastructure investment, in particular
When you travel during the Christmas and New public transportation, garbage, and energy.
Year break, you can observe these big cities Food for thought....
in the world you visit. Then reading this edition
of AQ 11, we look at the buildings in highly
developed urban settings such as Beijing. We We wish you a very peaceful Christmas 2012
also read about projects designed by architects and a prosperous New Year 2013.
coming from all over the world, creating their
signature in the future plans of large and tall
developments in cities such as Jakarta, London,
and Dalian.
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5. 04
RecentPublication
MVRDV proposes 400 meter tall
‘vertical city’ in Jakarta
by Karissa Rosenfiled on ArchDaily
“ inspiration for the commercial podium and public
Our
spaces was Java’s natural setting – lush jungle and
stone surrounded by expansive ocean.” says David
Rogers, FAIA, Jerde Design Director.
6. 05
RecentPublication
MVRDV, in collaboration with The Jerde The site, which is owned
Partnership, ARUP, and developer Wijaya Karya by Peruri, is located at
– Benhil Property, have unveiled plans to create Jl. Palatehan 4 Jakarta,
a new landmark in Jakarta, Indonesia. Dubbed a block formerly used as
Peruri 88, the 400 meter tall vertical city integrates Mint which sits right next to
retail, offices, housing, a luxury hotel, four levels a future metro station.
of parking, a wedding house, a mosque, an imax The mix use project offers
theater and an outdoor amphitheater, with an a great variety of office
extensive amount of green space. and housing typologies,
The team presented the plans to city and site from large office surfaces
owner, Peruri, as part of a developer’s bid to living/working units,
competition for the prominent site. from lofts to townhouses,
from terraced houses to
Peruri 88 combines Jakarta´s need for green patio living. Each of these
space with Jakarta´s need for higher densities stacked urban blocks
whilst respecting the typologies of the current comes with a semi-public
urban fabric.
roof park, an abundance of gardens, playgrounds,
spas, gym’s, outdoor restaurants and swimming
“Peruri 88 is vertical Jakarta, it represents a new,
pools available to the inhabitants and office denser, social, green mini-city – a monument to
employees. The tall trees on these decks will
provide extra shade whilst the height of the parks the development of Jakarta as a modern icon
allows for a cooling breeze.The high rise, a luxury
hotel from the 44th floor to the 86th floor, rises literally raised from its own city fabric,” says Winy
from a platform with park, swimming pool and the
marriage house. On top of the hotel a panoramic
Maas, MVRDV co-founder.
restaurant and viewing platform complete the
structure at the 88th floor.
“Peruri 88 is vertical Jakarta, it represents a new,
denser, social, green mini-city – a monument to
the development of Jakarta as a modern icon
literally raised from its own city fabric,” says Winy
Maas, MVRDV co-founder.
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RecentPublication
The commercial podium which is located from levels B2 to the 7th floor The buildings structure has five principle cores and is less complex than
is designed by Jerde Partnership with MVRDV. Its most characteristic visually apparent. Four traditional constructed tall towers rise up between
feature is the central plaza, sheltered by the stacked volumes of the mid- which bridging floors will be constructed. Arup will continue to develop and
rise it offers multiple outdoor layers of restaurants and shadow and natural rationalize the structure to satisfy regulations and the budget.
ventilation. A series of escalators connects the shopping and retail centre
to the parks of the mid-rise.
The Peruri 88 commercial podium reflects the city’s historic islands with
A number of international hotel, retail and apartment operators have shown
.
interest in the building and if the team wins construction will start swiftly.
reflective bodies of water and landscape traversing the public street
levels, while integrating a sunken garden plaza. “Our inspiration for the
commercial podium and public spaces was Java’s natural setting – lush
jungle and stone surrounded by expansive ocean,” says David Rogers, Rendering by RSI-Studio
FAIA, Jerde Design Director. Source : <http://www.archdaily.com/295962>
8. 07
DesignNews
Too Big To Fail? : Long awaited and much
debated, the enormous headquarters for
CCTV finally opens, already a symbol
of the new Beijing. But what does it
actually say about architecture and
China today?
P romising to “kill the skyscraper,” Rem
Koolhaas and his colleagues at Office
for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) grabbed
international attention in 2002 when they won
the competition to design a huge headquarters
in Beijing for China Central Television (CCTV),
the state-run news and entertainment network.
Polemical and hyperbolic as usual, Koolhaas
said the skyscraper had become “corrupted” by
its proliferation around the world and “negated
by repetitive banality.” So instead of joining the
race to build ever taller, his scheme bent the
high-rise into a loop of interconnected activities.
Four years after it was originally scheduled to
open—in time for the network to broadcast the
Beijing Olympics from its new home—CCTV is
CCTV Headquarters finally moving employees into the controversial
building, a 5.1 million-square-foot structure that
even before it was completed had imprinted its
swaggering form on the fabric of the city and the
Office for Metropolitan Architecture | Beijing, China mental map of its citizens.
The building shares a 45-acre site with a low-rise,
ring-shaped service structure and a 31-story tower
called the Television Cultural Center (TVCC),
both of which OMA also designed.
By Clifford A. Pearson on Acrhitectural Record
9. 08
DesignNews
That form derived from OMA’s program-
driven approach to design. “We presented
the building as a diagram of all the company's
components and made the argument that it
was important that they confront each other,”
says Koolhaas. Earlier, OMA had worked for
Universal Studios on a headquarters in Los
Angeles and learned that media companies
often suffer from being fragmented. So the
firm connected CCTV’s operations—including
broadcasting, production, and administration—
along a circulation loop that moved from the
The service building provides power to the building’s base up a sloping tower, across a
entire complex and houses security personnel, right-angled bridge (called the overhang), and
while TVCC will have a Mandarin Oriental down a second sloping tower. The underground
hotel, a public theater, restaurants, and shops. podium and large, right-angled base provided
TVCC famously burned in February 2009 much more contiguous space for studios and
when fireworks celebrating the lunar New production facilities than a skyscraper would
Year engulfed the building's skin in flames just have, which appealed to the client’s technology
months before the hotel was set to open. It people, reports Koolhaas.
is being repaired and should be complete in
2013.
The site anchors a new central business
district emerging from an industrial area built
during the Mao era. Plans call for about 300
high-rises there, which is one reason why
“The form of our building OMA took a different approach with CCTV.
According to Koolhaas, three of the four other
was attractive to the client,” firms competing for the job (KPF, SOM, and
says Koolhaas. Dominique Perrault) proposed skyscrapers,
while only Toyo Ito offered something different
“It set us apart.” (a disc-shaped structure with a small tower).
“The form of our building was attractive to the
client,” says Koolhaas. “It set us apart.”
10. 09
DesignNews
The OMA team was led by Koolhaas, Ole
Scheeren (a partner until he left the firm in 2010),
partner David Gianotten, and project manager
Dongmei Yao. The firm worked closely with East
China Architectural Design & Research Institute,
which provided both architecture and engineering
input.
From the beginning of the design process, OMA
collaborated with Cecil Balmond and a team
of engineers at Arup. To resist the huge forces
generated by two towers—each sloping six
degrees in two directions—as well as significant
potential seismic and wind events, Arup devised
a scheme that turns the entire exterior into a
continuous structural tube. This system is formed
by a web of diagonal steel braces that expresses
the pattern of forces acting on the building and are less intense, the web is looser. As a result, the in big Chinese cities look dirty almost
serves as an important visual element on all of exterior surfaces read as a kind of engineering immediately, but CCTV’s glazing handles the
the facades. Where structural forces are greater, map with a formal beauty of its own. While the pollution by blending in. Combined with the
the web of braces is denser; where the forces towers and exterior braces are angled, the interior irregular pattern of the external bracing that
cores' housing elevators, stairs, and risers are obscures floor levels, the glass skin makes
vertical. Arup and OMA had considered canting it hard to grasp the building’s scale. In certain
these elements as well, but the cost of angled light and at certain distances, the 768-foot-tall
elevators made it unfeasible. In addition to the structure seems almost to disappear. Yet seen
cores, vertical columns support the towers' floor from other angles and at other times of the day,
plates. Because the towers slant, these vertical it looms aggressively over apartment blocks.
columns can't rise the full height of the building. So “From wherever you look at it, it keeps changing
two-story-deep trusses transfer loads at roughly in form,” says Scheeren. “It escapes a singular
halfway up the structure, and a two-story-deep definition.”
transfer deck in the overhang carries loads from
“In a city with a strong and permanent identity,
vertical columns to the external tube structure.
it introduces a degree of uncertainty,” says
Koolhaas. “It changes from every angle—
The architects clad the building in fritted glazing
that reduces solar loads inside and creates sometimes looking robust, sometimes fragile.”
a monolithic surface that mimics Beijing's Although gigantic in square footage, it would
notoriously gray skies. Most curtain-wall buildings have been almost three times as tall (about 2,300
11. 10
DesignNews
lobby with its angled ceilings and imposing Has CCTV killed the skyscraper? Of course
skylights. People arriving by subway emerge not—a fact made clear by the towers starting
here too, ascending an escalator into the to crowd around it. But it offers an intriguing
dramatic space. A public loop takes visitors past alternative, one that uses its odd geometry to
broadcast studios identified by colored panels provoke questions of architectural etiquette—
set behind glass, through halls made grand by such as how to fit into (and stand out from) a
steel arcades, and eventually to the spectacular context in flux. Its awkward form, though, grows
overhang, where—if they dare—they can walk on you, like a geeky classmate who might seem
over clear glass discs set in the floor and look strange at first but increasingly smart as you
37 stories down. Throughout, OMA used a simple get to know him. The audacity of the building's
palette of materials to help with navigation, structural gymnastics and its innovative approach
wrapping one tower's core in Cor-Ten and the to scale and expression could only happen right
other in aluminum, and cladding floors in public now in China, a country trying hard to convert
spaces with creamy travertine. its cash reserves into global prestige and one
where clients are willing to assume high levels of
Koolhaas has been attacked by some people risk. CCTV represents a remarkable moment in
for working for the mouthpiece of the Chinese Beijing's history, one that may already be slipping
feet) if it had been a single tower—nearly 700
Communist Party. But he says, “We are part of away as China's radical transformation slows. .
a generation of architects that for the first time is
feet taller than the Shanghai World Financial able to work on a global scale, and that means
Tower, currently the tallest building in China. Its engaging different kinds of regimes. Our work
ambiguous scale informs even the nickname is based on a longer engagement, as these
local residents have given it: da kucha, or “big countries change.”
undershorts.” For many years, its radical design
alienated the local architectural establishment,
which complained that OMA and other foreign Source : http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/
firms use China as a laboratory for alien portfolio/2012/11/China-Central-Television-OMA.asp
experiments.
While big-name architects usually design only
the shell and core on high-rise projects, OMA did
the CCTV interiors too. Because of the complex's
vast size, the firm approached the interiors as
a combination of generic and specific spaces.
Entering from a plaza between CCTV and TVCC,
visitors are dwarfed by the unstable-looking
forms, then get a visual jolt from the dynamic
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DiscourseDiscussion CONCRETE GREEN BUILDING
Nov. 2012 edition: One World Trade Center
Fact Base—High Strength Concrete Q&A
(Continued)
Background:
One World Trade Center1 (WTC), also known as the Freedom Tower,
is the main building of the World Trade Center in New York City’s Financial
District. It is 1776 feet tall at its highest point, the top of a 408-foot antenna,
and has 2,600,000 square feet of floor area, including sixty-nine office floors.
The owner is the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PONY/NJ).
The concrete subcontractor is Collavino Construction Co. of Jersey City, NJ.
The owner’s drive for a sustainable design was central to the development
of the tower and resulted in uncommon durability requirements; a challenge
to use less than 400 pounds of cement per cubic yard of concrete (which
is less cement than is used in most standard concrete mixes for common
applications such as basement slabs, garage floors, and sidewalks) as well
as provisions for recycling construction debris and materials, and integration
of renewable energy, day lighting, and the reuse of rainwater.
Construction of 1 WTC began in 2006 and is scheduled for completion in Q: What is the history of super-strength concrete?
2013. The building’s supporting columns are made of steel and concrete A: High-strength concrete was developed in the 1980s using unique chemical
ranging in strength from a high of 14,000 psi to a low of 8,600 psi. The admixtures and mix-proportioning techniques to address performance
columns on the first forty floors are made from 14,000–12,000-psi concrete challenges with high-rise construction.
and the upper floors with 10,000–8,600-psi mix designs.
Q: Is 14,000 psi concrete, (being used in 1 WTC) a new concoction?
BASF’s Green Sense® service was used to help Eastern Concrete Materials,
A U.S. Concrete company, develop the right EF Technology® application for A:The highest strength ready-mixed concrete Eastern Concrete Materials
the project. EF Technology is a sustainable concrete mix design platform and NYC Materials (U.S. Concrete companies) had produced previous to 1
that uses BASF’s Glenium® high-range, water-reducing admixtures. The EF WTC was 10,000 psi. Prior to the construction of 1 WTC, 14,000-psi, ready-
Technology mix designed for 1 WTC substantially replaces Portland Cement mixed concrete had been used but never on this scale or for a project with
with supplementary cementitious materials such as fly ash, slag, and silica so many challenging placement, structural, and environmental performance
fume, waste byproducts of industrial processes. This resulted in significant requirements. (In fact, the concrete actually reached 18,000 psi at fifty-six
savings of 30,000 gallons of water, 8,000,000 kWh of energy, 12,000,000 days).
pounds of carbon dioxide emissions and 750,000 pounds of fossil fuel.
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DiscourseDiscussion
and workable-mix designs are unique, if not It wasn’t until 1999 that 12,000-psi concrete was
revolutionary, concoctions. produced in the New York City area for the Trump
World Tower. The cured mix yielded an average
strength of about 17,000 psi, and, in 2000, the
Q: Was the concrete invented for this
project won an award from New York City’s
building?
Concrete Industry Board (CIB) for consistent
A: Yes, the entire concrete solution was custom- delivery of high-strength concrete. In 2012, 1
designed for this project and required the use of WTC will also be receiving an award from the
the most advanced mix-design and modelling CIB for its role in taking concrete sustainability
technology in the industry. The ability to create this and performance to new heights. After the Trump
revolutionary mixture lies in Eastern Concrete’s Tower was completed, higher-strength mixes (e.g.,
EF Technology® using BASF’s Green Sense 8,000-9,000-psi) became more commonplace in
Concrete service to produce sustainable concrete the city, but 10,000- and 12,000-psi mixes were
with maximum performance. still uncommon. After 2005, the high end of the
high-strength market started to open up with
Q: Has there been a trend in increased use the projects such as the Beekman Tower, WTC
For example, 1 WTC’s owner, PONY/NJ, was of extra-strong concrete? Tower 7, and other WTC projects. However, 1
very interested in sustainable design and required WTC, where construction began in 2007, was
that the high-strength-concrete mix designs use A: Yes. The trend has been to utilize higher- the first to require 14,000-psi concrete. Even
no more than 400 pounds of cement per cubic strength concrete especially over the last ten after the Trump Tower, more projects started to
yard, in effect mandating that uniquely high levels years. Prior to that time, 6,000-psi concrete was specify higher strengths; 9,000, 10,000, 12,000,
of supplementary cementitious materials such as considered high strength. When the ready-mix but 10,000 and 12,000 were still not that common
fly ash, slag, and silica fume be used in lieu of producers demonstrated the ability to produce until after 2005.
cement. high-strength concrete, engineers and architects
began designing buildings accordingly. Today’s chemistry and mixture-optimization
1 WTC also had a strict requirement for controlling More specifically, in New York City, one of the know-how also ensure high levels of concrete
the heat of hydration, and the workability of the world’s leading high-rise markets, high- strength durability, constructability, and sustainability,
concrete had to be maintained for a two-hour concrete applications first appeared in the early providing design professionals and contractors
window. This is a relatively long time for concrete nineties with designs delivering strengths of with the certain performance they need for the
to remain workable. This is especially true for a 7,000–8,000 psi. Mixes with these strengths are hassle-free specification and use of high-strength
high-strength concrete that loses its workability relatively commonplace today, but at the time, mixes.
because it sets up faster than a low-strength they were unique and expensive because they
concrete. However, it was necessary due to the used high levels of cement and micro silica, both Q: What makes it so strong?
over-the-road and up-the-tower time that the of which are expensive. Today, we achieve these
concrete spent in transport through New York strengths by using less expensive supplementary A: A unique blend of concrete ingredients,
City and up to the tower’s highest floors. So, 1 cementitious materials such as fly ash and slag in including cementitious materials (cement, fly
WTC’s high-strength, environmentally friendly, lieu of cement and micro silica. ash, slag, and silica fume), blended aggregates
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DiscourseDiscussion
(coarse stone, and fine sand) and the latest concrete technology developed by U.S. districts in which the supporting members can be
technology in admixtures (chemicals added to Concrete, Aridus® Rapid Drying Concrete. Aridus very large. High-strength concrete also enables
concrete to impart specific performance and Concrete is a 7,000–8,000-psi mix made with a design of safer structures because key supporting
workability properties) enable the production high percentage of supplementary cementitious members, such as elevator and stair enclosures,
of ready-mixed concrete with very low water materials. often relied upon to resist wind, seismic, and
content, which creates high strength. One of other impact forces, can be designed with an
the key reasons the concrete is high strength is Aridus® Rapid Drying Concrete mix help prevent extra measure of strength (i.e., safety).
because the more water that is used in making unsightly, inconvenient, unhealthy, and costly
concrete, or in placing it and finishing it, the moisture-related floor-covering failures that are Q: What else was unique about the
weaker the concrete becomes. Low water an everyday problem no one likes to talk about. concrete delivered for 1 WTC?
contents supplemented with chemicals that This problem has become even more prevalent
mimic the workability provided by higher levels over the last decade as floor-covering adhesives A: The ready-mixed concrete delivered to 1 WTC
of water produce high-strength concrete. have moved from solvent to water-based in order was pumped to the highest elevation to which
to eliminate environmentally unfriendly volatile concrete has ever been pumped in the Americas.
Q: Is it going to be a trend setter for organic components (VOCs). Even more remarkable, because the mix design
future concrete concoctions? was so workable, pumping was accomplished
Aridus® Rapid Drying Concrete system uses with a single pump that moved the concrete
A: Yes. The future of high-rise construction vapor barriers and specially designed, self- from ground to the topmost story instead of to an
will be high-strength, more durable, and more desiccating concrete made with ASTM-listed intermediate station where it would have been
sustainable concrete. Most new projects have materials that consume free water to control remixed before being transferred to a second
10,000–14,000-psi concrete as part of the the moisture vapor emission rate (MVER), and pump to move it to a higher level.
design, as well as a requirement for sustainable internal relative humidity (IRH) of concrete so
construction driven by the Leadership in Energy that ASTM-tested, manufacturers’-specification-
and Environmental Design (LEED®) certification compliant floors can be delivered in 45 days after
that many public and private owners seek or the building is enclosed and conditioned for 48
hours. Source : http://www.concrete-greenbuilding.com
require for their projects.
Additionally, as a result of US Concrete’s Q: Why was high-strength concrete
increasing experience with high-strength mix chosen for the WTC?
designs, we have been able to apply our
A: High-strength concrete facilitates the design
knowledge of how concrete ingredients interact
and the properties they impart to concrete to of smaller, structural-member cross-sections
develop new mixes that solve other construction (e.g., columns and walls) that provide more net
problems. A perfect example of the application usable or rentable floor area because less space
of knowledge gained from understanding high- is consumed by the structure. This is especially
strength-mix design technology is the proprietary important in high-rise buildings in high-rent
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ARKdesignProjects
OFFICE ONE
Location Jakarta, Indonesia
Status Under Construction
Architect Paul Tan / Cucu Surya
Location Jakarta, Indonesia
Status Construction Documentation
GALLERY WEST Architect Paul Tan / Hema Saepudin
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InnovationTechnology
EcoSmart Igloo Ventless
Glass Fireplace
The EcoSmart Igloo Glass Fireplace is designed
with a futuristic appeal to enhance any contemporary
decor. Designed by Paul Cohen, this EcoSmart
Fire Designer fireplace offers a unique and
distinctive appeal. It is distinctive and original, INTELLIGENT
featuring a toughened glass surround that conveys
a disappearing effect. A stainless steel bench is
suspended between the glass surround, and this LIVING
unique form allows the flame to ‘dance’ in many
directions off the reflective glass panels, generating
ambiance and warmth and ensuring a stunning
center-piece.
Created as a portable work of art, the Igloo fireplace
is sleek, minimalist lines add an element of chic to
residential units, apartments, houses, and commercial
premises including offices, bars and restaurants.
Fueled by denatured ethanol - an environmentally
friendly, renewable energy - the Igloo, like the rest
of the Designer Range, is clean and green fireplace.
Source : http://www.thefancy.com/
things/125682399823533683/Table-Fireplace-by-
MOMA
www.vkool-indonesia.com
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Events
Ground Breaking
Majestic Point Apartment Serpong
December 7, 2012
Photo from left : Paul Tan | Halim Chandra | Marcellus Chandra
Asiek Widodo | Victor Irawan | Boedi Poerwoko
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StayInformed ARKdesignNewTeamMembers
Meidy Suriansyah, ST
Mercu Buana University,
Jakarta, Indonesia
Bachelor of Architecture
Felicia Gunawan, ST, M. BEnv,
MUDD
University of New South Wales,
NSW, Australia
Master of Urban Development and Design
ARKdesign Architects Wishing you
A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2013
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