SURFACE AND RAIN HARVESTING WATER TREATMENT PLANT: ALTERNATIVE CLEAN WATER SOURCES TREATMENT AND EDUCATION FACILITY IN WEST JAKARTA INDUSTRIAL AREA

• Main Author: Jeanette
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/64938
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

In the last two decades, Jakarta has suffered from land subsidence, exhibiting spatial and temporal variations, with the rates of about 12 to 25 cm/year. With this condition as the fastest-sinking city in the world, Jakarta is predicted to submerge within the next 10 years, subsequently with the National Monument point being 100 m from the northern coast in 2030. One of the fastest-sinking areas in Jakarta is the industrial area of Cengkareng, West Jakarta that still uses groundwater as the main source for industrial activity. As a result of the excessive and irresponsible activities, the unfavorable impact and repercussion of nature has become an urban dilemma. As in today, urban cities like Jakarta have been eliminating its natural elements, such as green open spaces and also clean water sources from the rivers running through the city. Fundamentally, however, humans and nature are two elements that always coexist, which herewith architecture take place as to cohere the transitions between the gaps as a built environment. With collaborative integration as the time goes on with new innovations and technologies, the built environment is not only sensitive to natural and environmental problems, but also preserves it in solving an urban problem, namely land subsidence caused by excessive extraction/use of groundwater, lack of awareness community, and the lack of green open land. Through architecture, innovations in technology-based design developments are also presented with surface water-based water treatment installations, namely river water, rainwater, and runoff water, as well as research and education facilities. Thus, not only a solution to the clean water crisis was provided, but it also supported the industrial and water crises education to the community through a modern and interactive technology system. Within this project, water became the main concept for the design and utility aspect in architectural design thinking and process. In addition to being studied from a functional perspective to answer the formulation and problems of the problem, water as a design subject was used as a visual, aesthetic, and educational tool. Therefore, the element of water became the main subject in the design of this project both in terms of functional and architectural concepts by connecting humans with nature through architecture. In addition, hopefully with the newly-installation of the water treatment plant, research, and education center, the community could be more aware of the sinking-city issue and the general water crisis. As one of the biggest phenomena in the capital city, it is a must to have new research and solutions regarding the land subsidence, as well as the innovation and development of science and technology that could facilitate urban problems in the future. With this source of drinking water treatment, the total amount of clean water that can be supplied to the industrial area is 180 litre/second or equivalent to the amount of 16,000 m3/day which can be directly supplied to industrial areas for small to large industries in Cengkareng, West Jakarta.