TUNJUNGAN MANUSCRIPT: DECONSTRUCTION OF THE ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION IN TUNJUNGAN DISTRICT

• Main Author: Akbar Junaedi, Multazam
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/67634
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

This design thesis aims to examine architectural issues through a representation of Tunjungan's identity as a commercial and historic area. This identity has so far been represented by a number of artifacts, including monuments, statues, and the remains of ancient structures. The representation, which is visiocentric, is the primary design issue. Whereas, there is no reference from experience based on everyday facts and collective memory in urban spaces for the process of accommodating both local and general humans as design’s subject. When the government responds by holding "historical" themed events, frequently held by closing the corridor along the Tunjungan road, which leads to the emergence of practical issues like traffic congestion, a lack of parking spaces, and forced traffic engineering. This thesis uses the theoretical approach "Deconstruction" by Jacques Derrida (1967). Deconstruction is also an analytical tool for rereading Tunjungan's history, to unravel (destructuring) the formal and identity aspects. The design methodology used is to reduce the strategies to destruct the Tunjungan area into several conceptual layers. Among these layers are road corridors, villages, alleys, and other elements. The Tunjungan manuscript is a design theme resulting from architecture, a series of configurations spread across the Tunjungan area, generally grouped into three, namely: 1) a parking building as a representation of commercial identity, 2) Emancipatory architectural programs based on each village's needs, such as shop kiosks, road markers, and environmentally friendly installations, and 3) Other layers, of Tunjungan's identity. These three layers become the superimposition of the representations, which in this thesis give birth to a holistic concept, namely "Ndek" as a description of place and time, and a red color representation as a binder of the area's design integrity. Because of the connectivity between layers, Tunjungan will no longer be viewed solely as a road corridor materiality.