REVIVAL OF INDUSTRIAL IDENTITY: JATIBARANG HERITAGE AND COMMUNITY CENTER

• Main Author: Zahwa Rahma S., Alifia
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/73173
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Due to the vast amount of negative space created by the phenomena of abandoned industrial buildings, which are on the rise globally, regions may experience slower growth and development. A similar situation is currently affecting Indonesia's hundreds of sugar mills, particularly in Java. One of them is Brebes Regency's oldest continuously operational sugar factory, Jatibarang Sugar Factory. Even though it stopped producing sugar in 2017, the Jatibarang Sugar Factory still has a significant historical, cultural, and economic impact on the neighborhood until this day. Jatibarang Sugar Factory has also been recognized as a cultural heritage place with a development orientation in education and research based on the Brebes Regency Spatial Plan for the years 2019-2023. Jatibarang Sugar Factory must be preserved as a result. The goal of this project is to employ an adaptive reuse strategy to renovate a section of the Jatibarang Sugar Factory area so that it may once again serve the population of the Jatibarang District. The project site, which has a total area of 14,000 square meters, includes a portion of the production facility and locomotive remise structures. Considering the integration of new structures with the existing environment, revival via maximizing the potential of the local community, and the existence of open public spaces, the intervention in the adaptive reuse project becomes a significant design issue. Through the preservation of industrial cultural heritage, the promotion of community activities, and the presence of restorative public spaces, the main design concept, Jatibarang Heritage and Community Center, establishes sugar as a link between the past and present lives in the factory area. The project is divided into five zones: education, preservation, community, commercial, and service. These zones were determined by the research that was done and the contextual analysis. Given the long and narrow layout of the land, these zones are set up according to the hierarchy of public-private areas. The existence of a major axis and the commercial area, which serves as a magnet for tourists to investigate the remise building in the rear portion of the property, help to focus attention on the existing locomotive remise building. In order to draw attention to the old building while yet giving it a different impression from the locomotive remise building, reflective panels are employed in contrast-contextual facades on the new buildings. On the other side, the new service building utilizes aesthetically pleasing, contextual facades to preserve the old landscape and mood of the factory area for users. As inside building signage, accents in the shape of arches and the usage of brick materiality on doors and walls are used. The wide-span museum portion is housed using concrete materials for columns and beams coupled with honeycomb steel structures, strengthening the building's industrial appearance.