BELONGING THE UNBELONGS: CRAFTSMEN SCHOOL AS HOME, STUDY PLACE AND SOCIAL INSTITUTION WITH SENSE OF BELONGING APPROACH

• Main Author: Hanum Asyara, Alya
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/74836
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Architects may play prominent role in creating buildings. But here are other community who play an important role in realizing a building when their existence remains unseen. They are the craftsmen. The potential for craftsmanship in Indonesia still has many shortcomings. At present, Indonesian Construction Services Law seeks a certification program, but the number is still far from what is needed. Not only in certification, even in daily execution, craftsmen in Indonesia have limited knowledge. Craftsmen still have an understanding that is very far from the expected standards and their belief in the myths about construction that are inherent among builders just by senses. However, if we reflect the existing system in Indonesia, have we provided a place for learning workers so that we have the right to demand workers to be workers who are all capable and without deficiencies? This project is an issue-based design as a form of awareness of the potential of craftsmanship in Indonesia and the problem of lower-class education. This project is a construction worker training center located in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. Aside from being a school, this project serves to encourage and market the craftsmen community. This project aims to be a forum for the community, especially in terms of education and to improve the career path of lower-class communities to have decent jobs. People from lower class tends to skip school at their younger age, but when they grew up they don’t have certain skills nor the chance to learn one. So craftsmen’s school is like a second chance for the grown-ups from lower class to learn and set their future. Using architectural point of view, this problem can be solved. First, by forming community through ‘belonging’ spaces, as craftsmen are often considered as social outcast which they don’t have the community they belong to. Second is by providing the convenient space. Indonesia is known for their extreme weather from a hurricane to massive dryness. Building designed to be adaptive towards the weather. For the convenience of learning as well as the learning of the craftsmen. Last, Collaborative and Flexible Learning Space. Learning is ransparent to the wider learning community by learning as a group not as individuals. The design has blurred the boundaries between the different functions of space so as to create an atmosphere of learning anywhere or any scale, from brick stackings to a massive timber frame. This project consists of 7 buildings which are integrated by circulation with the functions of three educational buildings, a multifunction building, a research building and a dormitory building.