Undegraduate Final Project Proposal

Temporality as Identity
of Tropical Architecture

Tony Hermawan - 08111940000016

Advisor Dr.Eng. Didit Novianto S.T., M.Eng.

material/
immaterial
comparative reading on the discourse
what is material?
properties of architecture
experience of architecture
meaning in architecture
Leon Batista Juhani Jonathan
ALBERTI PALLASMAA HILL
material could be physical and non-physi-
material is physical sub-
non-physical substance cal substance is inter-
stance
architecture could be insta-
architecture must be architecture could be
ble and changing
static and durable dynamic and changing
on meaning level
architecture must be architecture could be expe-
emphasize on visual
experienced by other rienced and interpreted
senses
meaning is instanenous meaning is derived from meaning is derived from ex-
based on first impact experience over time perience and interpreted
 material-immaterial

Physical
Material
Immaterial

Perception
Perception

Immaterial

Perception of the immaterial shape the materiality

Materiality will also shape the perception

architecture & time
architecture is used to relates to passage of time

West Time is linear East Time is circular


    

 





Human live in mental worlds in which the experienced, remembered and

dreamed, as well as the present, past and future, constantly fuse into one another and
architecture as medium to experience and relate to unstoppable power of time
(Pallasmaa, 1998).

The different perception of time also influence different ex-

pression of architecture
eastern time perception of time
in vernacular architecture

• Aging effect on natural material

• More open to dynamic natural change like daylight,
temperature or wind
problem

From this

From vernacular approach of time to western approach of time

This temporal quality is being interpreted The static quality inside architecture are
through dynamic sensual qualities inside giving the sensation of time is being sus-
architecture as time itself never static. pended (Simon, 2023).
(Simon, 2023)

To this

Is this the direction of the evolution of Indonesian architectural

identity?

How can we bring back this perception of time to strengthen

our architectural identity?
 proposed solution

contextual
Architecture that empathetical
to time
concious
subject

Scope : Material, form , tectonic

Context : Indonesia
Goal : To explore identity

Temporality as a Identity : Exploring Tropical Architecture using the

perpsective of time
context

Land contestation as a design background

Ancestral land is used for “progress” project

Traditional value vs Modernity

reference

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Pallasmaa, J. (1998). The Space of Time. Oz, 20(1). https://doi.org/10.4148/2378-5853.1324

Simon, M. (2023). Sensing Time: Temporality in the Design of Buildings and Open Spaces. archiDOCT, 19(11 (1)).

Smith, K. H. (2012). Introducing architectural theory: Debating a discipline. Routledge.

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