Dalem Kaum: Adaptive Re-Use and Face Lift

The street of Dalem Kaum has become very synonymous of becoming the 'red light' district of Bandung. The decision to improve the condition of Dalem Kaum through adaptive re-use of the existing building is being seen as the most appropriate and feasible way to facilitate its existence within the new Creative Laboratory District of Bandung. By maintaining and face-lifting almost all building structures along the street, it is hoped that the new developed stretch of Dalem Kaum will synergize and compliment the programming and urban strategies of the surrounding area of Jalan Asia-Afrika and Alun-Alun Bandung, strengthening the historical, commercial and economical value of the area.

Emergency Coordination and Strategic Planning for Disaster Management

Before, during, or after any events of disaster, systematic disaster management is very important  in managing emergency and post-emergency situation. One way of disaster management is to adopt the role of civil society to create awareness, knowledge and thus lead to direct involvement in disaster risk management efforts. 
Emergency Coordination and Strategic Planning for Disaster Management is a workshop designed to disseminate the experience and knowledge gain from MERCY Malaysia's experience in responding to disaster situations, directly to the community. The aim of the workshop is to socialize the culture of disaster preparedness among the civil society in anticipating any disaster that might happen, and to provide basic disaster management training for the participants. Click here to download.


Date: 2 - 3 May 2010
Time: 0900 - 1700 WIB
Venue: Asean International Hotel Medan, Jl. H. Adam Malik No. 5, Medan, Indonesia
Organized by the Consulate General Office of Malaysia in Medan and MERCY Malaysia  


Presenters:   Ir. Zairulshafuddin Zainal Abidin (Executive Director, MERCY Malaysia), Zuraidah Mian (Volunteer, MERCY Malaysia), Hafiz Amirrol (MERCY Malaysia/ Institut Teknologi Bandung), Ar. Azman Zainonabidin (MERCY Malaysia/ Universiti Teknologi MARA), Norazam Abu Samah (EXCO Member, MERCY Malaysia)

Architerianite #3

Hafiz Amirrol and Dondon Harrison will be presenting at the third edition of Architerianite. 


Date: Friday, 23 April 2010
Time: 1900 WIB
Venue: LABO.themori, Jl. Bukti Dago Utara II No. 22, Bandung, Indonesia
Free Entry
Organized by Architerian Forum
Click here to download the presentation: Print Culture of Architecture

Bioskop Dian and Cinema Paradiso

cinema.bdg is a place making programming strategy to develop the area of Jalan Asia Afrika/ alun-alun as the Creative Laboratory District for Bandung. The strategy consists of a new area that will house Bandung Film Studio, Bandung Film Museum and a new alternative cinema/ film workshop dedicated to the development of the film industry for Indonesia. Paying homage to one of the greatest film of all time by Giuseppe Tornatore - Cinema Paradiso, this proposal also respond to the need of Bandung city and its creative community for a proper place for their creative activities to take place. The now defunct Bioskop Dian, situated right across the site, will be revitalized by having these new programs to re-brand and re-develop the area, which is currently being left underutilized, even it is located at one of the prime area of Bandung. 

Architect's Desk

The Architect's Desk was designed to respond to the architects' way of working. Two layers of tempered glass to be used as light box or storage, horizontal fins to store drawing rolls, and a clean,white cantilevered table structure, hooked to the wall made up the elegant and minimalist form of this table.

Design by Hafiz Amirrol and Tria Prabawati

Asia Afrika - Zoning and Programming

SAPPK Print Studio 2009-2010

Architectural Monograph - Offerings By Design

Offerings by Design

Architectural Monograph 1

Edited by Syed Sobri Zubir

Design by Fairuz Reza and Hafiz Amirrol

Offerings by Design is an attempt to generate alternative schemes of urban form in a locality where much contestation of cultural continuity has been debated. This monograph looks at the ritual of offerings practiced in the paradise island of Bali, Indonesia as a form of cultural sustainability that moulds and gives life to their built environment.

108 pages, extensive color and b/w illustrations

160 x 230mm, Paperback, 2010

ISBN 978-967-305-410-7

RM 35.00

IDR 100,000

USD 12.00

Email h.amirrol@gmail.com  for orders

Towards a Better City Design for Asia-Afrika, Bandung - Site Studies and Programming Studies

Site Studies for the future development of Jalan Asia-Afrika, Bandung, Indonesia. Click here for:

Volume 1 - Site Studies

Volume 2 - Program Analysis and Urban Design Strategies

ITB Campus Design Competition 2010

Competition entry for ITB Campus Design Competition sponsored by the Japan International Cooporation Agency (JICA) and Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia.

Design Team: Hafiz Amirrol, Chichi Asda, Enzeline Fransiska and Komang Tria Prabawati

Grameen Bank Housing Loan Project, Bangladesh

The Grameen Bank Housing Loan Project in Bangladesh was set up to support some of the poorest members of the rural community the means and materials of improved housing. Since its inception in 1984, the program has been helping to built more than 59,000 units of houses in 13,000 villages all around Bangladesh. Click here to read more...

Euralille: Centre International d’Affaires Lille

Lille, a formerly significant city, was leading a slightly melancholy existence. Once a mining and textile town, it had fallen into hard times. But the tunnel between England and the continent and the TGV network will transform Lille as if by magic and make it important in a completely synthetic way.

Rem Koolhaas, SMLXL, 1995

Facility programming studies on the development of Euralille master plan.

d3 Housing Tomorrow 2010 Exhibition Mexico

Convolution Dwelling, along with other winning and top submissions from the d3 Housing Tomorrow 2010 international architectural design competition has been selected for exhibition at UDESIGN Monterrey, one of the largest interdisciplinary art, architecture, and design events in Latin America. The conference, sponsored by the Universidad de Monterrey, will be held in Monterrey, Mexico from March 2 through March 4, 2010.  d3 anticipates over 1,500 invited guests at the opening event.

Curators: Prof. Gregory Marinic and Fernando Ignacio Lozano

Website: www.d3space.org

Rejuvenating an Ex-Mining Township

Bangka-Belitung…

dua pulau cantik di semenanjung bagian Barat Indonesia yang telah lebih dari tiga abad lamanya terus menerus

diperebutkan, digadaikan, diperjual-belikan, hingga akhirnya terpaksa rela menerima kemiskinan dan kekeringan…

kini bangkit untuk meraih kemenangan…

(terinspirasi dari buku Kepulauan Bangka-Belitung, 2003)

Bangka-Belitung

two beautiful islands in the western part of peninsula Indonesia

which has been continuously contested, pawned, traded for more than three decades

and finally forced to accept poverty and drought…

is now back to gain victory…

(inspired by the book Bangka-Belitung, 2003)

Landscape Urbanism design competition entry for the re-development of new landscape for the Bangka-Belitung Ecological Park, Indonesia, 2010

Competition Website: www.sayembara-babel.com

Design Team: Hafiz Amirrol, Komang Tria Prabawati, Chichi Asda and Enzeline Fransiska (Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia) in collaboration with Shindi Indira and Dila Andini (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)

Convolution Dwelling - Final Design Proposal

Design Team:

Hafiz Amirrol and Chichi Asda (Architectural Design)

Chairul Maulidi (Urban Design)

Reagen Mulia (Landscape Design)

Tutors and Juries:

Dr. Baskoro Tedjo, Ir. Achmad Tardiyana, Ridwan Kamil (Architecture)

Dr. Woerjantari Kartidjo, Dr. Widjaja Martokusumo (Urban Design)

Dr. Budi Faisal (Landscape Design)

Researching Romo Mangun

Click here for the analysis presentation.

Designing New Futures: A Design Approach Analysis for Lapangan Gasibu

Design approach analysis for a subversive design intervention at Lapangan Gasibu, Bandung, Indonesia. This analysis combines transgressive design approaches in subverting the current condition of the site, which is one of the most important site for the city of Bandung.

Evening Video Presentation: Eko Prawoto

Arsitektur tidak seharusnya menjadi suatu entitas yang lepas, bahkan sebaliknya harus menjagai integritas eksisting nya. Berarsitektur merupakan proses bekerja kolektif, karya yang diwujudkan ditumbuhkan dari 'dalam' dan diharapkan merupakan ungkapan nyata dari kebersamaan komunitas. Dan sekalipun relatif dalam porsi kecil, arsitek dapat berperan di dalamnya..... (Eko Prawoto, Agustus 2008)

Architect: Eko Prawoto

Date: Thursday, 17 December 2009

Time: 1600 WIB

Venue: Galeri Arsitektur, SAPPK, ITB

Guest Lecturer: Dr. Budi Faisal

Video Courtesy from Cemeti Art House and Eko Prawoto

Kampung Activity as Spatial Assemblage

Industri Dalam - Measuring Accessibility Through Urban Parameters and Space Syntax Analysis

In creating a robust neighborhood, both empirical and parametric based behavioral analyses were conducted to improve the connectivity, networks and configurations of built forms of the proposal. By introducing strong paths as the primary circulation route, connecting dwelling clusters, nodes and public spaces within the site have proved to increase the quality of the site’s value of integration and connectivity

The modified connectivity route allows for the implementation of our concept in integrating modern yet regionalist dwelling system that will encourage and allow the spirit of communality or ‘paguyuban’. A clear direction in structuring the connectivity of the area helps in creating a self-sustaining compact neighborhood, and this design approach is a response from the locality of the site itself.

*Urban Parameters Analysis by Chairul Maulidi, with empirical analysis by Reagen Mulia, Chichi Asda and Hafiz Amirrol, ITB 2009