Competition: Padjajaran Pedestrian Path Renovation

Pedestrians in Indonesia are awfully treated these days. I guess the government just couldn't see that every human being has rights to walk safely and comfortably in public. The safety of public pedestrians are actually the responsibility of those PEOPLE in POSITIONS and POWER. Well, all we can do is hope for a better tomorrow. But better say too much than never say what we need to say.

This is a design we made to enter the SUD (Sustainable Urban Development) Competition. We didn't win though. The case of study is the Padjajaran Road in Bandung. This road is potential for developing pedestrian paths. There are numerous rapid housings leading to this road. The buildings facing this road are majorly governmental buildings. The most interesting subjects are the sightless housed by Wyata Guna, an organization coordinated by the governments Social Department. Also interesting to design is path facing the Sports Center called GOR (Gelanggang Olah Raga). This part of the path faces a soccerfield. A very nice view in this rapid city.

The basic design of the pedestrian path is to reorganize the positioning of the trees that are planted. The former positions are inconsiderately placed in the middle of the path. I really wonder why? (what the hell are in their heads!?) The specimen of tree picked is eucalyptus, or as we call it here "kayu putih". It's a beautiful tree with considerable radius. We also used "wayang suket" as a traditional element and bamboo as a natural element for the concept.

We did our parts on this design and I did the path facing the GOR. We designed decks facing the soccerfield. These decks can be used for viewing or resting. The decks are divided into upper decks and lower deck. The lower deck can be used for pedestrians also viewing the soccerfield while walking.

The upper decks are meant to be resting places where people can meet up and relax while viewing the soccerfield. These decks are also potential to be rented to local vendors selling local snacks like "gorengan", "cilok", "batagor", etc.