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Transformations and conservation of the ex-colonial dwelling settlements in North Bandung - Indonesia : a historical and urban architectural review for the search of city identity and conservation strategy approaches
(2008) Ignasia, Helena; Ribbeck, Eckhart (Prof. Dr.-Ing.)
North Bandung has so many unique potential urban features that were utilized by the Dutch colonial town planners as influential considerations in arranging the planning concepts. The adoption of the European "Garden City" in Indonesia was initially established in this area. The garden city concepts employed local contents at the same time, and this has made the dwelling quarters in North Bandung unique. A mixed-levels housing plan in the urban design, where low, middle, and upper-level dwelling units were combined was implemented together in an integrated plan of the urban structure in this area. The strong character of "Art Deco" decorated the façades of the buildings in the quarters and has also made North Bandung architecturally interesting and valuable. Bandung became one of the best examples of "tropical art nouveau" in Southeast Asia in the colonial era. Today, this city has to face the challenges of uncontrolled growth mainly caused by urbanization. The development in this city has not only expanded to the periphery but also taken place within the inner city areas, where historical quarters exist. Transformations and demolitions of land use have long been going on, and have been worsened and taken on the face of the practice of commercialisation, land speculation, and ongoing densification. This culminates into the neglect of rich cultural values of their localities that have long characterized and become the identity of such quarters. These forces are creating tension in such areas and thus are among other current important tasks of city planning in Bandung today. This study tries to observe and seek the existing values in the ex-colonial dwelling quarters in North Bandung both in terms of architecture and urban planning in order to understand how they became the identity of and built image in such a built environment and how they became implemented in planning in the inhabitable dwelling environment. The research is also aimed at getting a better understanding of the various influences that determine the uncontrolled urban development process and transformations within the historic setting and tries to rediscover the historical denominations in all of their complexity. Finally, this research will try to provide some recommendations and suggestions for developing concrete actions of conservation strategies, which can be implemented both in the selected case study and/or in other similar cases in Indonesian cities.