LAYERCITY
a study of Layer Structure for Smart People
Peruri 88 - a vertical city for Jakarta - MVRDV
Peruri 88 will be a vertical city in one building combining Jakarta´s need for more green spaces with the need for densification respecting the typologies of the current urban fabric. The tower is a 400 meter tall mix use project with retail, offices, housing, a luxury hotel, four levels of parking, a wedding house, a mosque, i-max theaters and an outdoor amphitheater.
The site, which is owned by the Peruri, is located at Jl. Palatehan 4 Jakarta, a block formerly used as the Mint which sits right next to a future metro station. The mix use project offers a great variety of office and housing typologies, from large office surfaces to living/working units, from lofts to townhouses, from terraced houses to patio living. Each of these stacked urban blocks comes with a semi-public roof park, an abundance of gardens, playgrounds, spas, gyms, outdoor restaurants and swimming pools available to the inhabitants and office employees. The tall trees on these decks will provide extra shade whilst the height of the parks allows for a cooling breeze.
"Peruri 88 is vertical Jakarta, it represents a new, denser, social, green mini-city a monument to the development of Jakarta as a modern icon literally raised from its own city fabric"
Silodam, Amsterdam - MVRDV
The problem of a fast changing housing market was approached with a series of different housing types. The demand for a big variety of living spaces on the one hand led to different typologies but on the other hand, as a counterbalance to the increasing individuality. A mixed program of 157 houses (for rent or for sale), offices, work spaces, commercial spaces and public spaces had to be arranged in a 20 meter deep and ten-story-high urban envelope. The apartments differ in size, cost and organization. In order to accommodate this process in time, a series of neighbourhoods of 8 to 12 apartments were created. Blocks of apartments which surround a corridor, a garden, a gallery and a hall. As a counter-form these organizations lead to specific apartments: apartments with a panoramic view, with views on both sides, double-height apartments, apartments with a patio, apartments with a view to the harbour.