Jakartas Human System

Jakarta as a human system is a notion that suggest that the city as an entity is reliant on its urban poor population to function at a acceptable level. The above diagram is depicting the location of large scale Urban slums (incomplete) and the idea that they are responsible for material collection and recycling across the municipality. These communities are an extremely important part of the urban fabric and the idea that would be subjected to large scale relocation due to economic expansion leads to the hypothesis that Jakarta would chock under its own "progress".

 

The above mapping are an indication of the scale of urban poor communities within Jakarta, their possible commerce and materials collection range and a  negative hypothetical representation of the same system if all communities are eventually forced further out due to economic expansion.

 

Hypothesis of the extreme condition of demographic relocation.

Fractals in nature.

What is a slum? This question can be explored in many ways, from economic to social to political. To explain the beginning of my understanding I will try to frame my position in terms of Landscape and Architecture. I would suggest that even though these communities possess shelter which could be considered within the realm of architecture, that they posses a unique relationship to landscape. That they could be considered a typology of landscape. Adaptation, fluctuation, compression and expansion are all qualities of landscape. They are also all qualities of these communities. These spaces are not stagnant, the move and flow with the forces around them. Are they an extension of nature through the most basic needs of humans? What patterns can be seen through the emergence of these communities? They are not set in stone with a projected lifespan, they can last the life of the city and indeed become a city if given the opportunity, they are temporal, functional yet they could be considered in their infancy, with a obligation to be nurtured, not dominated..........

Below is a copy of a offshoot research proposal, its is a study of Tokyo and its ability to function in cohesion with its extreme density. Their are interesting comparrison that have yet to be explored.