eVolo Magazine’s 2010 Skyscraper Competition recognizes highly original and revamped skyscraper concepts that make use of innovative technologies and unusual/sustainable materials delivered in a fresh and aesthetically pleasing manner. This annual opportunity for aspiring architects to demonstrate how their designs can change our world for the better offers them a high profile showcase in which to convey how the gap between natural and man-made environments can be bridged. The highly regarded architectural journal awards just three entries with distinction, and while this year’s first place winner is a notable sky-bound prison system in which inmates cultivate food to support the law abiding citizens below, it is the work of their second place winners that really speak volumes to the eco-minded community.
Second Place Winning Concept:
The Ciliwung Recovery Program (CRP), which is meant to serve as an interactive and fully sustainable environmental purification system that will clean up Jakarta, Indonesia’s Ciliwung River in three distinct phases.
Who Are the Project Architects?
Indonesia-based Rezza Rahdian, Erwin Setiawan, Ayu Diah Shanti, and Leonardus Chrisnantyo.
What’s Wrong With the Ciliwung River?
Passing through Jakarta, Indonesia, the long and narrow river has endured an extensive history of pollution at the hands of man, most notably during the 1720’s when at least 50 river-bank sugar factories typically disposed of their sugar cane waste, causing the water to clog. Today, it is considered to be severely polluted, not only due to illegal river bank squatters but also thanks to its high content of industrial effluents, plastic trash and human excrement which have rendered it inhabitable to wildlife and virtually all plants.
How Can The Ciliwung Recovery Program Help?
The CRP building – which is designed to collect garbage, purify water, and provide housing to thousands of people that live in the slums along the Ciliwung River itself – consists of three mega filters that work in tandem to address the following issues:
1) Organic waste will be separated from non-organic waste and used to augment surrounding soil.
2) Toxic chemicals will be filtered out of the river and essential minerals will be replenished, allowing clean water to be piped not just to croplands but also back into the river itself via a capillary pipe system.
3) The actual CRP structure is designed to generate its own energy and produce a symbiotic and beneficial microclimate for Jakata due to the growth of its “on board” pioneer plants that will emerge as a self-contained ecosystem.
4) Ultimately, the 100% sustainable Ciliwung Recovery Program will generate entirely green energy via solar, wind and hydroelectric systems and any excess will be dispersed to surrounding structures that require it.
What’s The Overall Goal of The Ciliwung Recovery Program?
To become Jakarta’s sustainability generator by cleaning up the natural environment in an innovative and highly practical manner. Unlike other futuristic architectural concepts that are equally intriguing in theory, this one will add an element of aesthetic beauty to the downtown area while taking care of the very necessary business of cleaning up what man has carelessly left behind.
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