Citra Niaga Urban Development
Location
Samarinda, East Kalimantan Indonesia. Designed by
Antonio Ismael (Architect) and build by PT
Triaco and PT Grivantara . Owner and sponsor were Samarinda Municipal Goverment,
finished at year 1986
This place formerly a rusty traditional market for low income peddlers.
The tenants occupy the side of street with they stall. These hawkers are still there
occupying over 200 stalls provided for them free of charge by the urban
development programme. Other built units include 79 smaller shops catering
to high and medium income groups; 141 shop houses arranged in arcades, as
well as infrastructural and recreational facilities. Pedestrian precincts
are landscaped and automobiles are restricted to the periphery of the site.
The entire complex is unified by the use of traditional roof forms. This
social, economic and design accomplishment has been achieved through private
and community involvement, without financial or technical assistance from
the government or foreign donors. The jury notes that "the whole process has
been a democratic one, culminating in the establishment of a management
board representing through a co-operative, the interests of the peddlers,
the shop keepers, the local government and the consultants."
market,
housing development,
urban upgrading
Recipient of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 1989.
(Source: ACCI)
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