This thesis investigates the contemporary condition of the urban kampung in Jakarta as both a spatial manifestation of informality and a living critique of the city’s formal housing paradigm. Using Kampung Kebon Melati as a case study, it examines how colonial legacies, regulatory frameworks, and speculative urbanism intersect to produce a systemic exclusion within the housing sector. Drawing from the UAH! (Unconventional Affordable Housing) research framework, the study positions the kampung not as a problem to be solved, but as an adaptive urban model capable of informing new prototypes for inclusive and resilient housing. Through theoretical inquiry and spatial analysis, the thesis deconstructs the state’s notion of adequate housing, showing how rigid standards and formal procurement systems perpetuate inequality and erase local agency. It introduces the Bilateral Approach, a dual strategy combining internal community organization (Kooperasi Kluster) with external advocacy (Forum Advokasi Kampung), to bridge the divide between formal and informal urbanism. Architectural interventions are developed around this framework, reorganizing density to free up communal spaces while preserving the kampung’s socio Economic fabric and incremental building logic. By aligning spatial design with social governance, this work contributes to the ongoing discourse on housing in the Global South, advocating for a redefinition of adequacy that values participation, adaptability, and collective permanence. The resulting proposal for Kebon Melati seeks to demonstrate that the kampung, reimagined through UAH! lens can become a prototype for Jakarta’s future, where affordability and urban belonging are reclaimed as a collective right rather than a commodity.
Questa tesi indaga la condizione contemporanea del kampung urbano a Jakarta come manifestazione spaziale dell’informalità e come critica vivente al paradigma abitativo formale della città. Utilizzando Kampung Kebon Melati come caso di studio, esamina come le eredità coloniali, i quadri normativi e l’urbanismo speculativo si intreccino per produrre un’esclusione sistemica nel settore abitativo. Basandosi sul quadro di ricerca UAH! (Unconventional Affordable Housing), lo studio posiziona il kampung non come un problema da risolvere, ma come un modello urbano adattivo capace di informare nuovi prototipi per un’edilizia inclusiva e resiliente. Attraverso l’indagine teorica e l’analisi spaziale, la tesi decostruisce la nozione statale di “abitazione adeguata”, mostrando come standard rigidi e sistemi di approvvigionamento formali perpetuino l’ineguaglianza e cancellino l’agenzia locale. Introduce l’Approccio Bilaterale, una strategia duale che combina l’organizzazione comunitaria interna (Kooperasi Kluster) con l’advocacy esterna (Forum Advokasi Kampung), al fine di colmare il divario tra l’urbanismo formale e informale. Le proposte architettoniche sono sviluppate all’interno di questo quadro, riorganizzando la densità per liberare spazi comuni e al tempo stesso preservare il tessuto socioeconomico e la logica incrementale del kampung. Allineando il progetto spaziale alla governance sociale, questo lavoro contribuisce al dibattito contemporaneo sull’abitare nel Sud Globale, sostenendo una ridefinizione del concetto di adeguatezza che valorizzi la partecipazione, l’adattabilità e la permanenza collettiva. La proposta per Kebon Melati mira a dimostrare che il kampung, reinterpretato attraverso la lente di UAH!, può diventare un prototipo per il futuro di Jakarta, in cui l’accessibilità e l’appartenenza urbana siano rivendicate come diritto collettivo e non come merce.
Rethinking adequacy: the urban Kampung as a prototype for inclusive housing in Jakarta
HANANDITYA, DARIEN ILHAM
2025/2026
Abstract
This thesis investigates the contemporary condition of the urban kampung in Jakarta as both a spatial manifestation of informality and a living critique of the city’s formal housing paradigm. Using Kampung Kebon Melati as a case study, it examines how colonial legacies, regulatory frameworks, and speculative urbanism intersect to produce a systemic exclusion within the housing sector. Drawing from the UAH! (Unconventional Affordable Housing) research framework, the study positions the kampung not as a problem to be solved, but as an adaptive urban model capable of informing new prototypes for inclusive and resilient housing. Through theoretical inquiry and spatial analysis, the thesis deconstructs the state’s notion of adequate housing, showing how rigid standards and formal procurement systems perpetuate inequality and erase local agency. It introduces the Bilateral Approach, a dual strategy combining internal community organization (Kooperasi Kluster) with external advocacy (Forum Advokasi Kampung), to bridge the divide between formal and informal urbanism. Architectural interventions are developed around this framework, reorganizing density to free up communal spaces while preserving the kampung’s socio Economic fabric and incremental building logic. By aligning spatial design with social governance, this work contributes to the ongoing discourse on housing in the Global South, advocating for a redefinition of adequacy that values participation, adaptability, and collective permanence. The resulting proposal for Kebon Melati seeks to demonstrate that the kampung, reimagined through UAH! lens can become a prototype for Jakarta’s future, where affordability and urban belonging are reclaimed as a collective right rather than a commodity.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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2026_03_Hananditya_Report.pdf
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https://hdl.handle.net/10589/251088