The 10th Virtual Design World Cup

Stratification Residential District
To reduce the destruction of the rainforest and establish a different living space in the newcapital, we came up with a new living arrangement── " Stratification Residential District". We changed the life functions in the horizontal direction into vertical stratification, andeach layer has been connected by the tunnels and the UNITs. By doing so, there was noneed to sacrifice large tracts of the rainforest but still could retain the urban life functions.

Eco-friendly
To avoid the tunnels and the stratification living area affect the habitat of original species toomuch, we came up with an idea called “the Cell”, an extending space that can help the plants orother creatures to live across the artificial areas. By placing these Cells at every corner of thenew capital, we hope that can reduce some damages that came alone with the development.

TrafficConcept
For thousands of years, the Gap inStratification Residential District
the rainforest has been the key tomake the new life thriving. As theGap, the development of the newcapital city in east Kalimantanbrings the light to the city with serious issues such as heavy traffic,
flood, kinds of pollution and so on.
Rafflesia UNIT Station
In our project, to sustain the rainThe Pondok hutan Resort
forest and provide a better live forthe residences, we try to create the“Gap” in the new city by combining the brand new traffic system,
Segara Harborconnecting the rainforest environ- The Rumah Panjai market
ment and digital entertainment, toreach the balance between theecosystem and development.
We redesigned the buildings in the downtown as
the shape of tropical tree house, made them fit
into the rainforest. So that, whenever people
walk in or work inside the building, they will feelthe illusion of surrounding by the forest.

The New Downtown

EntertainmentIn order to achieve the goal of symbiosis with the rainforest, we tried to replace the current
traffic systems with a new type of transportation ──“the UNIT”. It is a globe transportation
which can not only take passengers to travel freely through the new capital but also connect
with other units to handle our requires. And the “tunnel” is a combination of highway and public
transportation. With the help of the tunnel, people can reach their destination quickly without
destroying huge amount of rainforest and also shorten the distance between us and the nature.

We combined the entertainment with the traffic, so the transportation could be a recreational facility, and the recreational facility could also be a transportation.

Epidemic prevention

This year, due to the impact by Covid-19, epidemic prevention has
become an important issue in every country. Therefore, we established some quarantine stations in both train stations and the ports.
While passengers are about to take the public transportation,
there will be a scanner taking their body temperatures and start tosanitize. We will also check every passengers' traces by scanningtheir personal ID to determine whether the passengers are secureor not. Simultaneously, we set a lighthouse in the port, which canrepresent different situations by changing the color of light----redlight means warning, and green light represent safe──so theships from voyage or the local residents could realize the epidemicof the capital with the color of the light on the lighthouse.

CultureThe Indonesian cultures are also
being used everywhere in ourdesign. We combined the port
market and the traditional longhouse (rumah panjai) in Kalimantan to show the local features tonew residents. Meanwhile, wealso used rafflesia (the IndonesiaNational emblem) as the prototype of our train station, hopingthat we can make the new rainforest city more colorful.

Disaster prevention

Since the current capital Jakarta suffered from some environmental disasters,such as rising sea level. To solve these problems, we combined disaster prevention evacuation system with the new transportation──UNITs. Take the Rafflesia
UNIT Stations for example, after the disaster hits, people can follow the instructions to get to the assigned platform, take the units and evacuate to safe shelters.