{"id":1943,"date":"2013-03-22T04:08:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T04:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hebel.arch.ethz.ch\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2013-03-22T04:08:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T04:08:11","slug":"coresing-joins-tropical-town-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/coresing-joins-tropical-town-project\/","title":{"rendered":"CoReSing joins Tropical Town Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hebel.arch.ethz.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-25-at-3.02.30-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1944\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-03-25 at 3.02.30 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hebel.arch.ethz.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-25-at-3.02.30-PM-537x160.png\" width=\"537\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Tropical Town is a package of innovative technologies and\u00a0blueprint plans, environmental principles, supported by capacity\u00a0building techniques. The package is not a master plan or\u00a0recipe, but designed to seed the development of environmentally\u00a0sustainable, socially economically resilient settlements over\u00a0time. At the centre of this project is an incremental housing\u00a0type named Rubah, or Rumah Tambah\u00a0 (\u2018expandable\u00a0house\u2019 in Bahasa Indonesia).<\/p>\n<p>The Tropical Town project was developed at the Singapore-ETH Centre\u2019s Future Cities Laboratory (FCL), with the Faculty\u00a0of Engineering at the University of Indonesia, School of\u00a0Design and Environment, National University of Singapore,\u00a0the municipal planning department (BAPPEDA) in Batam, the \u00a0Dutch\/Indonesian architectural firm, SHAU, and the NGO KRUPUC (Knowledge for Rural and Urban Projects Under Construction).\u00a0\u00a0CoReSing recently joined this design team with a focus on materiality and construction.<\/p>\n<p>The project was developed for the\u00a0island of Batam, Indonesia. Batam functions as a laboratory\u00a0where the various technical, social, ecological and design principles\u00a0are explored and prototyped. The Tropical Town project\u00a0is intended to be \u2018scaleable\u2019 and implemented in similar urbanizing\u00a0regions throughout tropical Southeast Asia. Jakarta could be the first urban testbed for the Tropical Town Project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Tropical Town is a package of innovative technologies and\u00a0blueprint plans, environmental principles, supported by capacity\u00a0building techniques. The package is not a master plan or\u00a0recipe, but designed to seed the development of environmentally\u00a0sustainable, socially economically resilient settlements over\u00a0time. At the centre of this project is an incremental housing\u00a0type named Rubah, or Rumah Tambah\u00a0 (\u2018expandable\u00a0house\u2019 in Bahasa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8IIze-vl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}