Vernacularized Modern
Supervisor: Patrick Macasaet
Vernacular is an identity determined by the unique behaviours. Containing an identity within its true form could result in losing the identity itself. To sustain an identity, the behaviour should be extracted and reinterpreted towards the present and future context. The change should be embraced for it to survive.
On the other hand, contemporary behaviour should not disconnect itself from history and its context. Instead, it should connect and co-exist with the past and present in order to outlast obsolescence.
The future perhaps is a mediation between the past and present.
In this major project, this idea is tested in the context of commercial in Jakarta, Indonesia. The project aims to mediate the vernacular and modern by extracting and reinterpreting vernacular behaviours into a new retail typology, a reimagining of a shopping mall typology through the infusion of vernacular behaviours. It is no longer an isolated box, but rather it becomes a communal landscape where the mediation of vernacular and modern happens through the clashes between the culture of the past and present.