Company's statement

Habicon is an abbreviation of Habitat and Constructive or constructive habitat. It is a concept of thinking that a place to live and work, called habitat, can constructively form the attitude human being that is specific, unique, and with special characteristic. We learn from modern movement in architecture that new buildings can generate a new life of people who live in it. Habitat is a place that can be designed with a certain character to structure the inhabitant life.

A city with so many high rise buildings creates different kind of dweller with the city that consists of one or two storey buildings. People who live in apartments and the environment of high rise building will have different attitude to the people who live in a single house and horizontal development. The place that is design correctly could have a good inhabitant. Hence habitat can be planed and design.

At first this concept was developed when we had a research in 1986 on Semarang River that is located in Semarang down town. By that time there was a large project at national scale to widen and to deepen the river and to build two inspection roads at both side of the river. Before the project was finished the houses were oriented to back the river. But after the project was executed the houses that was before backed the river changed its orientation to face the river that flanked by two inspection roads. This changing, despite destroyed many old building, changed that attitude of the dweller who than many of them opened shops and stalls. Hence I believed that habitat could construct the attitude, social culture of the people and finally have rise the value of the land.

Based on this concept, we established Habicon International Center. We see recently that the cities (all cities in Indonesia) have lost its orientation and a nice place to live. Everywhere is for commercial use as far as money could be invited. Hence in such a giant country with more than 200 million populations the cities sprawl everywhere and living place become farther from the working place. In big cities of Indonesia we found traffic jam everywhere and they were not a nice place to live. The place as a nice habitat of being has been replaced by the cars. We can hardly found a pedestrian in the whole country. In Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia the only pedestrian is 500 meters long at Pasar Baru area. Hence the city become unsustainable as there are more and more vehicles in the city. The city as habitat has lost its function as a communication place. A place is a social environment and social memory. We believe that urban planning is a social course. We believe that city planning without a social concept will not answer the social problems on the city. Solving the social problem and bringing welfare is the main purpose of city planning. Thus our concept will engage to the problem of social, economics, culture and environment. This is the focus of Habicon international Center.

A city that becomes a constructive habitat will be more productive. It makes the inhabitant more productive. To create such a place we need a research that can guide it. Such a good place we believe is not simple because it consists of memory and complexity. However constructive habitat is not beautifully designed by architects or planners. A constructive place radically points toward a better life as it is also a problem of preservation and tourism. Hence Habicon cannot be separated from the fact of social, economics, politic, and history as a memory. Research on habicon means down to up. It is not the value that determined by the planners. The function of planners is to direct the habitat becomes a good place to live.

Based on the statement above our institution concentrates on the problem of city sustainable development. The sustainable development will give a good quality of live that is not only needed by urban dweller but also develop tourism, preserving the heritage. In this case there is orientation in the urban development that is sustainable. We are dealing with policy research concerning the environment and Socio-economic science and the humanities.

Mr Pratiwo's publication and presentation

Our director Mr Pratiwo has many publication and presentation. Below are the list:

2007
Seeking the Spirit of the Age dalam The Present in the Past NAi Publisher.

2006
Rumah Gedong: Euro-Asian Transcultural Indies Architecture in the Indonesian Archipelago in Correa, Antonio Bonnet “Endanger” Asian Europe Foundation

“The Ship of Memory” dalam Sejarah dan Dialogue Kebudayaan, Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia, Jakarta

2005
“The City Planning of Semarang” dalam Free Colombijn (eds) Kota Lama Kota Baru Sejarah Kota-Kota di Indonesia, Penerbit Ombak, Yogyakarta

Flooding in Jakarta Towards a Blue City with Improved Water Management (Joint writer with Peter J.M Nas and Mark Caljouw) dalam BKI 161-4

“Jakarta Conflicting Direction” bersama Peter JM Nas dalam Peter JM Nas, Director of Change in Asia Roudletge, New York

2004
Perumahan dan Permukiman Aplikatif bagi Palangka Raya, dalam Kalteng Pos (Aplicative Housing and Settlement in Palamgka Raya) 10 Januari 2004

2003
Rumah Gedong as Euro-Asian Transcultural Architecture in Indonesian Archipelago, in Journal for Architecture and Building Sciences, Japan Institute for Architect

“Java and De Groote Postweg, La Grande Route, The Great Mail Road, Jalan Raya Pos” (Joint writer with Peter J.M Nas) dalam On The Road, The Social Impact of New Road in Southeast Asia Freek Colombijn (ed) BKI

“Street of Jakarta Fear, Trust and Amnesia in Urban Development” (Joint writer with Peter J.M Nas) dalam Framing Indonesian Realities, Peter J.M. Nas, Gerard A Persoon, and Rivke Jaffe, KITLV Press, Leiden

“Refungsionalisasi Kawasan Eks Kebakaran Depan PU Mau Dibawa Kemana”, Kalteng Pos 10 Juni 2003

Han Awal dan Arsitektur Fungsionalis (Han Awal and the Functionalist Architecture) in the anniversary for Dipl Han Awal, Published by Depertment of Architecture Universitas Indonesia 2003

2002
“The Chinese Town Lasem” dalam The Indonesian Town Revisited, Peter J.M. Nas (ed) Lit Verlag, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore

2001
“ The streets of Jakarta Fear, Trust and Amnesia in Urban Development” A book for the commemoration of the retirement of Prof Reimar Schefold, a joint authorship with Prof. Dr. Peter JM Nas, Faculty of social sciences, the university of Leiden.

“THE UNPREDICTABLE SPACE IN BETWEEN A Paradox Toward Informatic City” Proceeding of the seminar on Unbanization in the Information Age: New Perspective on the Transformationof Fast Growing Cities in Pacific Rim, Universitas Indonesia 22 – 23 August 2001

2000

“On the Chinese Temple of Semarang” in Dialogue (Taipei – Taiwan), January 2000

“The Future of Tradisional Street Market” Dalam Jurnal Universitas Pelita Harapan Vol III No 5 Agustus 2000

1999
Jalan di Pecinan Semarang dan Kebudayaan Cina, Lembaran Sejarah, Jurusan Sejarah Fakultas Sastra Universitas Gajah Mada, Volume 2 No 1 1999

The Chinese Architecture in A Javanese Town: A Case study of Cross cultural Transformation in Lasem, Asia Culture N0 23, National University of Singapore June 1999

The Koloniale Tentoonstelling in Semarang, Dialogue No 27, July 1999, Taipei

1998
„Dissension in the Jungle of Kalimantan“, in Journal for Southeast Asian Architecture, NUS,

“Pasar Tiban di Ruang Cyber”, dalam Tesa Arsitektur, Jurnal Catur Wulan Vol II No 3. Mei-Agustus 1999

“Street as a Representation of the Chinese Cultural Change in Semarang, „Folk Culture and Social Changes“ in the Fifth International Seminar on the Humanities, Gajah Mada University, December 8 – 9, 1998.

„Penang: Pluralisme Sebuah Kota (Penang: A city of Pluralism)“, Paper presented in national Seminar in the Indonesian Institute of architect 14 August 1998.

„The Cosmic Travel of Sam Po“ Dialogue No 21, December 1998, Taipei

Fengshui dalam Urban Desain dalam Geomancy sebagai Pedekatan Arsitektur, Tesa Aesitektur, Jurnal Catur Wulan Vol 1 No 1 April-Juli 1998


“Penang a City of Pluralism” dalam Penag Heritage Trust News Letter Agustur 1998


Presentation
2006 (Agustus 1) “Reinventing the Future” dalan seminar Borneo Research Council, Kucing
2005 (December 12-14) “Seeking the Spirit of the Age, Chinese Architecture in Contemporary Indonesia” in Workshop on Indonesian Architecture, KITLV, Leiden
2004 (August 23-25) “ The City Planning of Semarang 1900- 1970 in the International Conference on Urban History
“Flooding in Jakarta” a joint paper with Peter JM NAS and Mark Caljauw, paper presented in the International Conference on Urban History
2004 (14 Februari) Pengembangan Kawasan pantai kalimantan Tengah, pada pertemuan KAGAMA di Palangka Raya
Oktober 2003 “Arsitektur Dayak Kini dan Masa yang Akan Datang” Dayak Architecture now and the future) in workshop of river bank settlement development and traditional architecture in Kalimantan
2001 (21 April) : Urban Development Aspect Relevant to Economics Growth, paper presented in the seminar of World University Service Komite Indonesia, Bogor.
2001 (12-16 March): Pricing and Financing Urban Infrastructure, paper presented in the seminar on Sustainable Resource Development
2001 (February 16-17): Manifesto of the Murder of architectural Theory. Seminar on Theory of Architecture, Indonesia University
2001 (January 25-27) co- Chairman in the workshop on enhancing the Livability of Old town Jakarta.
2001 (January 16-18): Street of Jakarta after May 1998 Riot, paper presented in the seminar on Great Asian street Symposium (national University of Singapore
2000 (December 6-8): The Chinese Town Lasem, paper presented in the seminar on Indonesian Town Revisited, University of Leiden
2000 (23 September) The chairman of the seminar on Building on the ruin, the case of potsdamer platz, Gother institute, Jakarta
2000 (21-22 July) :The Future of Traditional Street Market In the Urban of Java, Paper presented in the workshop on Southeast Asian Urban Futures, National University of Singapore.
2000 (March) : Chairman and presenter on Seminar on The Planning of New town and Retructuring Urban Center“ Universitas Pelita Harapan and a joint with University of Stuttgart, Tangerang.
1999 (sept) : “Proportion in Chinese Architecture” Paper presented in the seminar on Menjelajah naskah arsitektur Nusantara (exploring the script on Indonesian architecture), Institute Teknologi Surabaya
1998 (Dec) : “Street as a representation of the Chinese cultural change in Semarang” paper presented in the seminar on “Folk Culture and Social Changes“ in the Fifth International Seminar on the Humanities, Gajah Mada University.
1998 (August) : Penang Pluralism of a City in a seminar held by Indonesian Institute of Architects, Semarang 14 August 1998
1998 (July) : „20 Century Urban Planning Experience“ 8th International Planning History Conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
1998 (April) : „International Symposium on Heritage and habitat“, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, in Penang.
1997 : „Geomancy as an Architectural Approach“, Soegijapranata Catholic University.
1991 : "City In Various Dimension", Soegijapranata Catholic University.
1988 : "Normalization of Semarang River", Soegijapranata Catholic University.
"Human Settlement Ecology", Soegijapranata Catholic University.

Company's Experience

Our experience are:

1. Research on Traditional Chinese Architecture and Settlement, a comparative study between Java and China
2. Tourism Masterplan in Central Kalimantan Province
3. Planning the Growth pole of Sukamara Regency
4. Master Plan Study for Industrial development in Sukamara Regency
5. Feasibility Study of railway transportation in Central Kalimantan Province
6. Planning Middle Term Development in Sukamara Regency
7. Town Planning of Kuala Kapuas
8. Cities Development Studies in Central Kalimantan Province
9. Regional Planning of Kapuas Regency
10. Planning Long Term Development in Sukamara Regency
11. Planning the Growth Pole in Murung Raya Regency
12. Detail Town Planning of Puruk Cahu in Murung Raya Regency
13. Master Plan Studies of Tourism in Kotawaringin Barat Regency
14. Action Plan for Revitalisation of Traditional settlement in Kotawaringin Barat Regency
15. Town Planning of Puruk Cahu in Murung raya Regency