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 The place as a nice habitat of being has been replaced by the cars.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.