Alumni of UMN Arsitekur Enter as 10 Representatives Representing Indonesia in ARCASIA

Stephanie Vania an UMN Architecture alumnus (right) and an eventual task poster about the design of the Lembang Barokah market (left). (Doc. Stephanie)

TANGERANG – The final task of The Architecture alumni of Multimedia Nusantara University (UMN) class of 2017, Stephanie Vania entered as the top 10 representation from Indonesia in the Thesis of the Year 2021 competition. The competition, organized by Architects’ Regional Council Asia (ARCASIA), runs from April 1 to August 17, 2021, and the announcement of the curation assessment results was announced on September 1, 2021.

ARCASIA is a platform for Architecture schools in its member countries to showcase their potential and fresh ideas on an international scale. This agenda aims to improve architectural education and open the route of knowledge exchange of architectural education in Asia. The competition is an annual event held with participants from 21 other Asian countries.

“This competition invitation is open to all campuses in Asia and from the umn campus recommends three final assignment works that roughly match the theme raised by ARCASIA this year, namely regarding Public Spaces. Stephanie’s work entered the criteria and represented UMN as a representative,” said Apriani Kurnia Sarashayu, S.T., M.Sc. as a lecturer in UMN Architecture and Stephanie’s final assignment guidance lecturer during an interview via whatsapp (5/9).

Saras explained, that there are 3 best finalists representing Indonesia, Stephanie became 10 representations from Indonesia for representatives of this thesis race and became a proud achievement. Considering the participants in this competition from campuses throughout Indonesia.

“Hopefully do not stop working after the final assignment, because after graduating from campus the challenges of problems in the wider and diverse community. Hopefully Stephanie continues to explore the potential and maintain her research-based interest in designing,” he continued.

In this competition works are sent by region, namely west, central, and east. UMN entered as a top 10 representative from the central region with Stephanie’s final task work on designing a traditional market in Lembang Barokah market, Ciledug.

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“Stephanie is working on the topic of designing the image of lembang barokah traditional market as a sustainable public space. Starting from market conditions that are less organized even though it has a lot of potential that can be developed as an economic space and public space, “explained Saras.

Through a separate interview via whatsapp, Stephanie explained that the design was not only made for Lembang Barokah Market as a traditional market whose main function is trading, but also added public functions to support the main function of the market.

“The purpose of the redesign is to make this market part of people’s daily lives, so it is contextual with functions around its footprint. The main point of the design was that I brought from a research seminar or thesis that I worked on in the previous semester, which focused on the image of building access and circulation space of lembang barokah market, “continued Stephanie.

Behind her success, Stephanie must complete the final task until the completion of the trial to enter this competition.

“At first I was sent information about this competition with my Final Assignment supervisor, but at that time I had not completed the TA and I had not sent my work. Then after the hearing I was in contact again with Architecture’s mother Irma Desiyana, to include and recommend me participate in this competition. I continue to yes-in, because I think it’s interesting to follow my TA work to ARCASIA, “said Stephanie.

Stephanie hopes that this event continues to exist and continues to be followed by other friends, because it can be an interesting experience.

by Annisa Maulida | UMN News Service

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