Located in Indonesia’s capital city of Jakarta, the 600,000 square foot project serves as the headquarters of a prominent local commercial bank.
The site fronts Jalan Sudirman, one of the boulevards built during the 1960s to give Jakarta a new monumental scale. In the intervening years, the business district has grown rapidly through the addition of a series of office towers. Echoing this expansion, the design for Bank Niaga sets up a structured grid of four squares, allowing the plan to assume a clear geometry within the boundaries of the site.
The four squares are occupied by building masses which can be identified in order of descending height as an office tower, a Bank Niaga branch bank, a parking structure and mosque, and a garden. The tallest tower rises to a height of 27 stories and is capped by an emergency evacuation helicopter pad. The podium below anchors the tower in a two-story horizontal mass and allows smaller building elements to pull away from the dominant vertical form, establishing a scale that integrates the complex with the surrounding kampung neighborhoods.
