Yogya (KU) – An UGM team consisting of architecture graduates popularized Indonesia to the international level by becoming the runner up winner of the Skyscraper Competition 2010 held by eVolo Magazine, a journal of design and architecture based in the United States of America. The championship was conducted in the US in March.
The four young UGM alumni were Erwin Setiawan, Rezza Rahdian, Ayu Diah Shanti, and Leonardus Chrisnantyo. They made a design project entitled Earthquake Recovery Program. This project defeated 430 designs from 42 countries. The project design aimed to purify and improve the habitat of Ciliwung River. The construction has been designed to collect garbage, to purify water, and to provide housing for thousands of people who live in slums along the river.
Head of Department of Architecture and Planning, Faculty of Engineering, UGM, Ir. T. Yoyok Wahyu Subroto, M. Eng., Ph.D., confirmed that the four architects were Class 2005. According to Yoyok, their success strengthened UGM’s name at international level. This was in line with the vision of UGM to be excellent World Class Research University. "We hope this achievement will further enhance UGM’s quality in the world and encourage the spirit of academic activities," he added.
Yoyok explained that eVolo Magazine annual competition organized since 2006 collected brilliant ideas in architecture associated with the nature and environmental development. "This competition aims to find brilliant ideas about skyscraper designs with the use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organization," said Yoyok, Tuesday (18/5), on the campus.
The information obtained from http://www.evolo.us says that the first winner of this competition was architects from Malaysia with the Prison in Space, while in third place was US-Japanese architects.