Streams of Lives

Day and night for the celebration icon.

The concept of celebration

Imagine elements that color the journey of Jayapura through the tunnel of time as various entities. Those are entities that represent individuals, families, social values, culture and traditions, and many other elements, symbolized in the simplest form of all, dots.

The dots are moving, crossing, colliding, and bonding through the passage of time. The dots transform into living dynamic curves, moving even faster, bond ing even closer, then burst into a meaningful gesture, a gesture of celebrating the bonding that has gone through a century and goes even stronger in the future.

Even in symbolic architecture, the core of an object being valued as architecture is the same. Function. Without function, a built object cannot be stated as architecture. It may be a sculpture, may be an art object, but not architecture. Based on this understanding, the Papua landmark has to serve more meaning, more function rather than just an extravagant symbol.
The function chosen for this monumental pride of Jayapura is a museum. A museum, is one typology that best known for its capability to treasure the priceless legacy from the ancient times, from the forefathers to our now generation.
The form itself was taken from an invaluable object of nature, which also a famous “nickname” for Papua. The Black Pearl, and yes we tried to figure out a better name, something less corny, but hey! don’t blame us. Blame Captain Jack Sparrow!
A black pearl, an invaluable object preserved and protected by whole, just as the island Papua regarded by its people.

My finest image of the icon.