Smart Green Learning Center (SGLC) UGM

To achieve a World Class University based on Socio-Entrepreneurial spirit and local wisdom, one of the development policies is to increase the number of Graduate Study Programs and improve the quality of innovative multi-disciplinary research collaboration. Furthermore, the development in the Engineering Clusters area intends to make the Faculty of Engineering as a UGM-Technopark furnished with international standard faculties to increase the capacity and improve the quality of the activities in education, research, and community services.

The site is located in the center of the Faculty of Engineering area, north western precinct of the Universitas Gadjah Mada, next to Jalan Kesehatan on the west side. The Site also contains a number of existing trees, primarily located around its perimeter, in particular along the southern and western boundaries. Other vegetation is scattered around the rest of the site.

SGLC : Smart Green Learning Center, Faculty of Engineering

building functions: For mentioned aim, the SGLC accommodates following functions: faculty headquarters, auditorium, classrooms with greenship considerations and smart systems such as access sensors and environmental monitoring sensors. Based on the building function, SGLC is divided into 5 zones, consisting of Exhibition, Academic Administration, Meeting / Conference, Learning Center, Circulation and Service. Based on “Building Technical Guidelines of Gadjah Mada University””, the permitted area to be built on existing building site area is a maximum 80 % of the total floor area of the existing building which has been demolished. The remaining area is allocated for green space (Ruang Hijau-10%), circulation, vehicle parking and utilities.

SGLC is designed to facilitate the learning activities of students to adapt to the current era, by providing co-working spaces, exhibition halls, while still providing conventional classrooms. In addition to learning activities, SGLC also accommodates administrative rooms, meeting rooms and auditoriums. Development for SGLC is in accordance with the Layout Plan of the existing building and environment of the Faculty of Engineering, which will demolish the existing building's center with four stories into a new building consisting of an academic, administration, exhibition, and learning center facility.

SGLC building can be accessed from all directions for pedestrians, and the existing site is surrounded by a circulation that can be passed by vehicles. The entrance to the SGLC building is designed with pilotis at ground level to enhance its accessibility from all directions to the surrounding environment.

Architectural Style

The architectural style standard for the buildings aims to harmonize a contemporary architectural expression with the Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) building code. The design emphasizes the use of durable and contextually appropriate materials, particularly the application of natural stone such as black andesite or temple stone on the first-floor façade, which reinforces visual solidity and responds to the campus architectural character.

The use of a double-skin façade is adopted as a key architectural identity, reflecting the predominant design language of UGM buildings. This façade strategy represents a tropical architectural approach, functioning as an effective shading device to reduce direct solar radiation, improve thermal comfort, and enhance overall building energy performance.

Building Form Design

The SGLC building was designed in an asymmetrical shape, so it has wealth in its facade. Extends from west to east so as to make the wider side of the building faces at north and south, which could optimize sun radiation shading. The main corridor of the high-rise block provides natural ventilation that is directly contacting the outside. The SGLC building consists of 2 building masses connected by a bridge. The one consists of 11 floors and the other mass consists of 3 floors.

Building Facade

SGLC’s building facade is designed to have a wealth of elements that are elaborated into a unified composition: Horizontal louvre that functions as sun shading, exposure columns that reflect engineering, massive walls on the emergency stairs, blue grids as the color of identity of the engineering faculty, arrangement of window types with vertical or horizontal elements, and large columns at the bottom of buildings with natural stone finishing, as well as vertical louvers emphasized for lower building mass.