Bakrie Tower

Jakarta is one of the largest cities in Asia with a rich and varied history. The city extends south from the Java Sea for over seven hundred square kilometres and is home to 31,000,000 people. Located in the Kuningan district of Jakarta, Bakrie Tower is the corporate headquarters of the Bakrie Group of companies – one of Indonesia’s better known family conglomerates.

Completed in 2009, the 214m high tower contains fifty levels of commercial office space. The design brief called for a unique architectural response and urban form that would project a strong identity for the group. The tower sits at the centre of Rasuna Epicentrum – a wider mixed use, integrated, urban masterplan which includes commercial offices, residential communities, and retail facilities.

Through an iterative design process, several ‘conservative’ design studies were assessed against what became the preferred solution. The irregular ‘Z’ shaped floor plan rotates in set-out through the height of the tower generating an undulating building form. The external envelope was originally a hexagonal grid, like the Sanlitun Intercontinental Hotel in Beijing; however, this was reduced through value engineering to the completed diagonal pattern – also able to traverse the complex building form.