columns on the outside slope out- wards. Wide galleries run around at various levels between these outer columns and the seating to which they give access.
It is unusual for a swimming pool for international competition to be quite open to the sky, but that is the case with the pool in this Asian Games complex. The seating for spectators is in two straight raked banks along the sides, and the ends are open. Dressing rooms and other facilities are under the seating. The sports hall is entirely enclosed, with a concrete corrugated roof, but the other pitches and courts in the com- plex are open with banks of raked seating.
On the approach to central Dja- karta from the Games park is the large Hotel Indonesia, and just be- fore this is the refined new building for the German embassy whose clean and simple design uses a good deal of aluminium a material little seen in Indonesia.
The hotel put up by a Japanese hotel company, is an important build- ing to Indonesians. However it is not particularly interesting or striking. except perhaps for its large size. could be an international hotel any- where in the world. The ground floor is open in form and includes both public rooms and shops let to outside
tenants.
Sarinah Store
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Close to the hotel is the Sarinah department store building, which was opened last August and is owned and operated by a Japanese company. It is a very modern store, with its range of goods on four sales floors with escalator connection.
The main part of the building is a square block of standard reinforced concrete construction, rather bulky to look at, but there are a few points of interest. The exterior has been treat- ed in an apparently standard manner, but there are however no windows or glazing whatever above first floor level. The spaces between the struc- ture that would normally be occupied by windows are instead filled with light grey brick, with white tiles in- dicating the positions of the floor slabs.
The ground level approaches to the store have been treated in
an in-
teresting way. There is a roof sup- ported on free-standing columns. which connects with the building behind at first-floor level, so providing a wide platform with steps down to street level. Between the street and the covered approaches is a strip of water, with fountains playing, which help to provide a lively atmosphere.
Opposite the Sarinah building is a block housing government industrial departments, and in this case there are no external windows visible; the facade is covered by a concrete screen with a pattern of small openings. As well as providing protection from the sun this also gives a uniform and neat look to the building. Being continu-
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Sunbreaking louvres on Govt. industrial departments building
Departemen Agama building, with horizontal sunbreakers
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