Pondok Indah Mall
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Pondok Indah Mall is a large shopping complex located in wealthy Pondok Indah
suburb of South Jakarta
, Indonesia
. The Pondok Indah Mall, or referred to by Jakarta
ns by its acronym: "PIM" complex: is actually two large malls, the older 3-storey PIM1 and the newer 5-storey
PIM2, interconnected via a two elevated multi-storey pedestrian walkways (Skywalk North and Skywalk South) which also are tenanted by specialty shops.
In addition, PIM 1 houses two cinema complexes, one connected externally via walkway and an open-air water theme park. PIM 2 is an enclosed affair.
Originally the site was a random mixture of open fields, slums, middle-class dwellings and traditional street-stall kiosks and eateries. It was a hated eyesore which generated vast amounts of litter
, untreated storm water and traffic congestion
. The affluent residents particularly disliked the lack of comfortable shopping facilities and the entrance to their leafy suburb "spoilt" by this unsightly, chaotic mess.
The PIM1 architect was Baltimore
's Development Design Group for local developer PT Metropolitan Kencana. The constructor was Indonesia's largest and most experienced: Adhi Karya using high-quality steel from Indonesia's PT Cakra Tunggal refinery
and cement
from the huge Semen Gresik firm, which had recently been retooled by Germany's famous Heidelberg Cement.
It was rumoured former President Suharto personally took a very keen interest in the architecture as many of his ministers and top-level bureaucrats lived in nearby Pondok Indah
and would not be appreciative of a faddish eyesore
.
PIM1 was one of the first large-scale modern malls to be constructed in Jakarta, designed using American mechanical, lighting, and safety standards. It was essentially a no-costs spared effort: a model of direct-transfer of American technology into Indonesia. The 58-thousand square metre (624,080 ft2) building was tenanted by a department store, a multiplex cinema, a food court and more than 100 retail stores.
, with flooring continually updated until its present condition of polished Indonesian marble
and granite
. The architecture roughly imitated Dutch colonial large-scale warehouses with extensive steel-truss interpretation of Dutch structural timber-work for an innovative illuminating central skylight (double-glazed for minimising heat transfer) and featured three airy floors of shopping with a narrow open-floor gallery (made safe via decorative fencing). The exterior featured aluminium cladding for minimal maintenance in the harsh tropical climate.
It pioneered with disabled access and efficient valet-style drop-off points. Although not immense, the store had excellent layout: all stores faced either a main mall or one of the courtyards and utilised viewing which made it possible to see each of the mall's stores from any location.
The structure was fully resilient
and made extensive use of fire-safety to meet world-class standards, with an internal sewerage
, waste water and water treatment
facility, and ready access to fire-fighting and sprinkler water via an adjoining river- which was rehabilitated and beautified to pre-slum
conditions and remains one of the few canal
s or waterway
s in urban Jakarta to be suitable for catching edible fish
- and served as a model for many other projects in better economic times.
In a period of minimal competition and Indonesia's 1990s heady financial success, PIM1 was a huge financial investment which rapidly returned profit manifold through some of the highest per square metre commercial rental charges in all Jakarta, which only prestige and large-scale domestic and international franchise
chains could afford. Metro Department Store was and remains the anchor (main) tenant. There are other large secondary-tier tenants, including Gramedia and Agis
electronics and the internal cineplex.
It was a runaway success, so popular with expatriates and affluent locals than an internal cinema complex was added, followed by yet another larger one, which had to make use of car parking space, and some restaurants.
In 1994-6 the car parking was enlarged sensitively without destroying the careful surrounding park image.
In late 1996, a luxurious (for Indonesia at that time) air-conditioned mainly steel
(with concrete piers) multi-storey walkway was constructed to allow customers and staff to safely cross the busy Jalan (road) Metro Pondok Indah arterial to reach overflow car parking facility on the vacant lot immediately opposite (now occupied by PIM2). Although very expensive, this was a massive improvement as the infamous and much-decried traffic congestion of the Metro Pondok Indah arterial near instantly vanished, as chauffeur
s no longer had to queue to pick up or drop-off their passengers
PIM2 was first advertised as an ambitious huge amalgamation of residential and hotel
-apartment
tower complex (one tower for each), office space and commercial hub. However due to the 1998 KrisMon (kris= krisis, mon= moniter= monetary), funds were unavailable to proceed.
After a change of ownership, the expansion was finally realized in 2004 with the opening of Mall 2.
A controversial, contemporary design was introduced with no relation to the previous design. The pedestrian bridge was torn down to make way for the two multi-level so-called "Skywalk North" and "Skywalk South" which spanned the newly enlarged Jalan Metropolitan Pondok Indah (from 4 lanes to 6, and new 4-lane underpass) to link the two malls.
The architect was again Development Design Group for the same developer PT Metropolitan Kencana. The constructor was a subsidiary of PT Adhi Karya: Adhi Jaya, again with PT Cakra Tunggal steel and PT Semen Gresik cement
. It is near identical in size, general layout and appearance to the Menlyn Park
in Pretoria
, South Africa
.
The 57100 metre2 (614619 feet2) design comprised (excluding the lowest: carpark) four levels of shopping with Sogo Department Store as anchor tenant.
Upscale designer boutiques were sited on the ground floor (ground level) such as Versace, Aigner
and Hugo Boss
. Food outlets are sited on the uppermost so-called "Restaurant Row" level which incidentally houses a large food court- although some small eateries and cafes exist in the "Skybridges".
The selling space of PIM2 is similar in size to that of PIM1, although the actual building is much larger. Much space is taken up by the large gallery between pedestrian walks and the oval shape of the building.
Four-storey "North Skywalk" and "South Skywalk" house approximately 30 local and international specialty lesser-known and independent boutique tenants per floor, with a staff-only conduit on the lowest storey, which provides direct access to public transport
via TransJakarta
shelters on the "South Skywalk"
A new cinema with four screens and luxurious VIP lounge is found on the fourth floor.
Pondok Indah
Pondok Indah is an upscale residential area in South Jakarta, Indonesia. This is a much sought-after suburb by expatriates due to the proximity to the Jakarta International School. Reportedly the median salary for expatriate residents is US$357,200 annually, plus benefits; however, this is...
suburb of South Jakarta
South Jakarta
South Jakarta is a city within Jakarta Special District, Indonesia. It had a population of 2,057,080 at the 2010 Census, and is the third most populous among the five cities of Jakarta, after East Jakarta and West Jakarta...
, Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
. The Pondok Indah Mall, or referred to by Jakarta
Jakarta
Jakarta is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Officially known as the Special Capital Territory of Jakarta, it is located on the northwest coast of Java, has an area of , and a population of 9,580,000. Jakarta is the country's economic, cultural and political centre...
ns by its acronym: "PIM" complex: is actually two large malls, the older 3-storey PIM1 and the newer 5-storey
Storey
A storey or story is any level part of a building that could be used by people...
PIM2, interconnected via a two elevated multi-storey pedestrian walkways (Skywalk North and Skywalk South) which also are tenanted by specialty shops.
In addition, PIM 1 houses two cinema complexes, one connected externally via walkway and an open-air water theme park. PIM 2 is an enclosed affair.
Pondok Indah Mall 1 or Pondok Indah Mall Phase 1
PIM 1 was completed in 1991 in the affluent suburb of Pondok Indah (Beautiful Village) in leafy Jakarta Selatan (South Jakarta).Originally the site was a random mixture of open fields, slums, middle-class dwellings and traditional street-stall kiosks and eateries. It was a hated eyesore which generated vast amounts of litter
Litter
Litter consists of waste products such as containers, papers, wrappers or faeces which have been disposed of without consent. Litter can also be used as a verb...
, untreated storm water and traffic congestion
Traffic congestion
Traffic congestion is a condition on road networks that occurs as use increases, and is characterized by slower speeds, longer trip times, and increased vehicular queueing. The most common example is the physical use of roads by vehicles. When traffic demand is great enough that the interaction...
. The affluent residents particularly disliked the lack of comfortable shopping facilities and the entrance to their leafy suburb "spoilt" by this unsightly, chaotic mess.
The PIM1 architect was Baltimore
Baltimore
Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...
's Development Design Group for local developer PT Metropolitan Kencana. The constructor was Indonesia's largest and most experienced: Adhi Karya using high-quality steel from Indonesia's PT Cakra Tunggal refinery
Refinery
A refinery is a production facility composed of a group of chemical engineering unit processes and unit operations refining certain materials or converting raw material into products of value.-Types of refineries:Different types of refineries are as follows:...
and cement
Cement
In the most general sense of the word, a cement is a binder, a substance that sets and hardens independently, and can bind other materials together. The word "cement" traces to the Romans, who used the term opus caementicium to describe masonry resembling modern concrete that was made from crushed...
from the huge Semen Gresik firm, which had recently been retooled by Germany's famous Heidelberg Cement.
It was rumoured former President Suharto personally took a very keen interest in the architecture as many of his ministers and top-level bureaucrats lived in nearby Pondok Indah
Pondok Indah
Pondok Indah is an upscale residential area in South Jakarta, Indonesia. This is a much sought-after suburb by expatriates due to the proximity to the Jakarta International School. Reportedly the median salary for expatriate residents is US$357,200 annually, plus benefits; however, this is...
and would not be appreciative of a faddish eyesore
Eyesore
An eyesore is an unpleasant view. Its technical usage is as an alternative perspective to the notion of landmark. Common examples include dilapidated buildings, graffiti, litter, polluted areas and excessive commercial signage such as billboards. Some eyesores may be a matter of opinion such as...
.
PIM1 was one of the first large-scale modern malls to be constructed in Jakarta, designed using American mechanical, lighting, and safety standards. It was essentially a no-costs spared effort: a model of direct-transfer of American technology into Indonesia. The 58-thousand square metre (624,080 ft2) building was tenanted by a department store, a multiplex cinema, a food court and more than 100 retail stores.
Architecture
The architectural style was understated elegant conventional mallShopping mall
A shopping mall, shopping centre, shopping arcade, shopping precinct or simply mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area — a modern, indoor version...
, with flooring continually updated until its present condition of polished Indonesian marble
Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite.Geologists use the term "marble" to refer to metamorphosed limestone; however stonemasons use the term more broadly to encompass unmetamorphosed limestone.Marble is commonly used for...
and granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
. The architecture roughly imitated Dutch colonial large-scale warehouses with extensive steel-truss interpretation of Dutch structural timber-work for an innovative illuminating central skylight (double-glazed for minimising heat transfer) and featured three airy floors of shopping with a narrow open-floor gallery (made safe via decorative fencing). The exterior featured aluminium cladding for minimal maintenance in the harsh tropical climate.
It pioneered with disabled access and efficient valet-style drop-off points. Although not immense, the store had excellent layout: all stores faced either a main mall or one of the courtyards and utilised viewing which made it possible to see each of the mall's stores from any location.
The structure was fully resilient
Earthquake engineering
Earthquake engineering is the scientific field concerned with protecting society, the natural and the man-made environment from earthquakes by limiting the seismic risk to socio-economically acceptable levels...
and made extensive use of fire-safety to meet world-class standards, with an internal sewerage
Sewerage
Sewerage refers to the infrastructure that conveys sewage. It encompasses receiving drains, manholes, pumping stations, storm overflows, screening chambers, etc. of the sanitary sewer...
, waste water and water treatment
Water treatment
Water treatment describes those processes used to make water more acceptable for a desired end-use. These can include use as drinking water, industrial processes, medical and many other uses. The goal of all water treatment process is to remove existing contaminants in the water, or reduce the...
facility, and ready access to fire-fighting and sprinkler water via an adjoining river- which was rehabilitated and beautified to pre-slum
Slum
A slum, as defined by United Nations agency UN-HABITAT, is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing and squalor and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the...
conditions and remains one of the few canal
Canal
Canals are man-made channels for water. There are two types of canal:#Waterways: navigable transportation canals used for carrying ships and boats shipping goods and conveying people, further subdivided into two kinds:...
s or waterway
Waterway
A waterway is any navigable body of water. Waterways can include rivers, lakes, seas, oceans, and canals. In order for a waterway to be navigable, it must meet several criteria:...
s in urban Jakarta to be suitable for catching edible fish
Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...
- and served as a model for many other projects in better economic times.
In a period of minimal competition and Indonesia's 1990s heady financial success, PIM1 was a huge financial investment which rapidly returned profit manifold through some of the highest per square metre commercial rental charges in all Jakarta, which only prestige and large-scale domestic and international franchise
Franchising
Franchising is the practice of using another firm's successful business model. The word 'franchise' is of anglo-French derivation - from franc- meaning free, and is used both as a noun and as a verb....
chains could afford. Metro Department Store was and remains the anchor (main) tenant. There are other large secondary-tier tenants, including Gramedia and Agis
Agis
Agis may refer to:* Agis I , a Spartan king* Agis II , a Spartan king* Agis III , a Spartan king* Agis IV , a Spartan king; Plutarch included a chapter on him in his Parallel Lives...
electronics and the internal cineplex.
It was a runaway success, so popular with expatriates and affluent locals than an internal cinema complex was added, followed by yet another larger one, which had to make use of car parking space, and some restaurants.
In 1994-6 the car parking was enlarged sensitively without destroying the careful surrounding park image.
In late 1996, a luxurious (for Indonesia at that time) air-conditioned mainly steel
Steel
Steel is an alloy that consists mostly of iron and has a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.1% by weight, depending on the grade. Carbon is the most common alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used, such as manganese, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten...
(with concrete piers) multi-storey walkway was constructed to allow customers and staff to safely cross the busy Jalan (road) Metro Pondok Indah arterial to reach overflow car parking facility on the vacant lot immediately opposite (now occupied by PIM2). Although very expensive, this was a massive improvement as the infamous and much-decried traffic congestion of the Metro Pondok Indah arterial near instantly vanished, as chauffeur
Chauffeur
A chauffeur is a person employed to drive a passenger motor vehicle, especially a luxury vehicle such as a large sedan or limousine.Originally such drivers were always personal servants of the vehicle owner, but now in many cases specialist chauffeur service companies, or individual drivers provide...
s no longer had to queue to pick up or drop-off their passengers
Pondok Indah Mall 2
PIM2 was first advertised as an ambitious huge amalgamation of residential and hotel
Hotel
A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. The provision of basic accommodation, in times past, consisting only of a room with a bed, a cupboard, a small table and a washstand has largely been replaced by rooms with modern facilities, including en-suite bathrooms...
-apartment
Apartment
An apartment or flat is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building...
tower complex (one tower for each), office space and commercial hub. However due to the 1998 KrisMon (kris= krisis, mon= moniter= monetary), funds were unavailable to proceed.
After a change of ownership, the expansion was finally realized in 2004 with the opening of Mall 2.
A controversial, contemporary design was introduced with no relation to the previous design. The pedestrian bridge was torn down to make way for the two multi-level so-called "Skywalk North" and "Skywalk South" which spanned the newly enlarged Jalan Metropolitan Pondok Indah (from 4 lanes to 6, and new 4-lane underpass) to link the two malls.
The architect was again Development Design Group for the same developer PT Metropolitan Kencana. The constructor was a subsidiary of PT Adhi Karya: Adhi Jaya, again with PT Cakra Tunggal steel and PT Semen Gresik cement
Cement
In the most general sense of the word, a cement is a binder, a substance that sets and hardens independently, and can bind other materials together. The word "cement" traces to the Romans, who used the term opus caementicium to describe masonry resembling modern concrete that was made from crushed...
. It is near identical in size, general layout and appearance to the Menlyn Park
Menlyn Park
At 118 989m2, Menlyn Park Shopping Centre is Pretoria's largest shopping centre situated at the corner of Lois Avenue and Atterbury Road close to the N1 Highway....
in Pretoria
Pretoria
Pretoria is a city located in the northern part of Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is one of the country's three capital cities, serving as the executive and de facto national capital; the others are Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital.Pretoria is...
, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
.
The 57100 metre2 (614619 feet2) design comprised (excluding the lowest: carpark) four levels of shopping with Sogo Department Store as anchor tenant.
Upscale designer boutiques were sited on the ground floor (ground level) such as Versace, Aigner
Aigner
Aigner may refer to:* Andreas Aigner , Austrian rally driver* Chrystian Piotr Aigner , Polish architect* Ernst Aigner , retired Austrian footballer...
and Hugo Boss
Hugo Boss
Hugo Ferdinand Boss was the founder of clothing company Hugo Boss.-Early life:Boss was born in Metzingen, Germany. After completing his apprenticeship and one year of employment, he founded his own company in Metzingen in 1923.-Support of Nazism:Boss joined the Nazi Party in 1931, two years before...
. Food outlets are sited on the uppermost so-called "Restaurant Row" level which incidentally houses a large food court- although some small eateries and cafes exist in the "Skybridges".
The selling space of PIM2 is similar in size to that of PIM1, although the actual building is much larger. Much space is taken up by the large gallery between pedestrian walks and the oval shape of the building.
Four-storey "North Skywalk" and "South Skywalk" house approximately 30 local and international specialty lesser-known and independent boutique tenants per floor, with a staff-only conduit on the lowest storey, which provides direct access to public transport
Public transport
Public transport is a shared passenger transportation service which is available for use by the general public, as distinct from modes such as taxicab, car pooling or hired buses which are not shared by strangers without private arrangement.Public transport modes include buses, trolleybuses, trams...
via TransJakarta
TransJakarta
TransJakarta is a bus rapid transit system in Jakarta, Indonesia. It was the first BRT system in Southern and Southeast Asia. TransJakarta started on January 15, 2004. As of March 2011, there were 10 corridors in operation, with five more to be built...
shelters on the "South Skywalk"
A new cinema with four screens and luxurious VIP lounge is found on the fourth floor.