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ATMA JAYA UNIVERSITY | JAKARTA, INDONESIA
ATMA JAYA UNIVERSITY | JAKARTA, INDONESIA
Atma Jaya University is a Catholic higher educational institution located in the Semanggi district of Jakarta, Indonesia that was outgrowing its space on a constrained urban site due to increasing enrollment and expanding curricula. It sought advice on solutions to address the overcrowding and start planning for a future that included shifting some departments to a new, larger suburban campus while redeveloping and upgrading some of the existing urban site to improve buildings, infrastructure, and open spaces. The goal was a series of new facilities that meet academic/functional requirements, reflect its identity, and work within financial and spatial constraints.
Since the plans would be complex, and expensive, options were explored for selling off a portion of the urban campus (which is in a very valuable location) to private developers, who would then build a new commercial high-rise, a portion of which they would lease back – a form of public-private partnership financing.
At a broad level, the scope of the project included:
Evaluating current/future space needs based on institutional data, benchmarks, and stakeholder surveys.
Developing academic and real estate strategies for both campuses to support projected growth to 20,000 students by 2027.
Ensuring financial viability through programming, feasibility analysis, and exploring alternative revenue streams (e.g., commercial development).
Establishing campus planning principles focused on integration, sustainability, strong identity, and high-quality open spaces.
Preliminary and diagrammatic physical planning to communicate the massing and spatial concepts (how they might be built and phased)
Detailed tasks involved:
Data collection/analysis: Interviews of stakeholders, benchmarking of space allocation standards, and analysis of current/future space utilization.
Survey, feedback, and reporting: Gather and analyze input (using online surveys of faculty, staff, and students) levels of satisfaction, space/equipment needs, and other priorities.
Facilitated workshops and planning charettes with administrators to review feedback and numbers, as well as explore options
Space recommendations: how much of what type of space, where and when.
Academic and physical planning: how to organize and configure the different departments, buildings, support spaces, and open spaces at both sites.
Feasibility and operational planning: Estimating costs and benefits, analyzing funding models, and exploring options for financing alternatives
Campus design: Formulating principles for spatial organization, connectivity, sustainability, identity, and social life of the campuses.
Phasing recommendations: which programs move where and when. Step by step recommendations for both near-term renovations and long-term new builds, with a view towards minimizing disruption and risk, as well as match funding/financing mechanisms.
The resulting study provided:
Quantified projections of significant growth over time. Provided breakdowns of cost, phasing, and required space allocations by function/program needed to accommodate the growth.
Recommendations for prioritizing the new satellite campus over significant construction at the existing campus. This was supported by space needs, building assessments, and the feasibility analysis.
Identifications of underutilized space, and policies to improve sharing to accommodate near-term growth and allow for transition.
High level analysis of operations and new revenue opportunities
Outline of two major building, financing, and phasing options, and analysis of pros/cons.
Development of a a commercial real estate action plan to generate funding, taking advantage of the strong office and retail market conditions in Jakarta’s CBD at the time.
Academic Planning
Determining mission/goals/objectives; sizing the market; establishing types of programs, enrollment size and breakdown, number of faculty; budget.
Programming & Feasibility
Researching benchmarks; translating the academic planning figures into space requirements, noting critical functions and adjacencies; establishing rough cost estimates, assessing revenue sources, testing feasibility.
Land /Building Planning
Analyzing the site; researching regulatory controls, access, constraints on development; testing capacity, designing/configuring the site, creating concept level building configurations; establishing the character of the campus
Role: Brian Jennett was the project manager for the academic space planning/programming effort, as well as the real estate market/financial analysis and development strategy. This work was conducted while he was a Director of AECOM's Economics and Planning Group in Singapore.
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