Wisma Dharmala Sakti Office Headquarters

A final building in Southeast Asia, the Dharmala Headquarters, in Jakarta, in many ways brings into sharp focus a number of longstanding issues in the work of Paul Rudolph. Perhaps because this building, unlike the others he did in Southeast Asia, was not a speculative building but the headquarters for one of Indonesia’s largest companies (a trading group on the Japanese model), the architect had a somewhat freer hand. The complex contains some of the same elements seen in his other buildings in Southeast Asia, indeed in almost every large Rudolph complex since the 1960s, but the elements are all more elaborated. There is the tower, here even more intricately modeled than in any previous example, the podium containing garage, exhibition space, and bank, and the open courtyard giving access to all parts of the complex. Finalmente, otro edificio en el sudeste asiático son las Oficinas Dharmala en Jakarta, que, de muchas maneras trata, la mayoría de los temas en los que trabajaba Paul Rudolph. Quizás poorque este edificio, a diferencia de otros que él hizo en el Sudeste Asiático, no era un edificio especulátivo sino las oficinas para una gran compañía (un gran empresa japonesa), el arquitecto tuvo más libertad. El complejo contiene algunos de los mimsmos elementos que sus otros proyectos en esta región, de hecho en casi todos los grandes proyectos de Rudolph desde la década de 1960. En este caso, la torre está intrínsicamente mejor modelada, el podium acoge un garaje, un espacio de exposición y el patio abierto que da acceso a todo el complejo. What is different in Jakarta is the setting. Jakarta, unlike Singapore or Hong Kong or any other city in which Rudolph had built, was the capital of a developing country. The Dharmala Building is located along the Jalan Sudriman, an enormous, heavily traveled street that is part boulevard and part expressway and that connects the old core of Jakarta with a ring road around the central district.