The Transformation of Gegerkalong Girang Area, Bandung City: amid Educative and Religious Areas

Abstract

The development of urban area is a changing process of a situational urban area into a new situational urban area in different periods of time. Those situational changes also happen in Gegerkalong Girang area, Bandung City. At the beginning of its development, this area was well known as the educational center that supported educational activities based on the activity of the oldest university and settlement in north Bandung. However, since Pesantren Daarut Tauhid (DT) was built and developed in 1990, this area became phenomenal. The presence of Pesantren DT has changed the physical formation of the environment around the area, which was essentially a place for thousands of IKIP Bandung college students to reside since the 1950s. This research also concerns on how the concepts, behaviors, and values of the area color the morphological architecture in location.Results of the study showed that the approach of economic development and welfare for the people that was initiated by Aa Gym as the founder of Pesantren DT had a significant effect there. This change appears on the functions and facades of the building. The functions and the facades of the buildings, which originally had residential functions, turned into commercial functions. Thus, it affects the shapes of architecture and the environment. There are dualistic functions of the region, namely (1) educational area, and religious area; (2) college students’ lodges and students’ dormitories. These two functions complement each other and strengthen in increasing economic activities. activities of pesantren, trade, and education.