UNS — Another national achievement was accomplished by students of Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) Surakarta. On Saturday (28/5/2022), three students of the Diploma Program in Civil Engineering, UNS Vocational School (SV UNS), were announced as the winner of the National Design Competition. The three were Ramadhan Widy Pratama, Hative Dzunur Romadhoni, and Rafli Diky Zakaria. They were participating in a competition entitled ‘The 5th Diploma Civil And Architecture Scientific Competition (Disco)’ organized by the Research Study Group for Diploma Program in Civil and Architectural Engineering (Dipovil) Universitas Diponegoro (Undip), with a house design specifically for narrow land, hot environment, and prone to flooding.

“We designed a housing complex with three superior concepts, smart, innovative, and friendly. Smart in this design refers to the implementation of the skylight and automatic remote-controlled bathroom lights that can minimize electricity usage. We also designed a flood-resistant housing, with biopore and rooftop drainage cells integrated to a harvest rain mechanism, to minimize flood likelihood,” explained Ramadhan Widy as the Team leader, Monday (6/6/2022).

Ramadhan Widy, who also known as Rama, added that this housing model is built using selected materials to make the prospective residents feel very safe and comfortable when staying in the house. Through this building model, the team succeeded in surpassing other contending teams from universities all across Indonesia. “In this competition, our team is tasked to create a housing design based on certain existing problems. We also calculated the construction budget and created an animation model to attract people to the model. After the selection process, five finalists were selected to go on final stage presentation,” he added.

The team did not expect the outcome when announced as the winner of the competition. “On the announcement, we were surprised and thankful, since all of our hard work for preparing for this competition has paid off with glorious achievement. Hopefully, our housing design can inspire people who wish to build their dream house and to further motivate us in our studies as well as all UNS fellow students to keep on trying and not give up. Never let your fear stop you from participating in a competition,” concluded Rama. Humas UNS

Reporter: Bayu Aji Prasetya
Editor: Dwi Hastuti