"Seiring dengan bertambah mahalnya tanah di Jakarta dan bertambahnya permintaan lahan untuk berbisnis di Jakarta, maka pertumbuhan bangunan bertingkat tinggi pun ikut bertambah. Beragam peruntukan dimulai dari komersial, hotel, mal hingga hunian ada di sini. Bertambahnya berbagai kebutuhan penunjang termasuk sarana area parkir bisnis di Jakarta mengakibatkan bertambahnya area parkir yang dibangun di dalam bangunan pusat bisnis. Sebagai salah satu karya arsitektural yang mengakomodasi seluruh kegiatan manusia dan prasarananya di dalamnya, hal paling utama yang harus dipertimbangkan dalam desain area parkir adalah keamanan mengingat tingkat probabilitas kecelakaan menyangkut kendaraan cukup tinggi. Oleh sebab itu dibuat peraturan oleh pihak yang berwajib untuk menjamin keselamatan seluruh aspek kehidupan di dalamnya. Namun berapa banyak bangunan parkir di Jakarta yang mengikuti standar peraturan?
Mengingat kecelakaan tragis yang telah terjadi seperti kasus ITC Permata Hijau, Menara Jamsostek, Kantor Walikota Jakarta Selatan dan Ratu Plaza tampak bahwa ada aspek desain area parkir yang tak jarang dihiraukan di sini. Dalam kasus ini adalah kekuatan dinding parapet dan sistem ventilasi bangunan. Jika hal yang penting seperti ini diabaikan, bagaimana dengan aspek ? aspek penunjang keselamatan dan keamanan lainnya?
Dalam setiap aspek keselamatan dan keamanan, ada standar yang perlu dipenuhi. Standar ? standar itu menentukan apakah desain bangunan parkir di Jakarta, yang diwakili oleh gedung parkir menara Jamsostek, gedung parkir Mal Artha Gading dan gedung parkir WTC Mangga Dua, layak dimanfaatkan atau tidak.
In accordance with the great growth of land price, the demand for using land in Jakarta for business increased as well. That?s why the amount of high rise building in Jakarta also increased as well, especially on the business centre in Jakarta. Different uses established in this town as much as commercial use, housing use, shopping use and hotel use. This requires supporting facilities installed to maintain the business on the buildings, including parking facility. As one of many architectural building which accommodate every of human being?s needs in parking section, it is important to provide safety and security that every human need. In order to do so, there are rules made by the government that necessary for the designer, the property owner and to the builder of the parking facilities to obey. But as for today, how many building in Jakarta follow the rules?The tragic accidents that happened in ITC Permata Hijau, Jamsostek Tower and Ratu Plaza shows that there are certain safety and security considerations in parking facility design were ignored by them who responsible. Those considerations in those accidents are parapet strength design and lack of proper ventilation system. Seeing this, people will ask: If those important considerations were ignored, what about the other safety and security considerations?In fact, there are other considerations that the designer didn?t think thoroughly. In every safety and security considerations, there are standards people have to obey. Those standards decide whether the parking facility in Jakarta, represented by Jamsostek Tower, Artha Gading Mall and WTC Mangga Dua, is suitable or not to be built for human being?s sake."
