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UNDERSTANDING OF LOCAL KNOWLEDGE IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TOWARD GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE (EXPLORATION STUDIES OF JAVANESE CULTURE)
Full text linkThe concept of sustainable emerged around 1970 which was developed to address the critical issue of energy. It is less recognized that this concept need to be developed and industrialized by the countries due to their dependence on fossil fuels in that time. Then, architecture develop it into a green building concept. The latest development of green architecture becomes imperative in the design architecture for the construction of new buildings. That understanding built in global perspective, how about in local perspective – like in Javanese culture – is it the same context or perspective? Furthermore, it is going to be the focus of this paper.This paper tries to pick sustainable background in the context of Javanese culture as the focus. In Javanese culture, philosophy background can be constructed by performing puppet plays reinterpretation. Lakon Babad Alas Wanamarta can be placed as the cornerstone of sustainable communities’ the philosophy of Java. Theoretical level and indicators for green architecture in the Java community may appoint Primbon.Research method use Hegel dialogue with architecture critic approach. This working paper is still at the level of exploratory studies to answer unresolved and couldn’t replace sustainable and architectural ideas that have been grown in agrarian people today. But it needs to be examined further as sustainable or green architecture can be developed further from an agrarian society civilized
THE EFFECT OF COMMUNITY LIFESTYLE IN DECIDING TO CHOOSE DIPARANU RUCITRA APARTMENT
Full text linkProperty growth of 12% - 20% throughout the year 2012. In Surabaya, the growth the property can reach above 15%. But the lack of residential land in Surabaya, the property developers began to turn to the concept of vertical housing, one of which was an apartment. The development of apartments in Surabaya is inseparable from economic development and people's lifestyles. The public interest in the apartments is very high. The level of the average apartment sales had reached about 80-90 percent. However, the occupancy rate of apartments in Surabaya on average is still below 50 percent. Diparanu Rucitra apartments (DR Apartemen), is the first middle-class apartments that sell an apartment complete with furniture.This research is a quantitative study with a cross-tabulation method. The study aims to explain the relationship between the phenomenon of lifestyle apartments with the decision to choose DR Apartemen. Cross-tabulation method to look for similarities and differences in lifestyle of the owners / tenants who inhabit the owner who does not occupy DR Apartemen.The survey results revealed that there is influence people's lifestyles in the decision to choose either the residential DR Apartemen or as an investment asset. There are some differences and similarities that people's lifestyles in terms of the approach to activities, interests and opinions
GREEN CONCEPT IN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
Full text linkBuildings have a major, wide ranging impact on the environment. The features which a building must have in order to be described as ‘green’ or ‘sustainable’ are now well known. Whereas a wholly sustainable building cannot be attained, there is need for action to minimise the adverse impacts of buildings. This contributes to the attainment of sustainable development. In most countries, some efforts are being made by governments, professional institutions and companies to realise sustainable buildings. However, it is evident that much more needs to be done. The effort to attain sustainable buildings has several drivers, including mandatory legal requirements, incentives, benchmarking and labelling schemes, and action by professional institutions. It is suggested here that focus should be on the responsibility of the individual practitioner to work towards the design or construction of sustainable buildings in the normal course of the practitioner’s work. This responsibility is considered from the perspective of the ethics and professionalism of such a practitioner. The roles of various parties in setting out and strengthening this responsibility are discussed
SUSTAINABILITY CONCEPT OF BALI AGA ARCHITECTURE
Full text linkArchitecture is one of human works that consumed a lot of energy. Present research shows that architecture consumed more than 50% of total energy in the world. That is why awareness of sustainability issues become prominent issues among architects, architecture students and academics. Practically sustainability concept is not some thing new for some countries. Traditional settlements used similar concept to sustainability concept, for example Bali Aga settlement. The settlement showed how the community used the concept as tradition and way of their life.The Bali Aga architecture was developed between 9 to-11 AD and mostly located in the highland or the mountain of Bali. The word “Aga” is used to distinguish the highland settlements from the rest of traditional settlements of Bali which mainly located in the down line of Bali, particularly in the southern Bali. Bali Aga settlements are located mostly in eastern and northern Bali. The village of Tenganan is the prime example of the genre, and for this discourse, the research site was Julah village in Buleleng Regency. This village is located on the northern part of Bali.Referring to Bali Aga’s traditions and customs, the community recognized the relationship between the people and the environment. Bali Aga architecture shows the expression of their tradition that keep the environment sustained. This paper will discuss about tradition of Bali Aga community and how they articulated through their architecture. The aims of this study are to increase the awareness of modern soceity on sustainability issues and learned from tradition of Bali Aga community how to keep environment friendly
THE POSSIBILITY FOR PUBLIC GREEN OPEN SPACE PROVISION IN INFORMAL SETTLEMENT CASE STUDY OF KAMPUNG KEJAWAN LOR, SURABAYA
Full text linkGreen open space has been a worldwide issue. Big cities in the world have a higher concerns regarding open space provision. Researchers have proven that open space will improve the quality of life of people. However, problems of green space provision are also arising related to scarcity of land which is a common problem to cities with high density of population. One solution offered in big cities is converting vacant lot into pocket park. However, this solution could be different for informal settlement. The problems are worsened in this higher density area. The limited space and no proper infrastructure induce big problems such as health and social problems. This paper would like to find out the possibility to create such pocket park in the very limited space of informal settlement. The case study area looked at the informal settlements in coastal area in Surabaya, which is supposed to build the city image as waterfront city. The situation in the settlement has decreased over years and need a revitalization effort. This study used literature review to find solution of problems derived from the field observation. Pocket park could be an alternative solution which includes three successful factors: community participation, local identity, and support from community organization and government
SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN IN A TRADI-TIONAL BALINESE HOUSING IN ACCORDANCE TO THE CONCEPT OF TRI MANDALA
Full text linkGlobal challenges such as natural resource depletions, irregular weather pattern, and pollutions were imminent. The Home Green Design proposed by other countries was not suitable to Bali Island because of the local social context. The Balinese House is regulated with the Tri Mandala and Sanga Mandala to achieve the harmonious relations between Macrocosms (Bhuana Agung) and Microcosms (Bhuana Alit) [or Tri Hita Karana]. The Sanga Mandala guides the spatial pattern both on the house and the settlement scale. The Tenganan traditional Village implemented Tri-Mandala which organized the house into the Utama (upper and sacred), Madya (middle and human), and Nista (lower and profane). The Tri Mandala concept is very adaptable to the environment, even in the middle of the economic-driven activities and fast home development. However, the Tri-Mandala really supported the sustainability in the functionality aspect, the social acceptance aspect as well as thermal comfort aspect. Therefore, the Tri Mandala concept could be implemented in the contemporary house design in Bali
SPATIAL CONTROL TO REDUCE URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT IN URBAN HOUSING
Full text linkAs the world’s issue of global warming, built environment has to be designed to reduce global warming effects such as urban heat island. A large building coverage with small amount of vegetation tends to have urban heat island effect. Some urban housing have typical spatial character that trigger urban heat island effect. Some physical aspects give wide contribution to urban heat island effects, such as space configuration, vegetation and land coverage. The influences of these aspects can be observed by simulating the aspects. As the heritage preservation region, some urban housing such as Kauman Jogjakarta can’t be redesigned by changing its main buildings. Therefore, space configuration changing in a simulation can help to know the influence of space configuration type to thermal comfort of the region. Choosing the right material type to cover the soil will give a good contribution to reduce temperature. The presence of vegetation with various types can reduce heat expose to the areas. Some types of vegetation give a big contribution to reduce temperature. As the material study, choosing the right type of vegetation can reduce temperature and increase microclimate comfort. Areas with high density leafs plants give better contribution to microclimate comfort. High dense leaf plants in existing area were planted with certain pattern. The existing space configuration as perpendicular circulation pattern gives better microclimate condition than random pattern. There are some aspects to reduce the urban heat island effect in urban housing by controlling urban housing space on three main aspect: land coverage, vegetation and space configuration
THE EXISTENCE OF SUSTAINABLE SETTLEMENT IN SURABAYA AS AN ATTEMPT TO REALIZE ECO CITY
Full text linkThe existence of kampungs or township settlements in Surabaya is very essential to the city development seen from the historical aspect of Surabaya which grew from the development of township settlements. Therefore the issue of sustainable develop-ment to create a good living environment can be applied to the settlements sector in Surabaya in order to turn Surabaya into an ecological city, so that the efforts of citi-zens in Surabaya in the eco kampung activities can make a significant contribution in the realization of the ecological city. Kampung Kertajaya Surabaya is one of the township settlements in Surabaya that applies sustainable development with the coo-peration of the residents and City Government
CONDITION OF URBAN PHYSICAL ELEMENT IMPACT ON LAND SURFACE SUBSIDENCE IN PANGLIMA SUDIRMAN CORRIDOR, SURABAYA
Full text linkSurabaya is the second largest city in Indonesia and has been categorized as a metropolitan. The development of Surabaya is quite fast in terms of physical development. That condition can be observed from the number of high rise buildings at the city centre corridors. One of the corridors in Surabaya city centre is Jalan Pang-lima Sudirman. The corridor is a high density mixed-used area, dominated by commercial and service such as office retails and hotels. From the measurement, it was found that land subsidence happened at Jalan Panglima Sudirman which in the future will impact on environmental physical condition at the location. Therefore, observation of certain items mainly related to urban physical element impact on land subsidence was important. The result expected is the visibility of urban physical element impact in land subsidence at the corridor of Jalan Panglima Sudirman Surabaya
SUSTAINABLE RURAL HOUSING AND THE CHALLENGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE: EXPERIENCES FROM ETHIOPIA
Full text linkThere is now overwhelming evidence that global warming is taking place, but the impacts on the built environment are less effectively documented. Similarly, climate instability is an additional factor in increasing movement of rural populations to ur-ban centres. Inadequate living conditions in rural areas are also recognised as key components in encouraging such migration – hence efforts to create improved rural housing which is sustainable, affordable and desirable is a fundamental challenge. The Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development (EiABC) at Addis Ababa University is committed to developing research and practice into ways of planning and designing housing and settlements to make them more responsive to both to climatic instability and the challenging socio-economic circumstances of Ethiopia. This paper reports on an on-going experimental sustainable rural housing project which is working with local communities to improve traditional vernacular housing through a range of innovative technologies and practices. Following detailed research into local construction technologies and lifestyles, full size prototypes were constructed to explore the positive elements of vernacular architecture within the framework of sustainability, and to test both the technologies and response of residents. This project is one of several live construction projects in the university which is also developing proposals for urban communities. These innovative projects are analysed in the context of climate change responses and sustainable development paradigms