CONNECTING PEOPLE
with living, work, society, and nature to find our happiness
What is housing?
Housing is a building or part of a building where a household can live all year round and which meets certain statutory requirements, including also residential address.
What is the difference between house and home?
House is a permanent stucture, a building for human habitation. It refers to a place which someone lives, and it is still a house even if there is no one living inside.
Home is a place where one lives permanently as a member of a family or household, aplace where we feel we belong. It represents comfort and safety. We feel an emotional attachment to home.
what we need from a home? home = comfort
- profide refuge and security
- a place that allow us to express our true selves
- our most secure place, both for mentally and physically - protect our most vulnerable state
Creativity, potential, acceptance
Confidence, achievement
Sense of belonging, intimacy, family, friendship
Health, stability, feeling safe
Home used to be a place for us to come home and rest to be away from the stressful city life outside. Eventhough we spend 80% of our times indoor, but because of the pandemic, people spend 90% of their time inside their home.
Now We do everything inside our home, making us sometimes feels exhausted because of no certain work hours and no exact schedule. There appears to be a blurred line between work and family in the house.
Because of this, we tend to get confused of what the identity of our home is. Is it still a place to rest or is it a place to work? The identity of home is now lost.
home after pandemic
home before pandemic
Because humans have an emotional attachment to home, when the home itself lost it’s identity, people can feel lost too. This feeling can also be felt as alienated.
4 types of alienation
So what does people need now? They need their home to be a place for them to be theirselves again.
What if home becomes a place to RECONNECT to find happiness?
10 types of household with different occupations
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There are many types of people found during the pandemic, those who are introvert, extrovert, need more privacy, need company, and many others. Like our emotions, designing for happiness will mean different things to different people. Home can be a render of who we really are and what we need.
That’s why, for different occupations, the need of rooms and spaces will differ, just like how they spend each day differently in each household. But all of them needs to be reconnected to their spaces of happiness.
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with other people may have interaction with some people have interaction with other people
human spatial needs are different before and after the pandemic and is now based on their occupations
By considering each house within its private requirements, we can refrain from building universal housing and instead respond to the specific habits and rituals of its users. It is intended to define and redefine prosaic affairs into distinct and unique settings, which means the houses also anticipate changes. Being able to respond to unexpected circumstances means preparing to rereading their usages. While spaces in home demonstrate architecture’s capacity to guide our lives, at the same time it also show ways which activities shape and reshape architectural configuration.
user spatial needs
HOUSING FOR MILLENIALS
Generation Z and Milenials are dominating Indonesia’s population chart. And most of the millenials and late Gen Z are now working. Many of them haven’t even got married or have kids. So the housing could be for working people and no kids.
1 adult young couple elderly
3 types of household with different occupations
The
PLACE TO WORK / IDEATE
a home for milennials and gen z who seeks balance of work from home and office as they focuses more on work-life balance more than other generations
[noun] hybrid housing
a permeable block of housing with multiple interconnected spatial programs for both planned and unplanned core activities of human being that are living, working playing, and also nature.
[noun] green space
an area of grass, trees, or other vegetation set apart for recreational or aesthetic purposes in an otherwise urban environment.
[noun] blue space
all the areas dominated by surface waterbodies or watercourses visible water in a city.
[noun & verb] work activity involving physical or mental effort directed towards production or achievement of a purpose and result. a task to be undertaken to operate properly and effectively
[noun & adj] living the basic and universal needs condition of an individual or a group for human survival. To supply oneself with the means of subsistence and to continue their life.
[noun & verb] play
to occupy oneself with involvement in activity for enjoyment, recreation, and amusement like games, hobby, special activities, or passive activities that gives pleasure to oneself.
(++) have green areas for each house, and also encourage socializing
a house need to have a balance between a refugee and a view of nature.
(+) have green areas for each house, but doesn’t encourage socializing
(--) there are not enough green space for the houses
Connection between the activities of the combination of each character and human professions, the factor of happiness in life, and the comfortability factor of a home are integrated to lead happiness for each household.
site location : Bandung
first axis : access from the main road Jl Asia Afrika
second axis : path from Alun-Alun, one of Bandung’s landmark and provides accessibility to public transportation
third axis : access from river on the east side, coincide with the sunpath direction so that it allows openings
programming
the three main axes are connected as is facilitate accessibility
the height of the three massings are modified to respond to the buildings surrounding them, and creates better view
the massing is made slanted to support the connectivity between residents, so that the dwelling focuses on the middle area
responding the site’s contour that is slanted to the river area, in the center of the site is made sunk for transition between road and the river
massing
the three massings are connected not only at the ground level, but there are also elevated ground floor and sky bridges and also openings on each tower to respond with surrounding building heights
11 : rooftop
C5 : 2 bedrooms
emergency stairs
elevator shaft
uses vertical wood fins as a barrier from visual exposure from other towers and also to bring back the nature (mini gardens) to each unit
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starting from user’s diverse activity creating different sizes
green space integrated in each home 2
user activies translated into variety massing blocks 3
green space connects the complex, creating their own park 4
communal space also as medium for residents to socialize 5
openings between units that allows natural sunlight and air to circulate for the user’s comfortability 6
