ENDORSING FRIENDLY CITY SPACE AT NIGHT Case Study: Pekojan Street Semarang

Widjaja, Robert Rianto and Widiantoro, Bayu ENDORSING FRIENDLY CITY SPACE AT NIGHT Case Study: Pekojan Street Semarang. UHSID #5. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Performance of functional facilities like retail and shop in general usually designed for bright day activities, from morning to afternoon. At night, many retail and shops turn to a contrast situation, they became a dead facilities and some are very frightening because of no activities could be found. Pekojan Street in Semarang is one of the very relevant example to represent this condition. Pekojan street is located near the old city residence of Semarang (china town street extension), and it looks like chinese colonial style with two or three stories building as tipology. The function of these row complex building is for bussines, and untill now Pekojan street has became the most crowded bussiness area in Semarang during the bright day, but at night it became a silent path, dark and frightening. The contrast condition between day and night has raise a notion that the main problem is about the lack of general lighting along that street, or lack of building own lighting. But after long times runs, the condition is still the same. So it bring forth new allegations that there are some other reasons that cause the pekojan street uncomfort at night. Some possible reasons are: the building don’t have good design preparation facing the night activity, and the community are not interest to have night activity in Pekojan. People there are living for economics purpose, and it is only during the sun shining. This research led to the creation of design models (facade) retail and interesting shops, so that played a role in creating visual beauty and security for city dwellers. The method would be taken are: the theory of space in the scope of human scale and city scale, psycological perception and visual communication. This research also take both of the qualitative and quantitative approaches. Data would be taken accurately during the life of Pekojan Street from May until August 2015. The benefits of this research is to contribute the arrangement of the city with the development of urban lifestyle that increasingly require space to move the evenings and develop the more humane city. Reflecting the major cities in the more developed countries, this kind of thing has been done. Several major cities in Indonesia, should also prepare for the development of this direction by taking awareness of the existing local potential. This efford needs participation of all stakeholders. The products produced in this study were: the proposed draft model of the visual arrangement of retail and shopping in anticipation of the dark night, so have a friendly and attractive appearance. Keywords: facade, retail / shopping, attractive and participation

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	700 Arts and Recreation > 720 Architecture > City Planning
Divisions:	Faculty of Architecture and Design > Department of Visual Communication Design
Depositing User:	Mr. Bayu Widiantoro, S.T., M.Sn
Date Deposited:	28 Feb 2018 05:29
Last Modified:	28 Feb 2018 05:29
URI:	http://repository.unika.ac.id/id/eprint/15686

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