HEALTHY-PARTMENT
Shaista Azhar Azizah
Architectural Design Studio 4 Student Competition, Diponegoro University
Status: Top 5
Completed on June 9th, 2022.
This project which took site in Tangerang, Banten, started with the concern about the lack of attention to the quality of mental and physical health of the apartment occupants. It drove to the goal of creating an apartment that pays attention to the health of residents, with the strategy focusing on 4 aspects; movement, ventilation, visuals, and interaction.
Hereby, I came up with the concept of healthy living for the apartment. The concept of healthy living is implemented by taking into account the habits of urban communities, including in Tangerang as a satellite city of Jakarta, which pays little attention to their physical and mental health and fitness. Many people spend time on the road, so they tend to be in a hurry in their activities. This affects a healthy lifestyle that rarely exercises and eats fast food. Therefore, the goals for this project is to create apartment that pay attention to the health of residents, both physically and mentally.
Free circulation occurs on an empty site without regulation, however, if several points are placed, humans will tend to go to that point. Hence, the regulation of circulation is done by placing the mass of the building with gaps for circulation. The placing of inner courtyard as a communal area, the center of social interaction. So that the circulation will lead to the inner courtyard, to be able to access the building.
Thus, I came up with the solution by creating an inner courtyard that functions as a communal outdoor area for residents of the apartment in order to be able to interact and do physical movement with each other. The inner courtyard is divided into 3 areas, adults' and elderly areas in the form of sitting areas, children's areas in the form of playgrounds, and youth areas in the form of a swimming pool. In addition, there is also a walking track area on the edge of the land, and an amphitheater as an attractive communal area that gives a different spatial experience. The division of the space is then based on a 5x6 m grid adjusted to the needs of space and access to the basement floor, and the inner courtyard area of 3,900 m2 which is able to accommodate 26 people at the same time.
