ARSNET
ARSNET is a publication platform dedicated to creative exploration in design disciplines, from architecture, interior, and other spatial design discourses. It takes particular interest in the behind-the-scenes processes: the inquiries, experiments, trial and errors, and speculations, be it performed individually or collaboratively as part of professional or pedagogical design practices. The journal also seeks to investigate how such design processes are informed by its social, cultural, and environmental context, particularly (but not limited to) Asian countries. The journal is also interested in understanding how these processes apply in current times of technological advancements, exploring such creative processes in computational design practices and digital environments. Discussion of these creative processes must be theoretically engaged, creating a dialogue between academic discourse and design practice. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that address design exploration, which may include but not limited to creative processes that reinvent or manipulate existing design approaches, creative processes that reflect on the mechanisms of everyday objects or phenomena, or creative processes that question or speculate ideas that trigger design possibilities. Submissions in the form of project and book reviews and academic design project reflections are also welcomed, recognising the potentials of a multidisciplinary outlook and utilisation of mixed media within the design process. Scope of discipline: Architecture, Art and Design, Computational Design
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Coffee story: Unveiling indigenous delicacy through sensorial transaction
Fariz Hirzan;
Yandi Andri Yatmo
ARSNET Vol. 1 No. 2 (2021)
Publisher : Department of Architecture Faculty of Engineering Universitas Indonesia
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DOI: 10.7454/arsnet.v1i2.22
This paper explores the potential of spatial atmosphere as the basis of a coffee stall design, creating an intimate understanding of the possible sensory transactions that occurred throughout the coffee-brewing process. In this reflective piece, a coffee stall design process is presented and dissected to unveil the programmatic basis of the design. A closer look at multi-sensory experiences that include sight, smell, and sound in the process of brewing is considered essential. They hold a significant role in perceiving the surrounding atmosphere and how it impacts our design process. A series of equipment and ingredient tracing is conducted to identify the optimal barista's workflow and the production of a multi-sensory experience, rethinking the purpose of the surrounding objects from two different perspectives. Such a process positioned the atmosphere exploration as a focus in achieving a unique programme where the objects within the coffee-making process generate the space through materiality and immateriality.
Tracing London's urban living room
Anak Agung Ayu Suci Warakanyaka
ARSNET Vol. 1 No. 2 (2021)
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DOI: 10.7454/arsnet.v1i2.24
Responding to the rapid development of indoor public interiors motored by commercial activities, this paper argues that an alternative form that is more inclusive is needed to foster healthier and more socially equitable interactions in the city. It frames urban living room, a micro-scale outdoor interior development that aims to inject domestic experiences into the existing urban environment, as the antithesis of the exclusive indoor public interiors. Utilising tracing as a mode of inquiry to look at two case studies of the urban living room in London, UK, this paper aims to reveal the spatial mechanism that makes this public interior provide the much needed intimate experiences that make the city habitable. The finding of this study suggests that the interior mechanisms used by urban living room provide scalar confrontation and heighten sensual experience that fosters intimate social interactions and inclusivity for all urban dwellers.
Telling stories, performing operations as a design method
Kristanti Dewi Paramita
ARSNET Vol. 1 No. 2 (2021)
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DOI: 10.7454/arsnet.v1i2.26
Exploration of stories in architectural discourse has yet to generate a structured discussion in the methods of its operations as part of a design endeavour. This issue of ARSNET presents a collection of articles that demonstrates a variety of everyday stories emerging from the experience of space and objects, and outlines the methodologies of their corresponding spatial operations. Through the stories of occupying, manoeuvring, navigating, dispersing, and sensing, this issue highlights various methods of spatial operations. With operations ranging from tracing as a way of revealing space, reduction as manoeuvring strategy, connecting the virtual and the real as a way of finding new meaning and use of space, and creating a spatial atmosphere based on trajectories of senses; the issue expands the discussion of stories-driven architectural design methods.
Investigasi strategi desain ruang ramah tunarungu berbasis simulasi multisensori
Ersalina Trisnawati;
Julia Dewi;
Susinety Prakoso
ARSNET Vol. 2 No. 1 (2022)
Publisher : Department of Architecture Faculty of Engineering Universitas Indonesia
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DOI: 10.7454/arsnet.v2i1.38
Penelitian ini menggunakan metode simulasi analisis akustik dan visual untuk mengevaluasi kualitas ruang, serta memahami bagaimana desain ruang tertentu dapat menghadirkan kualitas multisensori yang dapat mendukung penyandang tunarungu. Simulasi analisis akustik menggunakan Ecotect untuk mengukur reverberasi dan pantulan suara. Sementara simulasi analisis visibilitas menggunakan depthmapX untuk mengukur isovist pengguna, integrasi, dan visibilitas ruang. Hasil simulasi menunjukkan bahwa ruang dengan sumber suara dari atas akan lebih baik dalam mendistribusi suara tanpa menimbulkan tingkat reverberasi ruang yang tinggi. Sumber suara berbentuk pocket dan organic enclosure dapat mengurangi tingkat reverberasi dan pantulan suara dalam ruang, meningkatkan privasi ruang sekaligus memberikan lapang pandang yang cukup luas bagi penglihatan kaum tunarungu. Hasil penelitian ini menemukan bahwa ada tiga konsep utama yang mempengaruhi kualitas akustik dan visual bagi kaum tunarungu, yaitu enclosure yang mempengaruhi tingkat privasi dan reverberasi ruang, integrasi yang menentukan visibilitas spasial dan orientasi massa atau bidang, serta material yang mempengaruhi kualitas absorpsi suara dalam ruang. This study addressed the auditorial necessity and visual potential of the deaf using acoustic and visual analysis simulation. Due to the poorly designed room acoustics, the deaf people had difficulties communicating, despite the use of hearing aids or cochlear implants. This condition often causes some distorted sound waves in hearing aids. To compensate for the deficiency in auditory abilities, the deaf people relied on their peripheral vision as a source of information for communication. However, the understanding of parameters of room geometry that are necessary to support both the acoustic and visual qualities of the deaf was limited. Based on the depthmapX and Ecotect simulations, this study discovered that the source of the sound in space should come from the top to minimise the reverberation time. Spaces in the form of pockets and with organic enclosure also minimise the reverberation time and sound reflection, achieving privacy while maintaining the potential peripheral vision of the deaf. The study also revealed that a room with acoustic and visual qualities for the deaf should incorporate three concepts, i.e., an enclosure to achieve a certain level of privacy and sound reverberation; integration of spatial visibility following the room or wall orientations; and consideration of the use of materials to absorb the different frequencies of sound.
Resilience as an investigation of the relationship between architecture and nature
Valerio De Caro
ARSNET Vol. 2 No. 1 (2022)
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DOI: 10.7454/arsnet.v2i1.46
Recent research involving the architectural project seems to have brought attention to natural elements and phenomena, highlighting particular interest in the interpretation of the dynamic processes of the environment and of all its entities, plant and natural that inhabit it. In a logic of resilience, which should lead to limiting the consumption of resources, the action of replacing technological devices with natural mechanisms tested throughout natural history appears to be a losing battle right from the start. Yet man, in the past, has shown that he is able to give interpretations of nature that are not limited to a mechanistic replacement of the natural process, but which are based on the representation and reformulation of organisms in relation to matter and space. Space understood as an architectural essence, which from the relationship with nature gives back meaningful forms and experiences. The analysis of a series of case studies starting from the Lascaux caves up to the contemporary reinterpretations by Anton-Garcia Abril and Terunobu Fujimori demonstrate how nature can be an element of inspiration for innovative research in the field of design without necessarily embarking on a drift technological.
(In)visible architecture: An exploration of food in the domestic space
Fatimah Indonesia Saffana Zayn;
Paramita Atmodiwirjo
ARSNET Vol. 2 No. 1 (2022)
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DOI: 10.7454/arsnet.v2i1.49
This paper investigates the notion of visibility and invisibility in architecture as a framework for exploring the existence of food in the domestic area. The paper argues that there is a disconnection between food, people, and the process behind it in everyday life. Such disconnection demonstrates the alternating visible and invisible existence of food process. Exploring both existences becomes essential to reveal the overall spatial story of food. The paper explores these two aspects through the food journey in the domestic space, creating a micro investigation of how food is obtained, prepared, cooked, and served. This paper aims to examine the possibilities of outlining the complex programming in everyday systems driven by the visibility and invisibility of food in domestic settings. Based on the findings of this study, the paper develops a form of programming titled (In)visible architecture, which constructs the co-existence between visible and invisible. Using exploration of tracing, mapping, and design mechanisms, such programming aims to reveal the complex visibility of everyday systems and, by doing so, broaden the relevance of knowledge of food-based architectural design.
A sensory-material study of everyday strategies and tactics in the kitchen
Rania Saraswati Wijayakusumah;
Rini Suryantini
ARSNET Vol. 2 No. 1 (2022)
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DOI: 10.7454/arsnet.v2i1.50
This article explores the idea of cooking as an everyday spatial practice which occurs in a sensorial and material way within the kitchen. Rather than focusing on the physical arrangement and the efficient workflow, the kitchen exists as a space of strategy and tactics in cooking. Cooking is a practice that involves material transformation driven by sensorial experience, which further shapes the spatial strategies and tactics performed within a kitchen. This study explores a routine noodle-cooking practice, observing the participant’s sensory experience and material transformation to demonstrate the kitchen as an everyday space of strategies and tactics. The kitchen becomes a spatial arrangement that celebrates the intertwining between the transformation of material with sensory experience. Such intertwine governed operations of cooking strategies and tactics, arranging the timing of movements, altering sequence of activities, and manipulation techniques of material. Such operation arguably insinuates the kitchen as an idea constructed by the intertwined layers of sensory and material transformation, contributing to expanding the idea of the kitchen from an everyday perspective.
Starbucks’ expressive space: Reading the visual tectonic of architecture driven by colour system
Resza Riskiyanto;
Gustav Anandhita
ARSNET Vol. 2 No. 1 (2022)
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DOI: 10.7454/arsnet.v2i1.51
This paper argues that colour can be seen as a tectonic instrument to visualise spatial order and generate the surface configuration towards the overall form. Colour plays an important role within a space formation system, more than just a decorative element. Colour demonstrates performance that blurs the surface, presents spatial continuity, or emphasises the presence of space through a well-arranged achromatic-polychromatic colour composition. This paper explores various forms of colour combinations in Starbucks’ interior settings to reveal the performance of colour as part of the functional and expressive space formation system. The study utilises Hue, Saturation, and Lightness (HSL) analysis towards multiple case studies of Starbucks to find out to what extent the formation of a colour system that is specifically made for the identity of a product can be implemented on an architectural scale. The findings introduce another logic of colour systems combination that can be used strategically as a basis for designing architectural spaces.
A sensorial foray into architecture
Kristanti Dewi Paramita
ARSNET Vol. 2 No. 1 (2022)
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DOI: 10.7454/arsnet.v2i1.52
Discussion of a sensory-driven architecture emphasises the need for a deeper and more holistic understanding of space. The collection of articles in this issue of ARSNET presents a variety of methods for engaging with the sensorial experience. These articles explore the process of measuring, interpreting, tracing, and constructing the spatial elements and spatial processes driven by sensorial stimulants, driving different projections of space. From the emergence of architecture that is more responsive to the diverse and subjective body needs in space to architecture that responds towards natural qualities as well as natural processes. Some articles also enable propositions of architectural form and programming with sensory-induced spatialities and temporalities. Through such projections, the issue creates multiple possibilities for sensory-driven design objectives which transcend contexts, practices and users, significantly expanding the sensory architecture discourse.
Folding sebagai strategi desain adaptif untuk lingkungan bertinggal
Raudina Qisthi Pramantha;
Firda Febritha;
Berti Dara Suryani;
Alya Agustina
ARSNET Vol. 2 No. 2 (2022)
Publisher : Department of Architecture Faculty of Engineering Universitas Indonesia
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DOI: 10.7454/arsnet.v2i2.57
Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menginvestigasi dan mendemonstrasikan bagaimana metode lipat (fold) dapat digunakan sebagai strategi desain yang adaptif dan fleksibel untuk kebutuhan perancangan rumah tinggal. Arsitektur adaptif memiliki keterkaitan dengan bentuk ‘kecairan’ arsitektur terhadap kondisi internal dan eksternal terkait manusia dan lingkungannya, serta teknologi yang meliputinya. Baik perencanaan penggunaan ruang maupun struktur yang digunakan, arsitektur adaptif perlu memungkinkan sebuah fleksibilitas serta potensi kemudahan modifikasi. Desain rumah dalam penulisan ini menunjukkan metode perancangan berbasis ide folding sebagai strategi adaptif dan fleksibilitas melalui perkembangan struktur dan layout, serta unit furnitur fleksibel yang dapat dilipat sesuai kebutuhan. Desain rumah yang dapat dilipat, digeser, diperluas, dan dipindahkan menunjukan suatu bentuk lingkungan bertinggal yang dapat bergerak dan bertumbuh bersama dengan penghuninya. Desain rumah berbasis folding dalam penulisan ini memposisikan metode perancangan lipat sebagai sebuah upaya kesatuan proses bertempat tinggal manusia dengan lingkungan sekitarnya. This paper aims to investigate and demonstrate how the idea of folding can be used as an adaptive and flexible design method in residential design. Adaptive architecture demonstrate fluidity of architecture that arrange between the internal and external conditions of the built environments, in relation with humans and their environment, as well as the technology construct such conditions. Current literature on folding in architecture have outlined the application of such method in spatial configuration and structural system to allows flexibility and ease future modification. The folding house model in this paper shows the idea of folding as an adaptive strategy and flexibility through to the development of its spatial layout, structural system, as well as flexible interior units that can be folded as needed. A folding house that can be folded, shifted, expanded and moved shows that the house can move and grow together with its occupants. The house design explored in this study then positions the method of folding as an effort to unite the occupants with its surrounding living environment.