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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<![CDATA[Behavioural approach as the basis of traditional market redevelopment strategies ]]>
<![CDATA[Assyifa, Ajeng Regita]]>;
<![CDATA[Asharhani, Imaniar Sofia]]>;
<![CDATA[Kusuma, Adriyan]]>
<![CDATA[ ARSNET Vol. 5 No. 2 (2025) ]]>
Publisher : <![CDATA[Department of Architecture Faculty of Engineering Universitas Indonesia ]]>
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DOI: 10.7454/arsnet.v5i2.169
<![CDATA[This design study focuses on the redevelopment of the Kebayoran Lama traditional market using a behavioural approach. Traditional markets hold an important role in the social, economic, and cultural life of urban communities, functioning not only as centres of trade but also as spaces for interaction that shape the city's character. However, rapid urban development often creates challenges for traditional markets, reducing their competitiveness against modern shopping centres. The study began with direct observation and behavioural mapping activities at the Kebayoran Lama traditional market to understand how traders and visitors interact with the space. Findings show the current layout does not support user needs due to irregular commodity placement, limited circulation, inactive stalls, and trading activities spilling outside the building. This research proposes strategies to restructure the market into a more adaptive, inclusive, and sustainable space. The design sought to reprogram the spatial boundaries to identify a setting for particular behaviour, improve wayfinding to create clearer spatial cognition, and develop sensorial experience to enhance environmental perception. These redevelopment strategies demonstrate an integrated framework of behaviour approach to functionally efficient, cognitively legible, and socially engaging spaces, strengthening the market's role as a vital centre of economic and social activities for the community.]]>
<![CDATA[Architectural impermanence: Tectonic ecology of the Sumbanese traditional house ]]>
<![CDATA[Gunawan, Yenny]]>;
<![CDATA[Umbu, Justin Coupertino]]>;
<![CDATA[Trautten, Marianne]]>
<![CDATA[ ARSNET Vol. 5 No. 2 (2025) ]]>
Publisher : <![CDATA[Department of Architecture Faculty of Engineering Universitas Indonesia ]]>
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DOI: 10.7454/arsnet.v5i2.171
<![CDATA[This research proposes tectonic ecology as the framework for understanding the impermanence of architecture, challenging the views of permanence in architecture and positioning impermanence as an ecological building practice. This study explores the idea of impermanence in vernacular architecture as a living spatial practice, acknowledging the growth, decay, and regeneration taking place in such a context. The research focuses on the Sumbanese traditional house in Weelewo Village, Southwest Sumba, as a case study. The Sumbanese house is constructed with natural materials and utilises joinery without using nails. The study collected data on the local construction practice through fieldwork, which included open-ended interviews, model-making demonstrations, observations, and documentations. The study reveals how local building practice understood the concept of impermanence through three interrelated principles that define the traditional house’s tectonic ecology: layered, disassembly, and regeneration. The findings demonstrate that disassembly is the mechanism of tectonic ecology, enabling the temporal transformation of materials and sustaining buildings' capacity for regeneration. The exploration of tectonic ecology contributes by offering a framework of materiality and building practices that value impermanence. In doing so, such architectural practices emphasise the rhythm of the environment, as rooted within the wider ecosystem.]]>
<![CDATA[Speculating the architecture of nothingness through void operations ]]>
<![CDATA[Imanisahda, Fatiharla]]>;
<![CDATA[Yatmo, Yandi Andri]]>
<![CDATA[ ARSNET Vol. 5 No. 2 (2025) ]]>
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DOI: 10.7454/arsnet.v5i2.172
<![CDATA[This speculative design study aims to construct the idea of nothingness as an active and generative element of architecture. Nothingness, understood as voids, empty, and negative spaces, can be reinterpreted as a productive condition that opens up new spatial possibilities. Such a productive condition demonstrates the interdependence between nothingness and the spatial existence of something. The project explores how nothingness constructs the perceptibility of particular spatial terrain through void as architectural design operations. Through creating dystopian contextual scenarios where all spaces have been used up, the study identifies various void forms present in existing structures, classifying these voids based on spatial categories and formulating the potential these voids have in shaping perception. As a result, it captures spaces that project nothingness and are lacking definition, to be transformed for spaces usable for any purpose, following the user's perception. This study suggests that architecture can originate from nothingness—to create infinite potential of new architectural proposition in the speculative contextual zones of the Neglected, the Ruin, and the Underground. Through exploring void as architectural operations, this study hopes to reflect on the expanded role of nothingness beyond simply being an overlooked, undefined aspects of space. The study concludes that the idea of nothingness may unlock various potentials in the context where space is limited but full of latent potential, such as in post-disaster or in adaptive reuse situations.]]>
<![CDATA[Architecture in flux ]]>
<![CDATA[Paramita, Kristanti Dewi]]>
<![CDATA[ ARSNET Vol. 5 No. 2 (2025) ]]>
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DOI: 10.7454/arsnet.v5i2.175
<![CDATA[Architecture exists in flux, shaped by the rapid social, cultural, and environmental transformation in current society. The articles in this edition of ARSNET explore various contexts and design methodologies that emerge amidst such rapid and often disruptive changes. The study discusses different conditions produced by such changes, from the inevitability of time that leads to deterioration, environmental pressures that create separation from nature, to high rates of urbanisation that led to limitation of living space and changes to users' livelihood. Discussions elaborated in this edition outline how architecture in flux may lead to alternative design approaches. These approaches range from construction practices that celebrate impermanence; design operations that value neglected, incomplete, and hidden areas; architecture that calls for reconnection with nature; to exploration of adaptive and inclusive objects and spatialities for multiplicities of users. In doing so, this edition highlights the changing processes and relationships of the built environment in the state of flux, towards architecture that continuously evolves and celebrates change.]]>
<![CDATA[Transforming meaning: Reinterpretation of Riau architectural identities ]]>
<![CDATA[ ARSNET Vol. 5 No. 1 (2025) ]]>
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DOI: 10.7454/arsnet.v5i1.66
<![CDATA[The study explores the reinterpretation of local architectural identities through understanding Barthes' semiotic system. After decentralisation, Indonesian provinces were encouraged to translate their local culture into their local provincial identity and integrate it within their built environment. The Riau province is largely dominated by Malay culture, imprinting such culture as the basis of Riau architectural identity. In Pekanbaru, as capital of Riau, many contemporary buildings reflect Malay traditional architecture. This paper aims to address the transformation of meaning and identities of Malay architecture in Pekanbaru, utilising Roland Barthes' semiotics approach. Using Soeman HS Library as a case study, the study conducts semiotic explorations of denotative and connotative meanings in the evolution of Malay-influenced architecture in Pekanbaru. The study discusses the culture of the Riau society as the basis of their value system, investigating how it applies to its building elements using Barthes' semiotic analysis. Such a system shapes how the associated meanings of vernacular Malay homes are understood by Riau society and then transformed into contemporary building elements. ]]>
<![CDATA[Constructing the sustainable workplace interior through material practices ]]>
<![CDATA[ ARSNET Vol. 5 No. 1 (2025) ]]>
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DOI: 10.7454/arsnet.v5i1.115
<![CDATA[This study discusses the design development of a sustainable workplace interior, using PITA office—a furniture company in Indonesia—as the context of study. The design aims to create a sustainable office environment that reflects the company's commitment to sustainability, particularly in relation to various interior material practices. This study applies Nirmal Kishnani's six principles of sustainable design within the Asian context to the interior design of the PITA office, encompassing the principles of efficacy, ecology, wellness, embeddedness, advocacy, and integration. A qualitative approach was implemented through observation, documentation, and interviews to analyse the context based on the six sustainable design principles and inform further design propositions. The study explores how such sustainable principles can be translated materially to provide office interior design that is responsible for users and the environment. It identifies the material criteria relevant for designing a sustainable workplace interior, which supports energy efficiency, reduces environmental impact, creates a connection with locality, and provides well-being for its users. Such material practice criteria contribute to the way sustainable interiors can be achieved holistically as part of an environmentally responsible design approach.]]>
<![CDATA[Creating playful urban interiors through community-based traditional games ]]>
<![CDATA[ ARSNET Vol. 5 No. 1 (2025) ]]>
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DOI: 10.7454/arsnet.v5i1.117
<![CDATA[This paper explores the design process of the 'magic circle' as a form of a playful urban interior, inspired by traditional games as a form of ludic or play activity. Traditional games reflect the intersection of culture and social activities, offering elements and rules adaptable to create an inclusive and creative public interior. The research analyses the process and spatialities of traditional games, mapping common play areas, frequently encountered games, and how communities preserve these traditions in an urban context. This paper explores such spatialities in the play-event conducted by the Hong community, an urban community focusing on the preservation of traditional games in Bandung, West Java. The study investigates how traditional games in this event enable the creation of a playful space as a form of urban interior interventions. Based on such reading, the study proposes a playful interior system, consisting of ludic, crafting, and immersive space types. This system expands the design methodologies of the public interior, allowing user participation and flexibility in the playful inhabitation of the urban context.]]>
<![CDATA[Exploring the aesthetic representation of Pinisi as the basis of urban experience ]]>
<![CDATA[ ARSNET Vol. 5 No. 1 (2025) ]]>
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DOI: 10.7454/arsnet.v5i1.144
<![CDATA[This study explores the aesthetic representation of the Pinisi ship as the basis of an attractive urban space. In particular, it focuses on the aesthetic of a pedestrian bridge in the Sudirman Central Business District (SCBD), Jakarta. The study argues that the visual representation of the Pinisi ship as the epitome of indigenous sailing craft in Indonesia provides a cultural experience that attracts pedestrians, creating relations between the aesthetics of urban space and the overall visitor interest. This study aims to identify the elements of the Pinisi ship that are represented through aesthetic principles and analyse the relationship between representation and urban pedestrian experience. This study uses a qualitative method with a case study approach. Data sources were obtained through field observations, interviews, and discussions with stakeholders, such as governments, planners, and developers. The analysis of the pedestrian bridge shows the elements that define its aesthetic representations and spatial experience for the user, contributing to the knowledge regarding the importance of representation and attractiveness in public space.]]>
<![CDATA[Speculating a swarm-based symbiotic architecture in the era of Mothering Nature ]]>
<![CDATA[ ARSNET Vol. 5 No. 1 (2025) ]]>
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DOI: 10.7454/arsnet.v5i1.146
<![CDATA[This experimental design study explores forms of adaptive architecture that reflect the symbiotic connection between humans and nature. Responding to the growing ecological between human and nature, this paper speculates how architecture can be an entity that coexists and co-evolves with nature. Instead of positioning architecture as a static entity, this symbiotic architecture introduces the conceptual figure of Homo botanicus as human species that grows and regenerates nature as its imperative, initiating the era of Mothering Nature. The study starts by investigating the adaptive strategy of plants that grow symbiotically within their natural biomes. The biological growth mechanism of plants across three biomes—tropical, savannah, and coastal wetland—was examined, mapped, and translated into computational scripts. Such scripts serve as the basis of H. botanicus' living world: Verdantia, Aridstepia, and Aqualandis, exhibiting a close intertwine between species and their living system. The design envisions an architecture as a symbiont that regenerates nature together with its natural ecosystem. This study demonstrates the understanding of architecture not as exploitative but co-evolving, growing with nature's innate logic and contributing to its ecological resilience.]]>
<![CDATA[Translating the architectural language of localities ]]>
<![CDATA[ ARSNET Vol. 5 No. 1 (2025) ]]>
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DOI: 10.7454/arsnet.v5i1.149
<![CDATA[Architecture operates and conveys meaning through language, using such means to build spatial experience as well as invite new propositions and reconfiguration of spatialities. The collection of articles in this ARSNET issue explores the various contexts and applications of language in defining architectural localities. Exploring settings such as urban spaces and urban facilities, workplace environment, and even entirely new terrain, the architectural language of localities manifests through cultural and material practices, aesthetic embodiments, and speculative inquiries. Through this issue's investigation of language as creative methods of designing and experiencing space, the idea of localities becomes more dynamic, continuously speculated and reinterpreted across contexts and temporalities.]]>
