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Journal of Architecture & Environment
ISSN : 1412937X     EISSN : 2355262X     DOI : -
Core Subject : Social, Engineering,
Journal of Architecture & Environment (E-ISSN: 2335-262X) is a bi-yearly publication of the Department of Architecture, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS). It aims to communicate, disseminate and exchange information from studies in architecture and its interactions with environment.
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WOMEN’S AFFECTIVE EXPERIENCES IN EVERYDAY USE OF URBAN PUBLIC OPEN SPACES IN YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA Odilia Renaningtyas Manifesty
Journal of Architecture & Environment Vol. 25 No. 2 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.12962/j2355-262X.v25i2.10528

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Public Open Spaces (POS) shape urban experience; however, their evaluation has largely focused on physical qualities and safety, leaving experiential and affective aspects underexplored. This study examines how multiple perceptual dimensions of POS relate to women’s positive affective experiences in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, moving beyond a predominantly risk-oriented perspective. A quantitative cross-sectional survey was conducted with 131 women across four urban POS representing contrasting contexts: a formal civic square, a neighborhood-scale park, a multifunctional recreational space, and a campus-attached park. The survey measured five perceptual dimensions of POS, which are: safety, comfort, accessibility, freedom, and surveillance, as potential predictors of affective experience. Affective experience was measured separately through respondents’ reported feelings of relaxation, ease, enjoyment, and mood enhancement. Composite indicators were created after conducting reliability analysis, followed by the analysis of inter-variable relations via Spearman correlation and OLS regression models. The analysis showed that positive effects are positively and significantly correlated with perceptions of freedom, access, and comfort while weakly related to safety and surveillance dimensions of POS. Although safety-related aspects contribute to the establishment of favorable baseline conditions for a positive experience, they have not been proven to predict affect when considering other variables. Moreover, women’s perceptions of freedom, accessibility, and ease of use were shown to be stronger predictors of positive affective experience than safety and surveillance. Thus, the perception of POS by women does not rely on mitigating risks as much as on the ability to use it comfortably and freely.
RETRACING CULTURE OF RAINWATER HARVESTING IN PONTIANAK RIVER CITY Tatyana Kusumo; Rifandi Septiawan Nugroho
Journal of Architecture & Environment Vol. 25 No. 2 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.12962/j2355-262X.v25i2.10530

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This paper investigates the origins and ongoing practices of rainwater conservation in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, asking how residential environments have adapted to the city’s distinctive climatic and hydrological conditions through culturally embedded water practices. Situated on the equator within a tropical wetland environment, Pontianak is shaped by abundant rainfall, rivers, and peatlands. Its urban and domestic landscapes have developed through encounters and exchanges among Chinese, Dayak, Malay, and colonial communities, each leaving distinct traces in how water is inhabited, managed, and incorporated into everyday space. The paper examines how cultural practices and historical encounters have shaped residential rainwater harvesting systems in Pontianak, particularly how Chinese, Dayak, Malay, and colonial influences are reflected in the collection, storage, and everyday use of rainwater. Rather than viewing rainwater harvesting solely as a technical response to water availability, the study considers it as a culturally embedded spatial practice that has evolved within domestic environments. The findings suggest that Pontianak’s relationship with water is embedded in a layered cultural landscape, where Chinese, Dayak, Malay, and colonial spatial practices intersect and remain visible in contemporary residential environments. Understanding these cultural traces provides an alternative way to read Pontianak’s urban form. It offers insights for more context-sensitive approaches to housing, water management, and urban planning in tropical wetland cities.
THE SHIFTING ROLE OF ARCHITECTS AS CURATORS IN THE AI ERA: MILLENNIAL ARCHITECTS IN YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA Yanuarius Benny Kristiawan; L.M.F. Purwanto; Riandy Tarigan
Journal of Architecture & Environment Vol. 25 No. 2 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.12962/j2355-262X.v25i2.10531

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Artificial intelligence (AI) entered architectural practice faster than architects anticipated, leaving a practical question: What does an architect do when a machine produces dozens of design options in minutes? This study examines that question through curatorial agency, a framework that positions the architect as one who selects, contextualizes, and takes responsibility for options, rather than as the sole originator of form. The framework set the moment of judgment as the unit of analysis, supplied initial coding categories, and defined the cross-case criterion: where curatorial authority sits once machines generate alternatives. Five Generation Y architects, members of the Indonesian Institute of Architects, Yogyakarta chapter (IAI DIY), and design competition winners, served as informants. Data from semi-structured interviews, portfolios, social media, and news coverage were analyzed through thematic coding and cross-case comparison. Informants developed five curatorial competencies at once: technological literacy with critical judgment, contextual translation and cultural sensitivity, selective appropriation of tools, repetitive refinement under human supervision, and ethical reasoning grounded in human values. Their work forms three practice models (traditional technology-enhanced, AI-assisted exploration, and critical reflective digital), and in each, the architect retains design authority. Cultural mediation emerged as a distinguishing feature of the Yogyakarta cases, proposed as a candidate sixth competency, absent from the literature dominated by developed-country contexts, and in need of further testing. The study contributes evidence from a developing-country setting on the architect's shift toward a curatorial role, with implications for professional certification and competency frameworks. Its findings are analytically generalizable to comparable contexts, not representative of Indonesian architectural practice.
EMERGENCY EVACUATION ANALYSIS OF PASAR PRAWIROTAMAN, YOGYAKARTA USING PATHFINDER SIMULATION Nauval Ghullam Alikhlas; Noor Cholis Idham; Zahra Zakiyah
Journal of Architecture & Environment Vol. 25 No. 2 (2026)
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Multi-story public markets pose distinctive challenges for emergency evacuation owing to their fluctuating crowd densities, diverse users, and complex vertical layouts. This study evaluates whether the evacuation performance of Pasar Prawirotaman, a revitalized public market in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, satisfies life-safety requirements under different occupancy conditions. The market spans six levels from a basement to an open rooftop and relies on four corner staircases for emergency egress, because its elevator and escalators must be shut down during a fire; its predominantly older trader population also moves and reacts more slowly than a general retail population. Pathfinder agent-based simulation modelled occupant movement at three occupancy levels, low, normal, and peak, and the Required Safe Egress Time (RSET) was compared against a conservative literature-based Available Safe Egress Time (ASET) benchmark of 300 seconds. Movement-based egress times were 152, 232, and 272 seconds. The safety factor fell from 1.97 at low occupancy, which meets the target of 1.5, to 1.29 at normal and 1.10 at peak occupancy, both of which fail it; the building therefore does not satisfy the ASET > RSET criterion with an adequate margin under ordinary and crowded conditions. Occupants converged on a single staircase and a single exit instead of spreading across the four available stairs, and individual congestion rose almost fourfold as the crowd grew. Adding a staircase adjacent to the primary exit reduced RSET by seven to eleven percent, whereas the same stair placed away from any exit produced no improvement. Egress performance is therefore governed by the position of vertical access rather than by the number of stairs.
INWARD-ORIENTED URBAN HOUSING: TYPOLOGIES OF PRIVACY AND CLIMATE ADAPTATION IN CONTEMPORARY INDONESIAN CITIES Reinaldi Primanizar; Aliyya Dwita Zahra; Esra Revalina Simanjuntak; Salamah Qaulam Fadilah; Tyara Tabina Al-Sufi
Journal of Architecture & Environment Vol. 25 No. 2 (2026)
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Urban residential architecture in Indonesia has increasingly shifted toward inward-oriented spatial configurations, characterized by enclosed façades, controlled openings, and internalized domestic environments. This study investigates how inwardness is articulated in contemporary architect-designed urban houses and how it responds to the combined pressures of urban density, cultural expectations of privacy, and tropical climatic conditions. Adopting a qualitative multiple-case study approach, six houses were selected from an initial survey of 88 projects and analyzed through spatial mapping, comparative analysis, and semi-structured interviews with architects. The study identifies three typological strategies of inwardness: courtyard-centered inwardness, layered-threshold inwardness, and façade-filtered inwardness. These typologies show how spatial organization, façade articulation, and threshold sequencing regulate visibility, environmental performance, and domestic autonomy. The findings reconceptualize inward-oriented housing not as a residual traditional form, but as a contemporary architectural response to dense urban conditions in tropical contexts. By linking spatial configuration with socio-cultural and environmental factors, the study contributes a typological framework for understanding inwardness as an adaptive strategy in Indonesian urban housing.
Evaluasi Penerimaan Termal Adaptif pada Bangunan Tradisional Tepi Sungai: Desain Tropis Pasif di Istana Gunung Sahilan Intan Agustina Pratiwi; Yohannes Firzal; Indra Kuswoyo
Journal of Architecture & Environment Vol. 25 No. 2 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.12962/j2355-262X.v25i2.11242

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Traditional Malay buildings in riverine settings reflect long-term adaptation to hot-humid tropical conditions. However, the relationship between their architectural and spatial characteristics and measured thermal conditions remains insufficiently examined, particularly in traditional palaces. This study evaluates the adaptive thermal acceptability of measured conditions at Istana Gunung Sahilan, Riau, Indonesia, in relation to its passive tropical design characteristics. A single-building case study combined architectural analysis with quantitative field measurements. Architectural observation, photographic documentation, and three-dimensional modelling identified features related to solar and rainfall protection, natural ventilation, and transitional and raised-floor spaces. Air temperature, relative humidity, and air velocity were measured sequentially at 23 points across two floors during four observation periods on a single cloudy day. Point 1, located outdoors in an unobstructed area, served as the outdoor reference. The 22 indoor points were assessed using the ASHRAE Standard 55 adaptive framework, with instantaneous outdoor air temperature used as an approximate model input. Operative temperatures increased from 24.7–28.0°C at 11:00 to 28.9–30.5°C at 15:00. All indoor points met the 80% acceptability range throughout the survey. Within the narrower 90% range, acceptable points decreased from 100% at 11:00 and 13:00 to 90.9% at 14:00 and 50% at 15:00. Locations with measurable airflow were generally more likely to remain within the narrower range during warmer periods, although airflow was unevenly distributed. The findings indicate an association between spatial configuration, air movement, and model-based adaptive thermal acceptability, highlighting the relevance of opening distribution and connections between interior and transitional spaces. As measurements covered only one cloudy day and no occupant surveys were conducted, the results represent a preliminary assessment of measured conditions rather than actual occupant comfort or performance across different weather conditions.
HOUSING THE NATION IN A DECENTRALIZED ERA: INSTITUTIONAL LESSONS FROM INDONESIA Muhammad Al Farisy; Rizaldi Miftahul Firdausi; Amadea Martha Wijaya
Journal of Architecture & Environment Vol. 25 No. 2 (2026)
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Decentralization in Indonesia has expanded local government responsibilities in housing provision, raising questions about institutional capacity and the sustainability of physical outcomes. This study examines the relationship between institutional governance and architectural outcomes through three cases, namely the Kampung Improvement Programme (KIP) in Jakarta, Kota Tanpa Kumuh (KOTAKU) in Pekanbaru, and Rumah Tidak Layak Huni (RTLH) rehabilitation in Ternate. Using a qualitative multiple-case approach, the study analyzes documentary evidence through five institutional capacities, including regulatory, administrative, technical, financial, and coordinative capacities, supplemented by stakeholder participation as a sixth governance component. Physical and spatial outcomes are assessed through four indicators comprising physical implementation, housing adequacy, infrastructure and spatial quality, and sustainability. Findings indicate that regulatory arrangements exist across the programs, although implementation compliance remains unverified. Administrative findings reveal weaknesses in documentation, data integration, and beneficiary verification. KIP demonstrates neighborhood infrastructure improvements alongside maintenance and drainage integration challenges. KOTAKU reports settlement infrastructure improvements, although technical performance and long-term maintenance remain insufficiently verified. RTLH documents visible dwelling-level improvements without sufficient evidence of structural safety, technical compliance, or durability. The study contributes an evidence-based framework distinguishing physical delivery, technical and spatial adequacy, and long-term stewardship across different intervention scales. The findings emphasize that institutional arrangements and completed works do not necessarily demonstrate satisfactory architectural quality or sustainable physical performance.