Urban design focuses more on organizing and structuring urban reality rather than the detailed design of the private domain. In this context, urban space legibility and imageability are the very important aspects in urban design. In fact, it is common for the development not to reflect the original characteristics of a region, so that the historical impression of the region fades. This study is aimed to describe the characteristics of “facades legibility” and “area imageability” along Minangkabau street as part of the historical city center of Bukittinggi. By structuring and organizing building facade elements, multi-themes of building facade legibilty and region imageability could be extracted, they are development process image and development product image. Development process image presents the development urban space in colonial, post colonial, dan recent periods. Development product image presents a fundamental character change, from homogeneous-horizontal image to the dominant heterogeneous vertical impression. Horizontality reflects the existence of a communal or collective development. Heterogeneous verticality shows an individual or partial development, that presents conservative, moderate, and radical facade transformations of individual building. Therefore public process approach of designing cities based on the concept of urban heterogeneous self-image become the most important element in urban design management.
This paper explores harmonious exterior spaces with its surrounding through contextual architecture. With case studies of Diponegoro University area in Central Java, Indonesia. Diponegoro University area consists of various functions of building complex, hence the exterior spaces criteria are disparate. However, there are no exterior spaces criteria contextual with Diponegoro University area. To solve the problems, this study suggested the following strategies, starting with precedent studies and analysis to identify exterior spaces criteria. Variables in the precedent study are sampled from several complex functions of buildings, namely : complex area of office function, educational function, multipurpose building function, mosque function. Precedent studies and analysis will generate general and specific exterior spaces criteria harmonious with its surrounding and related to the characteristics of each building. Tropical climate and topographic contours are also concerns in formulating general criteria based on campus location. Specific criteria are inferred according to the building based on its function. The result of this paper can be utilized as guideline to designing harmonious exterior spaces. This paper presents exemplary results showing that exterior spaces criteria divided into general and specific criteria.
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