<em>Vastenburg Fortress is a fortress of Dutch army built within Sala village in 1832. As time goes on, the building stands by as 'silent witness' of every steps of social dynamics in Surakarta. Therefore, the fortress shows important potencies for society development in future. Based of the mapping of those existing potencies, the design potencies is to create a place that able to experimentally connect new significancy between future society development and all historical components within the site. Hence, the new function as urban museum does really fit in this category. To adapt with the new function as urban museum, using infill design as the main design approach is supported by several design methods; earth-sheltered architecture, sequence concept. Infill design is the main approach to integrate the old elements and the new elements within the site. Earth-sheltered architecture is the structural approach of the design that fits the site condition with its historical elements. Sequence concept is the basic concept of integrating the site with other heritage areas around it.</em>
When entering the elderly phase, humans will experience a physical and psychological conditions declined, this causes the elderly to need special and different services compared to normal adults. In order to overcome these problems, also to reach Surakarta as an Elderly Friendly City, a Elderly Care Center is needed as a place that provides various services needed by the elderly. This care center requires a healing environment concept that can create a conducive environment so that it can restore and improve physical and psychological health conditions of the elderly. In order to achieve healing environment, there are some approaches that can be done, such as the sensory approach (sense of sight, sense of touch, sense of hear, and sense of smell), natural approach (healing garden), and psychological approach. The method that used are observational studies to the community, field studies, and literature studies on related theories. The approaches og healing environment concept can be applied in the analysis of planning and design, so that will result the Eldelry Care Center with an environment where the elderly can easily adapt, feel comfortable, safe, and can support the recovery and improvement of the physical and psychological conditions of the elderly.
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