Seeing the Conservation of Old Semarang City Building from a Biophilic Architecture Perspective
Keywords:
conservation, biophilic, Semarang Old City, sustainable, architectureAbstract
The Old Semarang City area is currently undergoing many renovation processes, both physical buildings and street furniture, whose existence supports each other. Conservation and renovation activities carried out on historic buildings and several cultural heritage buildings in Old Semarang City often use the concept of adaptive reuse, where there is a concept of physically adapting the building for reuse with the function of the building adapted to several more significant contexts. Renovation, conservation and revitalization are activities carried out to improve the function and image of buildings and the environment which is the attraction of Old Semarang City. All of these activities must of course also pay attention to sustainability aspects. Based on the 13 points in the Sustainable Development Goals agreed upon by the UN, one of the sustainability aspects to consider is health and welfare. This point is the main basis for this research. By using Biophilic Architecture theory, this research will look at how conservation activities taking place in one of the building objects in Old Semarang City, namely the Marabunta Building, have paid attention to the comfort and welfare of building users. Biophilic Architecture Theory is used because in this theory there are benchmarks that can be used to see to what extent building designs pay attention to the welfare of building users when they are active in the building.
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