Diana Thamrin

Petra Christian University · Department of Interior Design

Surabaya’s vision to become a literacy city, initiated by the mayor, Tri Rishmaharini, led to the opening of 533 regional libraries by 2019. In 2020, Nginden Jangkungan Herbal Library was chosen as the best regional library in Surabaya, with facilities and infrastructure supporting various literacy activities. However, there is much that still can...

In recent years, regional libraries in Surabaya have been encouraged to support Gerakan Literasi Nasional (GLN), a national program to cultivate literacy in Indonesia. One of these libraries is the Herbal Library on Nginden Jangkungan street in Surabaya that provides various active literacy activities through a literacy stage facility. However, thi...

Objective - Creative communities have the potential to increase a city’s social, economic, and touristic values. Despite their evident existence in Surabaya, these communities lack support in terms of public spaces and exhibition facilities with suitable designs that could accommodate their unique activities and communicate their aspirations to the...

The growth of the creative community cannot be quantitatively and qualitatively separated from the growing development of Creative Industry 4.0. Various creative communities produce a variety of creative products that are ready to be sold. Unfortunately, the focus of the community is often only on the product and not on the packaging design. Meanwh...

The profit‐driven tendency of interior design trends and styles today has developed in line with the decrease of social awareness in design. The majority of interior design students also decide to pursue interior design education for its marketable and profitable purposes rather than seeing interior design as a field of opportunity to contribute to...

Traditional pastry making is an authentic skill and source of livelihood for many village vendors in Indonesia. Despite their potentials in improving regional economy and promoting traditional cuisine, village pastry vendors face marketing problems due to their poor product display system, lack of retail space, and uncertainty of available time to...

In this research, cellular light-weight concrete has been developed as a material for a modular design of a multifunction and adaptable park furniture, as it is durable and has excellent resistance to extreme weather. Inspired by Froebel play blocks, the design attempts to accommodate variable activities, increase the value of limited urban parks a...

The development of public parks into green city facilities in Surabaya has triggered the need of outdoor furniture designs that can resist the tropical wet and dry weather conditions while also having a certain mobility to support flexible park arrangement. However, present furniture designs made of concrete material are generally heavy and immovab...

This research aims to discover the local wisdom of ancient cultural products in Indonesia, specifically the ornamental decorations of the Batak Toba traditional house in North Sumatra. Using Panofsky’s iconological approach of analysis, the research investigates the form and meaning contained in the various ornaments attached to house. The data wer...

p>In the early 1900s, Catholic missionaries arrrived on Batak land in North Sumatera, Indonesia and initiated the process of inculturation, which was subsequently marked by the adaptation of Catholic teachings with the Batak traditional culture. The adaptation involved the liturgy, music and others, inculding the architecture and interior design of...

Title: Understanding Interior as a Connector Interior design is a discipline that is very close to the complexities and the needs of human life. However, the intepretation and practice of interior design are often limited to decoration and contents within the physical boundaries of architecture. This paper aims to provide another perspective regard...

The restroom in public facilities is also an element that needs to be studied and applied with universal design approach. Surabaya, as one of the largest cities in Indonesia with many public facilites particularly malls truly needs to consider universal design applications. The purpose of this research is to study, identify problems of the design a...

The signage system as one of the elements of a direction guide in public facilities is also an element that needs to be studied and applied with universal design approach. Surabaya, as one of the largest cities in Indonesia with many public facilites particularly malls truly needs to consider universal design applications. The purpose of this resea...

The entrance and circulation facilities as one of the spatial elements in public facilities are also elements that need to be studied and applied with universal design approach. Surabaya, as one of the largest cities in Indonesia with many public facilites particularly shopping centres truly needs to consider universal design applications. The purp...

The Santa Maria De Fatima Catholic Church building in West Jakarta was originally the residence of a Chinese noble around the 1900s. Although this building is used as a Catholic Church today, Chinese cultural elements are still maintained physically on the building as well as in the customs of the people of the church. The presence of various Chine...

ABSTRAK Kota Probolinggo merupakan salah satu kota administratif penting di Jawa di jaman Kolonial Belanda. Jauh sebelum kekuasaan Belanda, orang Tionghoa membawa tradisi dan agama mereka dan berdiam di bagian Timur kota sepanjang sungai Banger yang dahulu merupakan akses utama distribusi bahan perdagangan. Di jaman VOC, mayoritas orang Tionghoa me...