Kristanti Dewi Paramita

• Lecturer at University of Indonesia

This study explores the process of limestone weathering as the basis of a circular architectural design method. The natural process of limestone weathering enable neutralization of acid rainwater to improve the quality of the environment. By understanding weathering as a beneficial occurrence rather than unfavorable, this paper analyzes application...

This study investigates the embodied sensorial performance in material exhibition design as a way to enhance visitors’ experience about local cultures. Exhibitions and installations designed in museum or gallery context often incorporate a sensorial approach to increase engagement and to cater specific needs of society. This study takes particular...

The other narrative of architecture expands possibilities of architectural design methods that pay attention to other temporalities, realities, and subjects of architecture. The collection of articles in this ARSNET issue provides investigations that revisit how narratives exist as the basis of architectural experience and design methods. Technolog...

This paper explores the idea of context as the basis for developing creative workshops for children in disaster-stricken communities. We argue that creative learning should not be seen merely in terms of artistic expression and abstract thinking. Instead, it should become a platform for celebrating local contexts and cultures through the learning p...

This study examine the idea of after gravity as the basis of an architectural design method. After gravity is defined as the condition of weightlessness and disorientation that creates unrestricted body movement. Gravity determines the direction of architectural spatial orientation and gives weight to subject and object in architectural space, crea...

This study explores how a two-dimensional (2D) painting demonstrate depth qualities, creating layers that potentially become the basis for three-dimensional (3D) space programming. Based on the existing drawing techniques found in the paintings by Bauhaus artists, the study creatively generates two paintings to be developed further to form athre...

This paper investigates vernacular architecture as a model of cohabitation between people and animal. Animals and people have shared living spaces across cultures and generations, demonstrating the intertwine between domestic life, community, and nature. Relations between people and animal in architectural discourse is often polarized, limiting the...

This paper discusses the dynamic value of objects that influence the spatial organization of a home-based workspaces. Spatial organization of workspace at home becomes significant with the emerging work-from-home arrangement during and post COVID-19 pandemic. The physical and psychological needs of working from home require adaptations on the domes...

This study attempts to dismantle the depth aspects produced by two-dimensional (2D) media such as paintings. as the basis for the production of three-dimensional (3D) space. In particular, we argue that painting as artwork with a flat surface can be transformed into 3D space by incorporating depth aspects. Even though it has a flat surface, paintin...

This article interrogates low-tech material and construction as the basis of pedagogical strategies in the architectural design studio, enabling the development of innovative spatial interventions which foster dialogues between humans and their environment. The high-tech, contemporary architectural design movement generates limitless possibilities...

This study deconstruct architecture as images, using collages as a method of constructing space. It argues that architecture based on images perceives space as an overlapping and multi-layered fragment of spatial and material elements. This study is conducted through a case study by analysing six collage images of utopian architectural projects, br...

The subconscious thinking governs the way the built environment is experienced and organised by its inhabitants. The collection of articles in this issue of ARSNET explores how our subconscious thinking provides alternative spatial narrative and design methods. The explorations in this issue highlight the different conditions and realms of the subc...

This paper outlines pedagogical strategies in architectural design studio to construct awareness of local material practices towards architecture which rooted in its environmental context. Current architectural discourse perceives the notion of material as something separate from its environmental context. Through a joint design workshop conducted...

This article examines the experiences of living with smoke in the context of traditional domestic food-smoking enterprises. Smoke is largely discussed in architectural discourse as a pollutant that must be removed from the built environment. This article argues that the investigation of traditional food-smoking practices potentially shifts such dis...

Discussion of a sensory-driven architecture emphasises the need for a deeper and more holistic understanding of space. The collection of articles in this issue of ARSNET presents a variety of methods for engaging with the sensorial experience. These articles explore the process of measuring, interpreting, tracing, and constructing the spatial eleme...

This article investigated montage to understand and arrange cinematic architecture through operations of spatial reconstruction to present a sequence of spatial experiences. Montage is a part of discourses related to cinematic, film, and architecture. This article explored the montage approach as the primary basis in the architectural design proces...

Abstrak_ Artikel ini menginvestigasi mengenai arsitektur yang tidak terkondisi, yakni desain dengan ruang dan elemen arsitektur yang hadir tanpa keteraturan dan tanpa perencanaan sebelumnya. Pelibatan masyarakat menciptakan potensi variasi dalam membangun ruang dan elemen arsitektur yang bersifat non-conformity (ketidaksesuaian), dan dengan demikia...

This paper explores the strategies and spatiality of neighborhood food coproduction during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia. The COVID-19 pandemic has created global food instability, requiring collective strategies to source and transform food for people in need. This paper is particularly interested in the neighborhood-driven...

Exploration of stories in architectural discourse has yet to generate a structured discussion in the methods of its operations as part of a design endeavour. This issue of ARSNET presents a collection of articles that demonstrates a variety of everyday stories emerging from the experience of space and objects, and outlines the methodologies of thei...

The study investigates the rising utilisations of open domestic spaces for living activities during the COVID-19 outbreak. As a living machine, the house is constituted by elements through a particular organisation for the wellbeing of the users, which includes its open spaces. The study points out that the discussion of the role and utilisations o...

Theory and practice are often seen in opposition with one another in some architectural dialogues, despite their significant transformative capabilities. The first issue of ARSNET aims to dissolve such opposing relation by exploring how theory and practice weave and intersect in various architectural design inquiries. The articles in this issue inv...

This paper explores inscription as a projection of the spatial dynamics of a setting, beyond a historical or cultural symbol in a context, and highlights that inscription—a written or carved message on a surface—is an element that immaterially demonstrates a more in-depth narrative of an interior. This paper focuses on exploring inscriptions embedd...

This study investigated the utilization of currently available energy and its implication on the ecological production of architecture materials. The study focused on the sun-drying process used by craftsmen in the traditional brickmaking process, arguing that such a practice demonstrates ways of utilizing current energy that are informed by local...

This paper reflects the shifting understanding of context in a data-based architectural studio. With the school closure in the beginning of the COVID pandemic, the overall learning process is largely conducted online. Big Data becomes an important discourse that provides some benefits and opportunities which transform the design and learning proces...

This paper argues the importance of traditional, local bricks-making production as a convergence of craftsman, material, and environments. The relationship between those three aspects brings meanings to the brick, emphasise on the process of making beyond its property as a physical material. This paper focuses on the forming phase of the brick-maki...

This paper expands the theoretical understanding of building layers proposed by Brand (1995) by investigating changes in the domestic environment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Brand’s layer framework breaks a built environment into “shearing layers” to examine its adaptation processes. This paper argues that ways of managing the risk of virus trans...

This paper employs the perspective of food as the basis of understanding domestic materiality in a vernacular context. Current discourse of domestic materiality tends to perceive understanding of material within a localised and enclosed context. Food demonstrates a potential to expand such arrangement, bridging the connection between domestic and t...

This paper employs the perspective of cooking to investigate the transformative processes of material as part of architecture materiality. Current architecture materiality discourse has not sufficiently addressed these processes and therefore tends to produce a simplified view of architectural material as ready-to-use elements. Organising these pro...

This paper investigates the concept of ‘passage territories’ (Sennett, 2006), de ned as living spaces constructed from one’s passage of movement from one separate space to another, and how it extends the discussion of interiority in contested contexts. Through observations of living spaces and the narrative accounts of dwellers’ in Kampung Pulo and...

This article describes how autistic children experience space dedicated for sensory integration (SI) therapy activities and how the idea of topology enables a thorough reading of their experiences. A topological approach is used to investigate the SI activity space through the narratives of children’s activities. Rather than considered as a collect...

This paper addresses the challenges in developing design ideas of learning environment for primary school children that could promote creativity. In particular it illustrates how the boxes as simple three dimensional objects could be constructed into a system that offers various possibilities of utilization for learning activities. The possible arr...

In this era of connectivity, any forms of information can be easily accessed through the emergence of various media. This phenomenon affects how people access economic activities, public services, and everything becomes interconnected. This connectivity issue requires human to be able to do their activities in such limited time and efficiently. Liv...

This paper argues that the ideas of self, waste and space are interconnected and that they influence each other in a society's everyday life. It addresses the issues of belonging and identity to explain how the connection among self, waste and space could determine waste disposal practice. A study in a low-income urban neighbourhood in Jakarta, Ind...

This paper illustrates a physical improvement programme in a primary school library through a participatory process involving children in designing and renovating the space. The improvement of library space has contributed positively in promoting children's active use of the library space. The involvement of children in the process has also promote...