Ova Candra Dewi

University of Indonesia | UI · Department of Architecture

Around 151 million people (56%) of Indonesia's population currently live in cities. When the in- ner city sees substantially warmer temperatures than neighboring rural areas, a city experiences the urban heat island (UHI) effect. For both day and night time, the inner city within the Jakarta area tends to have a higher land and surface air temperat...

Passive design strategies play a significant part in improving the performance of retrofitting buildings. This especially applies to educational buildings that demand a high quantity of energy, not only due to various types of rooms and occupants but also operational needs of space regarding heating and cooling. Besides, the energy performance of t...

This paper evaluates natural ventilation effectiveness in one fully dependent Air Conditioned-Educational Building in Depok to recommend potential passive cooling approaches toward user thermal comfort. This study involves building surveys to measure the temperature and humidity of three selected classrooms, A, B, and C, with varying configurations...

This study aims to reduce the lighting energy consumption in educational buildings while avoiding an increase in cooling load. The Faculty of Engineering building in Universitas Indonesia, Depok, West Java, Indonesia is used as a case study. Daylight optimization can have an impact on lighting energy, which is the largest energy consumer in educati...

Daylight is one of the essential criteria for decent housing. However, in an urban kampung, access to daylight is limited due to the high-density population in urban Kampung Kota. This study aims to improve the visual and thermal conditions by modifying the aperture of the light pipe based on visual daylight distribution, illuminance level, and the...

Post-occupancy evaluation (POE) is necessary to evaluate the building’s performance in order to formulate future design development after its utilisation. This paper evaluates indoor thermal performance, sound pressure level, and illuminance in a multipurpose auditorium by combining zoning and activity-based POE. The evaluation was done in three ac...

This study investigates strategies for developing visual sensory-based quiet rooms for individuals with autism spectrum disorders to reduce maladaptive behaviours and emotions. Optimizing visual sensory comfort in a quiet room is expected to help a person relieve the maladaptive behaviours and emotions that he/she is experiencing. This laboratory-b...

Educational buildings in Depok City typically have deep classroom plans, which pose a challenge in achieving good uniformity of lighting distribution throughout the room. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the integration of daylight and artificial lighting to achieve lighting uniformity, especially in classrooms of educational buildings in...

This study aims to reduce heat gain and minimise cooling energy through building envelope material as a passive design intervention strategy to achieve thermal comfort. Integrated Learning Building in the Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, is used as a case study due to its air conditioning setting. First, the material characteristic of...

The treatment of wastewater as a resource contributes to achieving a sustainable environment. This research investigates the efficiency of the wastewater management system in one integrated teaching laboratory building in Depok City towards optimization. In this new eight-story teaching and laboratory building, an integrated wastewater system is in...

This study aims to compare energy consumption of clay brick, light brick, Styrofoam-based brick and ecobrick production as wall material. The increase of materials needed on construction development in Indonesia become one of the reasons why sustainable architecture through the renewable material needs to be further considered from the perspective...

This research investigates the level and distribution of natural lighting based on the orientation of the openings in the laboratory room in the educational building at a university in Depok, West Java, Indonesia. The building was built using a green building approach. This building has several functions, two of which are the Basic Chemistry Lab an...

This paper aims to strengthen the sustainability related to the water management system in an educational building, an integrated teaching and laboratory building in Universitas Indonesia. It provides recommendations to improve the water management system in the building in achieving the sustainable aspects of the local context. Water needs continu...

This study investigates the impact of Window-to-Wall Ratio (WWR) and Shading Coefficients (SC) as passive design strategies to optimise daylight in an opaque brick Double-Skin Façade (DSF) of an education building in Depok, Indonesia. A sample education building was simulated with DiaLux software for calculating the daylight distribution due to WWR...

This article identifies how the relationship among objects, the diversity of activities, human senses, and space in traditional markets can influence—by constraining or enabling—users (e.g., traders and customers) via walkways in that space. The design of the market gives opportunities to the users to explore and use the existing space and shows ho...

This paper aims to evaluate the natural and artificial lighting systems for working space at the educational building in Universitas Indonesia. The doctoral working spaces and innovation laboratories are used as the case studies. The evaluation variables include orientation, openings, and lighting placement. The presence of variables can minimize t...

This study aims to determine the significance of the indoor lighting effect on work productivity. The outcome of this research is expected to become a reference in improving the indoor lighting quality for the temporary workspace at home. Space utilisation for work at home increases in line with the practice of Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB...

This study explores the role of lighting in creating photogenic spaces. Photogenic spaces are intentionally created spaces within commercial spaces for inviting and stimulating users to shoot and share photographs on social media. Lighting plays a significant role in a photogenic space by creating specific spatial experiences and visual imagery for...

Demands for building in urban areas have been increasing lately, especially educational buildings as support for the human development index. Unfortunately, only a few educational buildings can support green buildings as pilots and educational materials for their users. One of the initiators in becoming educational materials and examples of green b...

This paper aims to evaluate fire safety systems of educational building laboratories by exploring the passive, active systems, and fire safety management. The evaluation was carried out in the University Integrated Engineering Lab in Depok City based on the applicable standards and regulations in Indonesia. Educational laboratories require a high-l...

This study aims to review the relation between papercrete and recipanel (wall materials from recycled paper) with indicators of material sustainability in environmental aspects. Recycling paper into wall material is one of the ways to overcome the increasing amount of paper waste in Indonesia. Waste recycling is related to the concept of sustainabi...

This study examines the relationship between the green-based school with students’ environmental attitudes and behavior. Sustainable development has become the solution and commitment to save the earth from destruction due to human behavior. Environmental education plays an important role in creating an environmentally literate society. Adiwiyata S...

This book, the Virtual Eco-City Live Project 2021: PLanning the Post Pandemic City is the culmination of what our students had worked on in the virtual IJWS 2021 and is told in two parts. The first one is reflective essays from lecturers and facilitators. The essays can be seen as standalone research relevant to the theme and critical reflection to...

This study aims to see the effect of practicing urban farming in limited space in landed houses, especially during this pandemic. Pandemic forces us to stay at home at all times while continuing to do our daily activities of working and studying. This results in a shifting of time consumption we used to spend time commuting to work for other activi...

This study aims to review the special daylight system applied for housing situated in a densely populated kampung in Jakarta. Rapid urbanization has made housing in city areas even denser, where the high density makes the distance between buildings closer. The high density of area limits the vertical opening; thus, daylight cannot get through. The...

This paper aims to determine the comfortable room condition in terms of room organization, lighting and room temperature. Due to the pandemic, many workers are forced to bring their outside home activities back home. Many of them struggle in finding one suitable and comfortable space as they do not have a dedicated space to do the work from home. A...

This paper intended to investigate the potential use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) as an assessment tool that can evaluate and support optimization of sustainable design quality, especially for low-income housing or “Masyarakat Berpenghasilan Rendah” (MBR) in Indonesia. The consideration of sustainability aspects in the preliminary design...

This paper aims to give an overview of how to use bamboo as an environmentally friendly material, in order to identify its use as a structural element of architecture. The relevance of bamboo use in architectural buildings in tropical areas can be identified by examining the nature of the material. The data collection method used in this paper is d...

This paper proposes the idea of optimizing visual sensory comfort in a quiet room for autistic users. Previous studies had proved that most individuals with autism spectrum disorder have unique sensory sensitivity and may perceive sensory stimulation differently. Maladaptive behavior and emotion are often shown by autistic individuals due to sensor...

Sebagai penerjemah keinginan klien ke dalam bentuk ruang berkegiatan, arsitek berperan sebagai garda depan depan penggerak perilaku hidup hemat energi. Megahed dan Ghoneim (2020) dalam risetnya yang berjudul Antivirus- built Environment: Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Pandemic mengatakan, pandemi membuka kesempatan untuk membentuk ulang ruang-ruang...

Pandemi COVID-19 mengajak kita mengulas kembali kebiasaaan-kebiasaan dalam berlaku pada setiap kegiatan, tak terkecuali saat menjalankan aktivitas kerja di kantor. Lalu bagaimana bangunan hijau (green building) bekerja dalam merespon pandemi? Original source: Majalah Housing Estate #192 - 2020, hal. 52-53

Earthquakes, floods, and landslides are frequent disasters in Indonesia. They can happen anytime. Recently Department of Architecture Faculty of Engineering Universitas Indonesia, together with the Indonesian Red Cross in Bogor Regency and its volunteers squat (SIBAT) had conducted disaster role-playing as a preparedness program for elementary scho...

Library in public and social facilities such as schools, mosques, churches and training centers has never become the main priority service unless it is intended accordingly. The good thing is, the library in such facilities always merges with other social functions such as special classes, gathering room or even dining room which is an addition to...

Thermal conditions in Administration Room, Department of Architecture, Universitas Indonesia were taken as case studies to understand the ideal thermal settings for occupants in the administration office with hot-humid climate. The investigation aims to visualize the indoor environmental quality of the office room in-terms of temperature and humidi...

Indonesia is located in a hot, humid climate, and one of the abundant and indigenous natural resources in Indonesia is bamboo plants. People in everyday life widely use bamboo. However, the community has not been adequately educated about bamboo, especially in terms of (1) processing, (2) preserving, and (3) maintaining bamboo. These three things h...

The facade of the building is the first thing that is visible to potential visitors. In case of restaurants, the facade of the building will give an impression of service, quality, and atmosphere of the restaurant in it so that a restaurant needs something that could represent the concept of the restaurant to be displayed [1]. Restaurants that use...

Histories mark the making of nations and traditions of a country, nevertheless Indonesia. Artifacts displayed in a museum has to follow recommended guidelines for preservation purposes. Unfortunately, the visual comfort of visitors is often neglected. On the one hand, displayed exhibits require minimal exposure from UV light for preservation, and o...

Merdeka Square, where National Monument stand, is the pride of Indonesia citizen. Many festivals or “Pesta Rakyat,” such as nation ceremonies, religious events, and New Year’s Eve have been held there as determined by government regulations. There are 249 events, including festivals, that were held in year 2018 (source: Utilization of National Monu...

There have been many experiments regarding reusing plastic bottles, especially polyethylene (PET) as building materials. Some of them are experimenting with their compressive strength as exterior wall bricks (Mansour, et al., 2015); their energy consumption as roof insulations (Racolta, et al., 2016); their compressive and flexural strength as inte...

Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world, around 87.2% of its population are Muslim. Mosque, as the center of Muslim activities, has important roles for Muslim's physical and social aspects. Therefore, it causes a massive addition of mosque buildings in Indonesia. Mosques are mostly built in spacious areas that increase the possibility...

Physical urban conditions are interrelated with urban individuals in urban’s life. If the urban’s condition is out of tolerance, individuals in urban areas can feel stressed (Rishi and Khuntia, 2012). Facing that, humans need a place to reduce stressful feelings –by doing activities in the cafe as a third place (Oldenburg, 1989). “Experienced Selli...

This paper describes comparison of granite and solid surfaces starting from extraction, production, distribution, installation, and disposal. The excessive consumption of natural resources will cause negative impacts for the nature and therefore the emergence of engineered material (such as solid surface) is expected to reduce this consumption. Nat...

Not every traditional market is equipped with sufficient waste processing utility system. The waste treatment system in Indonesia consists of five stages that include: (1) storage, (2) collection, (3) transfer, (4) transportation and (5) disposal system. Each stage involves a storage container with various capacities and different movement patterns...

Rivers have immense benefits for the environment and community. They become one of the water resources for the community and an option for community recreation area. Rivers also provide habitat and balance the ecosystem for the environment. Currently, the community is neglecting many rivers in that their water becomes polluted and unusable. This is...

his paper describes the effect of material selection for the human movement’s comfortable space on pedestrian walkway. Social interaction between humans and also human interaction with the surrounding environment take place in this pedestrian space. One of the important elements on the pedestrian space is the pavement material. The purpose of this...

Validation model was generated by WINDOW 7.6 software to simulate the temperature changes of laminated glass. This approach is used as a validation model to compare the real time temperature changes observed. The parameter in the test were clear laminated glass and coloured laminated glass with using singleand double-glazed technology to assess the...

This study examines whether green buildings support their users in buying residential property, especially the apartment units. This study aims to determine whether green buildings users practice environmentally friendly aspects of choosing a residential property. This study assumes that green buildings can nurture green users and green users over...

The scarcity of land and the lack of communal sanitation in slum areas are common issues in densely populated country like Indonesia. One of them happens in Kampung Nambo, located in South Tangerang City, Banten Province. Those issues encourage some household to build their houses without an adequate sewage disposal system within a very limited lan...

Kampung Nambo is one of the densest kampung in South Tangerang, Banten Province, Indonesia. This kampung has direct boundary to the state-owned Landfill, the Cipeucang Landfill. Apart of the mountainous waste panoramas and the continuous odours that can be seen and smelled all day from the kampung, this kampung has beautiful landscape scenery and m...

A participatory approach is well-known for its time-consuming and no-instant approach. Tackling environmental pollution directly from its source in an urban area by participatory approach is very critical. Universitas Indonesia’s Community Engagement Program together with the City Without Slum or Kotaku Program in South Tangerang City, Banten Provi...

Universitas Indonesia in cooperation with American Red Cross and Indonesian Red Cross have been assisting green open space revitalisation program in 7 locations in Bogor Regency (2016-2017). The program was held under The Urban Disaster Risk Reduction Greater Jakarta Project; an initiative program from American Red Cross Indonesia. This project was...

Villages in Indonesia usually does not have proper waste management and it is affecting the environmental and social condition in those places. Local governments have been trying to implement many kinds of solid waste management systems and yet many of them does not bear fruit. We argue that the failure of the waste management implementation in Ind...

Nowadays the green open spaces are becoming more difficult to find, especially in urban areas. Malls and other physical buildings tend to dominate public options for recreation. This paper describes the community engagement program in developing community park in Bogor Regency that has been done within July-December 2016, which was initiated by Ame...

Nowadays the green open spaces are becoming more difficult to find, especially in urban areas. Malls and other physical buildings tend to dominate public options for recreation. This paper describes the community engagement program in developing community park in Bogor Regency that has been done within July-December 2016, which was initiated by Ame...

Executive Summary Many planners and decision makers in the area of municipal solid waste, as yet lack thorough understanding of the whole chain of waste management system and its impact on environmental quality and public health. By fact, with their plans and decisions, they have role on engendering the influence on the urban population and the cit...

1 ABSTRACT "Liveable city for everyone means a high environmental quality performance whenever we are breathing." From this interpretation, this paper should focused on two main 'refuses' from our daily life -waste and wastewater – and options for their use as resources. In this sense a scenario for one area in Jakarta's (the capital city of Indone...