Rini Suryantini

• Lecturer at University of Indonesia

This paper discusses important elements of material that construct atmospheric architecture, namely quasi-material and quasi-things. This paper explores the existence of quasi-materials and quasi-things in affecting the human sense and forming the atmosphere of architecture. It is argued that quasi-material and quasi-things are important as both el...

This paper explores the idea of “squeezing” as a way of integrating the space of cooking for commercial practice and other domestic-related activities within a limited setting. Such integration of the traditional fish curing space observed in this study arguably demonstrates squeezing as a spatial strategy, which invites further operations. This pa...

This paper explores the idea of a deep interior during an encounter between a sea tribe and the sea, as an intimate interaction between the body and nature that consists of liquid matter, the earth’s surface, and the sea inhabitants. This paper introduces the idea of intimate engagement with such a liquid environment to reveal its interiorisation....

This article explores the idea of cooking as an everyday spatial practice which occurs in a sensorial and material way within the kitchen. Rather than focusing on the physical arrangement and the efficient workflow, the kitchen exists as a space of strategy and tactics in cooking. Cooking is a practice that involves material transformation driven b...

This paper explores ease of access in the spatial practice of domestic waste separation. Such an ease was observed by investigating how foodstuff is arranged, here and there , as an attempt to bring order. In the process of separating the foodstuff waste, the inhabitant’s body-her position, movement, and technical gestures–interrelates with the foo...

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...

This paper investigates the landscape transformation driven by the traditional brick making practice, arguing that brickmaking is a dialectical interaction between the landscape and the particular operations conducted by craftsmen across landscapes. Yet the discussion of the traditional practice of brickmaking itself has not been significantly valu...

This paper investigates the shift in domestic spatial practice triggered by the flow of food during the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, it argues that the change of food flow due to the need for physical distancing throughout the pandemic resulted in the changing patterns of everyday practice concerning consumption, sourcing, and preparation. Suc...

This paper explores the idea of modularity as one of the important design strategies that potentially creates a circular and more sustainable architecture. Modularity is a common design strategy used to generate form, create spatial efficiency, support mass production and prefabricated design, particularly in modern architecture. However, its contr...

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 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 illustrates a program to plan a green patch of Ciliwung river landscape through a participatory process involving the community in Condet, East Jakarta. It is believed that native knowledge of the river and the riparian, which can only be revealed by the locals, becomes significant to understanding the dynamics of the place and to genera...

This paper discusses the importance of understanding the ecology as part of architectural education. Rather than focusing on the heat phenomenon as frequently researched, this paper explores the opposite ideas by identifying the concept of cool pocket and designing it as a mean for heat mitigation in a tropical built environment. Recent researches...

To achieve a certain level of comfort, the main concern regarding thermal comfort in Indonesia is not about heating up the space, but rather cooling it down. In domestic environment, an active cooling activity involves energy consumption and it varies amongst households. This paper is to examine a desired level of comfort and the energy consumption...

As an archipelago state with sea area around 70% of its territory, defining an island in Indonesia can't restricted by the land area of the island itself. According to Alamsyah island should be defined as the unity of the land area of the island, surrounding sea, ancillary structures below the land, including another land across the surrounding sea...

This paper questioned underground transit space and its future role in the city, especially Jakarta with its upcoming underground transit scheme. The common notion of transit space as non-space due to its utilitarian and lack of identity environment seems to overshadow the space, creating certain negative perceptions and insecurities especially in...