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UNIVERSITAS INDONESIA
CHILDREN IN HIGH RISE RESIDENTIAL PROJECT
UNDERGRADUATE THESIS
TAUFIK HIDAYAT
0906551092
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
DEPOK
JULY 2013
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UNIVERSITAS INDONESIA
CHILDREN IN HIGH RISE RESIDENTIAL PROJECT
UNDERGRADUATE THESIS
Proposed as one of the requirements to achieve
Bachelors Degree of Architecture
TAUFIK HIDAYAT
0906551092
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
DEPOK
JULY 2013
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PREFACE
Thanks to our merciful God, without all the bless that I had received I would not
be able to finish writing this thesis. I am writing this thesis is to fulfill the
requirement to achieve my Architecture degree in the Faculty of Engineering
Universitas Indonesia. I do realize without the help of all my colleagues, from the
moment I start my study, until writing this thesis, I would not be able to finish the
thesis on my own. So, I would like to may my gratitude to:
1. Ir. Toga H Panjaitan A.A.Grad.Dipl., As my thesis advisor who alreadyhelped me a lot during my thesis, I would like to say I may come a little
bit slow, but at the end you still trust me that I can finish the job I need to
do.
2. Dr. Ir. Hendrajaya M.Sc as my academic advisor, I would like to say, youSir, had helped me knowing what is architecture is all about, and make me
believe that I can do anything that I want, as long I put my will into it.
3. Diane Valerie Wildsmith, AIA, RIBA and Dr. Kemas Ridwan Kurniawan,ST., M.Sc. as my board examiners, as because of them I could finish this
thesis.
4. To my mom, dad and my sister, because of their support, I can go throughall the challenges during my study and writing this thesis.
5. Dondis Family for all the helped that you gave me, let me stay in yourhome doing my thesis work, and all the support, I would not be able to
finish my thesis.
6.
Dondi, without your help at the end of my thesis, probably I need topostpone my graduate study and take the thesis again next semester, you
had helped me a lot!
7. Wahyu, I would like to say thanks for all the helped that you gave to me,all the suggestion critics, and not to forget, for all the time that I have to
stay at your place and ask for your help, thanks yu!
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8. Yudit, Thanks for all the help that you gave to me, we had manychallenges during all these years of study, but at the end we can go
through all of these!
9. Iyo, I know that although at the first year, I do really hate you because all fthose pranks, but at the end you came up as a really good friend to me, you
had helped me a lot during my study, and thanks to all the motivation that
you gave it to me, so I can see something in the brightest side.
Lastly, I would like to say my gratitude to my merciful God, to repay all of this
kindness to all the people that had helped me, and for people that I have not
mentioned. I hope my thesis would become a benefit in the development in
science and technology.
Depok, 6 July 2013
(Taufik Hidayat)
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ABSTRACT
Name : Taufik Hidayat
Study Program : 0906551092
Title : Children in High-Rise Residential Project
Living in a high-rise building, it is a quite recent phenomenon for human. It isdesigned to face the problem of space that human because of the exploding
number of world population, and the limited build-able area. High-rise residentialwas designed to be efficient in the term of space. Low rise residential require
larger amount of space, but in high-rise concept, you stack each house vertically,so it simply it will save a lot of space, and open area, either for public use and
greenery will be much larger.
This thesis explains the factor of unnatural and the consequence of living in the
high-rise The focus of this thesis is to a specific subject, which is young kids,
based on the observation of kids, by doing comparison between the theory from
the journal, book or research that had been done already, and see whether the
theory and the facts are correct and applicable to the current situation. By doing
the cross reference between the fact and the theories, we will be able to grasp the
idea of the theory, whether it is true, or the theory is not always applicable in
every situation.
Keywords:
Changes, growing up, high-rise, kid, unnatural.
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CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE ........................................................................................................... iPAGE OF AUTHORSHIP ...................................................................................... ii
PAGE OF ATTESTATION ................................................................................... iiiPREFACE .............................................................................................................. iv
CONSENT STATEMENT OF UNDERGRADUTE THESIS PUBLICATION
FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES ............................................................................. vi
ABSTRACT .......................................................................................................... vii
CONTENTS ......................................................................................................... viii
LIST OF FIGURES ................................................................................................. x
LIST OF ATTACHMENTS .................................................................................. xi
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION......................................................................... 11.1 Background ....................................................................................................... 1
1.2 Objectives .......................................................................................................... 31.3 Use of Study ...................................................................................................... 3
1.4 Study ................................................................................................................. 3
1.5 Writing Systematic ............................................................................................ 4
1.6 Thesis Hypothesis ............................................................................................. 5
CHAPTER 2 CHILDREN IN HIGH-DENSITY AREA................................... 6
2.1 High-Density Populated Area ........................................................................... 62.2 High-Rise Residential Project ........................................................................... 7
2.2.1 Description of Types of Residential Zones ............................................. 8
2.2.1.1 Detached and Semi-Detached Housing ...................................... 82.2.1.2 Low-Rise Residential Area ......................................................... 9
2.2.1.3 Mid-Rise Residential Area ......................................................... 9
2.2.1.4 High-Rise Residential Area ...................................................... 10
2.3 Principles of Child Friendly Housing ............................................................. 102.3.1 Guidelines in Multi-Family Housing .................................................... 12
2.3.1.1 Open Space ............................................................................... 132.3.1.2 Enhance A Sense of Community .............................................. 14
2.3.1.3 Opportunities for Surveillance .................................................. 152.3.1.3 Outdoor Play Areas .................................................................. 16
2.4 Children in High-Rise Residential Project ...................................................... 17CHAPTER 3 CASE STUDY: MARGONDA RESIDENCE APARTMENT20
3.1 Research Methods in Case Study .................................................................... 20
3.2 Types of Residential for the Case Study ......................................................... 20
3.3 Subject Case Study .......................................................................................... 203.4 Case Study: Margonda Residence, Beji, Depok ............................................. 20
3.4.1 Description of The Occupants ............................................................... 203.4.2 Brief Space analysis .............................................................................. 21
3.4.3 Results of the Interview and Questionnaire .......................................... 243.4.3.1 Interview ................................................................................... 24
3.4.3.1 Questionnaire ............................................................................ 24
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CHAPTER 4 CONCLUSION............................................................................ 26
BIBLIOGRAPHY............................................................................................... 28
ATTACHMENTS............................................................................................... 29
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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1.1 Population of Indonesia in 2010 ............................................................ 1Figure 2.1 High density populated area .................................................................. 6Figure 2.2 House robbery ........................................................................................ 7
Figure 2.3 Theft ....................................................................................................... 7Figure 2.4 Semi detached housing .......................................................................... 8
Figure 2.5 Detached housing ................................................................................... 8
Figure 2.6 Mid-rise housing .................................................................................... 9
Figure 2.7 High-rise housing ................................................................................. 10
Figure 2.8 Socialize with other people .................................................................. 11
Figure 2.9 Exploring nature .................................................................................. 11
Figure 2.10 Play and learn .................................................................................... 12
Figure 2.11 Space for them to play is very limited ............................................... 18Figure 3.1 Front corridor ....................................................................................... 21
Figure 3.2 Gazebo ................................................................................................. 22
Figure 3.3 Small hidden playground ..................................................................... 22
Figure 3.4 Margonda residence I swimming pool ................................................ 23
Figure 3.5 Margonda residence II swimming pool ............................................... 23
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LIST OF ATTACHMENTS
Attachment 1 Online Questionnaire: http://taufkh.co.nr ...................................... 29
Attachment 2 Questionnaire Results ..................................................................... 34
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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
Figure 1.1 Population of Indonesia in 2010
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The number of the population in Indonesia is getting higher each year, based on
data from the BPS (Badan Pusat Statistik), the number of population in Jakarta in
year 2000 is 8.347.083, and compare to the more recent data from the year 2010,
the number has increased quite a large number, 9.607.787 a total of more than 1
million people, roughly 15,1% increase in ten years. In the figure one, it is shown
a data of density population in Indonesia in year 2010, the lightest the color on
the figure, showing the less population density, the highest density area shown in
the figure, has more than 40.000.000 people, and mostly around DKI Jakarta
(9.607.787) and West Java (42.993.267)
All those numbers are something that is not permanent, the number of the
population will be still continue to grow. All of those people need a place to live,
with the growth of the population; they do need a lot of space for them to live on.
The problem is, with the constant growth, but the amount of buildable area is not
getting any bigger, means that expanding their home horizontally will be very
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difficult, so one of the solution is by expanding it vertically, to make the buildable
area more efficient. The example is like if one single unit of a house requires 150
m2, what will happen if there are 40 million people want to build their houses,
imagine the amount of area that is needed to cover all of those houses.
The condition of an environment where the number of people lives in the same
place, but in a very large number, it will create a different experience with the one
with very little number of people. The density of a population gives a different
effect to its different situation; a higher density of an area can lead to higher
possibilities for crimes itself to happen (McGuire, 2005). The logic is actually
quite simple, the larger number of people, the bigger number of people you haveto worry about, because there will always be the chance for people to do a crime,
we just do not know when they are going to do it and what are they after.
Living in a highly densely populated area, sometimes it is not a first pick for
people to live in, and the children are the one must follow their parents as the
place for their home. Because they do not pick their homes, they have to face any
environments their parent picks, whether it is a good place or not. On the other
hand, there are many factors for parent in picking their place to live, economy,
social factor, future value of its property, and most importantly their kids, because
there is no parents that want their kids grow up in a bad environment, all of them
want the best for their kids, they want to have the environment which can support
to achieve the best output for their kids, and sometimes not all the people are able
to get the best place to live in, but in the end they have to make the best out of it,
because it is the place where they kids can grow up in.
This thesis wants to explore the unnatural phenomenon for early young age child
living in a high-density area. Discussing the effect that environment gave to the
children development, behavior, and lastly to find out whether living in a high-
density area, specifically in a high rise is proper or fit for kids.
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1.2 Objectives
There are a few objectives in this thesis:
1. To prove the fact that growing up for early young age children in a high-density population area, especially in a high rise residential is not ideal.
2. To see how far the unsuitable growing up for kids in the high-densityarea, concerning the matter of social aspect and their needs relating to
space.
1.3 Use of Study
Through this undergraduate thesis, I want to explore the abnormalities for
children growing up in the high-density area, and specifically discussing the
children who reside in the high-rise residential.
In this writing, I also want to see how far the role of the environment of a high-
density population may affect to childrens behavior toward space relating matter.
At the end of this thesis, the results will show whether living in high-density
population, especially in high-rise is proper for early young age to grow up in.
1.4 Study
In the writing of this thesis, the author uses multiple methods of assessments:
First, I need to do a literature study on the subject of residential, and childrens
development, and other supporting theory through printed and electronic media.
This literature study is used to help formulate the theoretical foundation that can
help to analyze the case study in this thesis.
After that, I do a field observation directly to the case that I have already picked,
and also supported by the results of the interview and the questionnaire from the
source that related to the study, which are the residence of the selected for the case
study, and also accompanied with visual imagery and plan to help the explanation
in the case study of this thesis.
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Lastly, I do the analysis based on the results of the interview and the
questionnaire, and the observation based on the supporting theory, so I can take a
conclusion that can represent the whole discussion of this thesis.
1.5 Writing Systematic
In formulating this thesis, the author use the following systematic writing:
1. IntroductionIn this chapter explained the background topic of this thesis, the
purpose of writing this thesis, methods that the author use fro writing
this thesis, and the sequence and the systematics of this thesis.2. Children in density
This chapter explains on briefly on residential, describing types of
residential, function, and other related subject, that involve space. The
first part of the chapter works as an introduction for the case study
theory, as a supporting for the understanding the environment. For
further explanation, the writing will be focused on younger age
children development process, how the high density area affects the
behavior and any space related problem, so by the end of this writing,
we can see whether it is proper for kids to grow up in a high-density
area, specifically in a high rise residential building.
3. Case StudyIn this chapter filled with the case study that had been taken with the
analysis, based on the supporting theory that had been explained
previously.
4. ConclusionIn this chapter filled with the final conclusion based on the entire
chapter that had been discussed previously.
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1.6 Thesis Hypothesis
Framework Issue:
1. To prove the fact that growing up forearly young age children in a high-density population area, especially in
a high rise residential is not ideal.
2. To see how far the unsuitablegrowing up for kids in the high-
density area, concerning the matter of
social aspect and their needs relating
to space.
Relevance of Study:
Exploring the abnormalities of
children growing up in a high-density area, specifically the
children who reside in the mid to
high-rise residential building.
Analysis
Based on the supporting theory
Conclusion
Research Methods
Theoretical Study:
1. Discussion on the matter ofresidential, types, function, space, and
other relating supporting theory.
2. Basic understanding on the principledesign of multi-housing.
Those two supporting theory, will besummarized into a conclusion, and will be
used in the case study.
Case Study
1. Margonda Residence, Beji,Depok.
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CHILDREN IN HIGH-DENSITY AREA
2.1 High-Density Populated Area
The rate number of people that is born on every second is 4.17 babies per second.
Every minute there are 14 babies, 840 babies in one hour, and 20160 babies in just
one day. Looking all those numbers is terrifying, but it is the reality that is
happening right now, in the figure 2.1, it is just a fraction from the example of
how the condition can be in a high growth population can be. The simplest
analogy to recreate to current situation, imagine a room which is something that is
fixed, and not expandable, lets say the room size is 4 x 4 meter, it means in total
it become 16 meter square. The most minimum size of a personal space is 1
square meter, so, logically the maximum number of people inside of that room is
16 people, and that will be really uncomfortable, and relating to the current
situation, where sometimes there is no actual limitation on how many numbers of
people can stay in one place. The 16 numbers of people inside the imaginary can
be more than 16, to make the condition worse, not all the people have the same
size of a personal space, 1 meter square is just the size of its body, the personal
space can be larger than that, so simply the condition of that room will be
horrible, crowded uncomfortable space.
The density of an area can be one of the factors that can determine a good or not
an environment. High density populated area can be both a good and bad thing at
the same time. High-populated area can be the signal of a place where people
Figure 2.1 High density populated areahttp://www.topnews.in/files/Dhak_Population.jpg
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think that the place got higher opportunities to get a job (Booth, 1976), although
in reality it is not always works the same way. If we take example of Jakarta,
people think because it is the capital city, there will be a big opportunities of work
in the city, but in reality, it is not. With the amount of people fighting for jobs, it
can cause an emotional stress, and can cause a criminal motive for people that do
not have a job. (Simmel, 1950). The competition in search for job in high-density
area, can lead into a lot of social negative effects, in a form of bad sportsmanship
of people doing their job. Because finding a job in the first hand is already hard,
and it makes people making money much harder.
Making money has keep getting hard in the big city, with all the competition,
makes some people do anything they could possibly do to get more money,
whether it is a legal way by working hard for it, or doing it illegally by taking
from someone else (figure 2.2 and 2.3). These criminal activities that become one
of the factors that make people afraid of living in a highly populated area, or we
can say Big City.
2.2 High-Rise Residential Project
Living in a high rise residential, it is quite a recent phenomenon. Looking back to
the history, people start to build their house on the ground, see everything on the
ground level, but now? You can even live at 50 meters off the ground, and what
you see is the bird eye level, which in the old days is something that is not
common to see from their house.
Figure 4.2 House robbery
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Figure 3.3 Theft
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Living off the ground is not something that was already natural for all the people
nowadays, High-rise residence evoke at least six fears. (Gifford, 2007). The
first fear is, the fear of the residents itself, whether your lode ones, family, or your
neighbor might do a suicide, and for some people it will create a nightmare and
uncomfortable place to live.
2.2.1 Description of Types of Residential Zones
There are 3 types of category of building according the function of the building,
residential building, commercial building, and public property building.
Residential building consist of place like, single housing unit (detached or semi
detached), apartment, condominium, and villa. Commercial building is a building
that is intended to generate a profit; the example is like a hotel, resort, office
buildings, malls, retail store, and many more. The last one is the public property
building; it is a property, which is owned by the government, like City Park, city
library, and museum.
2.2.1.1 Detached and Semi-Detached Housing
The main different from the semi detached housing (figure 2.4) and detached
housing (figure 2.5) is from how the house is connected with another house,
detach housing, is a single stand alone, which has no direct contact with another
house, but the semi detached one, it is connected with another house by a sharing
wall, it will look like as if it is a one big mass of a building, but actually consist of
two houses.
Figure 6.4 Semi detached housing
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Figure 5.5 Detached housing
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2.2.1.2 Low-Rise Residential Area
Low-rise residential building is pretty much like in the figure 2.4. And 2.5. The
key element of which can described what kind of residential is the height of the
building. Low-rise residential building consists of 1 3 floors.
2.2.1.3 Mid-Rise Residential Area
A mid-rise building is moderately has large number of stories, usually from 4 to
12 levels, and equipped with an elevator. Usually this type of building was
intended to be a solution to solve the problem of high-populated area. This
building can hold more people rather than the low rise residential. Usually people
that interested in this kind of residential are the one has a lot of activity outside of
the house, and need a compact and practical living environment. Because of the
high activity of it residence, they tend to have less interaction with theirneighbour, and this May become one of the bad influence for growing up there.
Figure 7.6 Mid-rise housing
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2.2.1.4 High-Rise Residential Area
A high-rise building is a building, which has height in between of 35 and 100
meter, squares, so in a way that a building which have the stories from 12 to 40
levels. Higher than 40 stories, will be called a skyscraper building.
2.3 Principles of Child Friendly Housing
To understand how the principles of friendly housing for children, the first thing
to do is to understand the basic things that children needs in their house. On this
case the term of children means that a young human being below the age of full of
physical development.
The first important thing that is to be considered on the environment of kids
play, safety is the top priority on this case. It has to be protected from any
physical hazard, for example like the traffic, the kids are not supposed to be able
to get to the outside of the place, so they will be safe from all the vehicle that
roaming around the street.
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The second important thing to be considered is the location of the house. Children
need places in the communal environment that are undeniably their territories
where they can expect to find other children. By meeting other children it taught
them how to socialize with other people.
The third part is to let the children explore the environment by themselves. They
can actually learn more by exploring things they want to know by themselves. In
figure 2.9 showing a girl sniffing a sunflower, she looks very interested to learn
about flower, and the best way to learn about flower is by directly see it on your
hand. These kind of knowledge actually you can get it from the book, but the
sensation and the experience that you get from directly interacting with the subject
can not be replaced, the book cannot give you all of those things.
Figure 9.8 Socialize with other people
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Figure 10.9 Exploring nature
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Early young age children need to move a lot, not only good for their health, they
can improve a lot of motoric skill by playing all around. It would be very bad very
awful for children if their parents would not let their kid spend more time
outdoors, not only it will affect their health, but it will also be a bad influence for
their social skill, because they will be having less social time, meeting with
friends, so in a way less time to train their social skill.
Parents should allow their kids spend their time more outside without a constantsupervision. The idea of constant supervise on children will put more pressure on
them, putting the pressure that their parents are watching every of their move. The
possible that might occur after all of those supervision, might showed on how
closed the relation with the parent, or how dependent the kids with the parent.
2.3.1 Guidelines in Multi-Family Housing
Design guidelines simply means a structural process of designing, the guidelinesworks as a rule and precaution, so, the project end result will not came far from
the projected result. In designing housing there are a few guidelines to be
followed in order to achieve the maximum result.
Figure 11.10 Play and learn
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2.3.1.1 Open Space
Casual interactionCasual interaction is something that is needed to be focus, because by
encouraging people to do more the human interaction, it will enhance their social
skill.
Access to useable open space for recreation and social activitiesEasy access is one of the most important factors, because by making it easy to be
accessed, people will be hard going to that place. By a lot of people coming there
the possibility of them can interact will be higher too, because they will meet new
people in a lot of time.
Convenience locationConvenience location is quite similar with the distance factor, the better the
location of the place, the higher chance of people going there.
Good distanceDistance is always become one of the factors for people when they want to go to a
certain place. Closer distance means that it took shorter time to reach the place, so
s/he can spend more time on that place rather than on spending the time during the
walk there.
Sheltered from noise and trafficTraffic and open space is something that is quite dangerous if it is put together,
open space should be a place that is safe, something that is like a traffic should be
not close to the open space, so parents will not get paranoid about what their
children.
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VegetationVegetation is one of the factors of environment that can enhance the quality.
Because by putting more vegetation, not only for aesthetic use, but also can filter
the air around that area, so you can breathe healthier air.
Breeze and sunHaving an open space means that it is an actual open space that let a lot of wind
can come in. The idea of letting the natural wind, not only to reduce the
temperature from the heat of the sun, but in a way it can reduce the electricity
usage by using less fan to cool the temperature down.
Clear boundariesClear boundaries define the space better, when dealing with overlapping use of a
facility, by using a low walls or plant materials. By using boundaries private space
and commonplace will not be mixed up together.
2.3.1.2 Enhance A Sense of Community
A development should relate to existing neighborhoodEx: day care, learning center (for the community and resident) Facilities like
these, not only make people meet each other up, but also get a lot of benefit from
the facilities, like getting new knowledge and a new friend at the same time.
Incorporation of informal outdoor gathering areas in site designEx: play area, laundry (secondary/complementary facility for resident in which
generates interaction)
Walkways, common areas, lounge etc. should be arranged so that it ispossible for neighbors to gather in daily activities
So by making the arrangement like that, will help the residence to get socialize,
and they can get closer to their neighbor that way.
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Basically facilities provided should be designated to both children andadults in whom it correlates to both range of age and generation in
generating social senses
2.3.1.3 Opportunities for Surveillance
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)The usage of 'natural surveillance' concept by the maximization of the visibility
within a space, so the residence themselves can watch their neighborhood, and
helping the security around the area if there is problem occurred.
Concept of natural access and its management, control by designing street,walkways, and entrances to be clearly indicate public routes and
discourage access to private areas. Reducing 'penetrability'
By designing this kind of pathway, it will increase the safety around the area,
because in a way it will reduce the chance of people wander around the place, that
make people unsecure about it.
Visibility to parking area should be providedSimply so the residence can watch over their car whenever they want it too.
Open spaces, courtyards, corridors entrances should be designed to bevisible from as many dwellings as possible
The idea of this visibility is to increase the safety of that open space, so, if there is
something criminal happen there, there will be a lot of witnesses, and in a way, it
will reduce the possibilities of crime also.
Private open space should be designed with enclosure of space but notprevents surveillance by residents
Management office should be located in the central, visible location, easilyaccessible
So the residence will have easier way to reach the management office, so they can
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respond to their problem faster.
2.3.1.3 Outdoor Play Areas
Children's play area should be visible from many units as possible and fromprivate open space
So the parents can see and watch over their children, so the parents can be
relieved letting their kids go play outside.
Convenience in access is importantEx: direct and easy access from ground level
Outdoor play area should be located adjacent to common building facilitysuch as laundry, lounge, community center, etc.
It is intended as for the parents have easier access to keen an eye with their kids
all the time.
Play area shall not be located near public streets, parking areas, unlessphysically separated by appropriate barriers (walls, fence, dense
landscaping, etc.)
It will reduce the chance of accidents from the traffic around, because kids tend to
run everywhere, and apparently it is quite scary for parents knowing that. By
using clear barriers, their children will not be able to go to the place, which mostly
will hurt them.
Hard surface areas for activities should be providedEx: bicycle riding, skating, rope jumping, hopscotch, etc. So the kids will have
wider choices of games that they can play on their environment
Physical capabilities, kind of play, and behavior is different in ranges of ageof children. In large developments, it is encouraged to be separated, but no
necessarily segregated. Small developments may combine these play
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activities for many ranges of age within a space.
Play area should be provided with safety conceptIt is simply works as a precaution, so the children will not hurt themselves while
they were playing on the playground.
2.4 Children in High-Rise Residential Project
When we were babies, we were very small, everything is not to scale for us back
then. They are small people in a world of giants and of gigantic things are not
made to their scale. (Tuan 1977, p. 27) So to understand the idea of a space,
when we were a baby it was something that is quite an impossible thing to do, and
also because our brain was not perfectly developed yet to able to perceive image
information or even to communicate or response to it, so when we see the same
things but in different angle or even distance, we would see it as a different thing.
The young child, as soon as he learns to walk, will want to follow his mother and
explore the environment within her ambience. (Tuan, 1977, p. 24) The idea of
not understanding things makes us curious about our surroundings, makes us try
everything hat is reachable, always eager to know something new. When we want
to understand something, we would actually use a lot of body parts to understand
something, we grab with our hand, see it closely with our eyes, smell it with our
nose, and even lick or swallow the thing itself so that we can know the taste of it,
whether it is good or not. When things get ugly, our mother is the one who would
stop our idiocy incase it would become dangerous, like when we try to lick the
knife because it looks delicious, or try to grab fire because it is so shiny to our
eyes.
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Children who live on higher floors also go outside to play less often. (Nitta,
1989), it was mostly because of the parents that will not their kid play around
freely around the environment, so the space for them become limited, and those
limitation become the rule that kids see from their parents
When we grow up, we will learn that there is always a rule in life, like we cannot
do this, go to this place, see this or that, and many more rules that when we were
kids it sounds so overrated and sometimes we deliberately break some of the rules
that our parent said to us.
By learning many rules from our parent, in a way that it sets up some sort of
imaginary fear that may affect us in the future. When we were kids we always told
not to go too far from home, it is dangerous out there, and it may create the image
of the place outside of the house is dangerous, the safest is in the inside of our
home.
When dealing with the needs of kids in the early stage, they require a lot of things
to be prepared for their environment, so they can actually grow well. But
sometimes all of those things are not that well prepared, or even can be neglected.
The most occurring problem is the lacking of space, because everything designed
in the most efficient way, but it affects on how kids play in the environment, it
may limit the play zone, and even there is a place for it, it is hard for them to
Figure 12.11 Space for them to play is very limited
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reach the place, and the worst of all, to the point where even there is no place for
kids to play in it. May sounds silly worrying about the place for kids to play, but
the environment of when they play, they actually also learn some new things too,
whether it is something that is related to their physical, like when they do sport, it
will enhance their motor skill, and actually not only motor skill is the only one
that is developed, social skills will be because when you are playing with your
friends, subconsciously will learn about how to talk to your friend, how to play
nicely with your friend, things to do and things that are not okay to do so, learn
about friendship, and many more.
Childrens play clearly affected, as parent in high rise either keep their childrenindoors more often, which means close protection or over-protection in an indoor
environment, or allow them outside many floors away, which can result in under-
supervision. (Gifford, 2007) regarding the choices that parents made for their
children, every decision must have its own down side, keeping your children
indoor more, it can make your children have a little friend, but if you let you
children too free, and you will be hard controlling you children. There is always
the balance between those two things, and the way to find the balance is to
communicate it with your children, ten you can find the answer.
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CASE STUDY: MARGONDA RESIDENCE APARTMENT
3.1 Research Methods in Case Study
The research method that is used in this research is by doing a direct field
observation based on the literature and the previous research that had been done,
and conduct a questionnaire and interview to the related subject. To see whether
the theory that is gotten from the literature study are applied or not.
3.2 Types of Residential for the Case Study
In this research the case study is the Margonda Residence I, located in the
Margonda Depok. He type of the residential for this case study is specifically on
the mid-rise residential building. The reason this particular apartment become the
study case, is because in this apartment has quite a diverse residence.
3.3 Subject Case Study
The subjects for the case study are 30 children who live on the apartment, range
from the age of 1 to 15 years old, and their parents.
3.4 Case Study: Margonda Residence, Beji, Depok
3.4.1 Description of The Occupants
residents who live in this region is quite diverse, from students, workers,
housewives, the elderly, and some have families who already have children. The
largest portion of people that stays in this area is mostly student from nearby
campus. Most of the people in this area mostly spend their time outside of their
home, because the second largest portion is the workers, so at working hour, there
will be not much of people going aroound the place there. There are 3 common
place for people spend their time there, the first one is the obvious one is their
own room, the second one is the gazebo, place where you can receive guest and
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hang out, the last one is the canteen, the place where you can also hang out wit
your friends while having a meal.
3.4.2 Brief Space analysis
These are a few photos of spots in the Margonda Residence I, and filled with the
explanation.
This is the front corridor before entering the building block, in this particular
space where the most people meet, because it is the main corridor from the 3
blocks in the apartment. The highest possibility for people bumping with each
other is in the morning at 07.00 am 09.00 am, because that is the peak of people
going outside of the apartment. There are people who go to the campus nearby, or
go to work, or even just go out to have something to eat.
The only activity that is occurred here is only people passing y the corridor, when
there is someone who want to wait for hos/her her friends, usually s/he does not
stand inside the corridor, but use the gazebo instead.
Figure 3.1 Front Corridors
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These are the photos of the gazebo near the main corridor, most of people spend
their time here are usually the one who are having appointment to meet someone,
or students that doing their college work, or even just to hang out sitting in the
gazebo have a chat with friends.
This is the photo of the only kids playground in the Margonda residence I. The
location of the playground is on the basement, near the parking ground, near the
block c building. Because it is quite far and people sometimes do not notice this
place as a playground, so this place becomes unpopular, and hardly used at all.
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Figure 3.3 Small hidden playground
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This is the photo of the first swimming pool in Margonda Residence I, before the
Margonda Residence II, this place quite popular, a lot of the residence swims
here, and most of it swims either in the morning or at night.
The Second swimming pool in Margonda residence is quite a hit. There are many
people starting to swim here, and sometimes people come to this pool not to
swim, but instead just hang out at the side of the pool, enjoying the scenery of
people swimming there. People who come to this place ranging from children to
adults. This place is quite popular, because often visited by people at night.
Figure 3.4 Margonda residence I Swimming pool
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Figure 3.5 Margonda residence II Swimming pool
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3.4.3 Results of the Interview and Questionnaire
3.4.3.1 Interview
Based on the result of the interview, all of the correspondent belief that growing
up in a high-rise residential is not really good for their children. They thought that
living in a high-rise give a bad influence on how they socialize. It is not an
unusual situation where high-rise residence tends to be more selfish. Looking
back to the environment, most of the people spend their time outside the
apartment; it means that the chance for them to actually meet with each other is
not that big, so it is quite reasonable why most people in the apartment do less
interaction with each other.
The other thing that came up in the interview, all of the parents complained hat
they do not have a proper facility for young children, although there is actually a
small playground for kids, near the basement, but it is quite hard for their kids to
reach that place on their own. So practically the playground is not used at all right
now. Most of the children that want to play, they can go to the swimming pool,
but they need to be with their parents or supervisor to look after them. Based on
the literature study, children need a lot of space for them to develop their motoric
skill, but in reality, it is quite hard for them to do that. Most of the open space is
parking lots, so it will be hard finding an open space in the apartment.
Almost the entire respondent said that, there are not going to be a permanent
resident, they said that if they got a better place to live, which is low-rise
residential type, they want to move there. Most of them pick living in the high-
rise residential was not actually on their first pick. They pick the apartment mostly
because the location and the value of the room.
3.4.3.1 Questionnaire
The results of the questionnaire are in the attachment section, all of the results are
in the format of pie chart (see in the attachment), and the entire question is there
to prove the facts that are stated in the previous chapter.
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73% of the correspondents believe that they always need to close with their
children. This statement was supported by how they feel about the security in
their area. Despite the fact that there is actually enough guard patrolling the
apartment, but they still do need to be close with their children, and based from
other question of the questionnaire (How do you feel when your kids meet
someone you dont know) 57% correspondent answered that It is not going to
happen at all. It seems that the parents are the one who are being overprotective
on this case, because looking to another question (Do your kids afraid of
strangers?) and 70 % answer that they are not afraid with stranger, means that
from the children side, they do not feel threatened with the presence of the
stranger.
According to another question (Where is the place your kids spend their time most
at?), and it is clear that 84% of the kids spend most of the time inside of the
house, which means that there are two possibilities here, the first one is, the
parents make the decision that the kids should be inside of the house more, and
the second possibility is the kids feel safer inside the house, in a way that they are
creating a fear to go outside because they felt dangerous to do so. We can see the
second largest percentage is 9%; they are the one that is actually mature enough to
be out of his or her house on their own. Age plays a great deal in this type of
activity, another reason why the numbers are small, because the percentage of
kids that age is very small
With the sheer number of people live in the same building it would trigger the fear
of strangers. 87% of the respondent said that no matter how safe the security is,
parents always worried and afraid that with the large number of people that can
actually hurt their children, but this fear is not permanent, because 13% of the
respondent who answer No, they think that their kids already mature enough to
be on his or her own.
And the rest of the result of the questionnaire can be found in the attachment.
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CONCLUSION
Based on the facts from the literature study and the case study showed that there
will be a lot of challenges for children to grow up in a highly populated area
specifically in a high-rise residential.
All of the respondents showed that they are all want to move out into a better
place when they actually a chance to do so. What we can see from just from that
case, the first time that they are picking this high-rise environment is not their first
liking. The reason most of the respondents pick this type of residential because ofthe two key factors backing them up. The first factor is money, because
apparently the land price is skyrocketing these days, by buying grounded house it
will cost you more money than in living in a high rise. Why it will cost you more?
Because when you built your own house from scratch it will cost you a lot of
money, in a way that you need to pay pretty much everything when you want to
build your house. Why just buy the house that is already finished? The price itself
depends on the location of the place itself, the more strategic the place is, the
more expensive the price will be. The second one is the factor of practicality.
Most of the respondents said that the first reason that they pick high rise
residential, because they were attracted to how convenient live in a high rise.
They do not have to major maintenance during their stay, someone will help to fix
if there is any problem related to the house, and usually location of a high rise
residence is in a strategic place, so it will be easier for the residents if they want to
go their office, or schools, or even go into a recreational area for them to have fun.
In this thesis, the main focus is to explore how far is the condition of a high rise
residential affect for kids, how unfit the condition to the condition of kids
development. Most of the respondents believe that high rise residential
(apartment) is not a decent place for kids to grow up in it. Facilities, Space, and
social life in the environment, are the most common things that the respondents
complained about. The first facilities, what they see is, there is no actual proper
facilities for kids to use. The second one the lack of space, the respondent feels
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that the environment doe not provide enough space for them to do their daily
needs. And the last one, and the sot important of all, the condition of the social
support in the high rise are terrible. Living in a place where you are surrounded by
strangers, is a very bad choice, because in the future it will make their kids less
sociable, they will be afraid of making up friends, therefore it will be bad for their
kids social skills.
Based on the interview and the questionnaire form the related subject and from
the literature study based on the theory, growing up for kids in a high-rise is not
something that is easy to be done, there will be many challenges, but all of that is
actually depends on two factors. The first one is the parent, because they are theone who are mostly responsible in shaping how the future for the kids will be. The
second factor is their environment. The environment holds a great deal of
affecting people, not only in their mind, but also can change someones behavior.
With this particular case, first problem came from the facility of the building;
most of them are not well designed for kids in early age. Although there is
actually a playground for kids, but it is quite hard for kids to access the place
themselves.
The conclusion that the author can say about the case study, growing up for kids
in a highly populated area, especially in a high-rise will be difficult, but it is not
something that is impossible to do, as long as all the supporting elements for kids
growing up like, save environment to play, good social life, and good education,
even growing up in a high rise would be possible.
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Attachment 1 Online Questionnaire: http://taufkh.co.nr
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