Coworking Space Design on Old Building Using Third Place Approach in Bandung

• Main Author: Aldi, Yohanes
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Subjects: Arsitektur
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/40693
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Bandung is known as creative and historic city in Indonesia. The creativity can be developed with a good understanding through local identity. The local identity of Bandung can be seen through a lot of old building across the city. Nevertheless, today a lot of old building in Bandung are no longer used maximally because typology and function of the building are not matching anymore. This phenomenon appears because the process of preservation mostly done in aesthetic aspect. This condition has an issue, that the existence of old building will be forgotten which will lead to loss of Bandung's local identity. Besides that, Bandung as a creative city nowadays focused on a creative economy sector, proved by many communities in Bandung work in the creative industry, such as fashion, culinary, and technology. Therefore, in 2025 Indonesia will experience demography bonus that makes the workforce dominated by millennial generation. By this time, there will be a transformation in economic system to the new digital economy era. It also affects people’s ways of work. Transformation of generation in workforce and how people work in digital economy era create a new need of workplace in the future. One of the solutions for the new style of workplaces that are being developed today is coworking space, a workplace with flexible shared facilities. However, coworking space is not just a place to work but also a place that potentially can create a community. Those major issues happened in Bandung can be a win-win solution for each other at once. Bandung can use the old building that becomes local identity as coworking space for creative class in the future. The concept is to assemble the past (old building as a place) and the future (creative society as a new workforce) in coworking facilities. The application of the concept is done by design simulation that produces design criteria of coworking space in the old building that fit the context of Bandung city. The design simulation uses the theory of third place (Oldenburg) and adaptive reuse building as a base for the concept. Coworking space as a third-place makes an informal place for community in Bandung to work and gather. By changing the function of old buildings that build across Bandung to become the new workplace for creative class (coworking space), Bandung success to maintain the city identity and give a new workplace or public space for the community to develop their creativity and increase city income.