VISITOR CENTER BOTANICAL GARDEN DESIGN Location: Botanical Garden Ponds Ngipik, Gresik

• Main Author: Mahayu Kusumawardhani, Niken
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Subjects: Teknik (Rekayasa, enjinering dan kegiatan berkaitan)
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/44645
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Natural element in the design is now an issue that has an important role. The building design that takes into account the natural conditions around would have added value in the building, both in terms of comfort as thermal and lighting, as well as psychological comfort. At this writing, have the conditions were in the area of the lake is a former mining area that is transformed to enable became a tourist area and the water will be developed also be a botanical garden area. How to unify all of the travel, the education will plant and lake water travel. Ponds Ngipik Gresik which became the subject area has the character of a quiet lake water is not choppy, with a depth of 20 m during the rainy season and the highest 12 meters during the dry season. This area is already crowded by visitors who want to enjoy kapalboat travel, fishing atausekedar enjoy the atmosphere of the lake. Having a wide area so that the need for the region focusing on educational tours botanical garden. The building that will be presented is the Visitor Center, which is the regional information center. Making it an integral part of the tourist area of the lake is to be achieved in this writing.With the character of a quiet lake and low tides in certain seasons, need their two handlers, ie during the dry season and the rainy season. Creating a lake can be accessed by visitors and making public area is one of the points of achievement in ABC Water certifcation to create a region that blends with nature, especially water. In the rainy season, given access to the lake as the direction of travel of water limited to playing on the edge of the edge of the lake, fishing, enjoying the scenery, play boat and others. In the dry season, the lake water area shrinkage have more access to visitors down into the lake by making it more suitable ramps iii comfort of visitors. These areas are used to playing in a small pond pond pond surutan results can also be used as an educational lake biota. There is also a terracing system that will educate a natural water filtration system that can be reused as water tourism area.