HOUSE DOMESTIC TERRITORIALITY IN TWO KAMPUNG KOTAS IN BANDUNG

• Main Author: WIDJAJA, PELE
• Format: Dissertations
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/64235
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Teritoriality in architecture is understood as an idea of spatial organizing of built environment through a certain behavioral mechanism associated with the matter of spasial differentiation and controlling placement and realization of its borders. House one of the most realized fundamental human territory. House, as a territory, is owned, uses exclusively, highly private and limited only for and by a certain family. House separates a "world" of a family from the other. House is a living territory as well as an arena where a greater part of domestic practice are done and self-existence is expresed. The state of establishment of living in a house enables a person to have a territorial control, define the self existence and status as well as become a part of a place and meaning the vicinity. Territoriality has important function and role in the formation the state of established of living as well as become a frame of reference in a spasial and social organizing. Territoriality makes a house has a meaning, from a 'space" to "place", from "house" to "home". Through this meaning a home can be occupied, maintained, exist, and provide meaning to environment. The understanding of such territoriality is used to investigate the phenomenon of house domestic territoriality of one form of genuine Indonesian urban settlement, called kampung kota. This research used environmental-behavior approach and has been carried out through the comprehension of two cases of selected kampung kota in Bandung City. This research attempts to construct an understanding of a domestic territoriality of kampung kota house through : (1) revealing of the relationship between territorial behavior and the elements of form-space of the kampung kota houses, (2) defining of physical entity of a domestic territoriality of kampung kota houses associated with spasial organization, and (3) constructing the system of meaning of a domestic territoriality of kampung kota house to understand and frame various relations between territorial behavior and the element of form-space, as well as in the totality of the physical entity. This research revealed several essential findings. Firsty, the realization of the physical entity of house domestic territoriality of kampung kota house being a unity of two separated domains : house are being "owned space" and house front's alley area being "not owned space" but it is claimed as "a part of owned space" temporally remarked through a routinity of usage as well as perceptual territoriality aspect in the spatial organizing of the house. Legality aspect of individual ownership right has a role to separate between "owned space" and "not owned space". The activity aspect of house's occupant has a role to separete as well as unity the "owned space" and "not awned space" through placement of domestic activities based on priority of need and interest and perception of the occupant. This means that spatial arrangement of kampung kota houses can change or be changed flexibly and the occupants adapt directly to the changes. While in the placement and the realization of borders are felt more functionally rather than physically. Physically bordes of a house more indicate the border of ownership rather tahn the real territoriality. Whereas the aspect of house occupant's perception confirms the unity of "owned space" and "not owned space" and a claim as "part of owned pace. Thirdly, the meaning of territoriality for the owner or kampung kota house's occupant, among others are : establishment of self-position, survival, self-protection, and social interaction control, as well as revealing self-identity temporarily. The findings provide an important contribution, primarily for architectural science, especially in architectural education where the knowledge of designing a built environment, like house and settlement, should consider temporary as well as perceptual things in designing the space-form, in addition to functional and aesthetical aspects.