URBAN FOREST BABAKAN SILIWANGI BANDUNG DESIGN AS HEALING FOREST

• Main Author: Dyah Kania, Verina
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/67649
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

An increasingly dense environment can cause pattern changes live in busy work, high mobility and job competition (patterns of modern life). This lifestyle can cause stress both physically and mentally psychological. Recovery from stress can be helped with Nature Therapy. Nature Therapy utilizes nature to help restore health. The environment has a big role in restoring health. Healing Forest is part of nature therapy. Forests designed to help humans feel better physically and mentally are called Healing Forests. The city of Bandung in 2019 occupies the second most populous city in West Java Province. This population density makes the people of Bandung City become stressed. A possible location as a Healing Forest in the city of Bandung is the Babakan Siliwangi City Forest because the location is in the middle of the city and has large enough ecological, social and cultural functions so that it is suitable for miracles as a Healing Forest. City Forest to see the landscape design of the Babakan Siliwang Urban Forest against the Indonesian National Standard) and the criteria for Healing Forest as well as the application of the concept of healing to the existing design so that Siliwang can become a Healing Forest. The method of data collection in this research was done by walking method. This walking method is a method of researchers walking with participants to determine user perceptions of the landscape design of the Babakan Siliwangi Urban Forest. These perceptions were collected through questionnaires and interviews. Observations were also made to determine the physical environment of the Babakan Siliwangi Urban Forest in accordance with Indonesian National Standards. After going through the analysis, the physical condition of the Babakan Siliwangi Urban Forest has a good physical condition, so it has the potential to be used as a Healing Forest with some adjustments that must be made. The results of the design are the addition of vegetation in several areas in the Babakan Siliwangi Urban Forest, the addition of landscape furniture in the form of seats and trash cans on the forest walk, rejuvenation of the sitting area, and redesign of the spring area and the area under the forest walk.