THE INFLUENCE OF AFFORDANCES AND BEHAVIORAL SETTINGS IN THE FORMATION OF ACTIVITIES AND PLACEMAKING IN PUBLIC SPACES (CASE STUDY: HERITAGE BUILDINGS IN THE BRAGA TOURISM AREA AND ALUN-ALUN, KOTA BANDUNG)

• Main Author: Isa Ahmad, Sulthan
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/83746
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

This study explores how a bank in a heritage building that has been repurposed as a bank can generate diversity in the types of public space activities through placemaking. Placemaking aims to enhance the relationship between users and public spaces with four main indicators: access and linkages, sociability, uses and activities, and comfort and images (PPS, 2024). This study was conducted using a qualitative methodology through observation with a case study approach and was descriptively analyzed on five heritage buildings in the Braga and Alun-Alun tourism areas, Bandung City. This research found that while existing facility designs support certain activities, users can utilize them in their own way, influenced by factors such as location, distance from the building, time, and weather. Internal factors such as design and external factors such as behavioral settings and the image of the city concept by Kevin Lynch also affect activity variations. In the making of public space, this research object found that the placemaking process occurs top-down through building management and provision of public facilities, and bottom-up through the diversity of user activities that utilize space elements according to their subjectivity. These findings are expected to contribute to the development of public spaces in other heritage buildings in the future.