The frequency of natural disasters keeps increasing from time to time. The catastrophes from the ... more The frequency of natural disasters keeps increasing from time to time. The catastrophes from the events affect millions of people around the world. It demands the involvement of architects in the design and planning difficulties associated with rebuilding post-disaster areas and cities. However, there is a continuing lack of architects who are capable of handling the damage left behind by devastating natural disasters like floods, fires, earthquakes, typhoons, and tsunamis. In addition, there is a shortage of architectural students who are interested in this crucial matter. Targeting architecture faculties and students, this study discusses the architects' role in the humanitarian subject. The objective is to figure out the level of awareness and exposure to this topic at the higher education level. It was done by examining the involvement of architecture faculties and students in humanitarian architecture through mixed qualitative and quantitative methods. This study proposes a way to shed light on humanitarian architecture to alert architecture faculties and students to the growing need for help and support in reconstructing communities damaged by catastrophes. It also provides an understanding of how to offer assistance while respecting the culture, identity, and needs of the affected people.
Al-Dirah, an old neighborhood in Riyadh, is an excellent illustration of Saudi tradition and hist... more Al-Dirah, an old neighborhood in Riyadh, is an excellent illustration of Saudi tradition and history. It was built in 1824 and is widely known for its rich heritage and historical traits, with historic landmarks such as Al Masmak Fort, Al-Dirah Souk, Al-Mu'eiqilia Market, and Deera Square. It also had the major royal castle in Saudi Arabia's second state. It was a thriving economic neighborhood from the past until the present times. With all these values, Al-Dirah has the potential to represent the branding of Riyadh as the capital city. However, this district is facing challenges such as traffic, overpopulation, collapsing buildings, and maintenance issues which might impact the image of the neighborhood. This study aims to investigate the values and potentials of the Al-Dirah neighborhood as well as recent urban problems from the perspectives of residents and nonresidents. It argues that having significant potential ranging from cultural, historical, and economic is not enough for developing the branding for the city without considering the perceptions of the residents. Their perceptions are important to create an image that can be potential for the city branding. Therefore, their role needs to be recognized. A mixed method both qualitative and quantitative approach was utilized for this study through online structured and open-ended questionnaires, supported by direct observations on the site. The findings reveal that although old neighborhoods are often associated with urban problems and poorly built environments, however, from residents' perspectives, it has the potential for city branding, especially if it is supported by their cultural, historical, and economic values. While most of the studies related to city branding focus on the policies perspective from the top-down, this study gives another perspective which is from the community or bottom-up. This study supports the Saudi Vision 2030 goals to achieve a sustainable living environment, boost the economy through tourism, and strengthen national identity at the same time. This study enriches references about city branding for practitioners and policymakers.
Backgorund: Architecture acts as a facade to the world, in which one can understand the insides o... more Backgorund: Architecture acts as a facade to the world, in which one can understand the insides of the people, religion, culture, and much more about a city. Using humanitarian architecture as a guide for reconstructing, as well as the long-term impacts of the urban planning of a city in terms of sustainability and authenticity, this study answers the questions of how the City's character and identity can be maintained while providing quick assistance via humanitarian architecture. What are the challenges that prevent humanitarian architecture from enhancing cities' authenticity, and how can we overcome them? By examining Al-Diriyah project, this study aims to look into the complex relationship of humanitarian architecture with the branding and authenticity of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from the perspective of residents and non-residents. Method: A blended qualitative and quantitive approach was applied as a comprehensive methodology to achieve the objectives. This study will help the application of humanitarian architecture for rebuilding countries in the East, highlighting authenticity and maintaining its cultural significance
The frequency of natural disasters keeps increasing from time to time. The catastrophes from the ... more The frequency of natural disasters keeps increasing from time to time. The catastrophes from the events affect millions of people around the world. It demands the involvement of architects in the design and planning difficulties associated with rebuilding post-disaster areas and cities. However, there is a continuing lack of architects who are capable of handling the damage left behind by devastating natural disasters like floods, fires, earthquakes, typhoons, and tsunamis. In addition, there is a shortage of architectural students who are interested in this crucial matter. Targeting architecture faculties and students, this study discusses the architects' role in the humanitarian subject. The objective is to figure out the level of awareness and exposure to this topic at the higher education level. It was done by examining the involvement of architecture faculties and students in humanitarian architecture through mixed qualitative and quantitative methods. This study proposes a way to shed light on humanitarian architecture to alert architecture faculties and students to the growing need for help and support in reconstructing communities damaged by catastrophes. It also provides an understanding of how to offer assistance while respecting the culture, identity, and needs of the affected people.
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
Covid-19 pandemic has directed hospitals to concentrate services for patients who are positive or... more Covid-19 pandemic has directed hospitals to concentrate services for patients who are positive or still in undefined status. Some countries are even forced to build temporary structures or utilize multifunctional buildings such as sports/public halls. On the other hand, hospitals still have to keep performing other routine services and this becomes a challenge for them. When global attention nowadays focuses more on how hospitals serve the Covid-19 cases, this research proposes another side of healthcare service needed by people in the pandemic, which is the dental clinic. The spread of Covid-19 through droplets puts both dental patients and practitioners at risk target of Covid-19 transmission. Therefore, particular standards and protocols are mandatory to be deployed. A prototype design of the temporary dental clinic is the main output from this research. The main objective is to provide service for the community without being afraid of contracting the pandemic as the clinic will ...
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2021
In disaster situations, physical buildings and infrastructures can be damaged or destroyed, inclu... more In disaster situations, physical buildings and infrastructures can be damaged or destroyed, including the community’s livelihood, yet generally, the cultural structures that shaped the settlements persist. However, local cultural values have been commonly ignored in a postdisaster intervention. It creates conflict, which results in improper development practice that contributes to the weak sustainability outcomes. Using the Aceh tsunami disaster as a case study, this study examines how far the community recognises their cultural values after the disaster. It argues that culture is a potential resource that is significant for community building. Thus, assessing the cultural state of the affected community is vital to be carried out for the longer term of sustainability of the new development. The study relied on a qualitative approach as the primary methodology. The data was collected through a series of fieldwork, which involved indepth interviews and site observations. It was suppo...
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2021
Jakarta as the capital city of Indonesia has the potential to be prone to flooding duringthe rain... more Jakarta as the capital city of Indonesia has the potential to be prone to flooding duringthe rainy season. Geographical conditions, dense settlements, drainage systems and river flow conditions are various causes that require complex handling. Therefore, it needs synergy from various professions and expertise to be able to overcome problems that have social and economic impacts. Architechnopreneurship is a multidisciplinary concept developed as an effort to provide solutions for communities to survive in areas that are potentially affected by flooding. An architect’s work that has a content of beauty provides education for the public to take advantage of housing as a place of refuge equipped with technology as a warning system as well as providing insights to bring the value of entrepreneurship to life. To achieve this goal, an instrument will be made that will be distributed to the wider community to assess this architechnopreneurship concept building sketch. This study aims to des...
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2020
Asian cities often experience complex urban problems, mainly due to weak regulations to respond t... more Asian cities often experience complex urban problems, mainly due to weak regulations to respond to the changes. There is a need to answer these problems. Using Banda Aceh as the case, this study examines the transformation of the city form through reading the urban elements and layers from historical chronological order focuses on the inner city and its surrounded areas. The aim is to identify the physical and non-physical primary elements and the ordinary layers of the city, as well as analyze the symbolical, sociological, historical, morphological layers and their transformation from time to time. Historical and typo-morphological methodology were used by comparing maps and building styles supported with photographs collected through a series of field observation and from literature. The analysis was divided into pre-colonial, colonial, post-colonial, and post-tsunami disaster periods. Findings from this study shows that there are three main factors that contribute to the transfor...
INTRODUCTION The 2004 tsunami disaster in Aceh destroyed man-made environments massively in addit... more INTRODUCTION The 2004 tsunami disaster in Aceh destroyed man-made environments massively in addition to unimaginable human misery. It was one of the largest natural disasters in Aceh’s history. Housing and settlement sector were tremendously affected. Some Acehnese lost their land and even Aceh’s coastline was changed. Others found it hard to locate their lots in the ruined land. Many of them had no proof that the lost land was theirs. Up to 139.195 homes were destroyed or severely damaged, along with 73,869 ha of land with varying degrees of productivity. While natural disaster transformed much of Aceh’s morphology of urban space, the rehabilitation and reconstruction process that followed continued transforming the typology of domestic space in Acehnese towns and villages, profoundly affecting Acehnese socio-cultural life and society at large. In particular, a fundamentally new type of housing physically and practically changed social and cultural ways of living in Aceh. This pape...
Situated in the heart of the Middle East, Saudi Arabia or the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has p... more Situated in the heart of the Middle East, Saudi Arabia or the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has played a significant role in the Arab region since the pre-historic and pre-Islamic periods. The discovery of oil in 1938 brought a major transformation to the country, which has since become one of the world’s largest oil producers and exporters. The oil industry boom occurred during the 1970s and 1980s and resulted in the rapid development of the economy. This in turn transformed the country into a modern state; a change that touched all sectors, including the built environment.
The Australian journal of emergency management, 2017
Disasters contribute to the complexity of urban problems such as water and sanitation, waste mana... more Disasters contribute to the complexity of urban problems such as water and sanitation, waste management and infrastructure damage. For some countries illegal settlements, slum areas, urbanisation, internal migration and employment dislocation exacerbate these problems. A common urban disaster that occurs in many Asian and Pacific countries is flooding, especially during the rainy season. Floods in Jakarta affect vulnerable communities situated on the riverbank of the Ciliwung River. Temporary shelters have been used in response, but they have not answered the needs of these communities. While many studies argue that socio-economic factors are significant contributors to community resilience, this study found that cultural and historical connections, 'connecting to place', was a significant factor that helps people survive and adapt. As such, relocating communities to safer locations is not always the answer and may contribute to other problems. This study supports designs fo...
Asia remains a distinguished place prone to different sized of natural disasters ranging from tsu... more Asia remains a distinguished place prone to different sized of natural disasters ranging from tsunamis to earthquakes, floods and forest fires, among others, that have produced profound cross borders impacts. Many studies on disaster governance have discussed the subject from a macro-policy level perspective, with less attention being paid to the role of the community. However, in many cases of disasters, local communities are the first to handle emergency efforts before the arrival of international and national disaster assistance. The role of communities needs to be empowered by including them in disaster governance frameworks so that they can be a new driver of policy innovation in building social resilience to future disasters.
The frequency of natural disasters keeps increasing from time to time. The catastrophes from the ... more The frequency of natural disasters keeps increasing from time to time. The catastrophes from the events affect millions of people around the world. It demands the involvement of architects in the design and planning difficulties associated with rebuilding post-disaster areas and cities. However, there is a continuing lack of architects who are capable of handling the damage left behind by devastating natural disasters like floods, fires, earthquakes, typhoons, and tsunamis. In addition, there is a shortage of architectural students who are interested in this crucial matter. Targeting architecture faculties and students, this study discusses the architects' role in the humanitarian subject. The objective is to figure out the level of awareness and exposure to this topic at the higher education level. It was done by examining the involvement of architecture faculties and students in humanitarian architecture through mixed qualitative and quantitative methods. This study proposes a way to shed light on humanitarian architecture to alert architecture faculties and students to the growing need for help and support in reconstructing communities damaged by catastrophes. It also provides an understanding of how to offer assistance while respecting the culture, identity, and needs of the affected people.
Al-Dirah, an old neighborhood in Riyadh, is an excellent illustration of Saudi tradition and hist... more Al-Dirah, an old neighborhood in Riyadh, is an excellent illustration of Saudi tradition and history. It was built in 1824 and is widely known for its rich heritage and historical traits, with historic landmarks such as Al Masmak Fort, Al-Dirah Souk, Al-Mu'eiqilia Market, and Deera Square. It also had the major royal castle in Saudi Arabia's second state. It was a thriving economic neighborhood from the past until the present times. With all these values, Al-Dirah has the potential to represent the branding of Riyadh as the capital city. However, this district is facing challenges such as traffic, overpopulation, collapsing buildings, and maintenance issues which might impact the image of the neighborhood. This study aims to investigate the values and potentials of the Al-Dirah neighborhood as well as recent urban problems from the perspectives of residents and nonresidents. It argues that having significant potential ranging from cultural, historical, and economic is not enough for developing the branding for the city without considering the perceptions of the residents. Their perceptions are important to create an image that can be potential for the city branding. Therefore, their role needs to be recognized. A mixed method both qualitative and quantitative approach was utilized for this study through online structured and open-ended questionnaires, supported by direct observations on the site. The findings reveal that although old neighborhoods are often associated with urban problems and poorly built environments, however, from residents' perspectives, it has the potential for city branding, especially if it is supported by their cultural, historical, and economic values. While most of the studies related to city branding focus on the policies perspective from the top-down, this study gives another perspective which is from the community or bottom-up. This study supports the Saudi Vision 2030 goals to achieve a sustainable living environment, boost the economy through tourism, and strengthen national identity at the same time. This study enriches references about city branding for practitioners and policymakers.
Backgorund: Architecture acts as a facade to the world, in which one can understand the insides o... more Backgorund: Architecture acts as a facade to the world, in which one can understand the insides of the people, religion, culture, and much more about a city. Using humanitarian architecture as a guide for reconstructing, as well as the long-term impacts of the urban planning of a city in terms of sustainability and authenticity, this study answers the questions of how the City's character and identity can be maintained while providing quick assistance via humanitarian architecture. What are the challenges that prevent humanitarian architecture from enhancing cities' authenticity, and how can we overcome them? By examining Al-Diriyah project, this study aims to look into the complex relationship of humanitarian architecture with the branding and authenticity of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from the perspective of residents and non-residents. Method: A blended qualitative and quantitive approach was applied as a comprehensive methodology to achieve the objectives. This study will help the application of humanitarian architecture for rebuilding countries in the East, highlighting authenticity and maintaining its cultural significance
The frequency of natural disasters keeps increasing from time to time. The catastrophes from the ... more The frequency of natural disasters keeps increasing from time to time. The catastrophes from the events affect millions of people around the world. It demands the involvement of architects in the design and planning difficulties associated with rebuilding post-disaster areas and cities. However, there is a continuing lack of architects who are capable of handling the damage left behind by devastating natural disasters like floods, fires, earthquakes, typhoons, and tsunamis. In addition, there is a shortage of architectural students who are interested in this crucial matter. Targeting architecture faculties and students, this study discusses the architects' role in the humanitarian subject. The objective is to figure out the level of awareness and exposure to this topic at the higher education level. It was done by examining the involvement of architecture faculties and students in humanitarian architecture through mixed qualitative and quantitative methods. This study proposes a way to shed light on humanitarian architecture to alert architecture faculties and students to the growing need for help and support in reconstructing communities damaged by catastrophes. It also provides an understanding of how to offer assistance while respecting the culture, identity, and needs of the affected people.
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
Covid-19 pandemic has directed hospitals to concentrate services for patients who are positive or... more Covid-19 pandemic has directed hospitals to concentrate services for patients who are positive or still in undefined status. Some countries are even forced to build temporary structures or utilize multifunctional buildings such as sports/public halls. On the other hand, hospitals still have to keep performing other routine services and this becomes a challenge for them. When global attention nowadays focuses more on how hospitals serve the Covid-19 cases, this research proposes another side of healthcare service needed by people in the pandemic, which is the dental clinic. The spread of Covid-19 through droplets puts both dental patients and practitioners at risk target of Covid-19 transmission. Therefore, particular standards and protocols are mandatory to be deployed. A prototype design of the temporary dental clinic is the main output from this research. The main objective is to provide service for the community without being afraid of contracting the pandemic as the clinic will ...
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2021
In disaster situations, physical buildings and infrastructures can be damaged or destroyed, inclu... more In disaster situations, physical buildings and infrastructures can be damaged or destroyed, including the community’s livelihood, yet generally, the cultural structures that shaped the settlements persist. However, local cultural values have been commonly ignored in a postdisaster intervention. It creates conflict, which results in improper development practice that contributes to the weak sustainability outcomes. Using the Aceh tsunami disaster as a case study, this study examines how far the community recognises their cultural values after the disaster. It argues that culture is a potential resource that is significant for community building. Thus, assessing the cultural state of the affected community is vital to be carried out for the longer term of sustainability of the new development. The study relied on a qualitative approach as the primary methodology. The data was collected through a series of fieldwork, which involved indepth interviews and site observations. It was suppo...
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2021
Jakarta as the capital city of Indonesia has the potential to be prone to flooding duringthe rain... more Jakarta as the capital city of Indonesia has the potential to be prone to flooding duringthe rainy season. Geographical conditions, dense settlements, drainage systems and river flow conditions are various causes that require complex handling. Therefore, it needs synergy from various professions and expertise to be able to overcome problems that have social and economic impacts. Architechnopreneurship is a multidisciplinary concept developed as an effort to provide solutions for communities to survive in areas that are potentially affected by flooding. An architect’s work that has a content of beauty provides education for the public to take advantage of housing as a place of refuge equipped with technology as a warning system as well as providing insights to bring the value of entrepreneurship to life. To achieve this goal, an instrument will be made that will be distributed to the wider community to assess this architechnopreneurship concept building sketch. This study aims to des...
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2020
Asian cities often experience complex urban problems, mainly due to weak regulations to respond t... more Asian cities often experience complex urban problems, mainly due to weak regulations to respond to the changes. There is a need to answer these problems. Using Banda Aceh as the case, this study examines the transformation of the city form through reading the urban elements and layers from historical chronological order focuses on the inner city and its surrounded areas. The aim is to identify the physical and non-physical primary elements and the ordinary layers of the city, as well as analyze the symbolical, sociological, historical, morphological layers and their transformation from time to time. Historical and typo-morphological methodology were used by comparing maps and building styles supported with photographs collected through a series of field observation and from literature. The analysis was divided into pre-colonial, colonial, post-colonial, and post-tsunami disaster periods. Findings from this study shows that there are three main factors that contribute to the transfor...
INTRODUCTION The 2004 tsunami disaster in Aceh destroyed man-made environments massively in addit... more INTRODUCTION The 2004 tsunami disaster in Aceh destroyed man-made environments massively in addition to unimaginable human misery. It was one of the largest natural disasters in Aceh’s history. Housing and settlement sector were tremendously affected. Some Acehnese lost their land and even Aceh’s coastline was changed. Others found it hard to locate their lots in the ruined land. Many of them had no proof that the lost land was theirs. Up to 139.195 homes were destroyed or severely damaged, along with 73,869 ha of land with varying degrees of productivity. While natural disaster transformed much of Aceh’s morphology of urban space, the rehabilitation and reconstruction process that followed continued transforming the typology of domestic space in Acehnese towns and villages, profoundly affecting Acehnese socio-cultural life and society at large. In particular, a fundamentally new type of housing physically and practically changed social and cultural ways of living in Aceh. This pape...
Situated in the heart of the Middle East, Saudi Arabia or the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has p... more Situated in the heart of the Middle East, Saudi Arabia or the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has played a significant role in the Arab region since the pre-historic and pre-Islamic periods. The discovery of oil in 1938 brought a major transformation to the country, which has since become one of the world’s largest oil producers and exporters. The oil industry boom occurred during the 1970s and 1980s and resulted in the rapid development of the economy. This in turn transformed the country into a modern state; a change that touched all sectors, including the built environment.
The Australian journal of emergency management, 2017
Disasters contribute to the complexity of urban problems such as water and sanitation, waste mana... more Disasters contribute to the complexity of urban problems such as water and sanitation, waste management and infrastructure damage. For some countries illegal settlements, slum areas, urbanisation, internal migration and employment dislocation exacerbate these problems. A common urban disaster that occurs in many Asian and Pacific countries is flooding, especially during the rainy season. Floods in Jakarta affect vulnerable communities situated on the riverbank of the Ciliwung River. Temporary shelters have been used in response, but they have not answered the needs of these communities. While many studies argue that socio-economic factors are significant contributors to community resilience, this study found that cultural and historical connections, 'connecting to place', was a significant factor that helps people survive and adapt. As such, relocating communities to safer locations is not always the answer and may contribute to other problems. This study supports designs fo...
Asia remains a distinguished place prone to different sized of natural disasters ranging from tsu... more Asia remains a distinguished place prone to different sized of natural disasters ranging from tsunamis to earthquakes, floods and forest fires, among others, that have produced profound cross borders impacts. Many studies on disaster governance have discussed the subject from a macro-policy level perspective, with less attention being paid to the role of the community. However, in many cases of disasters, local communities are the first to handle emergency efforts before the arrival of international and national disaster assistance. The role of communities needs to be empowered by including them in disaster governance frameworks so that they can be a new driver of policy innovation in building social resilience to future disasters.
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