The effect of spatial configuration in the thermal area of Fort Oranje public space in Ternate City

Abstract

Crowded city will be impact to the temperature of urban areas. This condition is commonly known as the urban heat island effect. It’s impact to the activity that happened in the urban space. Recently, Fort Oranje (urban space/square) that has history value has been revitalized as an urban public space that is crowd visited by Ternate’s people. Therefore, the thermal comfort becomes an important thing and that is available to the users. The research is aim to know the influence of space configuration change to the aspect of thermal comfort in the urban public space. The method that is used in this research is empirical measurement and simulation method using Envi-MET software. This method is used to simulate the condition of thermal area in Fort Oranje. The result of this research showed that space configuration that change before and after the development of Ternate waterfront city impact to the thermal conditions in Fort Oranje public space.

Keywords:

• thermal comfort
• space configuration
• urban public space
• Envi-MET

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Notes on contributors

Asri A. Muhammad

ASRI A. MUHAMMAD

teaches physic of building and Site Analyze at Architecture Program, Faculty of Engineering, Khairun University. He is also works as expert in Cabinet Minister of Public Works and Settlement for Society in Ternate City. He had undergraduate in Architecture at Indonesia Muslim University and his master’s degree in Architecture at Gadjah Mada University. He is interest to research about the Thermal Comfort and together with Gadjah Mada University, this year his monitoring the thermal comfort in history public space in Ternate City.

Firdawaty Marasabessy

FIRDAWATY MARASABESSY

is junior lecturer in Architecture Program, Faculty of Engineering, Khairun University. She has thought for 3 years as a lecturer. She is excited to do a research and community service. The field of science that she interested is architecture and planning. Previous studies were on the disaster-prone settlement and the green architecture. This year, she joined research with Gadjah Mada University to monitoring the thermal comfort in public area. Her undergraduate was in architecture department at Khairun University and completed master’s degrees in planning at The Bogor Agricultural Institute.

Arif Kusumawanto

ARIF KUSUMAWANTO

Dr Arif Kusumawanto is senior lecturer in the Program in Architecture, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Gadjah Mada University. He received her undergraduate from Gadjah Mada University, and master’s degree and doctor from Bandung Technology Institute. Her research interests about thermal comfort in building or public area. He also usually research about green architecture. Her book about Green Architecture in City Innovation became a reference in learning for students Gadjah Mada University. A grant of foreign cooperation research for two years obtained making a zero waste consolidation master plan in Jonggol, Java.

Ardhya Nareswari

ARDHYA NARESWARI

is a research and lecturer in the Department of Architecture and Planning, Faculty of Engineering, at Gadjah Mada University. Her research interests are housing and community, and green architecture. Her past research experience deals with riverfront settlement and urban housing, and the recovery process after the 2006 Yogyakarta Earthquake. She received her undergraduate and Master’s Degrees from Gadjah Mada University, and PhD in Architecture from Kobe University. For now, she joining research with Khairun University to analyze public space by thermal aspect.