Greywater treatment system in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Mosque: utilizing filter wells as an alternative sustainable innovation

Water is one of the natural resources that support entire creature’s needs in earth. It was also a key element of sustainable living. The important of water is proved by fact that human body were consists of 80% water which makes daily water needs is definitely important. Same thing was happen on earth which also consists of 71 % water. Unfortunately, nowadays qualities as well as quantities of water is getting poor caused many environmental decline. Those situation is feel quite irony, first is because in one side human are depending on water badly, and in another side, qualities and quantities water have been decreasing because of their own. This environmental issue, especially water was realized by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) by starting to be a first pioneer in Green & Sustainability Campus in Malaysia. Although UKM is located in water-rich country, still UKM try to commit to save environment as well as manage its environment aspect. The usage of water in UKM itself is categorized in high level. UKM have around 20.000 students and most of them are dwelling in campus. For big campus like this, UKM had one main Mosque which accommodates some daily worship of Moslem as the majority one. For activities like ablution, washing and bathing, UKM Mosque had produce quite big amount of grey water. Grey water itself is residual water that still fresh and can be recycled for some purposes such as landscape irrigation and cleaning service. One alternative method to treats the grey water is by the usage of filter wells. This paper is trying to analysis and proposes some design of grey water system in UKM mosque in order to save environment. With proper grey water treatment, UKM Mosque will contribute to save water and UKM’s environment. This successful water treatment is also can be an alternative model to apply in another building

An assessment of acoustic quality in mosque case study: Masjid at-Tarbiyah UIN Malang

Acoustic quality is an essential aspect in the design of spaces, including mosques. A mosque as a worship place has several activities that require good acoustic quality, especially in terms of delivering a clear sound. Masjid At-Tarbiyah is one of the mosques on the UIN Malang campus. This research was conducted to determine the value of acoustic quality in the Masjid At-Tarbiyah and analyze the factors that influence it. This research is a quantitative research that looks at the value of room acoustics' quality with modeling and simulation of the Ecotect v.2011 program. The acoustic quality value is calculated based on the reverberation time value known from the simulation-based on observations and physical measurements of space in the field. The RT value reaches 7.86 seconds at a frequency of 500kHz, and the average RT is 3.467 seconds. This study indicates that the value of acoustic in Masjid At-Tarbiyah is low, as indicated by the high RT, so that space improvement is needed

Dorms and Covid-19: resilient architecture approach to Darul Ulum Islamic Boarding School dormitory design

Covid-19 pandemic has been going on for the past few years. One of the impacts of the pandemic is change in education sector, including in pesantren. Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI) issues requirements that must be met if a boarding school is opened. Life in a boarding school, especially in dormitory housing is identical with shared activities. The issue of the pandemic and the potential of the dormitory environment become a new cluster for the spread of Covid-19 is the background for designing resilient dormitory. The Resilient Architecture approach that is applied stems from the resilient theory by Istiadji, Hardiman, and Satwiko which has four principles, namely: Recovery, Responsive, Adaptive, and Absorptive. The principles of resilience architecture approach in the design are complemented by two Islamic principles those are protecting views and maintaining privacy. The design process uses linear analysis which applicate the resilient concept in the arrangement of mass and user circulation, natural lighting of the room, the structure and processing of the building's facade, as well as the open space on the site. The application of four principles of resilient architecture and two Islamic principles makes the dormitory design able to adapt to changes during the pandemic and the environment around the site

Upgrading Education Architecture by Redefining Critique Session in Design Studio

AbstractArchitecture education with apprenticeship based training method has existed from long time ago. This type of education was based of practice and imitation. But today according to the design issue and open ended problems it is changed to transmitting the concept and idea of design. In this educating system which is based on critique all the efforts are to increase student's self criticizing ability by continuous criticisms to able to manage their own projects. Design is one of the most complex types of problem solving that involves several aspects and components. Its cognitive processes and procedures should be transmitted to the students through lectures and critique sessions. The current model in studios is based on ancient model that must be redefined and be made clearer in order to improve both learning and teaching ways. There is no unreasonable action in the world and all are perusing a prominent target, especially in educating system that in fact it is the base of all forward steps in community around us. This paper analyses architectural studios in order to find the weak and strength points and also to identify procedures and tools that can be used to support the studio based pedagogy in architecture. First we take a look on what is going on in design studios and then by classifying the critique methods in different type of studios and explaining each will explore the reasons of dissatisfactions and at the end will give some suggestions to upgrade the existing system

Integrated sustainability index of east Surabaya with casbee tools toward a sustainable city

Surabaya is a city that continues to grow from year to year. Various problems that can be identified in the city of Surabaya include population density due to immigration. Statistics show that in 2014 Surabaya's population reached 3,020,305 million with a total poverty line of 168,000 people or 5.97% of the total population. Surabaya east is one of the industrial areas in Surabaya which contributes to increasing emissions. This research is focused on the East Surabaya area with samples in Kendangsari Village, Rungkut Kidul Village and Rungkut Tengah Village. The three locations have the same character in the form of industrial estate supported by residential areas both settlements and surrounding housing. This research uses descriptive quantitative and qualitative approaches. Observations were made on several environmental aspects which were grouped into aspects of Quality (Q) and load (L). These aspects are aspects of the assessment of the Comprehensive Assessment Built Environment Efficiency - Urban Development (CASBEE-UD) index. Based on calculations it is known that the index for the East Surabaya region is (B +) Good, this index shows the quality level of the region one level below the quality of sustainable areas. The index results indicate that the region is approaching a sustainable status. Based on the results of calculations and scoring it is known that the environmental quality in this region is good at 3.5 (three points five), with a breakdown of the environmental quality index of 2.4 (two-point four), social quality index of 3.8 (three-point eight) and economic quality index of 4.4 (four-point four). However, the environmental burden received by this region is moderate, so the score obtained is 2.7 (two points seven

Integrated environmental quality assessment of Jodipan Riverbank, Klojen, Malang

This research aims to assess the environmental quality of Jodipan, Malang through the Comprehensive Assessment System for Built Environment Efficiency (CASBEE) Tools. Jodipan is one of the urban villages in Malang city which stands along in the Brantas riverbanks. It is a high-density settlement with the majority of the population work as a merchant. At 2016, the settlement in Jodipan riverbanks painted colorfully, and it made Jodipan called “Kampung Warna Warni” or Colourful Kampong. Jodipan now became one of the new community-based tourism destinations in Malang and succeeded to attract domestic and international tourist. The existence of this kampong gave a big impact on environmental quality especially river since their communities’ activities are very depending on the river. The method based on the triplebottom-line approach that adopts three classifications of sustainable development which are the environment, society, and economy. The result of environmental quality in Jodipan kampong riverbank was 2.1. This score indicates a low value and below the average of the environmental quality standards

Pendidikan arsitektur dan edukasi tentang bambu sebagai material ramah lingkungan

Urgensi edukasi mengenai bambu di dalam pendidikan arsitektur berkaitan erat dengan berbagai permasalahan dan fenomena kontemporer di bidang permukiman dan lingkungan. Sebagai material alternatif yang ramah lingkungan, bambu memiliki berbagai potensi yang secara umum masih dipandang sebelah mata oleh masyarakat umum. Mahasiswa dan lulusan pendidikan arsitektur memiliki peran penting dalam upaya eksplorasi potensi tersebut, sekaligus sosialisasinya kepada masyarakat secara luas. Namun demikian, perubahan positif dan solusi bagi permasalahan-permasalahan di atas tidak akan tercapai tanpa upaya serius pendidikan arsitektur untuk menanamkan pengetahuan, kemampuan, dan kepekaan mengenai potensi bambu kepada para mahasiswa. Penelitian ini merupakan salah satu upaya evaluasi terhadap edukasi bambu di pendidikan arsitektur, khususnya di Jurusan Arsitektur UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang. Evaluasi terhadap tingkat pengetahuan, kemampuan, dan kepekaan mahasiswa terkait berbagai potensi bambu dilakukan dengan tujuan merumuskan berbagai strategi dan metode pembelajaran yang lebih tepat di masa depan

Contribution of bamboo materials in architecture education towards sustainable community development

Bamboo is one of the natural resources that are easy to find in forests, villages, and riversides area of tropical countries like Indonesia. On the other hand, architecture education in Indonesia has not focused much on bamboo as the potential architectural design material. Whereas bamboo has many potencies for many elements in architecture design. Architecture education is a possible way to explore and develop bamboo as an architectural element and introduce its potencies to the local communities. This paper is the initial desk study of multiphase research on the contribution of bamboo materials in architecture education towards sustainable community development. The objective of this paper is to explain the gap in the vast research topics on bamboo in order to define further research on how architecture education pays attention to the significance of bamboo as a sustainable material. The result shows that research topics on bamboo material are vastly developed in some areas and on the contrary is rarely explored in other areas of research. Research in architecture education and its teaching strategies to elevate the comprehension of the students on the topic of sustainable materials such as bamboo is hardly found