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The availability of choices for housing in different life phases is essential. The critical valuation from consumers becomes instrument to the quality control of housing supplied by producers. However, some consumers like students have unique characteristics, which potentially bound their housing choices. This paper describes the spatial bounded-choice phenomena from the situation of the students' behaviour in Bandung, Indonesia as a Case Study. The factual and perceptual conditions of the students' rental housing situated around the university in Bandung; the conditions of the housing choice; the factors which bound the student's housing choice; and the formulation strategies of intervention to overcome the bounding factors are explored.

The ideas of resilient housing have been rapidly developed for better future quality improvement. On the other side, resilience is a critical framework, which is not only for housing in the future but also for those that have been built and already inhabited. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct a study that can identify the compatibility of existing housing performance with the framework of resilience. Five vertical housing in Bandung were selected as case studies. These five housing are vertical public-housing prototype from national government that have been used in many cities for low income people. Post occupancy evaluation was used to assess the performance. Benchmarking and occupant survey instruments were combined in this study. The performance measurement results were then compared with critical resilient framework for housing to support community livelihood, reduce the vulnerability of resident to environmental risk and stresses, enhance personal security, and empower communities. It is concluded that the resilience of existing vertical public housing is differentiated according to the corridor design type and the occupant behavior to adapt the design. These two factors are closely linked to the achievement of resilient housing framework and are key inputs for short-term improvements in the vertical public housing that have been built.

The concept of sustainable housing has considered the urgency to support the sustainable environment in an integrative way. This concept is related to several main principles include environmental, social, and economic sustainability. In practice, these principles translated into the fundamental of housing choice, both process and product choices. In many peri-urban areas, current house construction tends to imitate city houses with massive concrete structures equipped with air conditioning that caused high energy consumption. The Center for Rural Empowerment team of ITB built a prototype of an eco-friendly house in Haurgombong village, Sumedang, West Java. The house has two floors building on a 7x5 m2 land site. The first floor was renovated from the existing toilet rooms and develop into a two-floor house. The second floor was built using the local wood material. The wood material has been obtaining from the trees of seven years old beechwood (Gmelina Arborea) planted in the garden. The envelope material for this house was constructed from local and common material in rural or peri-urban context, the lightweight fiberglass for the roof of common room, and the transparent fiber materials for the roof of second-floor terrace to make the plantation at this area can easily receive the sunlight. This house is also can be regarded as a prototype of an earthquake-resistant house. The lighting factor, temperature, and airflow settings are made naturally. Besides, this house has also equipped with a rainwater storage system and greywater treatment using a small, constructed wetland that allows the treated water used for watering gardens and fishponds. The budget spent to build this house was as low as possible so that the surrounding community can imitate the building for their house and disseminate eco-friendly housing.

The complexity that occurs in the city is determined by its diversity and intensity of inhabitant activity. The connectivity system becomes an essential factor to accommodate these lively activities, especially connectivity of the housing area to the working area and public facilities. Periphery area of some metropolitan city including Bandung City has been growing fast, which is influenced by the intense need for housing accommodation, as well as accommodation of educational and industrial sectors. The East Peri-Urban of Bandung City in this decade became a more high density, especially along the primary arterial road that connects the Western and Eastern area of Bandung. This study aims to analyze the morphology of housing development and its connectivity including road networks that located in three area of the East Bandung from 2007 to 2017: Jatihandap, Pasir Impun, and Cijambe corridors. Space Syntax analysis is conducted to perform this morphology study. Data collected by direct observation and secondary sources review that related to the development of housing settlement in the area. It is concluded that the development of housing morphology in the peri-urban area of Bandung within ten years is growing intensively. There is some dis-integration pattern of road connectivity in the case study, which tends to be isolated or can be called as “big housing pocket”. The connectivity or permeability of the housing area in the peri-urban city is urgently needed to intervene, in order to reduce isolated settlement pattern and daily heavy traffic.