The increased longer life expectancy of the elderly is a positive thing though it requires more attention related to the quality of life. The decrease of physical capability will also affect the psychological conditions if they have to depend on others. Activities that involve social interaction of the elderly could minimise loneliness and tend to improve the quality of life. A pleasant and friendly environment for the elderly will help to reduce the level of dependence of the elderly on others. This research takes place Lippo Karawaci as a case study. This neighbourhood has been developed since 1993 and tends to have more ageing population recently. Majority of the elderly are still socially active in exercising and engaging with each other. However, they use residual spaces that are not particularly designed to meet their needs. This study aims to observe the activities, social interactions and how they use the space. The process begins with studying the profiles, activities, needs of the elderly and their spatial use patterns. The descriptive interpretative analysis finds trends in spatial use patterns in residential areas. The result of this study is a model of integrated elderly park that can be applied to residential areas.

This paper aims to evaluate the natural and artificial lighting systems for working space at the educational building in Universitas Indonesia. The doctoral working spaces and innovation laboratories are used as the case studies. The evaluation variables include orientation, openings, and lighting placement. The presence of variables can minimize the use of artificial lighting during the operating hours with clear sky conditions according to the SNI. The tools involved in this study are Lux meter and DIALux evo version 9.2 to perform the direct measurement and simulation. This study found that the lighting planning has fulfilled the SNI standards for doctoral working space with a minimum of 350 Lux and innovation laboratories which require 500 Lux. The direct measurement results of lighting range utilizing the natural light show output with an average of 182.8-1,278.1 Lux and the combination with artificial light from 222-1,883.8 Lux. Meanwhile, for the DIALux evo simulation, each room has exceeded the lower limit of lighting criteria between 403-3,739 Lux.

This paper attempts to examine the potential sociability of building front setback areas that were often overlooked as urban spaces, by searching for typologies and variables of building front setback areas that bring opportunity to promote social interactions. Based on the case studies at the commercial corridors of Lippo Karawaci and Jl. M.H. Thamrin Central Jakarta, this study discovered that direct/transparent and pedestrian setback was the typologies that were successful in promoting active social interactions, due to the following variables, such as direct building lines, face-to-face visibility, street attributes, sidewalk width, shade and shelter from trees, mixed-use, and canopies. The car setback typology was found as a dominant typology and was less likely to support the creation of sociable spaces. However, this typology was able to stimulate sociability in some areas due to the presence of numerous variables, such as wide pedestrian width, the accessibility of transits and public transportations, the presence of public facilities, recurrent of weekly events, the convenience of street furniture, ephemeral objects, openings, and landmarks. This study may provide implications that the understanding of typology and its variables should be more reflective into the future design of active building front setback areas in commercial corridors.