No abstract

The objective of this study is to evaluate the performance of hospital inpatient ward spatial configuration in relation to visibility. Visibility is an important aspect in a hospital inpatient ward, and could support healthcare performance. Visibility is required in an inpatient ward for the purposes of control, surveillance, interaction and communication among patients and nurses, and it could be affected by the spatial configuration of the ward. Based on isovist as a way to visualize the visual experience in surrounding environments, we developed an analytical tool to evaluate the visibility of an inpatient ward in a planned university teaching hospital. The findings illustrate the visibility as experienced by the users in the everyday operation of the hospital ward. Some recommendations for improvement were suggested to the existing spatial configuration for better visibility.

Sungai secara alamiah merupakan sebuah kesatuan, namun pada kenyataannya pengelolaannya terkotak-kotak ke dalam wilayah administratif. Selain itu, sungai juga memiliki keterkaitan dengan kondisi masyarakat yang bertinggal di sekitarnya. Tulisan ini membahas permasalahan Daerah Aliran Sungai (DAS) melalui pendekatan pembahasan isu pengelolaan, dan isu kondisi masyarakat khususnya dalam kerangka keterkaitan wilayah hulu dan hilir. Departemen Pekerjaan Umum sebagai pengelola dan penanggung jawab sumber daya air secara nasional, sering mengemukakan semboyan "one river one plan one management". Namun pada kenyataannya hal ini masih sering bertentangan dengan produk perundangan dan peraturan yang dibuat oleh pemerintah, terutama terkait dengan otonomi daerah. Tulisan ini juga mencoba untuk memberikan gambaran kondisi permukiman dan kondisi masyarakat di Bale Kambang dan Kampung Pulo yang merupakan wilayah hilir sungai. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian ini dapat disimpulkan bahwa dalam praktek penataan ruang DAS diperlukan keterpaduan antara pengelolaan DAS di berbagai wilayah, serta pemahaman kondisi masyarakat di wilayah sekitar DAS. Hasil penelitian ini dapat memberikan masukan bagi praktek penataan dan pengelolaan lingkungan perkotaan pada wilayah DAS yang tidak dapat berdiri sendiri, serta pentingnya melihat keterkaitan antara lingkungan fisik DAS dengan dengan kondisi sosial masyarakat di sekitarnya.

This paper reports an on-going project that studies how visitors search and use information from the visual environment to guide wayfinding within a healthcare facility. The execution of wayfinding task by ten participants as simulated visitors of a General Hospital in Malang, Indonesia were recorded by video camera and voice recorder. This study revealed that during wayfinding, visitors would focus on the visual environment. Visitors would search, select and use information for wayfinding by reading the environment. These results imply that the arrangement of visual environment is crucial to support wayfinding.

Everyday space is a setting where ordinary acts, activities and events take place. It is interesting to examine closely how interiority is defined, understood and manifested in everyday space as a way to understand the inhabitation of the interior. The interiority of everyday space is defined not only by occupation but also through materiality. This issue of Interiority presents articles that address the relationships between interior materiality and different perceptual constructs and experiences of architectural space as inherent in the occupation of the everyday space.