People who stay in big cities with much activities today desperately need more space. Unfortunately, in some of the big cities of the world, there are lack of empty space that can be built and its price has just rapidly increased.

So, the needs of additional space today can be done in a vertical way, not just by acquiring land for property horizontally, but also with the addition of spaces in the line of terraced housing. This is of course makes some impact on the changes of the people’s lifestyle inside. These examples can be seen in the form of studio housing types.

This type of housing is a large room which is empty without a partition as part of the strata building units. This room can be used for various activities. In Indonesia, this type of dwelling can be found in many forms, from the smallest to the largest unit row houses, apartment units, and Condominiums.

The difference between this three types of housing is about the graded as follows: in apartment, each level of floor has two or more dwelling units. While in Condominium, the floor can only be filled with one dwelling unit. Another thing to consider is, condominium also referred to as the ‘luxurious or strata title residential’. Condominium unit is lot more expensive than the price of apartment units, because Condos have been arranged only to be filled with only one single dwelling unit for each level of the floor.

Apartments can be distinguished from their price, prestige, and completeness of the facilities inside. Flat house is cheaper than apartment from the selling price and rental rates, but the facilities inside each flat are not as complete as an apartment. Usually Condominium or apartment is already well equipped with the interior furniture (all-in), and also has been equipped with air conditioning systems (AC), which is set in a central, while the flat house does not have such facilities.

The Limitation of space and the era of progress and technology was already make changes in the use of residential spaces of this studio house. In addition to use besides for resting or sleeping, people can do lots of different types of activity in this house, such as studying, working on tasks, and even have office in this type of housing. People today just use their tools: notebook  and modem while lying on a soft mattress, and can perform various activities; online shopping, transaction in banking, monitoring the stock prices, or even later can control the world away from this room.

]]> http://ar-chi-tect.org/2009/01/what-is-a-studio-house/feed/ 4 http://ar-chi-tect.org/2007/12/memperluas-kesan-ruang/ http://ar-chi-tect.org/2007/12/memperluas-kesan-ruang/#comments Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:46:39 +0000 Andie Wicaksono http://ar-chi-tect.org/archives/32 Ruangan yang terasa sempit bisa disebabkan oleh karena kesalahan penggunaan warna. Prinsipnya, penggunaan warna-warna cerah akan memperluas kesan ruang, sebaliknya, warna-warna gelap akan mempersempit kesan suatu ruangan.Teknik pewarnaan interior yang dapat digunakan untuk memperluas kesan sebuah ruangan yaitu sebagai berikut: Menggunakan warna-warna cerah pada bidang dinding dan lantai ruangan. Warna cream atau beige masih termasuk warna cerah, akan tetapi warna tanah memang masuk kategori warna gelap. Supaya tidak terjadi kesan sempit, sebuah ruangan dapat ditata dengan cara sebagai berikut:

1. Penggunaan konsep perabot yg tidak menggunakan banyak ornamennya. Style minimalis misalnya, cocok karena ruangan akan terkesan lebih ringan.
2. Konsep ruang diupayakan terbuka, jgn menggunakan banyak sekat/partisi.
3. Gunakan material utk furnitur dari bahan yg glaze(kilap), termasuk bidang lantainya klo bisa juga menggunakan bahan material glaze.
4. Intensitas cahaya yg masuk kedalam ruangan / interior, caranya dengan menggunakan cahaya alami ataupun dengan tambahan lampu2, dll.
5. Memperluas kesan ruang juga dapat dilakukan dengan cermin

Penggunaan cermin dapat digunakan untuk memperluas kesan ruang. Nah, pertimbangan sisi mana yg bagus utk pemasangan cermin yaitu:

• Sisi mana yang sering terkena sinar matahari? usahakan jangan cermin disisi yg ini, karena akan membuat silau didalam ruangan.
• Bidang mana yang lebih sering digunakan? (ex.buat sirkulasi orang jalan), nah cermin baiknya dipasang di bidang yg -hidup-, yang sering digunakan sebagai area sirkulasi. Bidang yg satu lagi (bidang mati) bisa dibuat sbg vocal point, misal dengan cara menggantung lukisan, foto atau menbuat kontras pada warna dindingnya.

Itu kira2 pertimbangan yg bisa digunakan untuk memperluas kesan sebuah ruangan. Tips penataan ruangan dan interior ini selengkapnya dapat dibaca pada buku Menata Interior sesuai Fengshui