jailcd2016051: Sustainable Modular Housing System Study Case: Jakarta

Abstract

One effective way to realize a low-carbon city design in developing countries is to address the biggest producer of carbon emission. In this regard, today's survey results indicate that buildings have been the largest source of emissions in cities, both during their phase of development and demolition. However, addressing all the problems caused by buildings of an entire city cannot be conducted simultaneously. It is necessary to make a priority scale of buildings, categorizing them by: buildings that can be regulated with minimum intervention but can bring about maximum impacts in terms of a low-carbon city concept. In regards to this concept, the choice falls on residential buildings, which occupy most plots in urban areas of developing countries, including in the city of Jakarta, which is the location for the case study of this paper. Thus, in order to intervene and help private residential buildings to overcome the problems in urban scale, the focus of this paper is on creating a system of housing, and not on the housing design. The system created is a modular building system that can also affect the lifecycle of the building.