Proceedings of the First Lekantara Annual Conference on Public Administration, Literature, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Education, LePALISSHE 2021, August 3, 2021, Malang, Indonesia

Research Article

Urban Aesthetics Analysis with Townscape Theory Approach in Architecture Photography (Case Study: Jakarta Old Town Core Zone)

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.3-8-2021.2315079,
        author={Silviana  Tahalea and Erlina  Novianti and FX.  Damarjati},
        title={Urban Aesthetics Analysis with Townscape Theory Approach in Architecture Photography  (Case Study: Jakarta Old Town Core Zone)},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the First Lekantara Annual Conference on Public Administration, Literature, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Education, LePALISSHE 2021, August 3, 2021, Malang, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={LEPALISSHE},
        year={2022},
        month={1},
        keywords={urban esthetics; architectural photography; townscape; old town jakarta},
        doi={10.4108/eai.3-8-2021.2315079}
    }
    
  • Silviana Tahalea
    Erlina Novianti
    FX. Damarjati
    Year: 2022
    Urban Aesthetics Analysis with Townscape Theory Approach in Architecture Photography (Case Study: Jakarta Old Town Core Zone)
    LEPALISSHE
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.3-8-2021.2315079
Silviana Tahalea1,*, Erlina Novianti1, FX. Damarjati2
  • 1: Departemen of Photography in Faculty of Art and Design, Universitas Trisakti
  • 2: Communication Visual Design Program in Universitas Matana
*Contact email: silviana@trisakti.ac.id

Abstract

Urban esthetics is an important aspect that must be recognized and understood, especially the ones related with urban architecture and/or urban design. Along with the history of an urban area, activities to identify esthetic aspects must be implemented in order to improve urban esthetic value created by certain spaces in the urban area. One aspect that can be conducted to analyze urban area morphology is by implementing analysis on an area or an urban area through its products. One general approach to analyze urban area product is through City Imaging and Townscape. Architecture photography can be utilized to document elements of a building, both in general and in details while also focuses on urban esthetics. Urban esthetics value is a tool to identify an urban area, and act as a vital element to describe the dynamic aspect of an urban area. One of the most interesting areas in Jakarta to be analyzed is the old town core zone area as an appealing area to be visualized based on townscape theory due to its historic buildings and as one of the leading cultural tourism destination pillars located in DKI Jakarta. This utilizes qualitative research method, which is a method to explore various phenomenon bound by time and activity, through detailed data and information gathering by using photographical approach. The result of this research revealed that Old Town core zone still requires a number of improvements to be developed into an area that fulfill Urban Esthetic concept.