Author: aptari

Innovation and Sustainabilty in AEC 4.0 Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry is facing a fundamental change due to the rise of digitalization and stipulated to comply the global agreement of Sustainable Development Goals (SGD). This volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous future yet the limitation of resource, shifting of demographic profile and  tensions of urban-rural sociology has created a pandora-like future. Abundant knowledge and practices on technology, social, economic, and politics may benefit from digitalization but at the same time challenges the foundation of industry itself as many believes that the AEC industry is rooted on and still uses...

International Conference on Empathic Architecture (ICEA) was firstly initiated by Petra Christian University-Surabaya in 2014, which in 2019 will be the 3rd. Considering that empathy is the action of deeply understanding other feelings or experiences as if we feel or experience the same issue, “Empathic Architecture” is when architect decides the best solution for a design problem to make the designer and the user practically the same person. In the creation of architecture and built environment, empathy is not always found in architecture products, as architects pay more attention on aesthetic, function, structure and economic aspects of the products. At...

Introduction to the 5th Conference 2018 Every community has been facing rapid changes in various aspects of life. At global level, the changes refer to planetary-scale changes in the Earth system which consists of the land, oceans, atmosphere, polar regions, life, the planet’s natural cycles and deep Earth processes that its parts influence one another including human society. Beside the threat of significant climate change, there is growing concern over the ever-increasing human modification of other aspects of the global environment and the consequent implications for human well-being. Social systems can also change rapidly and discontinuously in ways that...