DESIGN OF KUDUS MART IN KUDUS REGENCY USING ENERGY-SAVING APPROACH

Abstract

Kudus Mart is a place where activities or transactions of buying and selling basic daily needs take place, supported by ancillary facilities in order to provide a safe and comfortable place to shop for the people of Kudus and its surroundings. The design of the Kudus Mart is based on the problem that Kudus is an industrial city dominated by factories and the lack of shopping and entertainment centers for the people of Kudus as well as on the proposal from the Regional House of People's Representatives of Kudus Regency to accelerate economic recovery to provide varied employment opportunities. With the implementation of EnergySaving Architecture which aims to provide services, facilities, and designs that are able to save energy by means of Active and Passive designs that minimize energy use without limiting or changing building functions. Situated in Kudus Regency, where there are very few shopping centers, this is a problem in this area and the lack of environmentally friendly entertainment venues underlies the writing of this report. The method used in this report is a discussion of the analysis starting from the background of the problem which focuses on Shopping Centers, User Needs to design with an Energy Efficient Architecture approach. From this analysis it can be concluded that the design of the Kudus Mart functions as a media that can provide convenience to the community in shopping for their daily basic needs at one location with the Energy-Saving Architecture approach, it is hoped that the building can reduce costs, increase environmental value and comfort.