EVALUATION OF STREET SPACE UTILIZATION AS PLAYABLE STREET IN CHILD-FRIENDLY VILLAGE LELES CONDONGCATUR

Abstract

The unavailability of play space in Indonesian villages has often driven children to use the street as a play space. This has also been practiced in developed countries, but has been more planned and designed to create a sense of safety and comfort for children. Often street space can be permanently closed off to allow for optimal placement of children's play equipment. In the context of architecture, the concept of using street space as a space that can be played by children is called playable street. One of the settlements that has applied the concept of playable street until it received the predicate of the best child-friendly village by the local district government is the Child-Friendly Village (CFV) Leles Condongcatur. Therefore, Delima Street in CFV Leles Condongcatur was chosen as the object of research. This research aims to find out the application of the playable street concept that has been done to be evaluated so that the strengths and weaknesses can be a lesson to design a playable street more optimally. The method used in this evaluation is observation to find out the description of the physical elements which are then further analyzed based on the literature study that has been done. In CFV Leles Condongcatur, the concept of playable street is temporary and only done normatively (not architecturally) such as the use of portals and banners as vehicle stop signs, road space that is only colored with paint, and the absence of game equipment in the playable street. Whereas Delima Street in CFV Leles Condongcatur is appropriate for playable streets because the traffic density is quite low.