Multiplicity as spatial strategy of a shared domestic outdoor space

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JournalAIP Conference Proceedings
PublisherAmerican Institute of Physics, AIP Publishing LLC, AIP Conference Proceedings 3215 (1), 050007, 2024
Volume & IssueVol. 3215,Issue 1
Pages -
Publication Year2024
ISSN0094243X
Source TypeScopus
Citations
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Google Scholar: 1
PubMed: 1
Abstract
This paper discusses the idea of multiplicity as a spatial strategy employed in a shared domestic open space in a traditional setting. The discussion proposed to position outdoor space as a productive setting of a domestic, an integration of working and living, rather than a private domain that serves only for a specific function. Multiplicity as spatial strategy arguably shows how open space of domestic shifts from such a fixed and prescribed entity to multilayered spatial configurations with overlapped functions. By employing the perspective of everyday, this study uses a case to reveal multiplicity as the spatial strategy conducted by a roof tile-producing family that operates traditionally in Temanggung, Central Java, Indonesia. Based on field observation and interviews, three forms and spatial configurations constitute the domestic open space - the boundless, pocket, and interstitial spaces. Followed by further mapping of the traces of activities and objects, the multiplicity as spatial strategy is shown through the prevailing multi-layers of occupations within the shared open space - the layers of production, internal-domestic, and social and leisure, which fluidly overlapping without strict boundaries. Such arrangements show that multiplicity can be seen as a spatial strategy developed based on relations of process and spatial conditions within a spatial and temporal arrangement. It arguably expands the idea of domestic outdoor space through its capacity in accommodating various possibility ways of doing at a time within a given physical arrangement. The findings suggest a spatial strategy benefit despite the limited spatial setting, providing a basis for programming domestic architecture. © 2024 Author(s).
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