Perception on Green Building Concept for Vertical Housing

Abstract

Indonesia has a huge number of backlog, it is estimated at around 11.4 million unit in 2015. It has been sugested that vertical housing becomes one of the solution at fulfilling the housing need in the urban area in Indonesia. World Green Building Council reports that buildings contribute to 33% of carbon dioxide emission, 17% of water consumption, 25% of wood consumption, 30–40% of raw materials consumption, and 40–50% energy consumption in its construction and operation. Based on those facts, therefore, an environmentally sound development should consider building energy consumption. Green Building concept is being trusted as a way to solve this issue, but the local authority of Indonesia lacks of green criteria assessment for vertical housing. Through this study, it is expected to obtain some simple categories about green building concept for vertical housing. The methodology of this study, uses qulitative analysis by collecting perception from some respondents thhrough various ages and professions. The data is collected through online quetionnaire. The data determines to some key words and categories to see the distribution and corespondence on each answer. The result shows that respondents considered the Indoor comfortability and outdoor management being the important criteria that must be noticed on implementing green building design concept in vertical housing. It is caused by a half of respondents’occupants are not related to green building. This study is expected to be developed or considered for next study about green building assessment criteria for vertical housing in Indonesia.