Student Boarding House Quality in term of Health Design (Case study: Boarding House near University of Bengkulu)

Abstract

Health is an important requirement in designing a residential building. One of them is a boarding house. Most of the nomad students who came from another city spend their time mostly in their room of boarding house (id: kost). It makes the health quality of boarding house needs to be considered. This study will examine the conditions of boarding houses around the University of Bengkulu in terms of health aspects from the building design. The health quality of a building will be assessed from the location and environment of a boarding house, as well as the design of lighting and ventilation. This study uses a mixed method of quantitative and qualitative. The primary data collection was carried out by online questionnaire survey to UNIB students who live by renting boarding rooms around the campus. The result is boarding houses around the University of Bengkulu are in good condition. But some problems of natural light are found in the glare, and in some cases, rooms do not get natural lighting. Ventilation is the biggest problem for students’ showed by the opening position that only on one side, no opening in the bathroom, which does not meet the rules. The environment students’ boarding houses around the University of Bengkulu, indicated by clean environmental conditions, good water quality, and not noisy. But, some boarding houses are still lacking in greeneries. Results of this study are expected to contribute to improving the environmental health quality around the University of Bengkulu by the buildings and other built environment design.