Abstract
Medan City has a variety of cultures and ethnicities, which affect the face of the city. The distinctiveness of the architecture of shophouses in a city is an element forming a city identity. In its development, it appears that shophouses in Medan City are undergoing a transformation. Variety changes appear to be such shophouses, apparently leaving the collective memory of ethnicity identity as shophouses. This study aims to uncover the typology of character elements in the appearance of shophouses that characterize ethnic identity. With Habraken’s version typology approach, classification of identity-forming characters is done which characterizes shophouse ethnicity. The results show that the appearance of Chinese shophouses is dominated by trellis and a little ornamentation, it appears that the dominant Indian shophouse with Hindu religious ornaments appears to be the dominant Malay shophouse ornamented with symbols of traditional Malay houses. It is expected that the results of this study will be the first step for further research on genealogy and the influence factors of design that look like shophouses that can be used as guidelines for the preparation of City Government regulations reaching the Medan City with an identity.
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