MAPAN House: From Prototype to Urban Settlements Implementation

Abstract

MAPAN House is a house that is able to produce food and energy continuously. This research is motivated by environmental issues in Indonesia, such as the crisis of agricultural fields, food imports, global warming, climate change and urban heat island. This phenomenon has hit urban areas and is suspected to get worse in the future, so that solutions and its implementation in real world are needed. The MAPAN House has been developed in 5 houses located in Surakarta, Indonesia. This action research found that each house produces a daily harvest of over 8400kcal of food (staple food, side dishes, vegetables and fruits) and generates an average of 450W of renewable energy for 8 hours/day. The research also finds that the annual results of each MAPAN House are able to save 103 trees, to reduce 748kg emission of CO2 and to avoid the use of 749kg of coal. This effort is created to multiply green architecture results in the real urban life. The results show that MAPAN House has proven a good direct impact on urban sustainable, such as food and energy security, urban heat solution collaboration, communal climate change mitigation and public adaptation to global warming.