DESAIN HUNIAN YANG MENDUKUNG TERCAPAINYA KESADARAN BATIN UNTUK MEMINIMALKAN DAMPAK PSIKOLOGIS PANDEMI COVID-19

Abstract

Pandemic COVID-19 causes various negative impacts on society. Physical health problems and mental health problems are also significantly increased during pandemics, while anxiety disorder appears to be front liners among all mental health problems during pandemics. In an anxiety disorder treatment, psychologists are familiar with a series of training to help patient achieve mindfulness, and as a result, help patient to deal with anxiety disorder. The research aims to formulate basic house design principles to help the dwellers achieve mindfulness, as an architectural design response to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, and minimize COVID-19’s negative impact through preventive and restorative measures. This research is being conducted through the literature review method, through wide-ranging literature from a book and research report published in a scientific journal. The principles are then being examined through an elimination process to formulate an operational design principle in architecture. The result from the elaboration conclude that house design must apply a certain design element to create positive stimulus and engage the senses of the dwellers, the spatial arrangement should be functionally flexible, and the spatial arrangement of the house also needs to be sequentially arranged to make the dweller experience various spatial experience provided by the house design.