Sustainable Campus Architecture and Society 5.0

Abstract

Campus, merely known as the studying space for students, hoped to be agents of change in many fields, not only becomes a space but also a place. Place for the agents for growing up, facing many real experiences in life. It was not newly known the sustainable approach in physical aspects, specially architecture, hold an important role in terms of building place for students. The environmental issue holds a highlight in many decades. It was concerned in many levels of life and changed the way people think, act and do. Back to sustainable aspects in campus, is it only physical aspect that counts to support grow-up phases for students? What other aspects can help to overcome the whole process of student's development? Not to mention about society 5.0 that blends technology in many ways of life, to keep balance between technology and integrated solution to bring easiness to solve problems in economy, social, education, health and many more. MitchellThomashow, former college president, describes nine elements of sustainable campus agenda, those are energy, food, materials, governance investment, wellness, curriculum, interpretation and aesthetics (aspects of learning). With the human-centred approach of Society 5.0, can those elements of sustainable campus agenda also bring back student's basic nature as humans, to live happily and productively to achieve the best version of themselves? With the qualitative method approach, this paper finds the aspects in sustainable architecture and other related field in terms of reaching the goals through putting those elements into practice in building the comprehensive sustainable campus for happy and productive students.