Open Space as Meaningful Place for Students in ITB Campus

This paper analyzes the usage of various open spaces in ITB campus, and identifies essential features that constitute the space as meaningful to students. The result indicates open spaces that are located along the main axis of ITB campus have distinctive meanings to students, and who mostly occupied them are the first-common-year students. Spatial configuration to the axis creates distinctiveness and sense of place to students. Greenery and courtyards around classrooms play also significant role in stimulating outdoor activities and informal social gathering between classes. Meaningful open spaces vary from courtyards, well-defined pedestrian ways, building corridor and veranda.