1) Department of Architecture, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Planning, Universitas Trisakti.
2) Landscape Architect, Alumni of the Landscape Master^s Program, University of Melbourne
Abstract
Biodiversity is a necessity in maintaining environmental sustainability and human quality of life. Therefore, serious efforts are needed to maintain the sustainability of multispecies life. Development policies to date have been too biased towards human interests, ignoring the welfare of non-human species, resulting the built environment that is poor in biodiversity. In the context of built environment engineering, architects and urban planners need to start directing the approach to developing built environments that support multispecies equality, no longer anthropocentric. Ways of thinking about architectural design that can encourage multispecies coexistence need to be developed. This article based on the results of a systematic literature review to explore the paradigm of multispecies equality from various scientific fields, combined with multiple case studies of built environments to explore the occurrence of mutualistic symbiosis between species in architectural spaces. The result is formulation of spatial configuration and space use models for built environments that is expected to be able to encourage mutualistic symbiosis and multispecies coexistence.
Keywords: Architectural design approach, Spatial configuration, Space use models, Anthropocentrism, multispecies equality
