Tingkat Kualitas Taman Kota Berdasarkan Elemen Desain Biofilik Menurut Pendapat Pengguna di Taman Indonesia Kaya, Kota Semarang

Abstract

Semarang is the capital city of Central Java province and also the fifth metropolitan city in Indonesia. However, currently the fulfillment of green open space in Semarang City has only reached 15% of 30% of the total urban area based on the target of Permendagri number 1 of 2007. If you want to meet the 30% target, the Semarang City Government must add 5,607 Ha or 15% of the total area. Semarang City (37,380 Ha). The quickest solution to the scarcity of green open spaces is to improve the quality of existing green open spaces. The city park is one of the green open spaces. Based on the idea of sustainable development goals, the design of public spaces seeks to create a healthy city that supports the improvement of the health of the community or its inhabitants. Therefore, public space is expected to be a place to prevent and reduce the level of health problems, both physical health and mild mental health, in order to provide benefits for public health conditions and affect the quality of life of urban communities. Biophilic design is a design theory that can minimize the negative impact of urban life so that humans can improve physical and mental comfort and health. Therefore, Taman Indonesia Kaya in Semarang City is the location of this research, which aims to evaluate the quality of urban parks as public spaces based on biophilic design elements and urban garden design elements. This research method uses a descriptive quantitative approach with a scoring technique. The sample of this research are park users. The results showed that the value of the quality level of Taman Indonesia Kaya based on biophilic design elements got a value of 67.81 which means the quality of Taman Indonesia Kaya is quite good.