Pusat Pendidikan Budidaya Padi Di Pekanbaru Dengan Pendekatan Arsitektur Tropis

Abstract

The world is faced a crisis on food availability for consumption, it is due to erratic climate condition, the lack of agricultural land, and many farmers choose to plant crops because it is more
profitable than farming in paddy fields. Rice Cultivation Education Center is a place for teaching, training, research, and recreation on agricultural science, it is about planting and cultivating rice
in paddy fields to avoid world food crisis, including in Indonesia. The design uses a method of transformation of concepts and characteristics of tropical architecture that utilizes the deficiency of
the tropical climate and making it as an excess that can support the function of the building and therefore it contributes to mass formation, mass orientation, the order of landscape, and circulation
patterns inside and outside of the site. The concept of ‘Ruang-Ruang Cahaya’ (spaces of the light) is applied to the design of the building to take advantage of sunlight as energy saving and making it as aesthetic when the light enter the room through the openings. It is applied to the function of
different rooms, an is focused on circulation which connect each room inside the building. The necessity of designing The Rice Cultivation Education Center with Tropical Architecture approach
may provide benefits to the surrounding environment and the activities in the building.
Keyword: Rice Cultivation Education Center, Natural Lighting, Tropical Architecture