SUSTAINABILITY OF CIRCULATION PATTERNS TO EASY MOBILITY VISITORS CASE STUDY: PALACE BANDUNG ELECTRONIC CENTER, BANDUNG
Abstract - The addition of new buildings especially in the shopping center building is often the case, it aims todevelop activities in old shopping buildings that are considered to have potential in maintaining or improving thequality of a shopping center, but the development can be a problem if in the initial development of a shoppingcenter has no plans for adding or thinking about the second stage of development for some time to come. As aresult, the designer must be able to create a connection circulation path in the building design that looks unitedbetween the old building and the new building into a unified whole, but there are several factors that must beadapted to the condition and state of the old building so that the resulting building can be continuous with eachother.This research will discuss about the circulation inside the shopping center building, especially on the continuitybetween circulation pattern of old building and new building of shopping building. The object used is electronicshopping center Istana Bandung Electronic Center or often called BEC located at Jalan Purnawarman no 13-15,Bandung.Qualitative method is done by collecting data from object of study in the form of plan, documentation of pictureor photo, study of literature, theories, and so on. Quantitative methods are carried out by listing the mobility ofvisitors within the building, especially in the path of meeting the circulation patterns between old and newbuildings in the BEC shopping area.The purpose of this research is to know the continuity of circulation pattern between old building and new buildingas one shopping center, seen from the ease of visitor mobility inside the building, and to know and to evaluate theeffectiveness of combined circulation pattern between old building and new building inside shopping area IstanaBandung Electronic Center.Key Words : continuity, circulation patterns, ease of visitor mobility, shopping center.