Family communal space as a natural surveillance function to create resilient coastal settlements

Abstract

Family communual space (FCS) can become a natural surveillance site for residents to monitor their environment. This study, of a fishing village in Indonesia, aims to determine the extent to which FCS plays a role as natural surveillance for its environment. The method uses a combination of quantitative (space syntax) with connectivity, visibility, and isovist approaches, as well as qualitative, such as support for data on kinship level, time of FCS use, and FCS location. The spatial analysis results show that visibility is low because the housing is dense and irregular, axial connectivity is low because there are many bends in roads, and the isovist has a wide observation range. The isovist was able to demonstrate the FCS’s role in natural surveillance. Findings: FCS and kinship ties can optimize environmental security even though visibility and connectivity are low to achieve resilience and sustainability and these are new prospects for researching the same thing but with different spatial methods or different places.

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