As the urban population in Indonesia is
growing, limited availability of land,
especially in big cities, causes microgrounded
housing phenomenon to emerge.
However, the social sustainability aspects
of this housing model are little understood.
This research seeks to understand the
potential social implications on residents
who live in micro-grounded housing in
Indonesia. The adverse effects of crowding
from case studies all around the world are
being collected, combined with Maslow’s
hierarchy of needs theory and the housing
value framework created by McCray and
Day, are used to measure the social
sustainability of the residents in Surabaya,
one of the biggest cities in Indonesia.
Combining interviews with empirical
observations, this study used two opposite
case studies: micro-grounded housing and
standard-sized vertical housing, as a
comparison to understand the distinct
characteristic of the former. This study
found that micro-grounded housing caters
to fewer human needs and therefore only
satisfies the lower part of Maslow’s
hierarchy. When the basic daily need has
not been fully satisfied, the urge to higher
needs of housing value such as social
interaction, prestige, and beauty, does not
occur as this research found. A recommendation is made for more strict
enforcement of space standards, for both
building and plot size. Additionally, another
form of housing such as co-living model
could be an alternative to provide social
sustainability through provision of more
communal facilities. Moreover, the housing
strategies need to focus not only on
increasing the quantity of the house but
also on its quality to reach a higher level of
social sustainability.
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