Architectural - Interior Characteristics of Staatsspoorwegen (SS) Railway Employees in Batavia 1914-1942

Abstract

The housing railway employee's characteristics in Manggarai, showcase the spirit of the times through its facade, interior, and architectural elements, resulting from the acculturation of building styles that previously belonged to the Dutch railway Staatsspoorwegen (SS), there is the acculturation of modern Indies building styles. The interior-architectural characteristics of the housing follow the development of the needs and style characteristic of the time. The research method uses a heuristic historical approach, criticism, interpretation, and historiography, and combines descriptive qualitative design method analysis to obtain relevant results. This research can present the characteristics of the Manggarai SS train housing which can fill in the history of development and interior-architectural style in the period 1914-1942 in Batavia.

Keywords: Characteristics; architecture; interior; housing; dutch colonial