ASPECTS IN COMPOSING THE QUALITY OF HOME-LIKE IN THIRD PLACE (Case Study: Hema Resto Kemang Pratama, Bekasi)

Abstract

Third place is a spot for someone to runaway from his first place and second place’s routines, in which homelike is one of the characteristics of it. This essay aims to seek the composing aspects of home-like quality in third place based on at-homeness theory with literature and case study as methods. The case study was done in Hema Resto Kemang Pratama in Bekasi City through defamiliarization and interviews. The result shows that home-like was composed from the interactions between individuals, the choosing of interior elements and object placements that resemble a typical housing. The case study shows that the interiority plays a bigger role in composing the home-like quality in a third place than an individual interaction. This may be led by people’s preference of places-for-things.