Double layered home-based enterprises: Case study in Kampung Lio, Depok

Struggling to fulfills economic needs in between the rapid growth of urbanization, one of the trend happened in Kampung Lio, Depok, Indonesia is to rely on informal economic activities such as Home-Based Enterprises (HBE). As HBE become an important topic in informal housing and economic activities, the existing literature has discussed HBE and its implication to spatial strategies. However, in Kampung lio a unique case has risen where the locals are renting HBE for another layer of HBE, making a double-layered HBEs occurred in one housing. This type of HBEs limited movement space for domestic activities inside the house. However, since the activities always happened, the activity spaces will appear with various ways of modifying the use of space inside and through the house. By doing site observation and empirical data collecting, this research aims to examine how the locals modifying domestic activities and spaces and using a certain type of HBEs until the double-layered HBEs emerged. The expected results are to understands how the houses are modified and the activities pattern as they adapt to the change of living spaces in a double-layered HBE in Kampung Lio. This later could be used to serve as the inspiration for designing low-income housing with home base enterprise and public spaces in the urban kampong.