Social Space of the Sustainable Communal Dining Room Serving Area in the Social Center for the Visually Impaired Wyata Guna Bandung

Distance is one of the important things in building a social dimension. It is also influenced by the perception of the five human senses. Lack of function of one of the senses can affect human interaction with other humans and with the surrounding environment in the social area. Entering the social area for people with visual disabilities is not an easy thing. In general, people without visual disabilities can determine the extent of their boundaries with other people, they can determine that because of their ability to see, therefore their social area is even wider. In contrast to people with visual disabilities who must touch and hear the surroundings first. People with visual disabilities cannot know the boundaries with social areas because to be able to recognize them they have to get closer first, sometimes even to pass the normal distance of human boundaries in public areas. The existence of a shared dining room can be used as one of the media in training people with visual disabilities to be more prepared to face social areas, a little development is needed both in design and systems that can solve these problems. Therefore, this paper is made with the hope of opening a little insight into what is needed for further development.


Research Background
Distance then is not a simple continuum, but has a series of perceptual thresholds.In that most important of all things in our lives, our relationships with others, distance is critical and crucial, for it determines how we will interact."(Lawson, Bryan.The Language of Space.2001) One of the important things in building a social dimension is distance.It is also influenced by the perception of the five human senses.Lack of function of one of the senses can affect human interaction with other humans and with the surrounding environment in the social area.
People with visual disabilities are one of them.According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a visually impaired person is someone who has no perception of light or someone who has perception of light but less than 3/60 of people without visual disabilities.With their disability, they use their other four senses as a substitute for their eyes.Therefore, they have their own way of interacting and responding to the social area around them.
Entering the social area for people with visual disabilities is not an easy thing.In general, people without visual disabilities can determine the extent of their boundaries with other people, they can determine that because of their ability to see, therefore their social area is even wider.In contrast to IOP Publishing doi:10.1088/1755-1315/1324/1/012046 2 people with visual disabilities who must touch and hear the surroundings first.People with visual disabilities cannot know the boundaries with social areas because to be able to recognize them they have to get closer first, sometimes even to pass the normal distance of human boundaries in public areas.
Relating to Sustainable Development Goals, there are three goals that related to this topic, it was Good Health and Wellbeing, Reduced Inequalities, and Sustainable Cities and Communities.As a community that have an universal user, it can be a community that sustain and have an impact for many people who has activity in this place.
Therefore, when entering new areas, especially social areas that require people with visual disabilities to interact with other humans, they need a companion.But their companion cannot always follow them all the time.This is one of the causes of the increasingly narrow social area for people with visual disabilities.
The most common interaction carried out by people with visual disabilities at PSBN Wyata Guna is interaction with fellow people with visual disabilities who share the same dormitory with them.In addition, they interact with other people with visual disabilities when doing daily activities outside the dormitory.However, their interaction with other people with visual disabilities is not as optimal as when they are in the dormitory because when outside the dormitory they are more focused on doing their activities.
One of the activities of people with visual impairments when outside the dormitory is having lunch together in the dining room at 12:00 -13:30.Actually, this activity requires people with visual impairments to eat lunch together in the dining room, but they choose to take food in the dining room serving area and then bring it to the room to eat with their dorm mates.The reason is not only because cats sometimes come and disturb them in the dining room, but also because they feel that their dormitory has become their comfort zone.
The existence of a shared dining room can be used as one of the media in training people with visual disabilities to be more prepared to face social areas, a little development is needed both in design and systems that can solve these problems.Therefore, this paper is made with the hope of opening a little insight into what is needed for further research.

Case Study & Analysis
The method used to observe the behavior of people with visual disabilities while in the dining room is observation.During the lunch break, a hidden camera was placed in the dining room, then analyzed the behavior of people with visual disabilities when in the dining room, especially in the serving area.In the communal dining room at PSBN Wyata Guna, the serving area serves to serve food to people with visual disabilities.This area consists of two tables, several chairs, and a storage cabinet.The following is a plan of the dining room and the placement of the serving area.The plan above shows the crowd point centered on serving area AB1 and dining area AA.The area that is colored red is the area that is the main route for people with visual disabilities, so when they are in this room they mostly walk in that area.Dining area AA is the closest dining area to the entrance, making it easier for people with visual impairments to reach.
In the AB1 serving area, there are several elements: a long dining table, chairs, and a storage cabinet behind it.On the serving table there are several places to put food.In this area, people with visual disabilities will make a queue to take turns taking food or helping each other in taking it.
However, from data above, there are two conditions were then analyzed using a diagram.From this diagram, it will be known how distance can affect the time for people with visual impairments to circulate.This diagram analysis is carried out for each circulation, there was entrance to serving From the observations, it can be seen that people with visual disabilities when in the serving area interact with other people with visual disabilities, both total and low vision.In this case, the serving area becomes a medium that can expand the social space for people with visual disabilities.
There is a social phenomenon that occurs in this serving area.People with low vision disabilities when dealing with people with total vision disabilities when taking food will help each other, then in the end they eat together at the dining table in the dining room.The following is a snippet of the video obtained when conducting research in the dining room.From the observations made, it can be seen that the serving area is a medium to expand the social space for people with visual disabilities.With this serving area, people with visual disabilities who previously did not know each other closely can help each other, eat together, and exchange ideas at the dining table.

Conclusion
The serving area can be one of the media to expand the social space for people with visual impairments, most of them do not eat in the dining room, but they still have to go to the dining room to get food at the serving table.At that time, interactions between people with visual impairments occur, they talk to each other even though they only rely on sound and do not know whether they are facing each other or not, help each other in getting food, and even join in eating in the dining room so that they can interact longer with the people they meet at that time.

Figure 1 .
Figure 1.Dining Room Layout Existing & with Crowd Point (Source: Personal Documentation)