THE CONCEPT OF HARMONY BY CONTRAST IN ARCHITECTURE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF PURWOSARI STATION AREA

Conservation is an effort to preserve historical buildings and processes to limit the changes considering on past, present, and future aspects. Conservation at the Purwosari station area is applied as the basis for the development of the cultural heritage station building. Harmony by Contrast is one of the conservation efforts used in handling the preservation of the area by maintaining the harmony between new buildings with old buildings, maintaining the harmony of urban spaces and other urban elements without having to undermine the existence of old buildings. Purwosari Station in Surakarta comes as a large station building as well as a cultural heritage building, accommodating the transit of arrival and departure of passengers. In its development, population growth more and more so that station Purwosari require development of design enough to accommodate passenger transit activity. Appropriate design’s planning is needed to realize a safe and convenient transit area. Because of that, it will be applied the evaluation-design-strategy to giving the attention about the aspects need to be addressed as well as to be developed with the approach of harmony by contrast’s architecture.