Abstract:
The identity if riverside settlements in Banjarmasin can be identified from its riverside architecture. The identity consists of the messo scale namely the type of river, settlement patterns, regional networks, and the area and buildings' function, accessibility, and buildings' layers. As for the micro scale can be identified from the patterns of occupancy, building typology, building function, material and construction, building orientation, the relationship of roads and bridges. To scale the pattern of occupancy can be derived from the components of lanting, houses along the river bank, bridge, dock/batang, batang and jamban, and the cultural life of the riverside community. The existence of rivers is found only in the early stage of development. There is a coexistence of rivers and roads over time, and the dominance of roads accompanies the decline of rivers' existence in living life. In the process of the existence of the riverside settlement in the city of Banjarmasin, there is continuity on functions of the element core and the role of the river. Factors that influence the formation of identity and existence of riverside settlement is a factor of kinship, government policies, cultural habitable and assembly, the tradition of building and habitable, the knowledge of construction and material, awareness and reliance on the function of the river.
