Reliving Kampung Flavour

Wan Mohamed, Wan Srihani and Mohd. Noor, Mohd. Zairul and Tengku Zakaria, Tengku Muhammad Faiq (2012) Reliving Kampung Flavour. Sustainable Tropical Environmental Design Exhibition 2012, 4. pp. 180-181. ISSN 2180-0685

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Abstract

For the last 50 years, local kampungs have taken too many changes on the perspectives of architecture as well as spatial planning. Due to site location, which has the quality and mood of a remote kampong area, vast views of paddy field and with only few modern infrastructures existed, Faiq decided to design using the substance of what a kampong is like clad in a modern expression. The elevated volume with timber construction has always been a part of Malay traditional kampong houses heritage. The adaptation of using such substance into current architecture has led his scheme to resemble a trendy contemporary timber building design on supports. It is raised well above the ground to make way for landscape and water body for the purpose of activities. The pathways are in zigzag directions connecting one space to another symbolizing the paths amidst the kampung houses and the need to be physically fit as future leaders. The result is a structure that at first seems theoretical and siteless against its surrounding, but becomes more palpable through the warmth of tactful timber usage manipulating the quality of spaces.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > NA Architecture
Divisions:	Faculty of Architecture and Design > Department of Architecture
Date Deposited:	07 Jan 2013 18:47
Last Modified:	07 Jan 2013 18:47
URI:	http://stedex.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/208