Low cost flat: A study on comfort level in relation on design and planning / Nordiana Ahyad

Comfortable is the important thing for occupant lives n their house. Living in high density more exposed to comfortable problem due to occupant’s complaint especially living in low cost flat. Comfortable living can be related to design development for the house. In Malaysia, the Malaysian Governmen...

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Main Author: Ahyad, Nordiana
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2001
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/15511/
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description Comfortable is the important thing for occupant lives n their house. Living in high density more exposed to comfortable problem due to occupant’s complaint especially living in low cost flat. Comfortable living can be related to design development for the house. In Malaysia, the Malaysian Government has targeted to built 235,000 units of low cost houses. There is no research in Malaysia has been done on the design comfort of low cost flat especially for three major ethnic groups namely Malay, Chinese and Indian with each groups’ own culture and lifestyle. This study present on design comfort for low cost flat developed by government and private sector. It included correct orientation of the building, layout of units according to prevalent wind direction, cross ventilation, temperature, lighting and noise.
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spelling uitm-155112016-11-30T02:36:20Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/15511/ Low cost flat: A study on comfort level in relation on design and planning / Nordiana Ahyad Ahyad, Nordiana Housing City planning. Regional planning Comfortable is the important thing for occupant lives n their house. Living in high density more exposed to comfortable problem due to occupant’s complaint especially living in low cost flat. Comfortable living can be related to design development for the house. In Malaysia, the Malaysian Government has targeted to built 235,000 units of low cost houses. There is no research in Malaysia has been done on the design comfort of low cost flat especially for three major ethnic groups namely Malay, Chinese and Indian with each groups’ own culture and lifestyle. This study present on design comfort for low cost flat developed by government and private sector. It included correct orientation of the building, layout of units according to prevalent wind direction, cross ventilation, temperature, lighting and noise. 2001 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/15511/1/TD_NORDIANA%20AHYAD%20AP%2001_5.PDF Ahyad, Nordiana (2001) Low cost flat: A study on comfort level in relation on design and planning / Nordiana Ahyad. (2001) Degree thesis, thesis, Universiti Teknologi MARA. <http://terminalib.uitm.edu.my/15511.pdf>
spellingShingle Housing
City planning. Regional planning
Ahyad, Nordiana
Low cost flat: A study on comfort level in relation on design and planning / Nordiana Ahyad
title Low cost flat: A study on comfort level in relation on design and planning / Nordiana Ahyad
title_full Low cost flat: A study on comfort level in relation on design and planning / Nordiana Ahyad
title_fullStr Low cost flat: A study on comfort level in relation on design and planning / Nordiana Ahyad
title_full_unstemmed Low cost flat: A study on comfort level in relation on design and planning / Nordiana Ahyad
title_short Low cost flat: A study on comfort level in relation on design and planning / Nordiana Ahyad
title_sort low cost flat: a study on comfort level in relation on design and planning / nordiana ahyad
topic Housing
City planning. Regional planning
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/15511/