Reinventing Traditional Malay House for Sustainable Housing Design: Obstacle and Proposed Solution

Traditional Malay House design has the key of energy efficiency dwelling to create a sustainable housing. Today, modern houses are massively built replacing the Malaysia’s heritage house. Despite of this rapid development, the owners are aware on the drawback of this type of houses. Therefore, thi...

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Main Authors: Ibrahim, S.H, Liew, A.A.H, Nawi, M.N.M, Yusoff, M. N
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Language:English
Published: UTM Press 2015
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Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10722/
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author Ibrahim, S.H
Liew, A.A.H
Nawi, M.N.M
Yusoff, M. N
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Liew, A.A.H
Nawi, M.N.M
Yusoff, M. N
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description Traditional Malay House design has the key of energy efficiency dwelling to create a sustainable housing. Today, modern houses are massively built replacing the Malaysia’s heritage house. Despite of this rapid development, the owners are aware on the drawback of this type of houses. Therefore, this study is conducted to investigate factors of developers reluctant to build the Traditional Malay House and correct the public misconception toward the housing perception. Survey questionnaire and in-depth interview were conducted. The results indicate that costing is the major problem for housing developers to construct Traditional Malay House.
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spelling unimas-107222017-02-21T02:13:59Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10722/ Reinventing Traditional Malay House for Sustainable Housing Design: Obstacle and Proposed Solution Ibrahim, S.H Liew, A.A.H Nawi, M.N.M Yusoff, M. N TH Building construction Traditional Malay House design has the key of energy efficiency dwelling to create a sustainable housing. Today, modern houses are massively built replacing the Malaysia’s heritage house. Despite of this rapid development, the owners are aware on the drawback of this type of houses. Therefore, this study is conducted to investigate factors of developers reluctant to build the Traditional Malay House and correct the public misconception toward the housing perception. Survey questionnaire and in-depth interview were conducted. The results indicate that costing is the major problem for housing developers to construct Traditional Malay House. UTM Press 2015 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10722/1/NO%20103%20Reinventing%20traditional%20malay%20house%20for%20sustainable%20housing%20design%20%28abstract%29.pdf Ibrahim, S.H and Liew, A.A.H and Nawi, M.N.M and Yusoff, M. N (2015) Reinventing Traditional Malay House for Sustainable Housing Design: Obstacle and Proposed Solution. Jurnal Teknologi, 72 (1). pp. 97-102. ISSN 2180–3722 https://scholar.google.com.my/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=BiuenpYAAAAJ&citation_for_view=BiuenpYAAAAJ:hqOjcs7Dif8C 10.11113/jt.v72.3134
spellingShingle TH Building construction
Ibrahim, S.H
Liew, A.A.H
Nawi, M.N.M
Yusoff, M. N
Reinventing Traditional Malay House for Sustainable Housing Design: Obstacle and Proposed Solution
title Reinventing Traditional Malay House for Sustainable Housing Design: Obstacle and Proposed Solution
title_full Reinventing Traditional Malay House for Sustainable Housing Design: Obstacle and Proposed Solution
title_fullStr Reinventing Traditional Malay House for Sustainable Housing Design: Obstacle and Proposed Solution
title_full_unstemmed Reinventing Traditional Malay House for Sustainable Housing Design: Obstacle and Proposed Solution
title_short Reinventing Traditional Malay House for Sustainable Housing Design: Obstacle and Proposed Solution
title_sort reinventing traditional malay house for sustainable housing design: obstacle and proposed solution
topic TH Building construction
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http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10722/1/NO%20103%20Reinventing%20traditional%20malay%20house%20for%20sustainable%20housing%20design%20%28abstract%29.pdf