Aksesibiliti surau di dalam pusat membeli-belah sebagai sebuah pusat ibadat Islam

Surau function as a prayer space like a mosque and can be categorized into two, surau with its own structure and surau as room or praying spaces. Unlike mosque, surau does not have a clear architectural typology, especially for surau in public building like malls. Islamic religious center like mosque or surau must have a high accessibility rate to make it easily access by the general public especially people with disability, old citizen, and women. The objective of the reseach is analyse the accessibilty rate of surau in shopping malls as Islamic religious center for public. The research scope is Federal Teritory of Kuala Lumpur as the capital city of Malaysia beside as point of interest for both local and foreign tourist. 18 nos of malls have been selected with total of 42 surau were observed. The result are shopping malls in the research scope have been built with 3 to 12 stories with the surau at varieties of level from the lowest of basement 3 to the highest floor at level 8. Only 10% of suraus were located on the ground floor, while 57% above ground floor and 33% were located below ground floor. Furthermore, the surau were built not fully complied to the guidelines prepared in building a good facility for all type of visitor especially to the diasbled people, women, and old citizen. Based on study of the 9 elements of accessibilty namely the accessibility, access route, level, center of building, near public area, unhide and obstructed, reachable, separation of man and woman entrance, and disable route it is proven not all surau were built to have universal access

‘Bergendang’ and Its Spatial Use in Traditional Sarawak Malay House

Bergendang is a uniquely Sarawak Malay traditional entertainment frequently held during social gatherings at home. This paper investigates the spatial use of bergendang activity in traditional Malay houses along the Sarawak River in Kuching. The research employed a qualitative case study design approach through field study observation and semi-structured interviews. Findings revealed different spatial use of bergendang for early and later model of Sarawak Malay houses, which is also associated with social status of house owners. Spatial study on traditional Malay houses in other parts of Sarawak is recommended for constructing northern Borneo region's vernacular Malay house framework

The Malaysian experience the conservation of Kota Duyung

This paper reviews the Kota Duyung conservation project and it is hoped that the experience gathered in its process is beneficial to others as well. Kota Duyung has been the nickname of the house of Dato’ Biji Sura for a very long time. The house is located at Pulau Duyung Kecil, part of the greater island of Duyung, rested by the Terengganu riverside. The objective of the project is to conserve the building according to the most appropriate conservation approach. As most part of the building was ruinous in which it was too little left for Kota Duyung to be of any significant physically the project adopted an approach that might be consider controversial by some. For the future survival of Kota Duyung the method that this project engaged in was a combination of several conservation approaches

Architectural conservation in Islam : Case Study of the Prophet’s Mosque

The Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, known to the Muslims as Masjid an–Nabawi, has gone through numerous enlargement and renovation activities within the span of more than 1,000 years. It was certainly an intricate task to preserve and protect the mosque as pristine as possible whilst accepting to the needs for expansion and in meeting differing situational or contemporary challenges. This book examines the attitude and approaches of the Muslims in their effort to protect and care for the Prophet’s Mosque as one of the three most sacred places in Islam. The underlaying and broad Islamic principles of conservation drawn from the Qur’an and as–Shari’ah, as usually applied to the natural environment, are elaborated and taken as the foundation to the attitude in architectural conservation. The author believes that significant building and conservation activities, exemplified mainly in the building process of the Prophet’s Mosque, should be able to provide an insight into the state of consciousness and approach of architectural conservation in the early period of Islam. Overwhelming historical precedents which are highlighted in this book can be used to draw our understanding of architectural conservation in Islam. Hence, it is hoped that the information and knowledge presented in this book and the understanding that is expected to arise from it could generate a discourse towards the formation of Islamic principles of architectural conservation

Experimental study of reinforced concrete columns concealing rain water pipe

An experimental study has been carried out to investigate the effect of concealing rain water pipes inside reinforced concrete columns in multistorey buildings. Fourteen columns in seven sets, having different sizes and reinforcement, with a PVC drain pipe positioned at the centre of crosssection of each one of them have been tested. An approximate method of columns’ alignment has also been developed and the alignment of the constructed columns has been carried out before their testing. The ultimate strength of the columns obtained from the present investigation have been compared with the design strengths recommended by the British code of practice (BS 8110) and the American code of practice (ACI). The columns showed significant reduction in their load carrying capacities and the safety factors obtained were much less than the nominal value usually recommended by various codes of practice

“a” for architecture an alternative book: design thesis folio 2007

This book contains several chapters like section a, acknowledgement, foreword by dean of faculty, foreword by head of department/ thesis coordinator, foreword by chief editor. content in section b environmental unit, article : students perspective on sustainable tropical architectural ideas, the tropical shopping mall, passive solar design in apartment, environment responsive building envelope, breathing architecture – passive ventilated apartment, resort for Batu Ferringhi, Penang, housing and community unit, article : the development of the Wilayah Pembangunan Iskandar: harmony, sustainability and survivability of building design and city planning, Filipino community complex

Constructing timber architecture: Merging the skills of architect, carpenter and masonry workers

Carpentry skill in constructing timber architecture is fast vanishing in Malaysian building industry. As such mass housing schemes are dominated by masonry architecture, leaving the skills of working with timber only to construct the roof frames and doorways. High cost of timber relative to masonry is one of the influencing factors for the industry to put aside the value of timber architecture. Notwithstanding, the carpentry skills in making furniture, doors and windows are available in small to medium scales. This paper presents a real project of constructing small-scale timber architecture by merging the skills of furniture carpenter with the skills of masonry workers. A freshly developed means of communication and working environment comes almost naturally to allow the three parties to work in coherent to the objective. Timber building components which require top level precision are prepared by the carpenter. On-site building erection and assembly process are left to the masonry workers who are obviously the most capable. Completed timber components are carted to the site, and assembled by the masonry workers, and when necessary assisted by the carpentry workers. The masonry group takes the heavy-duty tasks such as lifting and positioning the posts on the stumps and fixing the beams into the mortises prepared by the carpenters. And, the carpentry group does the finishing tasks including painting. The architect coordinates the two teams with reference to the drawing and some work specifications. It is found that through accurate drawings and skills of furniture carpenter and masonry workers the construction of a high quality standard timber building is feasible

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Aksesibiliti surau di dalam pusat membeli-belah sebagai sebuah pusat ibadat Islam

Surau dilihat tidak setaraf masjid walaupun memiliki fungsi yang sama seperti masjid sebagai pusat ibadat, serta terbahagi kepada dua jenis iaitu surau sebagai sebuah bangunan seperti masjid atau sebagai sebuah bilik dan ruang solat. Surau tidak memiliki tipologi seni bina yang jelas yang menyebabkan kepelbagaian reka bentuk terhasil, serta berada di pelbagai aras dan lokasi terutama bagi surau di dalam bangunan awam seperti pusat membeli-belah. Pusat ibadat Islam haruslah memiliki kadar aksesibiliti sejagat untuk memudahkannya dikunjungi semua golongan terutama golongan kurang upaya, wanita, dan warga emas. Objektif kajian ini adalah untuk menyelidik kadar aksesibiliti surau di dalam pusat membeli-belah sebagai sebuah pusat ibadat Islam. Skop kajian yang dipilih adalah di Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, yang merupakan ibu negara Malaysia, sebagai sebuah pusat bandar dan pusat tumpuan pelancong di dalam dan di luar negara. 18 buah pusat membeli-belah dengan jumlah 42 buah surau dipilih di dalam kawasan skop kajian bagi tujuan pemerhatian. Dapatan kajian merekodkan pusat membeli-belah di Kuala Lumpur dibina dengan ketinggian 3 sehingga 12 tingkat dengan fasiliti surau pula dibina dipelbagai aras dari aras bawah tanah 3 sehingga aras ruang niaga di aras 8. Hanya 10% surau dibina di aras tanah manakala 57% pula dibina lebih tinggi dari aras tanah dan 33% pula dibina dibawah aras tanah. Seterusnya, surau di pusat membeli-belah tidak sepenuhnya menepati kehendak garis panduan dalam penyediaan fasiliti yang baik serta mudah diakses untuk semua golongan terutama golongan OKU, wanita, dan warga emas. 9 elemen aksesibilti yang dikaji iaitu kadar aksesibiliti, laluan akses, aras, di tengah bangunan, dekat pusat tumpuan awam, tidak tersorok dan terhalang, mudah dikunjungi, laluan masuk lelaki dan wanita berasingan, dan laluan OKU membuktikan surau di pusat membeli-belah tidak sepenuhnya direka bentuk untuk menerima semua jenis pengunjung

The development of the modern ideas of Islamic architecture in the modern Malaysia

The research aims to document and analyze the various thoughts and ideas of Islamic Architecture in the modem era from 1950 - 2000 existing in Malaysia. It is hoped that from this research the present and future design and ideas o f Islamic Architecture can be better articulated and developed specifically for Malaysia. The report comprises of four main parts. The first part examines the issues and problems stemming from lack of documentation and discourses on the ideas, theories and philosophies in the present practices of creating buildings deemed to be ‘Islamic’ or those referred to as Islamic Architecture in the Nusantara and the world. The second part of the report documents the various thoughts and ideas of Islamic Architecture in the world. The third part documents the ideas and thoughts on Islamic Architecture in Malaysia from 1950 to 2000. The last part attempts to relate the influence of global ideas of Islamic Architecture on the ones in Malaysia. It is hoped that this research will help create amore meaningful and integrated idea of Islamic Architecture for the future