Conflict of Image and Identity in Heritage Commercialization

AbstractThe main vertical components of shop houses are façade and window display. Regardless its impressively charming character, the locality of the shop houses has substantial influence. For instance the urban and heritage contextual guidelines are the existing setting for shop houses in Georgetown and Malacca. The shop owners are complying with the city manager's commercial and heritage buildings guidelines. Functionally mixed-used for shopping, working and living but personalization is the expected quality by end users. This high expectation on heritage enhancement caused heritage shop owners to a new pressure to maintain heritage aesthetical and economical balance. Therefore, this paper will share the analysis on heritage street's shop owners to discover their eternal reflection

On-street visual analysis on Jalan Hang Jebat, Melaka / Zalina Samadi, Dasimah Omar and Rodzyah Mohd Yunus.

Outdoor space in between heritage buildings of heritage streets defines as ‘outdoor living room’. Whether it’s impressively ‘heritage’ or ‘commercially’ character; physical and socio-cultural characteristics of the streets have great influence towards eliciting on-street pedestrian model. The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between timeframe and density, activity and movement based on the on-street cultural phenomenon. For the purpose of this paper, the presentation unveiled one section of the study which shares the analysis on-street’s aerial-visual data only. Unobtrusive methods were employed through Digital Photography and Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) at Jalan Hang Jebat, Melaka. The objectives of this study are to interpret density, activity and movement analysis

Gateway to Sustainable National Park

AbstractThis research explores issues on sustainability of Malaysian National Park (called Taman Negara), complied ecotourism approach with a balanced between economic development and preservation. With this approach, a holistic manner in managing the natural and cultural heritage of Taman Negara is expected. The objective of this paper is to relate various issues of heritage sustainability with environment-behavior. Unobtrusive observation and interviews with the locals are methods to identify the problems. Remote sensing images were taken to monitor land use changes. The expected outcome of the study is to generate a conceptual approach for developing sustainable Taman Negara as a tourist destination

Students’ colour perception and preference: an empirical analysis of its relationship

In a learning environment, colour is believed to be able to cause positive or negative behaviour such as avoidance or withdrawal behaviour; affecting performance and stimulate senses. It is learned that visual stimulation contributes to an improvement of attention span, develops cognitive abilities and refresh one’s perception towards his environment but varied due to differences of gender and background. This paper focuses on perception and preferences of colours for hostel room as a learning environment amongst undergraduate students at Universiti Teknologi MARA and Universiti Putra Malaysia. It aims to verify the previous findings concerning preference differences among gender in a population and extends the method using a visible colour survey. 798 students who are also the hostel residents aged between 19 to 27 years old took part in this random survey. The survey recorded patterns of students’ colour preferences and recommendation colour for their hostel rooms. The preference survey includes 11 colours (red, blue, green, pink, purple, brown, orange, yellow, white, black and grey) together with the colour description in value and saturation level with five-point Likert scales. Furthermore, the respondents were asked to indicate 12 emotional responses and nominated their preferred colour directly using visible colour survey method from a three dimensional unit of Munsell Colour Tree. The analysis reveals various patterns of colour preferences when the colour options are visible between genders which significantly influence their preference behaviour. The outcomes become the turning point to investigate the effects of colour on students’ alertness during learning activity based on subjects’ preferences and existing colour theory

Students’ colour perception and preference: an empirical analysis of its relationship

In a learning environment, colour is believed to be able to cause positive or negative behaviour such as avoidance or withdrawal behaviour; affecting performance and stimulate senses. It is learned that visual stimulation contributes to an improvement of attention span, develops cognitive abilities and refresh one’s perception towards his environment but varied due to differences of gender and background. This paper focuses on perception and preferences of colours for hostel room as a learning environment amongst undergraduate students at Universiti Teknologi MARA and Universiti Putra Malaysia. It aims to verify the previous findings concerning preference differences among gender in a population and extends the method using a visible colour survey. 798 students who are also the hostel residents aged between 19 to 27 years old took part in this random survey. The survey recorded patterns of students’ colour preferences and recommendation colour for their hostel rooms. The preference survey includes 11 colours (red, blue, green, pink, purple, brown, orange, yellow, white, black and grey) together with the colour description in value and saturation level with five-point Likert scales. Furthermore, the respondents were asked to indicate 12 emotional responses and nominated their preferred colour directly using visible colour survey method from a three dimensional unit of Munsell Colour Tree. The analysis reveals various patterns of colour preferences when the colour options are visible between genders which significantly influence their preference behaviour. The outcomes become the turning point to investigate the effects of colour on students’ alertness during learning activity based on subjects’ preferences and existing colour theory

Manifestation of Archipelagic Culture: How significant is it within the Negeri Sembilan Malay Traditional Architecture

AbstractInterpreting quality of life for the future generations to a certain extent is inexorably influence by the knowledge of cultural and built heritage environment, signifying the people's way of life, their cultural identity. The qualitative research involved comprehensive historical literature search in identifying extent of cultural influence. This paper aims to present the literature review findings. Archipelagic culture of the Malays, traced back to the prehistory, mainly refers to the maritime Srivijaya kingdom, are inseparably associated with Malay boats (perahu) was found manifested significantly in the visual representation of the roof shape, in naming the traditional architectural components and spaces

Sustainable revitalization's theory evolution: evaluating revitalization attributes / Prof. Dr. Dasimah Omar, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rodzyah Mohd Yunus and Zalina Samadi

There were 911 sites including 704 cultural, 180 natural, 27 mixed properties were included as outstanding universal value by the UNESCO World Heritage Convention in June 2010. Malaysian heritage sites were Melaka and Georgetown as listed since 2007. However, World Heritage Lists is not an ultimate benchmark to qualify heritage site rated which considered as high revitalization. Of course, there are multi-ways to evaluate heritage streets prior to an establishment of a street as so called as "Great Heritage Streets". There are streets which are very outstanding and famous streets such as Oxford Streets in London,United Kingdom; Orchard Street in Singapore; Ista'lal Street in Istanbul, Turkey and Petaling Street in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. According to (Krier, 1979), he defines streets as urban space for public besides square. Marcus C.C. Francis, C (1998) research had highlighted on the importance of Physical Attributes (PA) and Spiritual Attributes (SA) in revitalizing street in order for developing a creative street and hence enliven the urban space.ln the practice of urban heritage conservation and revitalization, multi role-players and disciplinarians involves in the transformation of an urban heritage streets. The street by all mean is made up of three dimensional components of architectural heritage building as its main physical component, street system as the link and street shopping as the business operation. The main vertical components of shop houses are fagade and window display. Regardless its impressively charming character, the locality of the shop houses has substantial influence. For instance the urban and heritage contextual guidelines are the existing setting for shop houses in Georgetown and Malacca. The shop owners in both locations are complying with the city manager's commercial and heritage buildings guidelines. Functionally mixed-used for shopping, working and living but personalization is the expected quality by end users. This high expectation on heritage enhancement however has caused heritage shop owners to a new pressure. They are in the critical position in maintaining both heritage aesthetic and economical balance. The heritage shop owners in heritage streets are either passive spectators or actively involved in a heritage community participation in business activities on their profit-making policy. On the other hand urban managers were managing the city vision and occupied their financial management and incentives for heritage owners for conserving their heritage property in order to increase the city's revenue. Many researches were conducted on urban design in designing the outdoor urban spaces but on the other hand had an acute interest on evaluating heritage observer's perception. Thus, this research explored physical attributes from end-users' perception with high heritage awareness in mind and soul. Hopefully by end of the research, the findings on physical and spiritual attributes will improve the sustainable revitalization theory

Fire risk assessment of heritage building - perspectives of building stakeholders

Heritage building is very important in preserving the culture and to the tourism potential. Hence, the proper budget allocation to the prevention of fire loss is critical. Budget allocation is normally based on fire risk assessment. The assessment is interpreted based on the perception of stakeholders. Using structured interview and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) this study identifies and explains the diversity of fire risk perception of stakeholder

Attributes of Successful Public Spaces through Users Perception

The success of the revitalization program of urban public space is viewed through attributes that have been identified. This study aims to investigate the perception of users in public space through the on-site survey. In summary, the motivations, behavioural patterns, impressions on the public space as an attraction and the perceived importance of urban public spaces in the development of the city are important attributes for successful public space. The findings of this study will show main attributes in successful revitalization of urban public space based on users perception and can be used in a meaningful way to the users. Keywords: Public space; successful attributes; users perception; revitalization eISSN 2398-4279 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. https://doi.org/10.21834/ajqol.v3i11.11

Fire risk assessment of heritage building – perspectives of regulatory authority, restorer and building stakeholder

This paper examines the perspectives of different parties involved in fire management/risks/protection system of heritage building. A survey questionnaire was developed based on the identified criteria of fire risks for heritage buildings in Malaysia. The survey questionnaire was administered to Fire Rescue Department Malaysia (FRDM) personnel, consultant and contractor, maintenance personnel (representing stakeholder). The data were analysed based on pair-wise comparison. It was found the perceptions of different parties differed from one another