Architecture has a significant role in the image and identity of cultural heritage, as it generates outstanding cultural values for a sustainable culture and its context. Meanwhile, contemporary architecture is the most potent agent to the missing local culture of a place. This is due to architecture trends have been rapidly increasing in worldwide and has transforms the image of cultural context into a global city. This scenario shall cause heritage risk when current redevelopment planning scheme has not provided the guaranteed in sustaining cultural image and identity in the new development of cultural context. To sustain the cultural values, it is important to establish criteria and indicators to guide and recommend preservation and incorporation of vital traditional features into new architecture images. This paper uses a critical literature review of previous studies to identify correlated items of image and identity indicators for the development of a new image and identity assessment framework. These indicators reflect the elements and features of the Traditional Malay House (TMH) which has been accepted as the most substantial image and identity character in the context of Kampong Bharu in Kuala Lumpur. Established under the Malay Reserve Enactment 1913 and the Land Enactment 1987, Kampong Bharu represents a significant heritage context in the city, and its cultural identity should be integrated into its new redevelopment strategy and plan. Content analysis of the literature has ascertained 2 general criteria and 55 indicators that are recommended for interpreting image and identity of the Traditional Malay House (TMH). Keywords: Image and Identity, Criteria and Indicator, Architecture, Cultural Value, and Design Principle
Assessment tool is widely used as an efficient scheme to guide and control minimum design acceptance in improvising design issues of architecture. However, the current assessment tools in built environment might impose culture risks because they are limited to global sustainable architecture concept and not signifying local cultural principle. Limited attention has been paid to develop an efficient scheme to preserve cultural image and identity into a new development. Meanwhile, new architecture is the most potent agent to the lack of local culture of a place. The current architecture trends have been rapidly increasing worldwide, transforming the image of cultural context into a global city. This scenario might impose heritage risk if the current redevelopment planning scheme does not provide adequate guidance for sustaining cultural image and identity in new developments. The aim of this paper is to improvise the policy control on the image of future residential development in Kampong Bharu as the village is currently critical with heritage risk scenario due to the redevelopment issue. This study begins with a critical literature review on the efficiency matter of the current international policies from the perspective of preservation polices and new architecture policies. Interviews were conducted to appraise the appropriateness of the national polices in relation to the research issue. The results from literature reviews and interviews were used to form a summary of general components and elements which are missing from the existing polices. The main research output recommends a new concept of assessment with related components and elements in developing an assessment framework as a strategy to improvise the efficiency of assessment onto architectural cultural identity.
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