The ubiquitous terrace house is undeniably the most popular and affordable housing type in Malaysia. It has long been considered as one of the densest forms of property development and has become the common typology of accommodating the masses for this country. However, its design has been plague with various issues for decades. It has been associated, among others with bad design, thermal problems, safety issues and unsightly renovations. In contrary to the traditional tropical architecture that employs sun shading devices, openings with cross ventilation and the use of local material such as timber, terrace houses today have been designed as masonry and reinforced concrete boxes fitted with air conditioner. The modern day terrace house design has perhaps overlooked one of the most important components of a tropical house that is the raised floor. The traditional raised floor design implicated many issues such as ventilation, lighting, thermal comfort, safety and security as well as social aspects. Therefore, this research aims to explore the various issues mentioned above and proposes to uniquely develop a new design for in-house habitation as well as providing for aesthetically pleasing look. The methodology for this paper is a systematic review of existing literature and finds its relation to the raised floor innovation concept. The main finding reveals that the concept of raised floor innovation provides better design solution and gives insight to the existing Malaysian terrace housing design. It suggests a possible and promising way of increasing the livability of terrace housing by the means of a raised floor.
Abstract. Development of housing is imperative to enhance the society's standard of living in this country. The factor of occupant comfort is the main element to indicate whether the housing is successful or not. In this writing, the thermal comfort discussed in only relating to the thermal comfort zone in Malaysia and the results from the study of the internal temperature of modern houses from previous researchers. Results by a few researchers found that modern houses are currently not reaching a good level of thermal comfort to live in and the designs are not capable to resolve the issue of discomfort in the internal environment of the houses in Malaysia. Therefore, thermal comfort is one of the important aspects of research in the development of modern housing because it plays a very important role in enhancing welfare, health and the quality of life or urban society.
Keunikan reka bentuk rumah tradisional Negeri Sembilan melambangkan masyarakat adat perpatih atau sistem kekerabatan matrilineal yang diamalkan oleh masyarakat di Negeri Sembilan. Selain itu, reka bentuk bumbung panjang yang lentik dengan kedua-dua hujung bumbungnya naik ke atas sedikit telah menjadi identiti seni bina di Negeri Sembilan yang tersendiri. Adat perpatih dan faktor kedaerahan telah mempengaruhi reka bentuk rumah tradisional ini. Namun keaslian konsep dan falsafah reka bentuk seni bina rumah ini sering dikatakan menyamai reka bentuk rumah adat di Minangkabau. Oleh itu, penyelidikan dijalankan bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti perbezaan dan menganalisis beberapa rumah yang terdapat di
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