Akmal Azhar Unit 22 Design tutor: Izaskun Chinchilla & Carlos Jimenez Thesis tutor: Tania Sengupta
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De-crystallizing the ‘frozen’ vernacular architecture through new invention. Reinvigorating vernacular architecture; room for innovation for the future 2050 (thesis as a test to see the appropriateness of new invention in vernacular). The house of the future in Malaysia 2050; critical analysis from the house of the past. A new meaning of vernacular architecture; inventing for the future 2050. The future of vernacular architecture; what will happen to the scenario of Malaysia 2050? Keywords; future, cultural, vernacular, 2050, Malaysia, ethnic, innovation, adaptation, mobility, migration.
Thread 1; Vernacular Architecture. o o o o
How the vernacular architecture changes? ‘Frozen’ idea of vernacular architecture. Not just from one place but by itself. Reading list by Paul Oliver (Oxford Brookes Uni). Books on ‘changes’ and ‘dynamic’ vernacular architecture. Vernacular can be problematic. Separated from technology, fix to a place to a particular community (yours is about dynamic idea of vernacular). Definition, term and ‘dynamic’ idea with few case studies.
Thread 2; Origin & Culture (the idea of ‘dynamic’ culture). o o o o o o o
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The notion of rooted culture. How culture could becomes more dynamic. The culture itself is not static. Culture becomes a fragment. Culture that is carried and left behind. People moves but always carry the idea of culture. Culture is continuously changed but the origin remains static. Each place has different influence. All of it is part of the so-called ‘origin’. But it filtered by the present. Traces of earlier lifestyle should be there but transformed into a more dynamic and active behaviour. The idea of identity. The notion of trace. Inheritance from the past. What the site has been left behind (*include this in design). Design the site that they have left, it leaves some traces as well. Sense of origins. Tribal. The dynamic idea of origin. More than origin. The idea of traces. Traces as mutual relationship. A trace is not just carried by one person but is the stuff that he leaves behind. Food culture etc. Locality and place has got something to do with ‘place based’. Vernacular etc. Designing assemblages for the new places. Collecting influences while moving and carrying traces of the past. People take place from locality.