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Akmal Afandi AzharUnit 22

Izaskun Chinchilla & Carlos Jimenez

Unit Brief

Exercise 1Three Dwellings

Akmal Afandi AzharUnit 22

Chocolate Dwellling Chimney Dwellling Tree Dwellling

Distribution of sites

Chocolate Dwellling

Borneo

Malaysia

Peninsular

Chimney Dwellling

Tree Dwellling

Chocolate Dwelling

Intimate respective monuments as a reminiscence to the traditional culture and heritage

Reincarnating the Abandon Architecture of Vernacular Malay House in Peninsular Malaysia

Personal experience

Grandmother’s house

Kuala Lumpur City Centre Park

Site Plan

House survived during flood 2011

Site

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Climatic Design of Malay HouseReproduce using my models

Traditional Malay House Context

Section Through Traditional Malay House

Traditional wood carving ornaments

Reproduce using sketches

Vulgarisation of Traditional Malay House

Mobility Construction Contemporary application

Contruction Sequence

Roof orientation

Skeletal structure Raised on stilts External cladding

Platform height Skin materiality

North facade

South facade

East facadeWest facade

Elevations

Roof plan

Floor plan

Typical floor layout and life in traditional Malay house

Male domain Living area

Female domainKitchen area

Gender dominance

Praying

Meeting

Dining

Chit-chatting/Gossiping

Changing

Washing

Transitional area

Cooking

Reception

Adult sleeping

Individual Module, Programs, Users & Activites

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111

2 2 2

3 3

Materials catalogue

Bamboo stri ps

Carved timber

Timber plank

Weaved palm leaves

Stones Timber louvres

Palm thatch

Clay shingles

Cement bricks

Fabric

Transgender materials

User Experiences

WashingCooking Dining

Washing area linked to the chicken coop

Sections

Longitudinal

L-shaped

Traversal

User Experiences

Male domain

Reception

Adult sleeping

Praying

Children sleeping/Meeting

Transitional area

Changing

User Experiences

Female domain

Washing

Chit-chatting/Gossipping

Cooking

Dining

Detailings

To construct one particular module according to vernacular methodology and scale 1:20

References of Vernacular Methodology

Enlarging the scale

1:50 1:20

Ornaments

Levels

Roof structure

Roof level

Finishes

Floor level

Primary frame

Floor level

Foundation

Ground level

Components Catalogue

Footings

STRUCTURAL MEMBERS FINISHES FINISHES

Palm leaves weaving Palm leaves weaving

Floor beams Floor boards Floor boards

Floor joists

Main columns

Male & Female Section

Kitchen area

Weaving wall panel

Bamboo stri psTimber panel

Wood carving panel

Thatch roofClay shingles

Living area

Connection &

Jointings

Column+

Roof beam

Rof rafters+

Roof gable

Roof ridge+

King post

Weaving panel+

Column

Floor beams+

Floor joists

Roof truss +

Roof ridge

Column +

Footings

King post +

Roof ridge

Floor beams+

Column

Floor boards+

Floor joists

Roof gable+

Coolumn

Roof rafters+

Roof truss

Story Boards

00:38.50

01:24.25

00:03.25

Foundation

Footing 3

Column 2

Footing 1

Footing 4

Column 3

Footing 2

Column 1

Column 4

00:54.25

01:34.50

00:14.25

01:03.50

00:27.50

01:11.50

Floor beam 1 & 2

Roof beam 1 & 2

Roof ridge

Floor joists

Roof ties

Roof trusses

Floor boards

King post 1 & 2

Roof joists

01:37.50

01:40.00

01:38.00

01:40.50

01:39.00

01:42.50

01:35 .50

01:39.50

01:36.25

Stop Motion Animation

Stop motion video QR Code

Chimney Dwelling

Floating piers for cultural and education exchange between the locals and tourists

Towards Improving the Life of the Outcast Bajau Laut Tribe in Semporna, Sabah, Malaysia

Reference to the Local CultureSite

Traditional Boat/Lepa (Annual Regatta Lepa Festival)

Semporna, Sabah,Malaysia

The shore

Schedule

The little girl on the right, at the back told me how she want going to go to school when she grew up.

I asked her casually, not thinking about it:

How old are you?

And she looked at me with a funny, quizzical expression, as though I had asked the dumbest question in the world.

I don’t know my age. Most of us don’t know our age.”

Then she asked if I was Malaysian. I said:

Yes I am. I am from KL.

Then I asked her:

Rina, where are you from? And she replied:

I am from the sea.

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Users

Constructing the festival boat according to manual

Plan viewLeft viewRight view

Front viewPlan view

Side view

Deconstructing the boat

Organize according to elements and functions

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Configuration 1

Configuration 2

Configuration 3

Configuration 4

Configuration 4.1 Configuration 4.2

Selected Configuration

Seating area of the classroom

Teacher’s/Tourist’s shelter

Fishing platform

Teaching area

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Type of Floating Platform

Rigid Platform

Swaying Platform

Swaying Platform

Swaying Motion

Individual buoy for each wood plank

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Buoyancy Experiments

1. Find the volume, in cubic feet, of the object whose buoyancy you wish to calculate. An easy way to find volume is to simply submerge the object in a tank of liquid (water will do) with a known surface area and measure how much higher the liquid rises. Multi ply the change of depth in feet by the surface area of the water in square feet. The result will be the volume of the object in cubic feet.

2. Determine the density of the fluid you wish to use in calculating the object’s buoyancy. Water’s density is approximately 62 pounds per cubic foot, depending on temperature, while air at sea level is about 0.075 pounds per cubic foot. You can easily look up the densities of other fluids in reference books or online.

3. Multi ply the volume of the object by the density of the fluid. The result will be the mass of fluid displaced, and the weight of that fluid is the buoyancy of the object. If that force is less than the weight of the object itself, the object will sink; if the force is greater, the object will rise until enough of it pokes through the top of the fluid that it displaces exactly its own weight.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2101130_calculate-buoyancy.html#ixzz2CNl8HKvP

Teaching area Teacher’s/Tourist shelter

Seating area of the classroomFishing platform

Tree Dwelling for the ‘People of the Forest’

Suspended kinetic crib to nurture conserved living environment

Sanctuary for Orphaned Baby Bornean Orang Utan in Sarawak, Malaysia

• Native to Indonesia and Malaysia, orangutans are currently found in only the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra.

• Two species: the Bornean orangutan (P. pygmaeus) and the Sumatran orangutan (P. abe-lii). Both orangutan species are considered to be endangered with the Sumatran orangutan being Critically Endangered.

• Human activities have caused severe decline in the populations and ranges of both spe-cies. Threats to wild orangutan populations include poaching, habitat destruction and the illegal pet trade.

Borneo, the third largest island in the world, divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, was once covered with dense rainforests, but along with its tropical lowland and highland forests, there has been extensive deforestation in the past sixty years. In the 1980s and 1990s the forests of Borneo underwent a dramatic transition. They were levelled at a rate unparalleled in human history, burned, logged and cleared, and commonly replaced with agricultural land, or palm oil plantations. Half of the annual global tropical timber acquisition currently comes from Borneo. Furthermore, palm oil plantations are rapidly encroaching on the last remnants of primary rainforest. Much of the forest clearance is illegal.

• Orangutans have an extraordinarily long period of infant dependency, with infants spending be-tween 5- 9 years learning every aspect of or-angutan life from their mothers. Deprived of this, ex-captive orangutans seem to pick up atypical, or unusual, behavior from watching humans, and this contributes to the level of imitative behav-iors displayed.

• Ex-captive orangutans at most sites also receive supplemental feeding, and freed from the endless quest to find food, which underpins almost all aspects of wild orangutan behavioral ecology, ex-captive orangutans have the time to experiment and innovate in different ways.

[Galdikas 1982; Russon et al, 2009]

End-users Site

Distribution of Orang Utan in Borneo

Orang Utan’s Nest

Orangutans build nests specialized for both day or night use. These are carefully construct-ed; young orangutans learn from observing their mother’s nest-building behaviour. In fact, nest-building is a leading cause in young orangutans leaving their mother for the first time. From six months of age onwards, orangutans practice nest-building and gain proficiency by the time they are three years old.

Orangutans build elaborate nests which have pillows, “blankets, “bunk-beds and“roofs. Construction of a night nest is done by following a sequence of steps. Initially a suitable tree is located, orangutans being selective about sites even though many tree species are utilised. The foundation is then built by pulling together branches under them and joining them at a point. After the foundation has been built, the orangutan bends smaller, leafy branches onto the foundation; this serves the purpose of and is termed as the“mattress”. After this, orangutans stand and braid the ti ps of branches into the mattress. doing this increases the stability of the nest and forms the final act of nest-building. In addition, orangutans may add additional features such as pillows, “blankets, roofs”and“bunk-beds”to their nest.

Intelligence

More recent studies at Suaq Balimbing in Sumatra have found evidence of orangutans using tools to extract honey, ants or termites from tree holes, manipulation of vines to swing across gaps in the canopy and using leaves to fashion gloves to handle prickly fruits (Russon et al, 2009). Further similar levels of innovative feeding techniques have been observed at the Tuanan site in Borneo (van Schaik et al, 2003).

In comparison to the relative rarity of tool use observed in wild populations, such activi-ties are common in rehabilitant, ex-captive and semi-wild orangutans. At Tanjung Puting in Borneo, semi wild ex-captive orangutans were observed using sticks to dig holes, jab at other orangutans, stir liquids, rake objects from fires, prying loose objects and as an arm extender to reach far away objects (Russon et al, 2009; Russon, 2004). Sticks and branches seem to be an important part of ex-captive innovation, with similar activities at other rehabilitation sites having been observed. At Ketambe in Sumatra orangutans were observed using sticks to open fruit, disturb ant nests, probe rat burrows and poke other animals in cages (Russon et al, 2009), and at a rehabilitation centre in Ketapang, West Borneo, a female adult orangutan was observed using a stick to try and pry open the lock on her cage.

Human made objects available are often used, and orangutans raised in their vicinity have proved to be expert imitators, with orangutans at Tanjung Puting being observed putting together make-shift clothes out of leaves and rags, putting rice on to ‘plates’ of bark, trying to put mosquito nets over night nests, breaking in to buildings and comman-deering dug- out canoes (Galdikas 1982 & 1995).

Study of Orang Utan Natural Habitat

The story of the Lonely Mely’Daily Mail, 28 March 2012

Mely was snatched from her mother 16 years ago, shackled in chains, tethered on to a tiny verandah as a pet. She had endured seeing her mother shot and her carcass left to rot by a fisherman who wanted to keep her as a trophy pet. Trau-matised and alone, the special bonding that creatures like her need was denied her. Instead she was an outcast, fed on raw noodles and chilli powder which left her undernourished and unhealthy. In the wild a diet rich in fruit and fibres would have grown limbs that would have propelled her Tarzan-like through the canopy of rainforest trees that form her natural habitat. As it was her arms and legs could barely support her when IAR officials were greenlighted by the Indonesian govern-ment to rescue her in 2009.

Sketches of Mely new house

Orangutan Tragedy in IndonesiaBBC, 6 September 2012

IAR’s team rescued a large male orangutan that was burnt after local villagers tried to chase it out of a tree by setting it on fire. The police, forestry department and a great many other people became involved as a result of a video broadcast on Metrotv and BBC News which showed the orangutan’s hair catching fire as he clung to the burning tree.

The large male orangutan entered the farmland and plantations of some villagers in Wajok Hilir, near Pontianak. They did not want to harm him but were apparently at a loss to know what to do to frighten him away. They thought that by setting fire to the tree they could scare him away but tragically the orangutan had no means of escape and himself caught fire. The villagers called the BKSDA (forestry department) who called International Animal Rescue. The team immediately jumped into action. When they eventually managed to dart and sedate the orangutan, he was found to be in a fairly critical condition and severely de-hydrated, although the burn wounds were only first degree and all superficial.

The condition of the orangutan was monitored by IAR vet Dr Siffa. He was evaluated and it was decided that he needed to be moved to IAR’s orangutan rescue clinic in Ketapang, a centre which our volunteers have played a major role in constructing. Tragically, the orangu-tan died on his way to the clinic.

Although much blame is being attached to the villagers for their misguided actions, yet again, the real culprit in this story is the palm oil industry which is destroying the forest and leav-ing no food or shelter for orangutans and other wildlife and creating conflict as people and animals compete for food.”

Tragic Cases

Responsibility to the volunteer groupGreen Hopes Eco Warrior

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Earlier Development

Modular arrangement

Human eye view Top view

Local CraftsMaterials from Natural Habitat

Weaving basketRattan vines

Kinetic Mechanism Study

Structure expand Structure contract

To explore the kinetic mechanism of the structure to offer view for tourist while simultaneously protect the baby orang utan from hostile environment

Stretchable Fabric -CrochetSingle Crochet

1. 2. 3.

1. Cotton string2. Pencil

1. 2. 3.

Stretchable Fabric -CrochetMultiple Single Crochet

1. Yarn2. Crochet needle