POLITEKNIK SULTAN IDRIS SHAH

Architecture Unit, Department of Civil Engineering

C 2329

History of
Modern
Architecture

Lecture 05:

Regional Architecture
Malaysian Modern
Regional Modern

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Architecture Unit, Department of Civil Engineering

C 2329 History of Modern Architecture

MALAYSIAN MODERN ARCHITECTURE

Hijjas Kasturi
Hisyam Al-Bakri
Jimmy Lim
Ken Yeang

REGIONAL ARCHITECTURE

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Architecture Unit, Department of Civil Engineering

C 2329 History of Modern Architecture

Tabung Haji (1985)

Government Islamic Bank
Hijjas Kasturi

-Built by Hijjas Kasturi and

completed in 1985.
- Located at Jalan Tun Razak, Kuala
Lumpur.
- the LUTH skycraper has a rounded
ground base by reffering to the
concept of tabung.
- being construct with 5 main
supported columns symbolize the 5
rukun islam. Each column supply
air conducting for each floor.
- the replica of dome which
located at front of the building
represent the function of LUTH as an
organization who manage the
travels for Muslim to perform
pilgrims.

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Architecture Unit, Department of Civil Engineering

C 2329 History of Modern Architecture

Rimbun Dahan (1991)

Architects Resident
Hijjas Kasturi

Rimbun Dahan is the home of architect Hijjas Kasturi and

Angela Hijjas, in the village of Kuang outside Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia. The 14 acre site was alienated from the Crown in
1926 as Malay Reserve when it was cleared and planted
with coffee. Rubber planting was prohibited for fear that
small holders would compete with British owned estates.
Hijjas bought the land in 1972.
The main house was completed in 1991, after staff quarters
in 1989. The basement gallery was built in 1995/6, the
classic car gallery, dance studio and artists studios and
apartments in 1997. The move and restoration of the
village house from the state of Perak was finished in 1998.
Although the main house is built of steel and concrete, the
form of the house relates to traditional Malay timber
architecture. When the security shutters at the ground level
are open the it is exactly like a Malay house on stilts, except
for its transparent contemporary character, as kampong or
village houses are completely closed at night to keep spirits
out. The pitched roof and deep overhangs are another
obvious similarity to traditional architecture.

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Architecture Unit, Department of Civil Engineering

C 2329 History of Modern Architecture

The avoidance of timber as a building material was to make
a statement about finding alternatives when Malaysias
forests are so threatened.
The main house and guest house are linked by a covered
loggia that overlooks the water garden and cascade to one
side. The 500 square meter gallery is underground on the
other side, beneath the entrance plaza. The gallery is
enclosed and dehumidified, and can be air conditioned
when in use. The rest of the house relies on through
ventilation and ceiling fans.

The steel structure extends beyond the roof line to create an

architectural form that refers to traditional buildings, even
though they do not create useable spaces. Chosen
materials were local wherever possible: traditional finishes
like Shanghai plaster and terrazzo were used for structural
concrete and floors, but the copper roof was an innovation
that attempted to provide permanent colour. Unfortunately
it has been affected by acid rain (a result of climatic
change with industrialization) that tends to turn it black
rather than the preferred green.
The house and underground gallery is the centre of the
residency programme for Australian and Malaysian artists
that is supported by Hijjas architectural practice, Hijjas
Kasturi Associates.

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Architecture Unit, Department of Civil Engineering

C 2329 History of Modern Architecture

National Mosque, Malaysia(1965)

Mosque
Hisyam Al-Bakri

Dato (Dr) Ikmal Hisham Albakri was born in 1930 in

Batu Gajah,
Perak.
DATO DR IKMAL HISHAM ALBAKRI @ IKMAL HISHAM
HARIRI BIN MUSTAPHA ALBAKRI
The most interesting design element of the
National Mosque is the fan-shaped, folded plate
roof that covers the central player hall. The
galleries, treated like verandas that surround the
prayer hall, are screened with geometrically
patterned grilles. A number of small domes that
cover the galleries are inspired by Middle Eastern
and Mogul architecture. The beauty and the
innovative design of the building, especially the
folded roof, inspire the early postindependence mosques design in Malaysia

Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC)

National Library
The Pan Pacific Hotel KL
National Mosque
The Concorde Hotel Shah Alam

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Architecture Unit, Department of Civil Engineering

Jimmy Lim
Jimmy Lim Cheok Siang

C 2329 History of Modern Architecture

The Walian House,
environmentally friendly and
sustainable interior, Kuala
Lumpur. 1984

Design and Implementation

Excellence
Maintaining a disciplined regime
once the best solution had been
obtained which ensures that the final
product will be what is to be
achieved.
Conserving and Adaptive reuse
Jimmy Lim Architect formerly CSL
Associates, is strongly committed
towards conservation and is active in
The challenge in the Tropics is to
many areas related to public
keep heat from penetrating and
warming the interiors, an Eco-House,
awareness.
Ipoh, 1994
Conservation of the old built
environment in order to enhance
and celebrate the new and
continuous living heritage. Adapting
the old environment to modern
usage hereby giving old buildings
and environment a new lease of life.
Conservation is preserving yesterday
for tomorrow.
Early attempt to create
An early eco-resort, all
Just as Today is Yesterdays
environmentally-friendly resort by
facilities are non airTomorrow, Today will be Tomorrows minimising air-conditioning to the conditioned, Awana
public spaces, Awana Kijal,
Genting, Genting
Yesterday.
Terengganu, 1994

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Highlands, 1987

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Architecture Unit, Department of Civil Engineering

C 2329 History of Modern Architecture

Ken Yeang
Ken Yeang is an architect-planner, and one of
the leading ecodesigners, theoreticians, and
thinkers in the field of green design.
Eco-design is designing in such a way that the
human built environment or our design system
integrates benignly and seamlessly with the
natural environment. We have to look at it not
just as designing a building as an independent
object in the city or in the site where it's
located. We have to look at it in the context of
the characteristics of the site in which it's
located, the ecological features and we have
to integrate with it physically, systemically and
temporally.
Physical integration means integrating with the
physical characteristics of the place: Its
topography, its ground water, its hydrology, its
vegetation and the different species on the
particular site. Systemic integration is
integrating with the processes that take place
in nature with our human built environment: The
use of water, the use of energy, the use of
waste and sewers and so forth. Both the human
and the natural must blend together, so there
will be no pollution and no waste. Temporal
integration, means integrating the rate of our
use of the resources in the earth and its
material, and the rate of replenishment.

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