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High-Rise Honeycomb Housing
A high-rise solution: for everyone a private and a shared gardenIn this new idea for multi-storey residential buildings - I call it the āHigh-Rise Honeycombā concept - every resident can step out of...
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So, why would we want sky-courts?
So that is how each and every resident in this new type of apartment can be afforded with a shared and a private garden. Before we go on to the cost aspect Iād like to dwell on this issue first.If you...
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How is High Rise Honeycomb Cost-Efficient
So on to question no 2: will the cost of this new type of apartment be exorbitant, making it suitable only for the high end market. To answer this question we designed a 30 storey prototype so that it...
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Comparison with Existing Apartment Layouts
We can categorize existing high-rise apartment layouts by the method of access to each apartment - single or double loading corridors for slab blocks, and central lobbies for tower blocks and so on. We...
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The Singapore Experience
Back in the 1960ās the Singapore government took note of all the bad press against high-rise housing but then carried on building them nevertheless.Ā They set up the Housing Development Board and...
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Comparison with Singapore High-Rise Layouts
In the last chapter, the comparisons done in that study only took account of typical floor plans; they did not consider the area breakdown of the whole block. As such any amenities for social use found...
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Reducing the Cost of Lifts and the Cost of Land
A New TypologyĀ By rearranging how residents and visitors access apartments, the High-Rise Honeycomb apartment is new typology that goes to the heart of the problem with high-rise ā the problem of...
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The Cluster Townhouse in Alor Gajah
The Single-Storey Terrace HouseĀ Single storey terrace houses were the most common house-type for rural areas and small towns. In urban areas where land has become expensive, single storey houses are...
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Low-Cost Housing and the Shophouse
In Malaysia developers were required to set aside 30% of the houses they build to be low cost houses. Implemented and amended to varying degrees by State and Federal Governments through the years, it...
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The "Kotapuri" - Placing Low-Cost Housing above Shops
The āKotapuriā apartment is a new alternative to the shophouse building type. It was designed to overcome the functional conflict between residential housing (especially for the low-income category)...
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Point-Block Low-Rise Low-Cost Apartments
Apart from the shop-house, the other building-type that I had developed as a solution to low-cost housing was the 5-storey walk-up flat.Most walk-up apartments in Malaysia can be described as slab...
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HOW CAN HONEYCOMB HOUSING MAKE HOUSING MORE AFFORDABLE?
In this last part of the book, we will look at specific designs that can address the problems of delivering low-cost, low-medium cost and affordable housing that almost all Malaysians can afford to own...
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Developing more Cluster Townhouse Designs
PR1MA PENGKALAN, ALOR GAJAHThe clients were so happy with the response to the Townhouses that they then changed their plans for the next phase of 50 acres to a proposal for all Townhouses.Ā My firm had...
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Low-Cost 5-storey Low Cost Flats
Since the 1980ās, Malaysia developers were required to set aside 30% of the houses they build to be low cost houses priced below RM25,000. Implemented and amended to varying degrees by State and...
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From 5-storey Point Blocks to Honeycomb 5-storey V-Saped Apartments
The first low -cost houses in Malaysia were single storey terrace houses. As land became more expensive, developers built double storey terrace houses which could fit in more units per acre. They made...
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Making Honeycomb Apartments Affordable: Building More Units to Reduce Land Cost
When we look at major urban centres like Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Johor Bahru the problem of affordable housing appears daunting. The high price of land requires that very high-density apartments...
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The Checkerboard Plan
The medium-rise Honeycomb apartment with the checkerboard-plan can provide an answer to the problem of affordable housing in the main urban centres of Malaysia. Let me first introduce the concept.The...
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Tall Buildings Cost More than Shorter Ones; How to Maximize Site Coverage
Even if authorities allow higher densities, high-rise would still be expensive. Taller buildings cost more to build compared to lower ones. As we go higher, there are thresholds above which costs...
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Overcoming the Problem of Car Parks for High-Density High-Rise
THE PROBLEM OF CAR PARKS FOR HIGH RISEMalaysia is reputed to have one of the highest levels of car ownership in the world. The planning requirement for apartments is two units of car parks for each...
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High-Rise Housing Proposal in Danau Kota, Kuala Lumpur
This was a proposal to redevelop about over 13 acres of land in Setapak, Kuala Lumpur which contains a large mining pool and which functions as a water retention pond. About half of the plot is below...
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The Honeycomb Shop-Apartment
If the Kotapuri Shop-apartment concept works for low-cost housing, then it is quite easy to develop it further by adopting the Honeycomb concept.This proposal for a piece of land near Putrajaya shows...
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Reducing the Development Cost of High-Density High-Rise by 10 - 20%
The key inventive step in the Honeycomb apartment concept is the elimination of corridors and replacing them instead with of sky-courts. Re-inventing how residents are connected from the public street...
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CoverTitle PageCopyrightDedicationContentsFiguresTablesINTRODUCTION1.1 Better,Affordable Alternatives to TerraceĀ Housesand High-Rise BlocksPART 1: LOW-RISE HONEYCOMB HOUSING2.1 FromKampong to Terrace...
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This was my 12-minute talk at the Malaysian Urban Forum in February 2019 at KLCC Conference Centre. by Mazlin Ghazali. Providing every home with a private and a shared garden is the key to overcoming...
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