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Squares Housing at Hulu Selangor #3
Cluster House Type AIn addition to the type C house, there is this smaller and cheaper alternative.Like the Type C clustre house, each residential block is composed of four houses. These houses are...
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From Pekanbaru to Siak Seri Inderapura and the past Sultanate of Siak
The boat passed under an attractive slender bridge. Here a modern highway crossed over a much, much older one. Early Malay civilization was based along coastlines and navigable rivers, but I had never...
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SQUARES AT HULU SELANGOR #4
These are not quadruplex or cluster houses that look like semi-D's. These are the real ones!They are located at the edges of the site accessed from cul-de-sacs within the site, and with the dining...
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Confessions of a Low Cost Architect
I think it was Mark Twain who said something like: "...confession may be good for the soul, but it does hell to your reputation." So it is with some trepidation that I'm preparing for a talk that I'm...
View ArticleWhy do terrace houses in Malaysia have back lanes?
Why do we have to have back lanes at the back of terrace houses? Underused and hardly maintained they become a favourite access route for thieves. Many people say that it's a fire requirement -as...
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Article 19
I'd like to recommend this conference in Penang next year Saturday March 3rd to Monday 5th. I've signed up and I'm looking forward to it.Welcome to ICSAUD2012Monday, 03 January 2011 03:52 Ahmad Sanusi...
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Frugal Innovation
I was first introduced to the term Frugal Innovation reading Pralahad's "The Fortune at The Bottom of the Pyramid". I was reacquanted recently by a TED talk video by Ragunath Malshekar, "Breakthrough...
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Cars, trains and planes
In three slides, my friend Mohd. Peter Davis makes a case against our reliance on cars from a safety point of view. Dear subscriber, If you want to download the free "Honeycomb Housing" E-book, just...
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Solar lamp - the story of an idea
It was a really clever and simple invention. In 2002, during a long electrical shortage, at Uberaba, São Paulo, Brasil, Mr Alfredo Moser discovered a way to gather sun light in the house through...
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History of Nong Chik - updated
re-issued with google mapThe hillside Honeycomb project in Johor Bahru is in an old part of the city. Old government quarters will be demolished to make way for new housing. Not everyone looks forward...
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Article 14
Kampongs for Cities Dear reader, I'm relaunching my blog with this new title.I think this title captures what I have been working on the last ten years. Kuala Lumpur, where I was born, is a bustling...
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Nong Chik Honeycomb Housing
This is my project in Nong Chik Johor. It’s somewhat different from other housing schemes. It is a hillside development on 14 acres of land situated just at the edge of Johor Bahru Central Business...
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Topics to come
In the coming months, I hope to tell the story of the ideas behind the Nong Chik Honeycomb project, how these ideas developed, the stage they’re at now, and where I hope they can go. The ideas are...
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A Low cost architect
I was mildly ill, but extremely busy this last 10 days. It's not a good start to this new series of blogs, but I I can start again now, and with a long post A lot of the story happens in Malaysia, a...
View ArticleLow Cost Housing in Malaysia
Housing BoomIn Malaysia, the housing industry took off in the 1970’s when rising incomes, the availability of housing loans with low interest rates, and urbanization fuelled a building boom that lasted...
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Problem of Location Where should the developer place the low cost housing? Low cost housing not only, lose money, they also depress the value of properties adjacent to them, so developers chose the...
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The problems of low resale value; the unintended consequences of cross subidy
Low resale valueBuyers of Low cost houses have also suffered. Especially many of those that have encountered financial hardships and have had their mortgages foreclosed. A cursory study of Auction...
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Terrace Housing in Malaysia
In the National Property Information Centre’s (NAPIC) 2007 Residential Property Stock Report, produced quarterly, the residential units available in Malaysia have been listed as the following types...
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The Terrace House, continued...
The terrace house also lends itself to batch construction methods to build large numbers of housing more cheaply. It has also proved itself to be a desirable upgrade from traditional kampong houses....
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Squares Housing in Hulu Selangor
I'm interrupting my series of posts on Terrace Housing with some relevant breaking news... This weekend will see the launching of a new housing scheme in Hulu Bernam in the north of Selangor, just...
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