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REDUCING THE COST OF INFRASTRUCTURE
We would reasonably expect that the amount of roads would be a good proxy for the cost of infrastructure : drains, water mains, sewerage pipes, electrical cables and telephone lines all run along roads...
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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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A 5-Storey High-Density Honeycomb Apartment
The ground level is slightly lowered to make it into a lower-ground floor ground floor and is fully utilized to provide car parking. If laid out efficiently, the number of car parks provided will be...
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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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BCIAsia Equinox - a Boutique Exhibition in Kuala Lumpur, 11th November
I will be giving a talk at this event next Friday courtesy of BCIAsiaĀ on high-rise Honeycomb. I'm preparing a more relaxed, version of the CTBUH presentation last week, taking up maybe 35 minutes...
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High-rise housing
When I was a student in the 1970ās, experts were lining up to criticise social high-rise housing. This was the time when the infamous Pruitt Igoe high-rise apartments in the United States were being...
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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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