Modern Building Services Impact on Heritage Shophouse Façade in George Town, Penang
Abstract
This study aims to determine the effects of modern building services on the buildings façade of heritage shophouse in George Town, Penang. The study selects shophouse façade as a case study, for the shophouse importance in forming most of the urban fabric in George Town and its façade as it represents the outside part that gives the visual appearance of the building, and therefore, the current streetscape of the area. The focus is on the background of the area and its history, the architectural features of the various types of the shophouse, its categories, the geometrical composition that gives the visual appearance to its façade. The data collected included the building services (traditional and modern) used in shophouse building. The methodology of this research is a comparative analysis of two conditions of heritage buildings. The first one is the original state of the building, as it was built with the authentic architectural features. Secondly, on the current state after the additional features related to the installations of modern building services. The main difference between the two cases is that the original building is built with its traditional methods and passive techniques allow at the time of building, and integrated with the architectural properties of the structure. On the other hand, modern appliances are made with features that dominate and blemish the physical appearance of the building, the façade function, building and finishing materials. The insensitive placements of building services appliances had reduced the authenticity of George Town heritage buildings.
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26 December 2017
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978-1-80296-950-4
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Future Academy
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2
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1st Edition
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Technology, smart cities, digital construction, industrial revolution 4.0, wellbeing & social resilience, economic resilience, environmental resilience
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Sabah*, O. A., & Samad, M. H. A. (2017). Modern Building Services Impact on Heritage Shophouse Façade in George Town, Penang. In P. A. J. Wahid, P. I. D. A. Aziz Abdul Samad, P. D. S. Sheikh Ahmad, & A. P. D. P. Pujinda (Eds.), Carving The Future Built Environment: Environmental, Economic And Social Resilience, vol 2. European Proceedings of Multidisciplinary Sciences (pp. 1-11). Future Academy. https://doi.org/10.15405/epms.2019.12.1