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Green Architecture of Malay Traditional House Exhibitions: Mini Malaysia and ASEAN Cultural Park (MMACP), Melaka

Green Architecture of Malay Traditional House Exhibitions: Mini Malaysia and ASEAN Cultural Park (MMACP), Melaka

Chew Boon Cheong (Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia), Mohd Syaiful Rizal Abd Hamid (Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia), and Saifuddin Isa (Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 11
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9032-4.ch014
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Abstract

Mini Malaysia and ASEAN Cultural Park (MMACP) is one of the tourism spots in Melaka which showcases the Malay traditional houses from thirteen states in Malaysia. Most of the visitors viewing the houses depicting the culture of each states. Contrarily we revisited the park with a curiosity and we would like to know, “How far these Malay traditional houses portray the green architecture?” We designed this research in an exploratory, looking the Malay traditional houses found in MMACP and trace for their green architectural criteria. Through observation, we analysed the data from our field notes, photos, description found on the park's storyboards and explanations from the tour guides. We can conclude that the Malay traditional houses are green buildings that portray green architecture. From this research, we appreciate our forefathers' skills and wisdom, to build the houses that harmonise with the environment.
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Green Building

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2016) provides a comprehensive definition of green building. Green building is the practice of creating structures and using processes that are environmentally responsible and resource efficient.

The processes take in the building's lifecycle: from site selection, building design, construction, operations, maintenance, renovation and deconstruction/removal. Since then, there are many definitions of green building appeared. These definitions are discussing the similar context of green building.

In Malaysia, a green building rating tool (namely Green Building Index-GBI) is established under the Malaysian Institute of Architects and Association of Consulting Engineers Malaysia. The main purpose of this establishment is to administrate GBI accreditation and training of GBI facilitators and certifiers (GBI, 2019)

Under GBI index, the common assessment criteria are (i) energy efficiency, (ii) indoor environmental quality, (iii) sustainable site planning and management, (iv) materials and resources, (v) water efficiency and (vi) innovation. These criteria are set with the marks capped, while the final total of 100 could be determined after the evaluation process are carried out.

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