26 Apr 2009
malacca gallery of architecture
I was browsing through last year’s photos and stumbled upon this set of photos that I wanted to publish. well, our last semester (architecture science 102) we were sent to malacca for site visit for the client house project. if I’m not mistaken, the day after I finished our site analysis three of us went wandering around the site and found several museums that interested us. two of those museums are malacca cultural museum and malacca architectural museum. I’ve forgotten which photos are from which museum, so I grouped them together under “malacca gallery of architecture”.
anyhow, I also uploaded the photos on my flickr gallery – feel free to enjoy the photos.
this is the palace of malacca sultanate, well I’m not quite sure if it’s only replica or an original building. nevertheless, this building has since then converted into malacca cultural museum.
the facade relief model of a palace in terengganu.
facade relief model of the selangor palace.
a replica inside a replica! the model of malacca sultanate palace.
model of a traditional malay house in malaysia.
the various styles of malay house.
model of malacca stadhuys building.
if italy has its pisa leaning tower, well this is malaysia’s teluk intan leaning tower. not as famous though, maybe someone needs to take away several degrees of the leaning angle to make it popular. sometimes just makes you wonder why most people celebrate someone else’s engineering mistake.
now, model of kuching’s river fort.
a malaysian neocolonial house. I’m pretty sure the building is a landmark somewhere, but I just can’t remember the name for this one.
malacca townhouse interior model. I have to admit this model struck me the most with those innate detailings. you may argue it’s done and cut by the machine, but still, you need a great deal of detailing from drawings to produce that. whatever method you use; shit in, shit out principle still applies nevertheless.
the model of kuala lumpur train station. this old building has no longer plays the role of kl’s transportation hub since kl sentral (by kisho kurokawa) was completed. the building is now gazetted under national heritage but it would be best if the government would make this a tourist spot since it has a distinct architectural value.
this is how st paul’s church on top of the hill really looks like before it was destroyed during the world war.
model of malacca’s mosque.
I heard that the next batch of AS102 will also have their site visit in malacca. so, if you’re one of them – don’t miss these two museums; malacca cultural museum and malacca architectural museum.
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May 1st, 2009 at 11:31 pmpermalink
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August 2nd, 2009 at 4:44 pmpermalink
wow…..
cm ne nk wt cm 2?????
cantik kot
sao
March 10th, 2010 at 11:03 pmpermalink
yeah, we did went to malacca and the only downturned was we did it during fasting month so lots of us is so tired to walk and collect the data needed..and we only have a day ( u went for 3days, 2nights trip right?) but we managed to walk to the whole area including the seaside and the jetty..but thanks, u have lots of awesome pics and info..all the best senior!
aisya
September 18th, 2010 at 10:17 pmpermalink