scholarly journals Building Construction of Pre-war Shophouses in George Town Observed Through a Renovation Case Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-202
Author(s):  
Chee Siang Tan ◽  
Kaori Fujita
Keyword(s):  
Building Construction ◽  
George Town

A Framework and Case Study for Earthquake Vulnerability Assessment of Incrementally Expanding Buildings

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 1369-1384 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lallemant ◽  
Henry Burton ◽  
Luis Ceferino ◽  
Zach Bullock ◽  
Anne Kiremidjian
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Risk Assessment Models ◽  
Earthquake Vulnerability ◽  
Valley Area ◽  
Common Understanding ◽  
Dynamic Structural Analysis ◽  
Neighborhood Level ◽  
Over Time

This study proposes a framework for incorporating time-dependent fragility into large-scale risk assessment models, focusing on incremental building expansion as a significant driver of changes in vulnerability. In rapidly urbanizing areas in developing countries, the pay-as-you-go process of informal building construction and staged expansion is the de facto pattern of growth. While there is a common understanding that such expansions increase the earthquake vulnerability of buildings, this study proposes a framework to model and quantify this increase. Vulnerability curves are developed through incremental dynamic structural analysis for common building expansion typologies. Building expansions are modeled as Markov chain processes and used to simulate stochastic expansion sequences over a building's lifetime. The model is then used to simulate a hypothetical neighborhood in the Kathmandu valley area to understand neighborhood-level risk over time. The study provides a new methodology to analyze changing seismic risk over time, driven by any building modification that impacts the building's vulnerability (incremental expansion, deterioration, retrofit, etc.).

scholarly journals FIGURE-GROUND MAPPING TO IDENTIFY URBAN FABRIC CHARACTERISTICS OF GEORGE TOWN HERITAGE ZONE

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tan Bee Eu ◽  
Teh Weng Jen
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Linkage Study ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Height Control ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
Physical Elements ◽  
George Town

The traditional Penang shophouses with its unique architecture elements constitutes the largest portion of the heritage zone which form a massive and coherently unique urban fabric. Conservation guidelines have been enforced to preserve the pre-war shophouses, by implementing classification of heritage buildings, façade/structural restoration, height control and so on. Are these measures truly effective to ensure meaningful intervention within the existing urban fabric? Preservation and conservation of the physical elements of existing shophouse will remain a superficial effort if no attempt is made to understand first the urban sense of place, the town planning language, the very fabric that weaves the solid formed by buildings with the void spaces of roads, parks, courtyards, foot paths and back lanes. Hebbert (2016) reckons figure-ground plans as the commonest type of image used in town planning, so common that it is easy to overlook their peculiar characteristics. This paper aims to revisit the power of figure-ground mapping and illustrates how its imaging will lead todeciphering the unique fabric of George Town. The author also employs an “Integrated Approach” (Trancik, 1986) by layering the two-dimensional solidvoid mappings with linkage study and sense of place to analyse unique patterns of two case study archetypes that reveal exceptional urban spatial characteristics of George Town that few have come to appreciate.

scholarly journals Paradigm Shift of New Building in Old Urban Districts: Case Study of Bangkok Chinatown Workshop

2021 ◽  
Vol 236 ◽  
pp. 05059
Author(s):  
Xian Li ◽  
Eakachat Joneurairatana ◽  
Veerawat Sirivesmas
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
New Era ◽  
Process Of Urbanization ◽  
Combination Mode ◽  
The City ◽  
New Buildings

Architects and designers realize that new buildings cannot completely replace old buildings in the process of urbanization in the world. To establish a method of the new building and the old building coexist and to create the new paradigm of the new building construction in the old district is the responsibility faced by the contemporary architects. This paper first analyzes the old building renovation projects in Berlin and Paris in the 1980s and puts forward the symbiotic relationship between the old and the new buildings in the new era, thus obtaining the research objectives, trying to redefine new buildings and old districts, and creating the new paradigm of contemporary building construction in old districts. Using workshop as an exploration method, this paper conducts data research and sampling analyses on the Chinatown area in Bangkok, and explores the combination mode and paradigm transformation of new buildings and old districts in the city, aiming to seek solutions utilizing art exploration.

Mobile Virtual Heritage Exploration with Heritage Hunt with a Case Study of George Town, Penang, Malaysia

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 74-86
Author(s):  
Kiam Lam Tan ◽  
Chen Kim Lim ◽  
Abdullah Zawawi bin Haji Talib
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Computer Games ◽  
Mobile Platforms ◽  
Mobile Phone Technology ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Virtual Heritage ◽  
Desktop Computers ◽  
Game Console ◽  
George Town

Computer games with fully intensive graphics are very common in desktop computers or game console, but the development of mobile games with intensive graphics are fairly new. With the advancement in mobile phone technology, it is possible to create a mobile game incorporates integrate the virtual reality techniques. In this paper, the authors present a virtual heritage application called M-Heritage Hunt that integrates virtual reality and game for mobile platforms. M-Heritage Hunt provides panoramic views of the heritage sites and a game background that is customized for the core of heritage zone of George Town, Penang in Malaysia. M-Heritage Hunt was evaluated and examined by letting the respondents to play the game in its proposed setting.

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