The interior design aspects of Jawi and Chinese Peranakan historical building museums in Penang / Nur Anis Amira Yussof

The ‘Peranakan’ communities are well known as part of a cultural heritage that emerged from Malaysia's history. Georgetown in Pulau Pinang, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, consists of many heritage buildings, which also was owned by the Peranakan communities. The dominance of design aspects studi...

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Main Author:	Yussof, Nur Anis Amira
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2022
Subjects:	Historic buildings
Online Access:	https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/89297/1/89297.pdf
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spelling	my-uitm-ir.892972024-01-14T08:57:34Z The interior design aspects of Jawi and Chinese Peranakan historical building museums in Penang / Nur Anis Amira Yussof 2022 Yussof, Nur Anis Amira Historic buildings The ‘Peranakan’ communities are well known as part of a cultural heritage that emerged from Malaysia's history. Georgetown in Pulau Pinang, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, consists of many heritage buildings, which also was owned by the Peranakan communities. The dominance of design aspects studies of Chinese Peranakan heritage buildings overshadowed seven other groups of Peranakan ethnics in the Malay peninsula, particularly of the Jawi Peranakan’s heritage buildings. This research aims to explore the Jawi Peranakan’s heritage building’s design aspect in the interior spaces compared to the Chinese Peranakan’s heritage buildings that have been adaptively re-used as museums. It is achieved through identifying the Jawi Peranakan and Chinese Peranakan that have been adaptively re-used as museums in Pulau Pinang and the design aspects of heritage buildings. The findings then recognise aspects culturally influenced in the design that represents their cultural values in the identified design aspects through a qualitative approach using case studies as a strategy for the data collection. The Jawi Peranakan showed more geometrical motifs and floral motifs. However, the major cultural influences in the design aspects were related to the cultural values concerning the Chinese belief that the number 8 represents prosperity in the design of the decorative motifs. 2022 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/89297/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/89297/1/89297.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi MARA (Kampus Puncak Alam) Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying Masri, Dr. Mawar
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description	The ‘Peranakan’ communities are well known as part of a cultural heritage that emerged from Malaysia's history. Georgetown in Pulau Pinang, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, consists of many heritage buildings, which also was owned by the Peranakan communities. The dominance of design aspects studies of Chinese Peranakan heritage buildings overshadowed seven other groups of Peranakan ethnics in the Malay peninsula, particularly of the Jawi Peranakan’s heritage buildings. This research aims to explore the Jawi Peranakan’s heritage building’s design aspect in the interior spaces compared to the Chinese Peranakan’s heritage buildings that have been adaptively re-used as museums. It is achieved through identifying the Jawi Peranakan and Chinese Peranakan that have been adaptively re-used as museums in Pulau Pinang and the design aspects of heritage buildings. The findings then recognise aspects culturally influenced in the design that represents their cultural values in the identified design aspects through a qualitative approach using case studies as a strategy for the data collection. The Jawi Peranakan showed more geometrical motifs and floral motifs. However, the major cultural influences in the design aspects were related to the cultural values concerning the Chinese belief that the number 8 represents prosperity in the design of the decorative motifs.
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title	The interior design aspects of Jawi and Chinese Peranakan historical building museums in Penang / Nur Anis Amira Yussof
title_short	The interior design aspects of Jawi and Chinese Peranakan historical building museums in Penang / Nur Anis Amira Yussof
title_full	The interior design aspects of Jawi and Chinese Peranakan historical building museums in Penang / Nur Anis Amira Yussof
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The interior design aspects of Jawi and Chinese Peranakan historical building museums in Penang / Nur Anis Amira Yussof

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