The application of open building system for housing scheme in Malaysia

Immense resources such as land, material, time, labor, money, energy – are being invested in constructing buildings. However, almost all of these buildings, including those currently under construction and on the drawing boards, are not designed with adaptability and flexibility as intention and wil...

Full description

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Omrany, Hossein
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	TA Engineering (General) Civil engineering (General)
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78728/1/HosseinOmranyMFKA2014.pdf
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

id	my-utm-ep.78728
record_format	uketd_dc
spelling	my-utm-ep.787282018-08-30T08:06:43Z The application of open building system for housing scheme in Malaysia 2014-06 Omrany, Hossein TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Immense resources such as land, material, time, labor, money, energy – are being invested in constructing buildings. However, almost all of these buildings, including those currently under construction and on the drawing boards, are not designed with adaptability and flexibility as intention and will cause inflexibility in the future. The lack of functional adaptability for the future re-activation means that their only fate is demolition. Consuming even more resources, producing more waste, and causing more disruption to the environment are considered to be only some tangible consequences of the demolition. However, alteration of mind-set in residential housing design of single storey as well as high-raised towers will pave the way to sustainability. This research studies the level of flexibility in Malaysian house and the impact of inflexibility on the users is studied. Moreover, this research study investigated the probable barriers on the way of developing the Open Building concept and the measures required to be taken for how to overcome these obstacles on the architectural perspective. Finally, the most appropriate partition wall system and the most preferable material which can be used in Malaysia based on the particular climatic condition of this country are studied. It is found that vast majority of the interior layout of the respondents’ houses are fixed and suffering from inflexibility which eventually it will enforce the respondents to move away from the house. Moreover, the unavailability of the ‘modular walls, fastener and other technical detail’, ‘Financial Issue’ and ‘Lack of clients and consultants’ awareness towards the Open Building’ are recognized by architects as the most important barriers to develop the Open Building System (OBS) in Malaysia. Additionally, sliding partition wall and wood material are chosen by the architects as the most appropriate partition wall system and the most preferable material which can be used in Malaysia based on the particular climatic condition of this country. 2014-06 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78728/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78728/1/HosseinOmranyMFKA2014.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:105821 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering Faculty of Civil Engineering
institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
collection	UTM Institutional Repository
language	English
topic	TA Engineering (General) Civil engineering (General)
spellingShingle	TA Engineering (General) Civil engineering (General) Omrany, Hossein The application of open building system for housing scheme in Malaysia
description	Immense resources such as land, material, time, labor, money, energy – are being invested in constructing buildings. However, almost all of these buildings, including those currently under construction and on the drawing boards, are not designed with adaptability and flexibility as intention and will cause inflexibility in the future. The lack of functional adaptability for the future re-activation means that their only fate is demolition. Consuming even more resources, producing more waste, and causing more disruption to the environment are considered to be only some tangible consequences of the demolition. However, alteration of mind-set in residential housing design of single storey as well as high-raised towers will pave the way to sustainability. This research studies the level of flexibility in Malaysian house and the impact of inflexibility on the users is studied. Moreover, this research study investigated the probable barriers on the way of developing the Open Building concept and the measures required to be taken for how to overcome these obstacles on the architectural perspective. Finally, the most appropriate partition wall system and the most preferable material which can be used in Malaysia based on the particular climatic condition of this country are studied. It is found that vast majority of the interior layout of the respondents’ houses are fixed and suffering from inflexibility which eventually it will enforce the respondents to move away from the house. Moreover, the unavailability of the ‘modular walls, fastener and other technical detail’, ‘Financial Issue’ and ‘Lack of clients and consultants’ awareness towards the Open Building’ are recognized by architects as the most important barriers to develop the Open Building System (OBS) in Malaysia. Additionally, sliding partition wall and wood material are chosen by the architects as the most appropriate partition wall system and the most preferable material which can be used in Malaysia based on the particular climatic condition of this country.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Omrany, Hossein
author_facet	Omrany, Hossein
author_sort	Omrany, Hossein
title	The application of open building system for housing scheme in Malaysia
title_short	The application of open building system for housing scheme in Malaysia
title_full	The application of open building system for housing scheme in Malaysia
title_fullStr	The application of open building system for housing scheme in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	The application of open building system for housing scheme in Malaysia
title_sort	application of open building system for housing scheme in malaysia
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering
granting_department	Faculty of Civil Engineering
publishDate	2014
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78728/1/HosseinOmranyMFKA2014.pdf
_version_	1747818056732639232

The application of open building system for housing scheme in Malaysia

Similar Items