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RESEARCH IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT by
Nurwati Badarulzaman (PhD)
School of Housing, Building and Planning (HBP)
24 September 2012
(Photo: Courtesy of Prof. Dr. A Ghafar Ahmad)
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
Natural environment includes
living and non-living things that
occur naturally around us.
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Tongji University,
Shanghai
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Shanghai, China
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What is Built Environment?
- Our physical surroundings.
- Places and spaces created for daily living, working and playing.
- Varying scales from buildings and green parks to neighborhoods
and cities, transportation system and public infrastructure.
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A built environment is the outcome of
human labour, comprising material,
spatial and cultural elements
and energy for live, work and play
(Roof & Oleru, 2008).
Built environment includes physical, social and
economic elements that affect people’s livelihood.
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Melaka
Riverfront
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Tongji Univ,
Shanghai
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Sustainable designers and architects create
innovative built environment designs to reflect
lifestyles of the 21 Century and future.
Architects Manfredi Nicoletti of Rome and Hijjas
Kasturi Associates of Malaysia designed the first
sustainable waterfront residential development in
Putrajaya, Malaysia.
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Concept & Definition
Architecture
Heritage conservation
Economic development
Environmental planning
Health
Housing
Economic regeneration
Social issues
Spatial planning
Sustainability
Urban design
Transport etc
INTER-DISCIPLINARY field that
addresses the design, planning,
construction, management, and use of
man-made environment and their
relationship to human activity.
DRAWS from many disciplines such
as economics, law, public policy,
public health, management,
geography, design, engineering,
technology and environmental
sustainability.
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BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Professor Amos Rapoport is one of the founders of the
field of Environment-Behavior Studies (EBS). Research on
culture, human behavior, and the built environment
interactions.
1969 - House, Form & Culture
1976 - The Mutual Interaction of People and Their Built
Environment. A Cross-Cultural Perspective.
1977 - Human Aspects of Urban Form: Towards a Man-
Environment Approach to Urban Form and Design
1982 - The Meaning of the Built Environment: A Nonverbal
Communication Approach
1990 - History and Precedent in Environmental Design
2003 - Culture, Architecture, and Design
What MEANINGS do buildings, their contents, and
their inhabitants convey?
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DOING RESEARCH :
WHAT & HOW?
RESEARCH is a thorough investigation of a topic of interest using reliable
and scholarly methods and resources.
PROCESS: Search, Review & Evaluate resources and information
with critical thinking.
GOAL: To establish facts from analyzing valid information to reach new
findings and conclusions.
While DNA is the building blocks of life,
information is the building blocks of research.
We learn to find, evaluate, and use
information to complete the research
process successfully.
HOW DO WE START A
RESEARCH?
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GLIMPSES OF HISTORY…..
Achievements of the Ancient
Egyptians include:
quarrying, surveying and
construction techniques in
building monumental pyramids
and obelisks;
system of mathematics;
system of medicine;
system of administration;
irrigation systems and
agricultural production
techniques;
the early ships;
glass technology; and
new form of literature.
Pyramid of Giza
and the Great
Sphinx of Ancient
Egypt Civilization
Obelisk of Pharoah
in Cairo, Egypt
3rd century BC
Plowing Egyptian
Farmer
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The ancient city of Athens,
a historic city and capital of
Greece, is considered as
the birthplace of Western
civilization. The city
retains monuments of
Roman, Byzantine and
Ottoman eras.
GLIMPSES OF HISTORY
Parthenon, a landmark of
early Western civilization
4-5 th Century BC
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GLIMPSES OF HISTORY
Ancient Rome (8th Century BC) Colloseum
Roman Forum Piazza of the Pantheon & Obelisk
Theatre
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GLIMPSES OF HISTORY
ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION
(8TH CENTURY)
Kaabah, Makkah,
Saudi Arabia
An-Nabawi Mosque,
Madinah, S. Arabia
Kirouan / Uqba
Mosque, Tunisia
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images.com)
Great Mosque of
Samarra, Iraq
CLASSICAL REVIVAL THROUGH THE AGES
Renaissance style (15th century)
Baroque Style (17th Century)
Georgian Style 18th Century
City Beautiful Movement 19-20 Century
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Tanjian Eco-city, China
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ISSUES
IN THE BUILT
ENVIRONMENT
ISSUES IN THE
BUILT
ENVIRONMENT
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ISSUES IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
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ISSUES IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
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ISSUES IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
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ISSUES
IN THE
BUILT ENVIRONMENT
UNIVERSAL DESIGN
Design of products and built
environment usable by all
people, to the greatest extent
possible, without adaptation or
specialized design.
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SCHOOL OF HOUSING, BUILDING
& PLANNING, USM
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
BUILT ENVIRONMENT IN
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (ICBEDC)
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ARCHITECTURE
POD Pavilion, KL
POD Pavillion, KL
Enforcement of the Architects Act 1967
Tropical residence, KL
The Capers, KL
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BUILDING
SURVEYING
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BUILDING TECHNOLOGY
IBS Industrialised Building System
Stormwater Management & Road Tunnel or SMART, KL (Image source: www.google
images.com)
CONSTRUCTION
MANAGEMENT
Construction Industry
Development Board
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I N T E R I O R
D E S I G N
Registration as Professional
Interior Designers with
Lembaga Arkitek Malaysia
(LAM) (Architect Amendment
Rules 2011)
Pertubuhan Perekabentuk
Dalaman Malaysia (PPDM)
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QUANTITY
SURVEYING
Lembaga Juruukur Bahan Malaysia (LJBM)
Board of Quantity Surveyors Malaysia
(BQSM)
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) UIK
Specialists in aspects of the management, monitoring and assessment of buildings,
land and construction. (Image source: www.google images.com)
URBAN AND REGIONAL
PLANNING
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WHAT IS NEXT?
THANK YOU (Image source: www.googleimages,com)
Photos in sl ides nos. 1 ,4,5,6,7,8,9 in this presentation are courtesy of Professor Dr. A Ghafar Ahmad’s personal col lection.
Other images used in this presentation are excerpts from website www.googleimages.com, accessed on 20 September 2012.
Images of the journal “Built Environment” were obtained from website www.alexandrinepress.co.uk/be_about_built_environment.php, assessed on 20 September 2012.
This sl ide presentation is intended str ictly for instructional purposes in RUS104 Studio 100, School of Housing, Building and Planning, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia during Semester 1 Academic Session 2012/2013.
(NB 24 Sept 2012)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS