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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bout_built_environment.php)

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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