Attap dwelling

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An attap dwelling is traditional housing found in the kampongs of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Named after the attap palm, which provides the wattle for the walls, and the leaves with which their roofs are thatched,Normand-Prunieres, p. 4 these dwellings can range from huts to substantial houses. Until the nineteenth century even significant public buildings such as temples were built in this manner. The attap dwelling was used as the inspiration for the natural cross ventilation system for Newton Suites,{{Cite web|title=Newton Suites WOHA|url=https://www.world-architects.com/en/woha-singapore/project/newton-suites|access-date=2020-06-07|website=World-Architects|language=en}} by WOHA Architects, Singapore.

Singapore

Attap-roofed houses were formerly common in rural areas of Singapore. From the 1950s onwards, many attap roofs were replaced by zinc sheeting. Public housing and urban renewal programmes resulted in a sharp decline in the number of attap- and zinc-roofed houses starting from the 1960s. As of the 1980 Census, 10.8% of houses were attap- or zinc-roofed, vs. 34% in 1970; most were located in outlying areas.{{Cite journal |last=Cheng |first=Lim Keak |date=September 1990 |title=House types and their spatial patterns in Singapore |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/BF02428537 |journal=GeoJournal |language=en |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=33–48 |doi=10.1007/BF02428537 |issn=0343-2521|url-access=subscription }}

References

Sources

[http://www.enhr2004.org/files/new_papers/Normand-Prunieres.pdf Normand-Prunieres, Helene. 'Malaysian Dwellings', Proceedings of ENHR International Housing Conference 2004, (Cambridge: University, 2004)]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Category:House types

Category:Architecture in Indonesia

Category:Architecture in Malaysia

Category:Architecture in Singapore