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SAMCHIEN HOMESTAY DESIGN (AYDA entry)
Bau and I are like family. Growing up in Kuching city, I always awaiting every sunday where I visits my grandparents at Bau, the outskirt gold mining little town. In my memory, Bau equals to forest, the wooden house and the smile on my grandmother face. The lifestyle in Bau is slow and calm, which leads to a concept of “Downshifting”.
The intervention to change a house into homestay is to built on intensive research on local lifestyle and vernacular architecture, from the poetics of local material to building technique, the new blocks design maintains the essence of traditional language.While conserving the old wooden & concrete structured house, another four block building was design to construct of eco friendly materials, powered by natural energy sources,roof top garden & farm and a self sustain fish pond. First approach to the entrance of stone staircase with ponds of fishes, to the left will be a cafe with workshop space, to the right will be the homestay with outdoor landscape-hammock, barbeque pit and the concrete casted pipes as jacuzzi pool.
Wake up each morning to palm fronds swaying in front of blue skies, visitors are exposed to locality and cultural relevance through interior finishes and the vernacular structure. Remember all those days your great grandparents live in the kampung, they’ll find joy in ordinary, because happiness is homemade.
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From the entrance , space was planned to have a private area for homestay, while have a open plaza area for carpark and greenery. The cafe is located facing the front road and there is a bridge to connect the homestay to the cafe.
Space Planning
New block design
Four new block is design as such clusters of kampung houses . They are separate into different block for more daylighting and air ventilation .The houses is design facing to south so there are optimum daylight cast into the bedroom area.
The water feature is design surrounding the homestay and link to the bigger pond under the bridge. The pond is 800mm deep suitable for fish farm. The pond is planted with lily and lotus to have a relax environment.
Water Feature
Greenery
The are green walls and climbing system design on the cafe block while there are hanging ivy at the side of the bridge to cast out strong sunglare. The homestay is design with landscape front and back to achieve passive design and create privacy for the visitors.
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Site Analysis
Bau is a district of Kuching division in Sarawak. Bau is also well known as Gold mining Town in Kuching. This due to its richness of golds and hence the gold mining activity became active during old days(1820-1830) by chinese settlement. Bau town is about 36 kilometers dfrom Kuching at the borders with Indonesian Province of West Kalimantan. The geographical coordinates of Bau district are 1 ° 25’0” North, 110 ° 9’0” East. Bau district can be reached by land transports, about 40 minutes from Kuching.The distance to Lundu district and Serikin market from Bau are 62km and 22km.
Bau District
Climate
Bau has a tropical rainforest climate, which is moderately hot but very humid at times and receives substantial rainfall.
Rainfall (annual) 4200 millimiters
Temperature
23 °c (morning)
33 °c (afternoon)
42 °c (hot season)
Pedestrian Movement
The pedestrian movement in Bau district is very slow and relax. The peak scenery when people are rushing here and there are very rare to be seen in Bau district. This lead to a downshifting life because all the youngster went to Kuching for more work opportunity.
Existing Site
The site choosen is a wooden detached house built in 1960. After having a few floods, the ground floor of the house was demolished and rebuilt upper floor with concrete finish. The ground floor is covered with mud and soil. To made the carporch easier to maintain, stones and gravels are added to the site. Ground floor is now left open and storage for some furniture that not in use.
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