Adaptive Re-Use Principles in Historic Hotel Buildings in Melaka And George Town

Lilawati Ab Wahab,Izatul Faritta Mohd Kamar,Noor Aishah Mohd.Hamdan,Nor Suzila Lop,S.N.B Kamaruzzaman,S.J.L Chua,A.S.B Ali,N.F.B Azmi

doi:10.1051/matecconf/20166600030

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Abstract

Adaptive re-use of historic buildings is a process of changing the original function of the historic buildings to another function that can optimise the use of existing historic buildings. The selection of appropriate new function is an important factor in determining the success of adaptive re-use of historic buildings. However, adaptive re-use work done on historic buildings on the World Heritage Site is not an easy task due to rules and principles outlined by local and international charters that must be abide by. This research is conducted to gather the true picture of applied adaptive re-use principles that has been done on heritage hotels available in Melaka and George Town World Heritage Sites. This research is started with an inventory that led to the discovery of 35 hotels which applied the principle of adaptive re-use of historic buildings. Based on this finding, 4 historic hotels from adaptive re-use applications have been selected as the case studies. Results of the case studies carried out show that the level of conservation of heritage hotel is moderate and measures of control should be taken to ensure the privileges of heritage hotel. As a result of this research, a number of suggestions are made to ensure that adaptive re-use work done in the future will be conducted as optimum as possible according to the adaptive re-use and conservation principles.

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Adaptive re-use is broadly defined as any building work and intervention to change its capacity, function or performance to adjust, reuse or upgrade a building to suit new conditions or requirements (Douglas, 2006)
To assess the adaptive re-use of historic building practice level as a hotel based on the principles of conservation in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Melaka and George Town. iii
The inventory has been carried out around Melaka and George Town World Heritage Site and as a result have led to the discovery of 35 hotels with application of adaptive re-use principles. 7 hotels are located in Melaka and 28 hotels located in George Town

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Adaptive re-use is broadly defined as any building work and intervention to change its capacity, function or performance to adjust, reuse or upgrade a building to suit new conditions or requirements (Douglas, 2006). Adaptive re-use is a wise move to ensure that a building restored, given new impetus and should be used with. Orbasli (2008) stated that adaptive re-use works is a process in which the building has been modified for the new use and so leave the usage of time. Bullen (2007) stated that there are many qualifying factors, the concept of adaptive re-use has significantly support a positive strategy to make the built environmnet more sustainable. Adaptive re-use of historic building is one of the best methods that can help a historic building keeps well conserved (Ahmad and Badarulzaman, 2003). Adaptive re-use work involve works such as conservation, modification, repair, maintenance and consolidation (Australia ICOMOS, 2002). Bullen and Love (2011)

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