ASSESSING A CONDITION OF TIMBER DEFECT FOR PERAK TRADITIONAL MALAY’S ARCHITECTURE: AN INITIAL STEP TO CREATING ENTITY RELATIONSHIP (ER) MODEL IN DATABASED MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (DBMS)

Abstract

The significance value of Traditional Malay’s House is relying on its architecture and strength ability of timber building and reflect the cultural value to the society. The uniqueness of this house is on the use of timber material such as Meranti, Jati and Chengal which prominent as a robust, long lasting and not easy to deteriorate spontaneously. Numerous factor that affects to the timber material and make it deteriorate can possibly cause by external forces, biological agents, temperature and the poor standard of workmanship. An existing information is very crucial in a way to ‘boost up’ locality economy especially in the aspect of heritage tourism. Local authorities as an administrative agency can play an important role as an ‘information provider’ to the ministry in promoting the tourism sector if they have a comprehensive database. The primary issue of tourism data is no comprehensive information about the traditional Malay house at respective administrative area in terms of building performance as well as defect analysis as to ensure a sense of historical place is preserved successfully. The aim of this paper is to develop Databased Management System for Perak Traditional Malay’s House based on defect pattern at eleventh (11) nos. of Perak which focusing on Rumah Limas Bumbung Perak. Based on that analysis, it can be summarized that defect which often attacked a timber building, especially in tropical country especially in Malaysia was mainly caused by moisture problems and biological attack. A continuous exposure to these environmental agents and pests without proper maintenance and care with preventive measures will speedily decayed the buildings materials especially timber. Therefore, this paper is intended to explore a possibility of building condition assessment activity towards a data creation for database management system by exploitation a benefit of geographical information system (GIS).