The roof of traditional malay houses are designed to provide shade and protection from heat and rain as well as to provide ventilation.
Malay traditional roof design.
The house uses gable roof type.
In the tradition of vernacular houses the malay house is not professionally designed but has evolved over a period of time using readily available local materials which suited the local climatic and environmental conditions.
Under the gable roof located a hidden space known the loteng or loft.
Touched and designed by the creative and skilled of the malays.
The side walls are mounted roof gable.
Malay house styles particularly the design of the roof vary from state to state in peninsular malaysia but the basic house form and construction methods are similar.
It is basically a post and lintel structure that has been designed as respond to natural factor like flood underground dampness and to have better air ventilation and view to surrounding.
The basic design of a roof on a malay house is gabled roof an extended frame with ornaments on the edges of the roof.
It has a post structure with wooden or bamboo walls and thatched roof.
Basic design of the malay house is the stilts on which it stands its open plan and its pitched roof.
Malay architecture is one of the prominent reflections of the malaysia s heritage.
The traditional malay house is a timber house raised on stilts.
The vernacular malay roof is best suited for hot and humid tropical climates.
Malay house space division.
Three vertical part of melaka house.
Malay house form is shown on the roof part.
Melaka houses are categorized in the long roof design.
The ridge board is long straight and mounted horizontally elongated.