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Boutique Hotels Within Heritage Shophouses in George Town: Understanding Adaptive Reuse Through Existing Interior Layouts
Adaptive reuse has been an emerging means of conservation and commodification of built heritage worldwide. Its implementation is associable with the thrive in tourism industry for UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS) localities. As seen in George Town WHS of Malaysia, conversion of heritage shophouses to function as boutique hotels is one of the common trends. However, observation and documentation on the physical impact of such cases are in sparse mode, thus compels the execution of this exploratory study. A preliminary inventory to identify heritage shophouses that legitimately met the meaning and criteria of a boutique hotel was performed, prior to conducting field observation to record the physical changes and modifications. Consequently, five buildings were identified and further scrutinised through field observation that gave special emphasis on their new interior layout. It is found that spatial provisions such as reception and lobby area, guest rooms, and en suite bathroom are inevitable for repurposing heritage shophouses into boutique hotels. Besides, integration of swimming pool was uncommon while setting up a rooftop garden was unlikely, implying from the collective cases.
Boutique Hotels Within Heritage Shophouses in George Town: Understanding Adaptive Reuse Through Existing Interior Layouts
Adaptive reuse has been an emerging means of conservation and commodification of built heritage worldwide. Its implementation is associable with the thrive in tourism industry for UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS) localities. As seen in George Town WHS of Malaysia, conversion of heritage shophouses to function as boutique hotels is one of the common trends. However, observation and documentation on the physical impact of such cases are in sparse mode, thus compels the execution of this exploratory study. A preliminary inventory to identify heritage shophouses that legitimately met the meaning and criteria of a boutique hotel was performed, prior to conducting field observation to record the physical changes and modifications. Consequently, five buildings were identified and further scrutinised through field observation that gave special emphasis on their new interior layout. It is found that spatial provisions such as reception and lobby area, guest rooms, and en suite bathroom are inevitable for repurposing heritage shophouses into boutique hotels. Besides, integration of swimming pool was uncommon while setting up a rooftop garden was unlikely, implying from the collective cases.
Boutique Hotels Within Heritage Shophouses in George Town: Understanding Adaptive Reuse Through Existing Interior Layouts
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Awang, Mokhtar (editor) / Ling, Lloyd (editor) / Emamian, Seyed Sattar (editor) / Firzan, Muhammad (author) / Prihatmanti, Rani (author) / Johari, Shafiq Falil (author) / Ning, Tan Sin (author) / Ghafar Ahmad, A. (author)
2022-03-01
19 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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