A blog of an ordinary interior architecture student: Day 4

After breakfast in a famous local kopitiam, we gather beside the Plan B restaurant at Sekeping Kong Heng. This day we are allow to enter the Sekeping Kong Heng hostel to have a visit!! *excited*

All of us were separated in to 2 groups. One visit to the hostel which almost completed renovation while another group visit to hostel which were still under construction.

I first visit to hostel which are still under construction. Normally I saw the interior which already done renovation therefore I couldn't understand how was the wiring and plumbing goes before covered by the finishes. From this visit, I can roughly get some ideas and try understand how are those wiring and plumbing flow. Besides, materials that used are soundproof, something like sponge are inserted to the wall to minimize the noise out of the room. I already can imagine how interesting this place is going to be after done renovation. I must pay a visit in the future to look at the completed work!

The design of rooms here are different from what we normally seen. The floor finishes here are exposed concrete and the rooms are actually semi enclosed as it's surrounded with wired gate instead of brick wall. Therefore, hotel guests can view to ground floor from their room. One design that I couldn't understand here is why is the shower area are not enclosed as it's using the glass wall. I thought shower is something privacy but why.......

Interior design of room

The design that impressed the most here is the floating sleeping area in this room. Even though I think this is a special design but I don't feel completely safe as it will produce some noise (some sort of sound like the timber is going to break ><) when I step on it. Other than that, the ladder which help us get on to floating area are too slanted for me, it's almost 90 degree! I would give 9/10 for the creativity but not in term of the comfort level.

Kellie's Castle was our next stop which at first we planned to visit during the first day of our trip.

Kellie's Castle was built by William Kellie Smith, a successful planter in Ipoh area. It is an abandoned incomplete mansion in Batu Gajah, Perak. The house was built in 1909-10910 in Greco-Roman and Moorish styles with extravagant columns and arches and keyhole windows. The bricks and tiles were imported from India.

Floor plan of Kellie's Castle

Even we only can see ground floor and first floor plan, but actually this mansion is much more higher than that. Some of the areas are located higher than first floor. It has several secret rooms and tunnel which lead to another places during emergency. Even though we visited it during daytime but I can still feel a bit creepy when entered to few of the dark or secret rooms which lead by narrow tunnel.

Before ended our Ipoh 4D3N trip, we went to tin mining musuem as the last stop.