Experiencing culture trip to Ipoh

DAY 1- 7/2/15

After trip to Paris-London, this semester I went to Ipoh, Perak for the subject, experiencing culture 2 with my lecturers and course mates. We gather in front of UCSI lobby and depart at 830 morning. Our first stop for this trip is a heritage house located at Gopeng which named heritage house museum Gopeng.

Facade of Museum Gopeng

What I get to know about this house from the person in charge is during the past this is a residential house stay by a man which he design the interior of this house by his own. Later on, government has preserved this place as a museum and manage by a group of volunteer. He use timber as the main material for this building. A lot of vintage items are display in the house.

Vintage items display

I found out that the interior of this building has a good ventilation system as we don’t feel extremely hot when there is a group of people are inside in the house at the same time even without the installation of air conditioning. Besides, I feel the space planning of this house is interesting on how he fully utilized every spaces. This house has first floor, one mezzanine floor, one area located at attic and one open air balcony at first floor. I will take this house as a references to design my spaces in boutique hotel for the design subject. I bought few postcard before take-off to Ipoh.

Next, we went to a pottery factory. We not only visit the pottery but also get a chance to make the design on it by our own!! Even though we get dirty with the mud on hand and shirt when we doing this handicraft but all of us enjoy it!! =)

Here attached a video on how the pak cik mould the pottery.