Baitul Rahmah: a Final Evolution of The Malay Classical Style Amidst Change
Noorhanita Abdul Majid(1), Puteri Shireen Jahn Kassim(2), Tengku Anis Qarihah Binti Raja Abdul Kadir(3*), Abdul Razak Bin Sapian(4), Abu Dzar Bin Samsudin(5),
(1) Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, International Islamic University Malaysia ( IIUM)
(2) Department of Applied Arts and Design, Faculty of Architecture, IIUM
(3) Centre of Studies Architecture Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying (FSPU), Universiti Teknologi MARA
(4) Professor, Kuliyyah of Architecture and Environmental Design
(5) Phd Student, Department of Applied Arts and Design, Faculty of Architecture, IIUM
(*) Corresponding Author
Abstract
The paper highlights the significance and position of the Baitul Rahmah, an early 20th-century mansion in Kuala Kangsar, Perak, Malaysia, as a key milestone of stylistic evolvement of local vernacular architecture. Its form embodies, a typological variation at a time of growing Colonial imperialism, while its grammar and language refers to early modern stylistic expression reflecting the fundamental principles of indigenous architecture. The Baitul Rahmah brings to light how a final evolution and epitome of the vernacular projects an identity as a cosmopolitan manifestation. Its internal ornamentation recalls the stylized forms of local motifs and reflect a form of control and minimalism; i.e. an ‘ornamental decorum’. Its wood-carved expressions seem stylised into increasing ‘modernised’ simplication and modularity, while its masonry- timber structure reflect the identity of hybridity in architecture which symbolise the tensions of local communities as they step into the 1900s into a global context.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.30998/cs.v2i1.347
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