Meeting in Malacca. An Experiential Guidebook

Up close, Malacca is, for all intent and purposes, a visually legible town. We can obtain a cursory understanding of its many beginnings through discernible traces: natural and man-made, old and recent. Such as its shop-house precincts, narrow streets, town square, hills and a river. Also visible are clear and imminent forces dangerously transforming these legacies faster than any efforts to fully understand them. The sources of these threats are several folds, among these – the gradual emptying of the town’s population for the sprawling terrace-housing estates, the depletion and attrition of the town’s old urban building stocks, and careless conservation processes. Our architecture year 1 students’ Malacca field trip and workshop studies are underpinned by the above urgencies. With NUS’ Tun Tan Cheng Lock Center for Asian Architectural and Urban Heritage (@ 54-56 Heeren Street) providing the staging platform for the learning process, the students venture out on their day’s search. And their findings are recorded in this book.

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