Maritime Museum And Perauk Tambang Hub of Sarawak

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Project idea

Connected to the Sarawak River, this project's site has one of the most historical gem of Sarawak, the Brooke Dockyard. Besides promoting Sarawak maritime history and 'perauk tambang', adaptive reuse approach is applied to appreciate the forgotten gem from the Victorian ages during the 1800 era.

Project description

The death of the Brooke Dockyard had turned the surrounding environment into a dull, uneventful area despite its former status as one of the most active and earliest working dry docks in South East Asia.

To revive the long lost historical gem of Sarawak, I created a Victorian-inspired expose architecture via recursive motifs. With it's original structure of the dockyard, I design and preserve the Brooke Dockyard through adaptive reuse.

Technical information

Most parts of the plan, forms, facades, structure & even furniture is based on a specific set of recursive formula & rule. By exploring motifs using the same set of recursive rule, the design outcome produced many different design with the same architecture language.