The Mound and the Malay Nusantara historic landscape

• Main Authors: Baniyamin, Nurhaya, Zain, Mazarina, Ibrahim, Mansor
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English; English
• Published: Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore 2023
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General)
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/106774/12/106774_The%20mound%20and%20the%20Malay%20nusantara.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/106774/13/106774_The%20Mound%20and%20the%20Malay%20Nusantara%20historic%20landscape_Scopus.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/106774/; https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-1637-3_3

The portico is the essence of tropical form and represents the quintessential architectural character of the South East Asian tropics. The variations of the verandah, ‘anjung’ and ‘serambi’, can be seen as the ‘permutations’ of the tropical portico. The portico can be broken down and mapped to unear...