Meaning, time, communication: reflecting on the 'aceh method' and vernacular
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2020
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Nichols, J.
Fong, D.
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Suartika, G.A.M.
Nichols, J.
Nichols, J.
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Source details - Title: Reframing the Vernacular: Politics, Semiotics, and Representation, 2020 / Suartika, G.A.M., Nichols, J. (ed./s), Ch.11, pp.127-142
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The “Aceh Method” has been coined here to contemplate a form of representing vernacular house typologies and to provide another “way of seeing”. Ways of seeing and understanding vernacular knowledge centred on the production of built form and their related socio-cultural conditions are revisited with this research through a multimodal platform of the “Aceh Method”. This method was devised to record, interpret and connect to the rich histories of vernacular architectural production in Indonesia critiqued through analogue and digital means. Rather than digging for additional remains of Acehnese architectural knowledge in the conventional sense of writing history, this proposal contributes to ways of understanding past built environments through a value analysis of immersive drawing and digital capture. In promoting a field of knowledge based on regional conditions, via onsite cultural immersion with the subjects and artefacts, this research will disseminate to the world value systems and technologies embedded in Acehnese vernacular heritage. Tackling challenges of natural disasters in Aceh, the “Aceh Method’s” representation techniques engaging socio-cultural conditions provides educational, intellectual and practical tools to meet communities’ future built environment aspirations.
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