Oral Presentation- A Traditional Dwellings

NAME: CHUNG HOW CYONG ID: 0324152SUBJECT: EFFECTIVE PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONCOURSE: FNBEINTAKE: MARCH 2015TUTOR: MR. RIDWANTUTORIAL SLOT: THURSDAY 8-10

Hakka Walled Village

Fujian, China

田螺坑

土楼

土楼(tulou)

‘Mud Building'

Hakka Walled Village

Hakka Tulou 客家土楼 Fujian Tulou 福建土楼

Type of tulou

Circular Mansion圆楼Dragon Mansion围龙楼 5-Phoenix Mansion五凤楼

Historical BackgroundThe Hakka were originally immigrants from northern China who settled in the southern provinces.

Punti-Hakka Clan War

Built a defensive communal living structure.

Resulted in roughly a million dead with many more fleeing for their

lives.

Tianluokeng Walled Village 田螺坑土楼

Structure Round shape.

Each floor served a different function. The first hosts a well and livestock.

The second floor is for the food storage.

The third and highest floors are served as living spaces.s.

The external wall is typically 1 metre in thickness. The entire building could be up to three or four stories in height..

12-15 m

Interior view from tulou.

Every tulou has only one entrance.

The cluster consists of a square earth building at the center of a quincunx, surrounded by four round earth buildings figuratively nicknamed " 四菜一汤 , Si cai yi tang" (four dishes with a soup).

LayoutPlan view

Elevation view

Living spacesFood storageWells and living stocks

Ornamentations Decorated with laterns.

Main entrance of the tulou is pasted with a couplet. Houses' entrance also sticks with a couplet, especially during Chinese New Year Festival.

Waterwell can be seen everywhere in tulou.

The figure shows the view of tulou during daytime and night time. The contrast is because of the installation of LED spotlight.

Type of Materials The fortified outer

structures are formed by compacting earth, mixed with stone, bamboo, wood and other readily available materials, to form walls up to 6 feet (1.8 m) thick.

Stone Granite

Fir wood and bamboo Volcanic ash

Fun Fact about tulouIt is created using a mixture of rice, lime, egg whites.

Clay for the exterior and pine and fir for the interior.

perfect defense with underground tunnels for residents to escape.

earthquake-proof, windproof, fireproof, and theft-proof.

The top level of these earth building have gun holes for defence against bandits.

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d70.html• http://www.synotrip.com/photos/fujian-

province/anya23/landscape-tianluokeng-tulou-cluster

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province/anya23/landscape-tianluokeng-tulou-cluster

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construction-tekst.htm• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Hakka_walled_village

Thank You.