The journey of exploration: Site Visit to Kampung Raja, Kuala Besut

This is the how the entrance looks like . It is just at the side of the main road.

Encik Norhaiza Noordin

When we walk into the boundary, it was this visitor room at the left side. The room that we stay overnight is the upper floor. The room underneath is Encik Norhaiza’s gallery that display all his wood craving panel and kris (keris). We are not allow to take photo inside the gallery. It was just an empty space with the stilts structure for the upper room until Encik Norhaiza decided to change the space into his art gallery, he added on the walls and wood window for the area.

Here is the view taken from the angle of our room. It is the master bedroom but Encik Norhaiza is no longer stay in this house anymore considering about the privacy for him and his family as the house had partly became a gallery for tourist or visitor.

On the rightside from the entrance, it is this room that originally used as the living room for the owner, and now he is planning to turn it into another gallery for his craved work. He also modified the lower part into his personal workshop area for visitors to learn about some basic craving if they have interests about it.

using the existing structure(stilts) with just add on some wood panels and transform it into a workshop shows how Encik Norhaiza used his knowledge on wood architecture for this empty space.

Entrance of the living room

a small pavillion connected to the master bedroom

There are many details of joining that showing the structure is able to disassemble and reassemble depends on the users need. It shows how user friendly and eco-friendly of the Traditional Malay Houses.

Although it is able to to disassemble, but considering about the infinite transform of the weather, Encik Norhaiza added screw on the structure to ensure it is able to withstand the strong wind .