While travelling in Terengganu to research last week’s story on the Terrapuri heritage conservation project, we were introduced to another type of heritage that is also threatened with extinction: ancient Malay building principles.
HOW do you know if a site is good for building a house? Keep some water in an earthen container there. If, by the next morning, the water level has dropped, or worse, the container has been knocked over by some stray animal, the site has “bad luck”.
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