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1. NAME: LOH WEI LING
STUDENT ID: 0319225
MODULE: ORAL PRESENTATION
SUBJECT CODE: COM 30103
LECTURER: PERSIS RODRIGUES
TITLE: TRADITIONAL DWELLINGS AROUND
THE WORLD (TULOU)

2. TU LOU ( 土楼 )
• Chuxi Tulou cluster
• Zhengcheng lou
("prince of tu lou")
• Tianluokeng Tulou
cluster
• Chengqi lou ("king
of tu lou")
• Yuchang lou
• Eri lou

3. ABOUT TULOU
• "Hakka tulou", "earth dwelling"
• Develop from the 11th to 16th century
• Found in Zhangzhou ( 漳州 )
• Ming Dynasty
• 800 people
• Chinese traditional architectural designs
• UNESCO's World Heritage

4. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF
THE COUNTRY

A province on the southeast
coast of mainland China.
 Area of traders and
seafarers.
 Population is chiefly of Han
origin.
 Neolithic Age by the middle
of the 6th millennium BC
 20,000 Tulous.

5. STRUCTURE
FIGURE 1.0: LAYOUT
FIGURE1.2: STRUCTURE OF
TULOU

Ancestor hall located
at the center.

7. 
Round structure
- Fengshui
- Temperature control

Few windows

8. 
Vertical beams inside
this Tulou is erracted at
a 15 degree angle.

Door and beam column
form a triangle called
"tripartite balance".

9. 
The highest and
lowest part of the
beam is verticle and
center is slanted.

Rooms are same
size and using the
standard materials,
decoration.

A family unit
owns a vertical
set of rooms.

10. TYPE OF MATERIAL USED
INNER STRUCTURE

Inner structure is
build with wood
from fir trees.
BASE

Large rounded stones from
the local river, filled out with
smaller stone as foundation.

11. 
Mixture of lime,
clay, soil, glutonus
rice and brown
sugar are then
reinforce with
bamboo strips to
build the wall.
WALL 
Wooden pegs are used to
fastened the floor and singed
in hot sand.
FLOOR
ROOF

Downward-curving
cladding of grey tiles are
used.

13. TYPES OF ORNAMENTATION USED

Red lanterns

Curtains

Couplet

14. ADVANTAGES OF TULOU
• Housing for a Community of Equals
• Effective Strongholds for Defense :
- wild animals
- bandits
- fire and earthquake resistant
- arrows, gunfire and cannon.

Practical

15. REFERENCES
http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/221639/Fujian/712
68/History
http://english.cntv.cn/english/special/news/20100928/102669.sht
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/photogalleries/
UNESCO-heritagelist-photos/

16. THANK YOU