This document provides details for a student project on British colonial architecture in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The student's theme is the patterns and textures of British colonial buildings. Their literature review will be presented in an A5 booklet focusing on three buildings: the Sultan Abdul Samad Building, Kuala Lumpur Railway Station, and the Old Kuala Lumpur Railway Station. Draft images and captions are included showing architectural features like domes, arches, and verandahs. Research sources on the buildings are also listed.

1. Culture and Civilization Project 3:
“Art and pattern of British Colonial Building”
NAME
: Yuan KhaiShien
STUDENT ID
:0314818
COURSE
: Foundation in Natural and Built Environment
April Intake 2013
SUBJECT
: Culture and Civilization (FDES 0815)
LECTURER
: NormahSulaiman .DelliyaMohd.Zain

2. “Art and pattern of British Colonial
Building”
Assignment Brief

3. Introduction
In this assignment, we are require to do a literature research on places of interest of
your site visit. From the literature review, we are to study the theme given and its
connection between the historical, architectural and social aspects of the place. We
have to document the research that we have done in an A5 small booklet base on our
theme and show it by graphical way.
Concept & Theme
Theme- Architecture of British Colonial building
Concept – pattern and texture of British Colonial building
Pattern and texture is an artistic or decorative design. Each type of building has their
own awesome pattern and texture design no matter it is old stylish house, modern
house and so on. But normally this type of pattern doesn’t notice much by people
nowadays because people nowadays probably only spend much of their time on
online social networking service such as Facebook, Twitter and others. So this book is
basically showing people about British Colonial building’s special patterns and
textures.

4. Location
Place Choosen – Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur is the capital city in Malaysia, somehow it has also many unforgettable
history. The reason why I choose Kuala Lumpur is because it is one of the famous
place that has occupied by British in the olden century. Because of this Kuala Lumpur
has plenty of British heritage buildings which have wonderful texture and beautiful
pattern but they are unnoticed by people nowadays.

5. Mapping
Kuala Lumpur Railway Station
This is the map for Kuala Lumpur Railway Station. It place at Jalan Sultan
Hishamuddin however the building Keretaapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) Berhad is place
opposite this building which is
Keretaapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) Berhad
Sultan Abdul Samad Building

6. This is the map for Sultan Abdul Samad Building. It place at JalanTunperak which
opposite Merdeka Square.

7. The Building that I have choose –
1) Sultan Abdul Samad Building
The Sultan Abdul Samad Building is located in front of
the DataranMerdeka (Independence Square) and the Royal Selangor Club,
by Jalan Raja in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The structure takes its name
from Sultan Abdul Samad, the reigning sultan of Selangor at the time when
construction began. It was designed by A.C. Norman and built in 1894-1897
to house several important government departments during the British
administration. A.C. Norman spent time in Africa and saw Muslim mosques in
India which led him to useMughal architecture in the building's design.The
41-meter tower chimed for the first time to coincide with Queen Victoria’s
Jubilee Parade in 1897 and has chimed since.The building, simply known
as Government Offices in early Kuala Lumpur maps, housed the Federal
Secretariat of the then-Federated Malay States which was formed in 1896.

8. 2) Kuala Lumpur Railway Station Berhad
Formerly known as the Malayan Railway Administration, it later became
known as KTMB, or Keretapi Tanah MelayuBerhad. The railway system dates
back to the British colonial era, when it was first built to transport tin. Fares
were generally reasonable, but the low speed of the intercity trains did not
make them competitive with other modes of transportation. The building was
also designed by A.B Hubback, the same architect who designed the Old
Kuala Lumpur Railway Station. It was completed in 1917, after works were
halted during World War One. It also incorporates the Mughal style of
architecture, just as the building on the opposite side of the road. The building
suffered bombing in its North Wing during the Second World War, and in
1968, the second floor was gutted by fire. In 1983, the building was gazetted
as a heritage site.
3) Old Kuala Lumpur Railway Station

9. Kuala Lumpur Railway Station is a railway station located in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia.It designed by Arthur Benison Hubback, a British
Architectural Assistant to the Director of Public Works based on The "NeoMoorish/Mughal/Indo-Saracenic/Neo-Saracenic" style. This style was not
uncommon at the time, such as Sultan Abdul Samad also build based on this
design. This building completed in 1910to replace an older station on the same
site, the station was Kuala Lumpur's railway hub in the city for the Federated
Malay States Railways and Malayan Railway , before Kuala Lumpur
Sentral assumed much of its role in 2001. The station is notable for its
architecture, adopting a mixture of Eastern and Western designs.

10. The theme and my places
“Pattern and texture of British Colonial Building”
Why I do on pattern and texture? It is because the wonderful pattern and texture in
these British Colonial Building has left out by people nowadays. These pattern and
texture basically has their own meaning and clearly show the style of the connection
of British Colonial and Muslim stylish. For example the different arches that I have
seen through the journey when I doing this assignment has represent the pattern of
British style. We can also get to know the lifestyle and behavior of them through these
building by looking of their design. Besides, I try to concentrate on British Colonial
building because British colonial buildings have their own different special style
compare to building nowadays. In the other hand, many people who didn’t have went
to England also can know the pattern of British stylish through this book. Basically I
make this simple theme is because I hope the reader can easily understand what is
bring out and showing in this book. So that reader won’t confuse when they are
looking this graphical book and refuse to read at last.

11. Draft Images
&
Captions
+
Design idea
Draft & Images
Picture 1

12. The building also features a 40m high clock tower which is flanked by two lower
towers both of which, like the clock tower, are topped with onion-shaped copper
domes
Picture 2
It chimed for the first time in 1897 to coincide with Queen Victoria’s Diamond
Jubilee parade.
Picture 3

13. Sultan Abdul Samad designed by many forms of arches and the most significant ones
are key hole arches, ogee arches, pointed arches and horse-shoe arches.
Picture 4
Its verandah designed by ogee arches

14. Research
1)Kuala Lumpur Railway Station
http://www.malaysia-travel-guide.com/kuala-lumpur-train-station.html
http://www.keretapi.com/the-kuala-lumpur-railway-station.html
2) KTM berhad
http://blog.audioguidemalaysia.com/2011/04/22/tourism-malaysia-keretapi-tanahmelayu-berhad-building/
3) Sultan Abdul Samad Building
http://zainabdullah.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/heritage-buildings-of-kuala-lumpurthe-sultan-abdul-samad-building/