Editing Attap dwelling

{{Short description|Traditional house of Southeast Asia}}
[[File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Een huis met een dak en wanden van atap Molukken TMnr 10011491.jpg|thumb|A house with attap roof and walls. Image: [[Tropenmuseum]].]]
[[File:YosriAtapNipah1.jpg|thumb|Detail of attap roof thatching]]
An '''attap dwelling''' is traditional housing found in the [[kampong]]s of [[Brunei]], [[Indonesia]], [[Malaysia]] and [[Singapore]]. Named after the [[Nypa fruticans|attap palm]], which provides the [[Wattle (construction)|wattle]] for the walls, and the leaves with which their roofs are [[thatched]],<ref>Normand-Prunieres, p. 4</ref> these dwellings can range from huts to substantial houses. Until the nineteenth century even significant public buildings such as [[temple]]s were built in this manner. The attap dwelling was used as the inspiration for the natural cross ventilation system for [[Newton Suites]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Newton Suites WOHA|url=https://www.world-architects.com/en/woha-singapore/project/newton-suites|access-date=2020-06-07|website=World-Architects|language=en}}</ref> by [[WOHA]] Architects, Singapore.

== Singapore ==
Attap-roofed houses were formerly common in rural areas of [[Singapore]]. From the 1950s onwards, many attap roofs were replaced by [[zinc]] sheeting. [[Public housing in Singapore|Public housing]] and [[Urban renewal in Singapore|urban renewal]] programmes resulted in a sharp decline in the number of attap- and zinc-roofed houses starting from the 1960s. As of the 1980 Census, 10.8% of houses were attap- or zinc-roofed, vs. 34% in 1970; most were located in outlying areas.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cheng |first=Lim Keak |date=September 1990 |title=House types and their spatial patterns in Singapore |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/BF02428537 |journal=GeoJournal |language=en |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=33–48 |doi=10.1007/BF02428537 |issn=0343-2521|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

==References==
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==Sources ==
* [http://www.enhr2004.org/files/new_papers/Normand-Prunieres.pdf Normand-Prunieres, Helene. 'Malaysian Dwellings', ''Proceedings of ENHR International Housing Conference 2004'', (Cambridge: University, 2004)]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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