Melaka Town Trail

2nd year 2nd sem

Melaka Town Trail: Jonker Walk

Media: mainly watercolour, with some pen hatching

almost 2 years din't practice watercolour, but because my basic of watercolour is quite strong, so still can handle it ^^

the design of cover page

"Jonker Walk, Melaka" : design of gerbang at the entrance of the street

ship and sea above: the trip of Cheng Ho to Melaka

umbrella: rainy day for the whole trip when we were in Melaka

butterfly: souvenir bought

old music player and tanglung: the yesterday of Melaka

the cock and the marinated lime: San Shu Gong

Nyonya cake, durian cendol, iced grapes: famous food in Melaka

the small circle background: Nyonya's bead embroidery

metal, fire, water,wood,earth: 5 elements that used in roof ridge design

1. Entanglement

the complicated cable connection makes people wonder how is all these function

2. Calligraphy

the deatil carving and chinese character of the oldest functioning temple in Melaka, "Cheng Hoon Teng"

3. Deflection

the T junction gives an expectation that the place is the end of the street but yet a deflection give an unseen end of the street and the building forces to a coherent part.

4. Publicity

the advertisement give life to the street and also vitality of the medium in the urban scene.

5. Change 0f Levels

roof line of Jonker Walk is not a straight line. The combination of new and old building create the levels of roof change in a same row of shop lots.

6. Incident

"Guan Yin Tang" located between a row of shop lots give a big impact as it entraps the eyes of the visitors.

7. Contrast

a chinese temple "Fu Tek Chi" is located beside the Mausoleum of Hang Kasturi.

8. Nodes

a meeting place of vehicles and people between Jalan Hang Jebat.

9. Viscosity

the mixture of static possession (the hawkers) and possession in movement (visitors) formed by the famous night market of Jonker Walk during every weekends.

10. Recession

Rhythm of recession is created by the arrangement of shop houses which is not aligned and the change of veranda is different according to shops .