The preserved interior building elements through adaptive reuse in a heritage boutique hotel: Penang case study / Amirah Putri Shamsudin

Adaptive reuse is described as a preservation and conservation method to prevent old or heritage buildings from being abandoned by repurposing them into a new function. It is also a method to avoid waste demolition, urges reuses of the embodied energy, and provides significant social and economic benefits. In other words, adaptive reuse is portrayed as recycling the old building into a new purpose; for instance, into a boutique hotel, to contribute to city sustainability. This research designs to identify the interior building elements that are preserved in Penang, Malaysia's adaptively reused heritage boutique hotels and ways of heritage boutique hotels in Penang, Malaysia retain their historical character and authenticity. The research approach applied in this research is the qualitative method. On-site observations, interview sessions with an expert, and literature review is conducted to achieve this research design's goals. Based on this finding, one heritage boutique hotel from adaptive reuse applications in Penang, Malaysia have been selected as the case study. The findings indicate that the selected case study was applied adaptive reuse in order to carefully preserving the building's heritage value and architecture. Therefore, this paper aims to provide an information about the preserved interior building elements in a heritage boutique hotel that implemented adaptive reuse in Penang, Malaysia.