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Haatyai Trip August 03 (Part 2)
Of museum and mosques

The Institute of Southern Thai Study
I love historical thing. And I love museum. Tour groups to Haatyai don't visit museum, they shop.  But we are architects, we don't shop, not that much. Okay, Anisah do shop for of all thing, a wc!, well, it's an architecture thing. 

So imagine the surprise and trouble it cause when we ask for a museum visit. First, a longer than normal bus ride, then at the museum we were told to pay. Pay? In Malaysia its free. Hey, this is Thailand my friend. They know their economy. It was 600 bhat a piece and no ticket. I wonder, probably the charge was only meant for foreigners.

The museum at The Institute of Southern Thai Study is good. It's a revelation. The exhibits, the artifacts, the architecture were well chosen and exhibited. Best of all, they are simple. Itself reflecting the psyche of the Thais. No laser lights, no touch screen audio visuals, none of the sophisticated gadgetry, but they are effective. They do not mind cameras too. Take your pictures, show them to people back home, if they like it, they may want to come too. That is clever marketing. Start telling that to our museum people back home.

ISTS is part of Thaksin University. It has a history of being grown from a smaller institute before being made a university. Located on a hill overlooking the large magnificent lake, the view it accord was magnificent. The architecture itself, modeled after the Southern Thai houses, was intricate and finely executed. Earth-wares and brickworks, indigenous to Southern Thai were extensively used both as the construction and decorative material. Interestingly, broken pieces of potteries were made decorative perhaps deliberately. 
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1. View of bridge connecting the islands from ISTS. 2,3,4 Compound of ISTS

Exhibits arrangement interestingly occupies both the indoor and outdoor spaces. The in-between spaces were utilised to the max. So were the underside of the building. Sitting on the steep hillside, the space between pilotis creates a good exhibition area, utilised in the same spirit as we would in the yesteryears use our 'bawah rumah' (the space under the house). If it wasn't intended in the design, the utilisation falls in with the older concept. Good too was the extension of clay pottery in making the miniature dioramas. In the timber buildings, replicas of traditional Thai kampong houses,  exhibits of lifestyles and space usage were made in clay. Each portrays their facets of life, from cooking to eating, from childbirth to marriage to death. You can sense an aura of mystery, even scary. They not only make you see but feel. That is good successful architecture. 

Southern Thai was not very different from Terengganu. It shares the same historical heritage in religion, Malay culture, lifestyle and architecture. Sharing a similar climate, similar was the economic culture. The trip to ISTS was like walking down memory lane of my childhood days. The effort they took to genuinely display many of the exhibits, perhaps rebuilding them from memory was amazing. There was for instance a diorama of rubber-making shed. The iron roller, I have seen in my grandfather's own 'kebun', but they even have a timber roller that must have gone in time much longer. The various rice milling machineries made of wood, must have been ingeniously created at their time of hardship. No doubts the research into them was painstakingly made. Such life scale repro conveys a much more meaningful message than mere pictures. 
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5. Wooden rice mill, 6.Diorama rubber plantation, 7.Diorama iron-work workshop, 8.Fish traps, 9.Wooden rubber roller, 10.Details brick steps and earth jars, 11 Details wood-work, 12.Details broken as decorative railings.

Two Mosques - Keresik and Yala
  

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An old house revisited

A place called home


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Haatyai Trip 2003 (Part 1)
Learning from the lesser

Haatyai Trip 2003 (Part 2)
Of museum and mosques