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These buildings are multi-family dwellings with a public space along one side and private divided spaces on the other. The raised floor protects against flooding when it rains and allows air to circulate keeping the structure cooler when it’s not raining. Traditionally, the roof would have been made from leaves but that lost out to the technology of corrugated iron many years ago. I can’t image how noisy it is in there during a storm!
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So I’ve not been able to place this on Google Earth but it think it was somewhere off Jalan Labi which heads inland from Lumut. It’s later in the afternoon and a storm is coming in from the south-east.
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