Abstract
Recently the supply and demand for edible bird nests (EBN) in Malaysia was phenomenal. It was believed that the content of the nest is very nutritious. It was identified that the nest was produced by a swiftlet species, Aerodramus Fuciphagus. In Malaysia, the swiftlet is called the Walet and the EBN was built entirely from threads of its saliva; normally it was collected for the medicine that can cure some diseases. The EBN can only be found in the vicinity of the cave wall that been made up naturally of calcium carbonate. At present, a Walet house was used to lure the birds from surrounding areas to come in and build a nest. Thus a consistent production of the nest was introduced and established the modern supply and demand. However, young swiftlets are not able to build the nest as they should. This led to an odd form that reduced its commercial values. Therefore, the swiftlet scaffolding nest was introduced as a guide form to the young swiftlet to build a typical form that would increase its commercial values. In this study, the design of the natural scaffolding nest was explored and it was determined that the scaffolding had to be in the concave form for the ease of the swiftlet’s saliva deposition. Finally, the hook was redesigned in order to adapt to the ceramic material’s brittleness. The designed hook and installation of the stoneware scaffolding nest in the Walet house was successful, easy and fast. The finding of this stoneware scaffolding nest will enhance production of the Walet nest hence it will increase the income of the entrepreneur.
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We would like to acknowledge the generous participation of the interaction designers in the research. This study was conducted in the Formgiving Design Research Lab established by the Research Management Institute, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM). We give full appreciation to the Malaysia Ministry of Higher Education for the financial support under ERGS grant and Research Excellent Fund Scheme (RIF) provided by UiTM.
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Rahim, S.A., Jalil, A.R., Oskar, O.H., Anwar, R. (2016). Design Study of Walet Scaffolding Nest. In: Abidin, S., Legino, R., Noor, H., Vermol, V., Anwar, R., Kamaruzaman, M. (eds) Proceedings of the 2nd International Colloquium of Art and Design Education Research (i-CADER 2015). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0237-3_19
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