Firadaus Khazis' Architecture and Design Portfolio

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MUHAMAD FIRADAUS KHAZIS ISMAIL w: http://firadauskhazis.com t: +6016 447 0 331 e: firadauskhazis@gmail.com

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CULTURE HAMAM

PUBLIC SPACE WATER TANK PAVILION

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INTERNSHIP ALLEN KONG ARCHITECT MELBOURNE

URBANISM TROPICAL METROPOLITAN

URBANISM + HOUSING PARTICIPATIVE HOUSING

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DESIGN ARCHITECT (TRAINING) ZLG DESIGN KUALA LUMPUR

EDUCATION STUTTGART DESIGN WORKSHOP

FURNITURE PERABOT-SORONG

PUBLIC SPACE FOREST PAVILION

DIGITAL + INSTALLATION PERFORMATIVE ARCHITECTURE STUDIO

CULTURE CEREKA RIMBA

EDUCATION FOREST PAVILION

URBANISM LITTLE MELBOURNE

EDUCATION THE TIN HOUSE

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CURRICULUM VITAE FIRADAUS KHAZIS

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CV CURRICULUM VITAE WORK EXPERIENCE 2009 DEC 2010 MARCH

Allen Kong Architect Pty Ltd Melbourne, Australia Internship Prepared presentation drawings and project documentation.

Name Muhamad Firadaus Khazis Ismail Email firadauskhazis@gmail.com Phone 016 447 0 331

ACADEMIC 2011 - 2012 Master of Architecture University of Melbourne Australia, Melbourne 2012 Stuttgart Design Workshop University of Stuttgart Stuttgart, Germany

2010 MARCH 2010 JULY 2010 OCTOBER 2011 JANUARY

ZLG DESIGN Sdn Bhd Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Design Architect (training) Worked on a wide range of project types, budget and scale which included commercial, residential, retail, alteration and competition projects. Responsibilities included design, documentation, tender preparations, project administration and management, attend and lead client and consultant coordination meetings and site inspections.

Project GOLIATH (Design Proposal) involved: LOTUS, Kuching (Masterplan Design)

POINT 92, Kuala Lumpur (19 Storey Office Tower) GRASS HOTEL, Kuala Lumpure (34 Storey Hotel Tower) BRDB FOOD COURT, Bangsar Village Shopping Center (Interior) BRDB LANGGAK GOLF (Design Proposal) NGUYEN SON, Vietnam (Masterplan Design Consultancy)

2007 - 2009 Bachelor of Architecture Studies University of Melbourne Australia, Melbourne

VOLUNTEERING 2008 SONA Mentor Program (under supervision of Lye Lim from Arbox Architect)

CV SKILL SETS SOFTWARES 3D Rhinoceros Vray Rhinoceros 3D Google Sketchup Vray Google Sketchup Autodesk Maya Revit AutoCAD Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign

SCHOLARSHIP & AWARDS 2012 Melbourne Global Mobility Grant Funding to pursue knowledge exchange in Europe

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 2012 GRADEX Studio work was exhibited in Sydney Myer Building, Melbourne 2012 Timber Furniture Exhibition

Craft was exhibited at the Architecture Building 2012 Melbourne Design Award Installation Design was nomited for Melbourne Design Awards 2012 Finalist 2012 Best Australia Student Work Installation Design was published in Architecture Australia magazine 2011 Melbourne Pausefest Installation Design was exhibited in Melbourne Central 2007 EYES Exhibition Studio work was exhibited in Architecture Building

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1. MILLER HOMES, MANIFOLD HEIGHTS UNITS Malvern Grove, Manifold Heights, VIC 14 Independent Living Unit for the Elderly 2. MILLER HOMES, CASTLEMAINE UNITS Lyttleton St, Castlemaine, VIC 10 Independent Living Units for the Elderly 3. MILLER HOMES, BALLARAT UNITS Bradbury Street, Brown Hill, VIC 14 Independent Living Units for the Elderly

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A competition entry for a new German Embassy in Kuala Lumpur. The embassy will be made up of 3 administrative block and blanketed with screen walls as an overstatement for extra guardianship.

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ZLG LOTUS STRATA HOUSING MASTERPLAN Malaysia contemporary architecture and housing schemes generally express an unhealthy imbalance in the use of nature as agent for design. In this scheme a house can address the interstitial zones that connect architecture and landscape. The idea is examined by designing buildings where the front is accessed from a tree-lined avenue, whilst the back faces nature. As we contemplate on conditions that inform the building from what we found on the site, we formulate a scheme which resembles folded accordion like accommodation. These are not only flexible in their final execution as houses of different typology, they also assimilate the existing natural landscape into their pattern, giving each individual house an opportunity to engage the green lifestyle. The Lotus is one the earliest housing with strata title designed in Kuching, Sarawak and consists of 515 units of houses in 414 square meter land.

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Point 92 was completed in late 2012, the building simply named after the size of the site itself, it sits on a small site of 0.92 acres and consists of a single 19-storey tower with 200,000 sq feet of office space.

To show that simple local materials can be crafted to create a building that is appealing and distinctive, local materials were carefully design and crafted, combine to give a feel that is natural and pleasing. Off form white concrete and local marine plywood were chosen as the main materials. To overcome the problem of building on a slope, the design opted for in situ concrete wall instead of the usual precast concrete solutions. Not only was it necessary to use metal formwork in sets to meet with a target schedule, it is also informed of the uniformity issues if the façade was casted in regular sequences. Hence the randomly casted sequence. Elegantly rising from the slopes, the slanting walls in the façade continues the natural geometry of the site while the rectangular punctuations complement the ever developing built environment in Damansara Perdana. The distinctive form and elegant façade has made the building a well-known landmark in the area, fondly referred to as ‘the Fendi bag

Grass hotel is a design proposal for 34-storey budget hotel on Jalan P. Ramlee which is famous with its vibrant night life activity. The project take a new lead in Malaysia skycrappers by proposing car lift system in the carpark podium to utilize the most space out of a very narrow site.

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Nguyen son was commissioned by developer to consult the urban planner in relation to architectural potential of the new developing city Nguyen Son in Vietname. The design focuses on people transition with environment by strengthening the masterplan with water activities and recreational spaces.

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A proposal for 1MDB Sdn Bhd of mixcomplex building consisting design school, design centre, office & apartment.

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The design exploits concrete in brutal way and married with conceptual garden of tropical environment.

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BANGSAR SHOPPING CENTRE

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UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

BACHELOR OR ARCHITECTURE & MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE 1. HAMAM - Bath House 2. FOREST PAVILION - Dandenong Ranges National Park 3. FOREST STUDIO - Architecture Studio Retreat MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE 1. TROPICAL METROPOLITAN - Tropical Utopia 2. PERFORMATIVE ARCHITECTURE STUDIO - Digital Architecture 3. STUTTGART DESIGN WORKSHOP 4. PARTICIPATIVE HOUSING - Urban Block Revisited 5. LITTLE MELBOURNE

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PROJECT BRIEF The project explores Turkish bath (Hamam) architecture and culture potential within Melbourne ground.

It employs elemental material, light, water and air temperature to enhance the bathers’ experience.

DESIGN STRATEGY On the site stands the old post office building with Victorian Style of architecture. The old facade is kept while the existing structure is demolished gently so that the

broken materials can be reused to wrap the new building (and the program). This respectfully will reminisce the Victorian architecture while promotes hybrid between the new structure (which is mostly concrete) with the old materials.

Outdoor Pool programs consists of kids play area, open pool and half sunken café which allow bathers to enjoy their drinks with half of their bodies sunk in the water. Indoor

Pool’s water is supplied from the overflowing water of Fire Bath and Ice Bath located at each end which creates variant temperature across the indoor pool.

Directed by scents, Flower Bath is walled by the overflowing water of Fire/Ice Bath. A dim light is lid from the pool floor to stimulate relaxing atmosphere with a pleasant aroma.

1. Basement water tank 2. Female changeroom 3. Male changeroom 4. Water blue stones stairs 5. Indoor fire/ice bath 6. Pool (mixed hot & cold water from water fall) 7. Flower bath 8. Outdoor pool 9. Sauna 10. Outdoor fire/ice bath 11. Sound bath

Stone Bath is made of 5 different round arches, individually built with different type of stones. Collective stones from the destructed building are recycled to form 5 different arches made out of bricks, blue stones, gravels (packed in wire frame) sand stone and lime stone.

The sound bath is designed to be a curator of Birdport Street’s life culture in congruous way. The tower induces intimidation of darkness with a few natural light penetrated through the brick walls (recycled from existing building). The bathers entered the space by descending their head in the water to pass through the entrance. The interior perceive sounds of people conversations, footsteps and eventually the squeaky sounds from the tram’s wheel from the street.

Fire and Ice baths are an experimental idea with technological detail that is responsive to the weather seasons coherence. Both rooms are designed to be identical (one with open roof). The open roof bath creates temperature differences sensation between water and the open air. The machines will heat up the space with real fire when it is assigned as Fire Bath. Ice cubes will be channelled into the pool when it is assigned as Ice Bath.

Outdoor bath - Fire Bath in winter, Ice Bath in summer Indoor bath - Ice Bath in winter, Fire Batch in winter

FOREST PAVILION

DANDENONG RANGES NATIONAL PARK PAVILION Forest pavilion seeks for potential of prefabrication approach that could adapt different range of base condition in Dandenong Ranges National Park. The design has operable shutters that allow it to evolve the pavilion form from a cube (for the ease of transportation) into a pavilion. It uses lightweight materials which will allow it to be carried with a truck and hovered onto the forest with a helicopter.

MATERIAL Corugated iron Tasmanian Oak Blackwood Tasmanian

FOREST STUDIO

ARCHITECTURE STUDIO RETREAT Located in the Dandenong Ranges National Park, Forest Studio is designed to be a studio camp for 12 architecture student over the summer.

Design Idea The site condition has about 10 degree slope and raise toward east.

The trees nature stands vertically up regardless the slope condition.

Nature of object on the other hand when is placed on a sloped area will obey the slope condition by leaning.

Therefore the trees’ nature has become an inspiration for the pavilion to act like the nature tree.

By pursuing cantilever structure approach, the studio’s programs are able to sit within one floor of horizontal block.

1. Gate from Range Road 2. Studio + Accomodation 3. Forest Pavilions

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PLAN 1. Entry 2. Corridor 3. Bedrooms 4. Bathrooms & laundry 5. Kitchen 6. Studio 7. Balcony

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1. Entry 2. Bedrooms 3. Bathroom 4. Laundry 5. Kitchen 6. Stairs 7. Studio

SECTION BB 1. The openable window shut cladded with timber strip 2. North Corridor 3. Clearstory 4. Bedrooms 5 SOuth Corridor

RECENT INDEPENDENCE FROM BRITISH LACK OF EARLY TOWN PLANNING IMITATE BRITISH TECHNOLOGY OF TRAIN SYSTEM

EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE RENT IN THE CITY

NON RENEWABLE RESOURCES LIKE FUEL EXPECTED LAST ONLY FOR 50 YEARS

TROPICAL METROPOLITAN TROPICAL UTOPIA

LACK OF PROMOTION ON PUBLIC TRANSPORT

IMITATE WESTERN APPAREL EXTRA TAX CHARGE ON IMPORTED CAR BUT CHEAPER FOR LOCAL CAR

LACK OF ENGAGEMENT WITH CULTURAL REFERENCE

TAKE 8-9 YEARS FOR AN AVERAGE INCOME PPL TO PAY FOR CAR LOAN

PRESSURE ON PEOPLE

REDUCTION IN FUEL SUBSIDIZATION

INCREASE ROAD ACCIDENT

PEOPLE TO LIVE IN SUBURB

HOT AND HUMID CLIMATE

SMALL COVERAGE OF TRAIN LINE

UNPLEASANT CONTACT WITH ENVIRONMENT

LACK OF TRAIN FREQUENCY

LACK OF FACILITIES AT TRAIN STATION

INCREASE VEHICLE OWNERSHIP HIGHRISE WITH CARPARK PODIUM TYPOLOGY

16.8 MILLION MALAYSIAN HAVING OVERWEIGHT PROBLEM

INCREASE STREET CRIME

GOVERNMENT’S INITIATIVE TO EXTEND RAILWAY TRACK FOR 2013

NEED MORE ELEVATED HIGHWAY

WALKING/ CYCLING/ JOGGING BECOME UNPOPULAR

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LACK OF CAR PARK SPACES AT TRAIN STATION

Tropical Metropolitan challenges a new direction of urban lifestyle in tropical climate countries which are under rapid development such as Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand.

The project seeks for spatial interventions that mediate between global forces and local socioenvironmental dynamics in three aspect which are method of transportation system, lifestyle apparel and promotion strategy.

Kuala Lumpur is chosen as the experimental ground for it has imitated the most urbanization methods done in developed countries especially in transportation technology.

Unfortunately it is not fully utilized with low ridership and number of private car usage has drastically increased every year.

It is arguable that Tropical climate could be one of the causes as the same problem can be seen in other tropical climate country. In hot and humid climate, a little walk and cycle could cause sweating. With no wind to evaporate the sweat, skin easily turn sticky and smell bad which is not convenient to people who wear attire. Malaysians relatively will choose to use private car which give personal mobility, flexibility and air conditioned.

Method of transportation look at possible way of promoting commuting with train by tweaking current commuter lifestyle with aided facilities such as bicycle storage, laundry, shower place and kindergarten. Three site with different typologies are selected; a suburb with train station, residential within concentrated office block and lastly isolated satellite city which has no train station.

The programs are therefore need be responsive to people demand as it is believe demographic figure on different area may resulted different programs need. Thus modular system with a dimension of shipping container is proposed to comprise the programs in.

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SITE - KLCC Jalan Ampang Early Stage 1. Bicycle Storage 2. Administration Office 3. Bicycle Repair Service 4. Male Locker Room 5. Male Shower Room 6. Female Locker Room 7. Female Shower Room 8. Laundry Service 9.LRT entrance 10. LRT Platform

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SITE - KLCC Jalan Ampang Later Stage 1. Cafe 2. Bicycle Storage 3. Admin Office 4. Bicycle Repair Service 5. Laundry 6. Male Locker Room 7.Male Shower Room 8. Female Locker Room 9.Female Locker Room 10. Popup Stall 11. LRT Entrance 12. LRT Platform

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SITE - PJ TRADE CENTRE OCCUPYING PARKING PODIUM 1. Bicycle Storage 2. Male Locker & Shower Room 3. Female Locker & Shower Room 4. Waste Tank

The second approach of Tropical Metropolitan is to detail the street level and to make it more pedestrian friendly. In Malaysia, often we see billions of Malaysia Ringgits spent to build an enclosed and air conditioned shopping mall consisting retail lots connected

by Pedestrian Street. The project believes that the ideal pedestrian shopping street could happen anywhere in Malaysia by cooling down the existing pedestrian path (five foot way).

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The cooling gate comprises non-blade fan and powered by solar panel. Image on the right is the possible location for Cooling Gate placed at fivefoot ways around Kuala Lumpur. These gates are 10 meters apart to constantly cool down the pedestrian.

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PEDESTRIAN WALKING

MISTIFIER THE COOLING GATE AND ITS PARAMETER

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FANS (No blade)

Malaysia lifestyle apparel is much influenced by religious and colonial influences and unfortunately they are not taken to the next stage where it is adaptable to the environment.

Men can be seen struggle with the heat with the western office attire with neck tie and Muslim women are enclosed with conservative vile. This project believes that this should be taken to next level where the attire is much adaptable to the environment with a help of technology.

The third approach is to capture the market with Tropical Lifestyle. One of the initiatives is Government agency will be throwing advertisement through banner and television commercial break with notice that Malaysian should enjoy the weather and promote the TropiKL facilities provided. Message of benefits gained from the facilities shall be apparent such as how much healthy

one could get if they cycle to work, the financial saving that they could make and how safe are streets when everybody get into the road. Marketing also should work hand by hand with existing transportation body such as Prasarana and rapidKL to compromise better offer for the commuters such as membership and discount card.

PERFORMATIVE ARCHITECTURE STUDIO DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE Lead by Stanislav Roudavski, Roger Alsop and Gwyllim Jahn, the Performative Architecture Studio emphasised the dynamic and performative aspects of architectural space through the design and fabrication of a 1:1 scale inflatable installation. The studio curated a complex set of interactive and cross-platform systems in order to capture a set of emotional ‘states’ materialised as variation in lighting, sound and dynamic projections. Students were directed in the parametric design, documentation and fabrication of the inflatable structure, developing several prototypes to a very tight production schedule. The quality and success of the studio environment and its outcomes are reflected in numerous invitations to publish and exhibit the work, including at Melbourne’s Pausefest and as a snapshot of 2011’s best Australian student work in Architecture Australia.

1:1 SIZE MODEL The final design process included a series of iterations, testing several pattern mapping, subdivision and geometry options.

The process can be divided into three sections. First; to make the geometry, second; to map the pattern and third to adjust the pattern to become the skin of the defined geometry.

The geometry was made in a polygonal modelling software, using low polygon and soft modelling tools. Coding what was required to map the image and to set the subdivision, materiality and labelling and tabbing required for fabrication. At this stage requirements necessary for the Interactive Narrative Team’s sensors were also considered.

TOP: VECTOR RENDERINGS OF THE 1:1 SIZE MODEL

PROGRAMMING Designing through digital technologies has become ubiquitous in contemporary architecture however computer programming illiteracy still prevails. If architects and designers defer the writing of code to software providers some creative autonomy is inevitably lost. Whilst this is true of all mediums of design, programming allows us to exercise more fully our creative control. In The Alphabet and the Algorithm, Mario Carpo argues that those who choose to merely manipulate parameters within a system are “only secondary authors – end users and not designers”. Ingeborg M. Rocker is another who has emphasized this distinction. For her “architecture emerges as a trace of algorithmic operations”. By experimenting with the algorithmic potential of code we have aimed to explore new digital aesthetics – both through planned design and the accidental discoveries of the neophyte.

For the Performative Architecture Studio exhibition students worked within the scope of digital emergence yet sought to avoid any obvious allusions to the organic. Instead, the flocking behaviour becomes a springboard for new formal and spatial conceptions. Reynolds states that “a significant property of life-like behaviour is unpredictability over moderate time scales”. These aleatory outcomes, within a controlled system, lead to continually non-repeating compositions that can entrance the viewer. The design as such becomes less a single outcome than a multitude of potentialities.

PROCESSING Most of the code-based images produced for this project and those displayed in the following pages used the programming language and development environment Processing. Processing is a Java based programming tool which allows designers to more easily produce graphic results than is the case with more sophisticated programming environments. “ THEY ARE COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS THAT DISPLAY EMERGENT BEHAVIOUR. IN THESES SYSTEMS, AGENTS RESIDING ON ONE SCALE START PRODUCING BEHAVIOUR THAT LIES ONE SCALE ABOVE THEM: ANTS CREATE COLONIES, URBANITES CREATE NEIGHBOURHOODS; SIMPLE PATTERN-RECOGNITION SOFTWARE LEARNS HOW TO RECOMMEND NEW BOOKS.” S. JOHNSON EMERGENCE Emergence describes the way that multiple, simple, local rules can lead to complex global behavioural patterns. It has been used to describe systems of organisation such as ant colonies, bird flocks and human consciousness. The processes used by computers show distinct theoretical parallels. In 1986 Craig Reynolds developed the Boids algorithm that produced flocking behaviour of agents in a digital space, simulating the organic behaviour of birds.

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INTERACTIVITY It could be argued that all architectural spaces are interactive to some extent: Transforming themselves in response to atmospheric conditions while also echoing the movements of its inhabitants through sound and shadow. If this is true then the interactive qualities of Performative Architecture’s projected images aim only to extend such experiences.

Maintaining the unpredictability of any response

to movement yet exaggerating its effect. Through the use of motion and light sensors, visitors to the exhibition space prompt changes to the Processing generated moving image – although it is left inexplicit as to how such changes are specifically triggered.

The images explode and retract, flock and disperse.

These interactive disruptions aim to not only provoke surprise in the viewer but also direct there attention to the poetic motions of the projected images.

Project Team Stanislav Roudavski Gwyllim Jahn Roger Alsop Daniel Ryan Firadaus Khazis Ameer Hamza Khan Arturo Steinberg Canhui Chen Kirilly Barnett Mani Williams Joshua Ho Suleiman Alhadidi Chin Siong Lim Yin Lih Tham Andrew Walsh Eva Chen Lok Tsang Viet Hoang

STUTTGART DESIGN WORKSHOP STUDENT ACCOMMODATION

PROJECT BRIEF Annually University of Stuttgart, Germany will hold a 12 weeks workshop and invites 16 students from various universities in Australia to participate. The project seeks to improvise an accommodation and working space that could promote better relationship between exchange students within a short period. The design takes a lead in creating harmonic space for living and studying while not compromising students’ privacy. The project also strives for sustainability aspect by promoting least footprint on site to allow balance between nature and building.

Each students are given a CUBE and there are 2 types of CUBEs; CUBE A: 1st layer as a study room 2nd layer as a bedroom CUBE B: 1st layer as a bedroom 2nd layer as a study room.

These CUBEs are connected to a shared space relatively, Study rooms connect to Open Study area and Bedrooms connect to Living Area.

These CUBEs with different arrangement creates a chance that student from CUBE A

to meet student from CUBE B in living space, and in the same time CUBE A to meet CUBE B who live upstairs in Study Space. Open Study area and Living Area are connected with double volume spaces that allow interaction and visual connection to the top floor or bottom floor respectively.

WATER TANK PAVILION SUSTAINABLE DESIGN Water tank pavilion embraces sustainable aspect of water conservation. It collects rain water into a series of overhang glass tanks to provide constant water supply to the surrounding plantation and birds. The water collected creates an astonishing effect of water shade on the pavilion floor when light hits the tanks. The interior space comprises series of sliding walls made out of plywood to cater for private space option when it is needed. The design also pushes the idea of deploy-able structure for the ease of moving to different places.

PARTICIPATIVE HOUSING URBAN BLOCK REVISITED

PROJECT BRIEF The Participative Housing studio focuses on designing urban housing block and individual housing layout. 40 acres of land is assigned to 10 students and they were asked to design the masterplan and also negotiate their own area to further develop the housing block.

Height regulation, overshadowing and common open area was compromised through negotiation between students.

SITE Richmond, located at west of Melbourne City was one of the first suburbs opened

in Victoria. It was the first housing development that hold the idea of row housing to optimize the land plot just.

Nevertheless as the suburb grew, the new sprawled housings become less dense and more generous. However in late 1980s Melbourne population has increased and there was a huge conception that the closer distance of the property to the city center, the more leverage that the property will enjoy and lead to high demand on Richmond properties.

SINGLE HOUSE TYPOLOGY A landed single house unit that sit on generous plot of land have granted the house owner living quality. There are more activities, greater interaction with the neighbour and optimum cross ventilation and sun light to enter the house.

opened in two directions, front and back.

ROW HOUSING TYPOLOGY Meanwhile terraces unit has less chance for cross ventilation, not always receive good sun light as it is depending on the house orientation and less interaction with neighbour as the house façade only

Having a communal space somewhere in an apartment block does not solve this issue. It is arguable that communal space idea is artificial for 22 to 40 apartments to share especially to create interaction as people rarely

DESIGN AGENDA The quality of space for typical apartment unit is then questioned. Most apartments designed are based on series of terrace units stacked on top of each other to boost the unit numbers.

communicate with each other when they bump into their neighbour at gallery or corridor as they often found themselves in the middle to go to somewhere else.

Thus the idea of having a little piece of land that divides the houses and having apartment with 3 sided faces rather than typical two sided are more desirable. The built example can be seen at MVRDV’s Celosia in Madrid and also Shinonome Canal Court Block 1, Tokyo by Riken Yamamoto & Associates, Architect.

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The house plan employs idea of flexibility on spatial configuration. The sliding wall is functioned to create extra room in regards to future addition in family members. Also with the idea of plug-in room extension a typical apartment plan could have an extra room for 3 generations to live together.

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natural ventilated lobby is enclosed with crawling plantation attached to the steel frame

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LITTLE MELBOURNE

FLINDERS STREET STATION Little Melbourne is a little city that connects the old Melbourne City (Hoddle Grid) with the Southbank with a framework made out of undulating pathways that intervene with Flinders Street Station Platforms and connect; - East-West Axis from Federation Square - Flinders Street Station Administation Building - Southbank Yarra Waterfront - Sandridge Bridge - Footbridge

The city will be built on prefabrication system which allows it to be carried on site with train and allow for further expansion or contraction. Little Melbourne holds the phasing development idea which is believed to be the answer for more viable and feasible development in conjunction to demand and needs from the commuters.

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Little Melbourne aim to add a boost Melbourne City rhythm. From a study it shows that Melbourne city rhythm fall between transition of people getting to work and leaving the office. It is arguable that this is caused by people who drive to work and spend hours trapped in the traffic. Little Melbourne offer a compact programs within train station to promote travelling to work by train.

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Little Melbourne look close upon commuters lifestyle and induce complimentary programs that could take away necessity for people to use car such as day care centre, gyms, and commercial which normally located in out suburbs and closed to their house.

COMMUTERS’ ROUTINES ANALYSIS before working hour Child Care Centre Flinders Street Station

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Melbourne Central - Shopping, - Restaurant, - Entertainment Suburb Train Station

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Concrete column and undulating pathway is first installed.

Platform entrance is added.

Crane tower is built on site to levitate modular unit carried by train. New volume and programs emerge.

FLOOR SYSTEM Single Height Double Height Room Extension

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More modular units added on site to respond the demand of space and programs.

Bridging possibility, to connects different plot as program grows and acquire more space.

PERABOT-SORONG FURNITURE DESIGN

Perabot (furniture) Sorong (push forward, kereta-sorong = wheelbarrow).

Perabot Sorong is complex mechanical furniture built out of basic shape and form. It is designed to be detachable for ease of shipping to overseas (From Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia).

Perabot Sorong comprises wheel that allow the furniture to be transformed into a wheel barrow for the ease of the designer to take back the furniture from Timber Workshop to his house in Parkville (500 meters). The materials are chosen from variety of Tropical and Temperate climate timbers.

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610 kg/m³ Victorian Ash Reliable in strength as is has been used for hammer handles for years

620 kg/m³ New Guenea Rosewood - Pterocarpus Indicus Strong and easy to work with. It is light and useful for boat and ship building

880 kg/m³ Eastern Mohagany - Chukrassia Tabularis Asia origin. Expensive and a high class cabinet wood. however difficult to saw and cross cut

900 kg/m³ Burmese Rosewood - Pterocarpus Indicus / Malay name - Angsana Asia origin. A famous tree in north west Malaysia as it is easy to be spotted in housing area as street shader.

There is also a town named Pokok Sena in Malaysia. It is hard wood but easy to work with.

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COMPETITION & DESIGN PROPOSAL COMPETITION & DESIGN PROPOSAL

1. CEREKA RIMBA - LENGGONG VALLEY VISITOR CENTRE COMPETITION (2013) 2. THE TIN HOUSE - PREFABRICATED ORPHANAGE HOUSE PROPOSAL (2013)

CEREKA RIMBA

LENGGONG VISITOR CENTER COMPETION Designed for a Lenggong Valley Visitor Centre Architecture Idea Competition, the project seeks to bridge the gap between the past, present and future of Lenggong Valley through the narrative embedded in archaeology, nature and architecture.

Preservation This project retains the existing buildings and incorporates it as prominent components of the new museum complex. Non loadbearing walls are removed and replaced by timber slats to create naturally ventilated and lit spaces.

The filtering of light through the building will expose all the structural columns that hold up the majestic roofs. Within this light and airy space, there will be a mix of public and institutional programs. Visitors will be greeted by the ticketing office, shop and cafe upon arrival. The offices and workshops that are also located within the building will allow for serendipitous encounters with the visitors, encouraging thoughtful conversations between the staff and visitors.

PHASE 1

TIME TUNNEL EXTERIOR

PHASE 2

PHASE 3

TIME TUNNEL INTERIOR

Engagement with Nature The complex sits within a lush green landscape of palm trees, surrounded by a valley of dense rainforest. By emphasizing the conversation with nature, the project allows visitor to connect with the landscape on different levels.

Narratives will be formed while they travel between the ticketing office and the 3 separates galleries. The journey and experience is based on the concept of denial and reward. However the merits of each reward is subjected to individual preference A meandering footpath takes them along the contours of the hill with outdoor archaeological

artefacts exhibited along the way; A covered walkway provides a more direct connection between all 3 galleries. In addition to that, visitors can meander off these tracks to enjoy the landscape on their own prerogative or hike up the watch tower for a bird’s eye view of the valley. Visitors are greeted by a cafe overlooking the complex at the conclusion of their journey.

This gives them time to reflect and contemplate on their experience and new found knowledge.

Architectural Order The architecture of the galleries consists of pre fabricated steel and timber components that sit on reinforced concrete pad footings. They are flat packed, delivered to site and can be put together by locals using simple assembly methods. Each gallery feature a series of portal frames and extruding flat roofs. The facade is made up of timber frames with fragmented patterns of plywood, palm timber off cuts and glass infill. This porous skin allows the gallery

to breath and be naturally lit in programs.

Each of these 3 galleries are slight iterations from each other, featuring different programs, spatial layout and porosity of the skin. Gallery 3 which exhibits more sensitive artifacts has a mechanically controlled indoor environment.

Visitors make their way from here into the time tunnel buried within the hills. Voids are carved in the land mass to emulate a cave like environment to house the Perak Man. The journey will conclude at the cafe situated at

the end of gallery 3.

Staging the complex Due to distinct components of the project, it can be constructed in 3 phases, with major ground works to be completed in phase 1. The prefabricated nature of the galleries allow staging to be easily managed so that each phase can commence on a smaller project budget.

THE TIN HOUSE

PERFABRICATED ORPHANAGE HOUSE A pair of 40 feet containers are to be combined and structurally reinforced to form a dwelling unit.

They are stacked on 2 levels to form a hexagon in plan.

The ground and upper level containers are shifted slight in plan to create verandahs on the ground floor. Upper floor containers are connected through a walkway and are accessible from various sets of staircases.

The concept of this arrangement is to create a central courtyard that functions as the main social space.

This space can host a myraid of uses, mainly to serve as the dining hall and communal activity space. It is sheltered by a lightweight fabric roof which allows light and air to flow into the space on all of its sides.

All of the children will share the kitchen & library, which are located on the ground, whille the computer lab will be located on the first floor.

Within the dormitaries, partition walls will be created at every 2 bed intervals to create a sense of privacy and personalised space.

They will also contain a wardrobe & study desk.

OTHER SKILLS

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OTHER SKILLS

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