Imann Azzuddin Architectural Portfolio 2023

UWA Master of Architecture

Graduate Architect

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IMANN AZZUDDIN

Malaysian

30th September 1994

PERSONAL

statement.

A Graduate Architect with years of experience in design but still have much more to learn. I am versatile in coming up with solutions for proposals of any sorts. Therefore, my ability to think creatively and solve problems is therefore my biggest strength.

I strive to be a better-rounded individual. Over the years, I have gathered experiences throughout different fields, such as architectural design, graphic design, event and party planning, film productions, publishing and more.

Thus, it has helped me gain necessary skills to help compliment my fundamental knowledge in the field of design. These experiences has helped shape the individual I am today.

My goal is to push limits and scale new heights. In order to succeed and find fulfilment in the future, I strive to push myself beyond and outside of my comfort zone.

BECKENHAM ACTIVITY PRECINCT

UWA Urban Design Studio 2022

This studio asks to consider current planning and proposals for this site, to examine the existing context and best-case precedents, and determine how to produce a well designed, socially inclusive, and livable environment.

From this analysis, the aim is to propose a new brief for the project and develop a masterplan that demonstrates an alternative scenario and the steps by which it might be acheived. Lastly, a conceptual urban design masterplan and explanatory drawings for the development of the Beckenham Station Precinct is proposed.

The Last Stop, Our Forever Home.

As the lifestyle and needs of the residents in Beckenham change with the increase of population and overall changes to global infrastructures and technology in 2040, this suburb will not be a location you drive by and overlook anymore - it will be one where the community stands at its forefront with vibrant communal spaces and pedestrian-friendly infrastructure.

With the introduction of a mixture of vibrant urban plazas, gardens, and parks, Beckenham has become a place that is not only valued by its community but also by those that are visiting. It has become a place where community engagements are more apparent and have created a much more communal society within the suburb.

Beckenham has become a place where families set their roots and built their forever homes at. Its surrounding areas are enhanced with amenities that provide convenience and have helped improve the quality of life of its residents, especially with the accessibility of child care and aged care facilities, made more available.

As Beckenham aims to be a more green-forward suburb, public transportation is a daily commodity and access to safe and covered pedestrian and cycling trails has helped in decreasing the usage of personal vehicles and overall carbon emissions. Furthermore, the medium-density vertical residential houses have allowed for better town planning and better usage of land for more environmentally sustainable infrastructure such as gardens, recreational parks and urban farming.

Now, Beckenham provides a solid plan of mixed use developments that engages well with the public, provide convenience to the residents and is set to achieve a vibrant and safe setting for the community.

2. Commercial

3. Retail

4.

5. Health Care

7. Office

SCALE A3 1:10000

MOVEMENT NETWORKS

Primary Vehicle Path

Secondary Vehicle Path

Pedestrian + Cycling Path

Pedestrian Path

Train Line

LAND DISTRIBUTION

Residential

Commercial

SCALE A3

1:10000

Age Care & Disability Housing

Health Care

Office

Retail Community Building

Green Open Space

Child Care & Pre-school

L andscape under Train Line

I think we’ve found the perfect place for us!

The garden and parks available in the area is amazing! It encourages people to have a healthier lifestyle by being outside. I can see myself having nice morning walks everyday!

It’s nice that all the buildings are all closed proximity to each other and easily accessible through pedestrian friendly walk ways. It’s also convenient and safe to cycle around everywhere.

The aged care centre has great community engagement activities with the urban farming area right in front of the building. We can all plant and harvest some veggies together during the weekends!

I can easily get to the train station and off to work in the city right after I drop our kid at the child care centre. I won’t need to depend on our car so much. It’s so convenient!

SWTSTRT

Freelance Design Project 2021- 2022

This was a commisioned design and construct project contracted by a family owned business. Together with a friend of mine we handled the project from design consultation up to the construction phase. The client requested that we create a welcoming and cosy environment. Because the owners wanted their customers to feel like they walking into a home, not a business. We designed the cafe in such a way that it evokes a sense of comfort and to make patrons feel at home.

BAYULU

RESILIENT AND PRODUCTIVE REMOTE COMMUNITIES

UWA Detailed Design Studio 2021

The Studio Kimberley 1 [Bayulu Pilot Project] aims to identify opportunities, needs and priorities aligned with communities’ cultural and environmental values to build capacity, create empowerment, improve wellbeing and support employment for young Aboriginal people while providing enhanced social infrastructure. The “pilot project” will be designed, ensuring that it allows replication and future upscaling within all concerning communities, where co designing urban interventions that create spaces where people feel safe and have a sense of belonging through a celebration of local culture and language.

The studio will focus on the remote aboriginal community of Bayulu, located 10km of Fitzroy crossing, in the Kimberley region. Design proposals are thought to develop a masterplan for the entire community and the design development of particular buildings within the community, which are meant to have a particular impact on the empowerment of the youth.

BAYULU Aboriginal community, being one of the oldest and most established in the region (originally it was part of the Gogo Station). It is located across the Fitzroy River, 10 km south of Fitzroy Crossing in the Kimberley Region. On the western outskirts of the Gooniyandi country and the only access is via the Great Northern Highway.

Small Oval

Courts

Youth Hub

BRIONI’S CAMPUS

UWA Architectural Design Studio 2021

Within the existing built environment of the Brioni Factory, the studio asks students to design the Brioni’s Campus, a multipurpose facilities located in the Brioni Headquarter in Gonzaga. The project will allow visitors, artists, students, and customers from all over the world to discover the Brioni experience based on tradition and innovation. Furthermore, it will allow the possibilities to exchange ideas, share knowledge, and research on raw earth materials and design.

The Facility will offer different activities and the possibility to spend different periods of time, which will vary from: a day (visits); few days (business); a week/s (workshops); months (residency). Based on this range of opportunities, the studio will also ask students, as an initial design challenge, to tailor and propose the best programmatic requirements for the Campus.

THE BRIONI’S COMPANY was founded in 1922, following the acquisition of the so-called “Fornacione”. The tradition of cotto dates back thousands of years, and is the result of the subtle alchemy between water, earth, and fire.

The Fornace Brioni in Gonzaga, a small town centre steeped in history and Renaissance culture in the plain around Mantua produces cotto exclusively by hand, according to a savoir-faire that has been handed down through the generations, using the finest clays from the slow sedimentation of the floodplain of the River Po.

This family-run company is now in its fourth generation, headed by Alessio and Alberto Brioni, who are planning the future of cotto maintaining their strong link with the past.

Alongside the traditional cotto production, Matteo Brioni, founded in 2010 the Matteo Brioni Terre per l’Architettura focusing on raw earth.

PLAN EXISTING

SITE

Existing Buildings Laboratory

LEGEND:

1. Brioni Factory

2a. Matteo Brioni LAB

2b. Matteo Brioni LAB

3. Fornace Brioni offices and showroom

4. Matteo Brioni Terre per l’Architettura offices and showroom

5. Grove

LEGEND: PROPOSED PROGRAMS

ZONE A - PUBLIC 705m2

1.Gallery

2. Sample Library/ Archive

3. Shops

4. Exhibition/ Event Space

5. Storage

6. Office

7. Cafeteria

8. Kitchen

ZONE B - SEMI-PUBLIC 400m2

9. Workshops 10. Studio 11. Storage

ZONE C - PRIVATE 510m2

Accomodations

- TYPE A

- TYPE B

- B1. Communal Space

- TYPE C

LEGEND: EXISTING

1. Brioni Factory

2 Matteo Brioni LAB

3. Fornace Brioni offices and showroom

4. Matteo Brioni Terre per l’Architettura offices and showroom

5. Grove

6. Family Veggie Garden

PROPOSED PROGRAMS

ZONE A - PUBLIC 705m2

ZONE B - SEMI-PUBLIC 400m2

ZONE C - PRIVATE 510m2

ZONE D - CARK PARK 1285m2

SEMI-PUBLIC BUILDING - ZONE B

PRIVATE BUILDING - ZONE C

Bedroom TYPE A - 25m2

1- 2days

Bedroom TYPE B - 25m2

Days to Weeks

Shared Living & Kitchen

Bedroom TYPE C - 30m2

2 to 6 Months

Personal Living & Kitchen

URBAN PARK

SCHEMATIC DESIGN PROPOSAL

PU Architects SDN BHD Proposed Project 2018

The project aims to revitalize the existing park, while extending the size from the library area towards mosque area, thus connecting the two sites through the creation of a lake canal that aids in the drainage system of the whole area. The current site has an issue of water ponding that results in the unhealthy condition of the soil which also affects the pathways in which people jog.

The ground pattern of the park comes from the organic forms observed in living flowering plants and the soft organic curve patterns can be seen throughout the park. Also, the surrounding context is taken into consideration when designing the park. With all of these considerations, the aim is to make the urban park the centrepiece of the existing and new upcoming developments.The park Comprises of different zones. The zones creates a journey in the park, and also becomes check points for the user experience. It allows users to experience different dimensions in the park.

The creation of a new lake that flows from higher ground level of the Masjid Jamek side to the existing Pustaka lake will aid in resolving the issue whilst also creating a new path for recreation. The goal is to encourage the community to spend more time outdoors, giving them a new peaceful environment to enjoy.

ZONE PLANNING SKETCHES

Canal waterway featuring the mosque as the main architectural landmark.

CONNECTING BRIDGES

JOGGING & WALKING PATHS

CASCADING STREAM

LEGEND:

NATURAL PLAYGROUND

CHILDREN WATERPLAY

36 STOREY HOTEL

SCHEMATIC DESIGN PROPOSAL

PU Architects SDN BHD Proposed Project 2017

The river plays an important role for Sarawak along the historical and social lines of the state. It acts as the main artery for Sarawak be it for transportation, trading, and communication. Ships, water vessels, sailboats and such are among the examples used at that century.

Defined by the activities in which the water vessels and river ways are critical in that narrative, this hotel is to commemorate the idea of how water vessels have shaped our history and has influenced Sarawak to become what it is today.

DESIGN INFLUENCE - Inspired by the river travels of James Brooke abroad the Royalist journeying into Sarawak and how it change and influenced Sarawak historically.

The Royalist act as the prime mover to our historical narrative. The building design reflects the unique feature of the mentioned water vessel.

EVENT PLANNING & ORGANIZING

RUMAH’16

JOINT ARCHITECTURE GRADUATION EXHIBITION

School of Architecture, Building and Design Taylor’s University Malaysia 2016

R U M A H = H O M E

RUMAH’ 16 is a Joint Architecture Graduate Exhibition of the August 2013 batch of Bsc. (Hons) Architecture and M.Arch students of Taylor’s University Malaysia. We held our graduation exhibition on the 25th to 27th of October 2016 at White Box, Publika. It housed various production of our finest works on display and our engagement of architectural interventions within various parts of our “Rumah”. Extracting fragments and essence of a house, we aimed to make each space a part of our interpretation of a home.

So, why RUMAH?

We desrcibe RUMAH as the most direct space related to man that influences him and is influenced by him daily. For most, it is the first space related to man in which a person experiences a sense of belonging. In the time I was an architecture student back in 2013 - 2016 (3 years), we’ve had the privilege of making a home for ourselves in Taylor’s University. We made a home in our studios, a home in all the friends we’ve made, a home in doing the things we love. We have found our sense of belonging. As for the colour theme chosen throughout the exhibition, which is said to be non-architectural as architects are often associated with monochromatic colours of black and white. But in reality here is that during the creative process within the comfort of our rumah/studios, we are not defined by just black and white, combined we are a spectrum of colours, we are everything in between.

This exhibition was not solely meant to represent architectue. Rather, it is to represent US as the community brought together by architecture.

HEAD OF PRODUCTIONS

I was given the opportunity to lead the team from design to construction up until display. Through this experience, I was able to enhance my leadership skills which enabled better communication amongst my comittee members. It has also given me a wider perspective on event managing and planning.

FINISHING PROCESS

All the exhibition stands and furniture were hand painted by the team with various selection of pastel colours.

3D MODEL DESIGN

LIVING ROOM

BEDROOM

KITCHEN

PRODUCTION PROCESS

We had a team of skilled carpenters sponsored by Dabiao Desgin help us in producing the exhibition stands and furniture out of wood palletes and wooden planks

DINING ROOM & LIBRARY

LAUNDRY ROOM

EXHIBITION SPACES

PROMOTIONAL POSTER

This was one of our poster to promote our exhibition to the public at the same time introducting the people behind the production.

LIBRARY

WHAT IS A HOME WITHOUT GUESTS?

We opened our exhibition to the public for 3 days consecutively and called it our very own ‘RUMAH TERBUKA’ (openhouse).

RUMAH TERBUKA // OPEN HOUSE

ENTRANCE

UNESCO CENTRE

OF CREATIVE PERFORMING ARTS

TAYLOR’S Architectural Design Studio 6 2016

The aim of this project is to collaborate with UNESCO to preserve and express the unique cultures of Malacca through performing arts, at the same time encouraging the community to recognize the full worth of art. Furthermore, this project allows the abandoned site the opportunity to regain its identity, revive the spirit of the place and invokes nostalgia of the people of Malacca, Malaysia.

JALAN BENDAHARA formerly known as Wolfersten Road was once the place to be in town as at the corner of the street stood the once prominent Capitol Theatre. The site is situated at the junction of Jalan Bendahara and Jalan Munshi Abdullah.

Before it was a cinema, advertisements from 1936 proclaim this as “the finest sound house in Malaya” with a modern lounge and bar. It then became a Cinema in the late 50’s. It was an entertainment hub for the locals. The Cinema showcased a variety of Indian, Chinese, Malay and Hindi movies.

Unfortunately it is now a shell of a building; roofless, empty and derelict, no doubt a cherished repository of distant teenage memories for aging Malaccans. As the years passed, the once celebrated street has now become a road that people overlooked and forgotten. From a node point to a no point, merely just people passing by to get from point A to Point B.

MALACCA, MALAYSIA

MASSING STRATEGIES

FRONT

SECTION A-A

SECTION B-B

SECTION C-C

COMMUNITY LIBRARY

URBAN INFILL

TAYLOR’S Architectural Design Studio 5 2015

This project focuses on designing a community library within an urban infill site. The design of the building consist of appropriate architectural responses that addresses the aspects of the urban street context and user behavioural patterns as discerned and analized int the preliminary studies.

Apart from developing an appropriate formal and elevational strategy in response to the character of the street, the design should take into consideration a holistic application of structural, spatial, technical and environmental requirements to address the user needs for an urban community library.

URBAN INFILL - A new development that is sited on vacant or undeveloped land within an existing community, and that is enclosed by other types of development. The term “urban infill” itself implies that existing land is mostly built-out and what is being built is in effect “filling in” in the gaps.

BRICKFIELDS has undergone an immense amount of change throughout the years. A once mellow district has now been invaded by a skyline filled with high rises and skyscrapers and considering its placement near the central hub of transportation in Kuala Lumpur, it is constantly congested with people far and wide coming in and out of the area. In addition, with its identity of being a place with diverse culture and consisting of a wide range of different communities, it becomes an ideal site to introduve a community library.

The community library has a potential to become a central hub for the diverse community, connecting all the different personalities and drawing them into one place. It should also be able to remove boundaries of social statuses and thus creating a space of learning and sharing among each other. The idea is to create a balance between social space and study space.

It emphasizes on formal structure, the reduction of natural forms to their geometrical equivalents and the organization of the planes represent object independently of represential requirements.

The formality of using simple geometrical shapes, overlapping and interlocking planes can be used as a design strategy and relating it to site.

The design aim is to maintain the individuality of each space and at the same time the spaces are all connected becoming one entity. Plugging in different characters and communities together harmoniously, thus creating a vibrant environment.

stacking hierarchy

substraction framing circulation

levelling views voids

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

SECTION B-B

A play of voids levelling of spaces and exposing of spaces via curtain wall was emphasized in the design of the building to achieve maximum natural light penetrating into the building.

The hierarchy of spaces created through the interlocking and different levellings allow interesting intersticial spaces to be present througout the building.

FLOOR SLABS FIRE STAIRCASE, LIFTS & SETBACKS

LEGEND:

1. SLOPE IN PLASTER

2. REINFORCED CONCRETE PARAPET

3. LIME CONCRETE FILLET

4. LIME CONCRETE TERRACING

5. REINFORCED CONCRETE SLAB

6. PLASTER CEILING SYSTEM

7. CURTAIN WALL SYSTEM

8. COMPOSITE CONCRETE SLAB SYSTEM

9. SUPPORT BRACKET STEEL ANGLE

10. UNIVERSAL STEEL BEAM

11. BRICK WALL

12. APETURE MECHANISM // To allow light to penetrate into the building

13. PROTRUDING BRICK MEMBER // For façade aesthetics

14. PRECAST CONCRETE SYSTEM // wall - slab - foundation

DETAIL WALL SECTION