Selected Architectural Projects 2009 - 2017

MUHAMMAD FAHIM ABU BAKAR SELECTED ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS

2009 - 2017 SELECTED ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS 2009 - 2017

PERSONAL DETAILS PROFILE & CURRICULUM VITAE MUHAMMAD FAHIM ABU BAKAR muhammadfahim91@gmail.com +6013-762 5052

Academic Background 2015-2017 M. Arch - Master of Architecture Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne, Australia

Extra-Curricular Activities 2013 Multimedia Committee for Seminar of ‘Affordable Tropical Green Homes’ by Urban, Conservation and Tropical Architecture (UCTA) in collaboration with Foster & Partners in Faculty of Built Environment, University of Malaya.

2011 Participant in TERANG! Architectural Workshop held by UTM, Skudai

2010 - 2013 B. Sc. Arch (Hons.) - Bachelor of Science in Architecture LAM/RIBA Part 1 Faculty of Built Environment, University of Malaya

2011 Committee member for Archiweek held by Faculty of Built Environment, University of Malaya

2009 - 2010 Foundation of Built Environment Centre for Foundation Studies in Science, University of Malaya

2011 Head of Delegation/Coordinator of first year Architecture student 2010/2011 session for ‘Measured Drawing Project’ conducted in Prince of Songkhla University (PSU), Trang Province, Kantang, Thailand.

2008 Malaysian Education Certificate High School of Islam Hidayah, Johor Bahru Working Experiences July 2013 - Dec 2014 M&R Architects Sdn. Bhd. Assistant Architect Designed a private hospital building for University Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). It is a joint-venture programme by UTM and KPJ to develop a private hospital for public and UTM staff uses.

Involved in preparing design proposal housing development masterplan, mixed development, student complex, service apartment, small renovation and some drawings about hospitality.

June - August 2012 DCDA Architect Trainee Involved in small scale projects such as bungalows, restoration of old building, commercials and masterplan for housing development.

2010 Participant in Nippon Paint Young Designer Award as School Introduction Parade session held by Empire Shopping Gallery, Subang Outbound Programme 7 - 12 April 2013 Siem Reap, Cambodia Site visit for Southeast Asia Studies (Elective subject) 22 January - 14 February 2012 Bandung, Indonesia ‘Summber Joint Studio Programme UM-UNPAR’ between University of Malaya and Universitas Katolik Parahyangan 19 June - 2 July 2011 Kantang, Thailand ‘Summer Joint Studio Programme UM-PSU’ between University of Malaya and Prince of Songkhla University For ‘Measured Drawing subject’2010/2011

CONTENT M. ARCH KAKI LIMA INCUBATOR 3 HOUSE VERTICAL VILLAGE B. SC. ARCH CHOW KIT VOCATIONAL SCHOOL MOONSIGHTING PAVILION WORK EXPERIENCE UTM-KPJ SPECIALIST HOSPITAL MODEL-MAKING LINEAR, PLANAR, HYBRID ELEMENTS SINGLE & DOUBLE CUBE OTHERS MEASURED DRAWING

M. ARCH KAKI LIMA INCUBATOR / DESIGN THESIS STUDIO

DESIGN THESIS STUDIO 1 / M. ARCH INSERTION - JUXTAPOSITION - REINVENTION CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE IN HISTORIC URBAN ENVIRONMENTS KOTA TUA OF JAKARTA

T H ESIS STATEMENT

Empowering The Informal Sector & Micro-Entrepreneur In Kota Tua, Jakarta

Heritage and historical artefacts, including building and urban district should not only be seen as ‘symbols’ of place identity, or tourist destination, but it must also adapt to the current demographic, environmental and economic conditions which invariably shifting through different political era and development. The objective of this project is to reinforce the relationship between historical artifact and current informal activities on site by preserving and revamping cultural heritage and the socio-economic development of informal sector within Kota Tua area.

This study will be looking at hidden heritage of shophouses typology in Kota Tua which have formed the majority of the pre-WW2 urban fabric of Batavia and North Jakarta. Therefore, this project investigates the provision of urban spaces that are capable of accommodating urban informality. It will be an attempt to provide an opportunity platform for street vendors to achieve better quality of life, improved working environment and at the same time contributing the transformation of street environments around historical site and creates vibrant atmosphere for visitors and inhabitants itself.

The new architectural intervention is an extension of old existing shophouses (officehouse) facing Kali Besar which currently being used as storage area by street vendors. This design proposal is inspired by the relationship between existing shophouses program and informal activities of street vendors around the site. Exploration through transformation of shophouse typology as main framework for design is essential in order to integrate new building block with existing old shophouses for adaptive reuse strategy. The new block is like an extension of old office house that currently been used by street vendors as their territory. The continuation of shophouse typology by introducing new programmatic and building form configuration which based on current activities on site is crucial in order to juxtapose between old and new architecture. The experimentation of new shophouse configuration will involve the reincarnation of arcades, five-foot way and public spaces that have been slowly diminished by elite planners that always made modification without enthusiasm on street life activities.

In terms of internal programs, the new proposal will be an attempt to compliment a reaction to upper middle class with new mixed program which has been proposed by OMA’s Dharma Niaga project, which is located on opposite side of the site. This project will instead cater middle lower income from Northern part of Jakarta and every level of society in Kota Tua. This KAKI LIMA INCUBATOR will be a problem solving, skill building community, self empowerment platform for street vendors which had been often associated with underdevelopment environment that causes traffic congestion, pollution, unhealthy food industry and crime.

CONCEPT IDEA - mixed program where street vendors are well-integrated with pedestrian-friendly environment - platform of skill building and self empowerment for street vendors community - network of places where people can walk, eat, shop and socialize - compliment oma’s dharma niaga building strategies

DEVELOPMENT GOALS - provide facilities and proper spaces for street vendors to run and develop their business - diverse program to attract and serve different users of several social classes - showcase old shophouse typology in kota tua - improve quality of public space around the site - improve accessibility and walkability on local scale

P R O B LE M STATEMENT As Kota Tua of Jakarta is becoming popular destination among local and international tourist for its uniqueness heritage buildings and historical value, the area has become a new hot spot for Street Vendors especially within Old City Wall.

They can be easily found on the sidewalks as these locations have a high frequency of potential customers. Therefore, the existence of street vendors on sidewalks may leads to traffic congestion and distruptive environment where usually they have to share the space with pedestrians as well. In addition, most of the street vendors are selling foods and its difficult for them to find clean water source around Kota Tua area because of poor provision of infrastructure services. This problem may leads to unhygienic food production and causes food borne illnesses such as diarrhea by the consumers.

Apart from that, most of the Street Vendors in Kota Tua come from central Jakarta, Northern Jakarta or even further away to run their businesses at this new tourist attraction spot. They are likely to use some of the old buildings around Fatahillah Square as their storage area in improper way which causes unpleasant streetscape for pedesntrians. Push carts and rubbish are completely contribute negatively to the physical appearance of old buildings for instance it can be seen in front of old ‘office house’ facing Kali Besar.

KEY QUESTIONS What type of programs can be inserted into existing old shophouses in order to revitalize the significant of shophouse elements during VOC era?

What is the main role of Street Vendors on the Jakarta Old Town Revitalization program?

How is the new architectural intervention able to compliment OMA’s future approach?

How can the new architectural intervention activate the street activity through combination of Five Foot Way element and Street Vendors?

ANALYSIS: EXISTING CONDITIONS

RUMAH AKAR

Kota Tua has several number of open spaces but only some of them are functioning while the others are in poor conditions due to lack of provision and services.

The well-functioning public spaces in Kota Tua cover Fatahillah Square and along the bank of Kali Besar, which are being used as public’s meeting points and as locations for special events such as art and food festivals, and bazaars. Even though this area has become tourists attraction, future development should consider connecting all public spaces in Kota Tua area through pedestrian-friendly facilities to improve accessibility and walkability on local scale.

STREET VENDORS I N K O TA T U A According to ‘The Jakarta Post’ - October 25 2016, street vendors again playing cat and mouse in Kota Tua area. This is because Jakarta administration wants to make Fatahillah Square as a well-organized open space for tourist by relocating street vendors to a nearby open field on Jalan Cengkeh but the plan seems to failed.

The new place for street vending is far away from Fatahillah Square which is about 500 meters and the visitors have to walk and cross a road to go there. The environment is completely different and they can’t run their business as good as somewhere around Fatahillah Square. Even though they have to pay rent for a stall at the field which cost about Rp 300,000 per month.

Some of the street vendors admitted that they preffered to be chased by the agency’s officers every day rather than run their business at the new open field because its not worth at all.

NEW SITE FOR STREET VENDING

In front of office houses along Jalan Kali Besar Timur

MAIN ROAD

FATAHILLAH SQUARE

Street vendors are still active at night along Jalan Kali Besar Timur 4

EX CIPTA NIAGA

KALI BESAR

OMA’s BUILDING FATAHILLAH SQUARE WAYANG MUSEUM

M A S S I NG S T U D Y

SITE COVERAGE // SERIES OF EXISTING SHOPHOUSES + BANK MEGA KOTA SITE (VACANT)

MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF NEW BLOCK // GESTURE OF RESPECT TOWARDS SURROUNDING HERITAGE BUILDINGS

F A T A H I L L A H

REPITITION OF EXISTING GRID // EXTENSION FROM OLD SHOPHOUSES GRID ALONG KALI BESAR

S Q U A R E

ENHANCE POROSITY BETWEEN IMPORTANT NODES ON SITE // OPEN THE ENTIRE BUILDING MASS THROUGH CONNECTIVITY OF IMPORTANT NODES THROUGHOUT GREEN CORRIDOR

PROGRAM ZONING // FOLLOW SHOPHOUSE TYPOLOGY // PUBLIC @ GROUNDFLOOR // PRIVATE @ UPPERFLOOR

SHOPHOUSE TYPOLOGY AS MAIN LANGUAGE // JUXTAPOSITION BETWEEN OLD AND NEW SHOPHOUSE CONFIGURATION

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CONTINUATION OF EXISTING SHOPHOUSE SILHOUETTE AS MAIN FACADE // MARRYING OLD AND NEW ELEMENTS THROUGH ARCHITECTURE AND PROGRAMS OF SHOPHOUSE

CREATION OF PUBLIC AND GREEN SPACES // THE NEW BUILDING BLOCK IS SHRINKING TOWARDS FATAHILLAH SQ TO ACTIVATE THE CORNER WITH PUBLIC SPACES

JALAN KALI BESAR TIMUR

K AK I LIM A INCUBATOR

Image Source: http://oma.eu/projects/dharma-niaga

The design intention is to create a mixed program building where street vendors are well-integrated with pedestrian-friendly environment. There are many rentable spaces available for street vendors community on ground floor to run their business such as food stall, pop up market, cafe and more. These designated spaces are purposely to activate street life environment where people can walk, eat, shop and socialize.

In addition, the project will become a platform of skill building and self empowerment for street vendors community where collaborative coworking office space is provided to accomodate street vendors community to startup their new business. Facilities for business support resources and services are also provided that include physical space, capital, coaching, common services and networking connections. Street vendors are actually can be categorized as micro-entrepreneur group but they don’t have opportunity to expand their business further due to restricted economic problem and education level. Most of the street vendors come from poor family background and poorly educated, while some of them lost their jobs during economic crisis in 1997 and forced to work in informal sector.

This project will be complimenting OMA’s Dharma Niaga design program which is located on opposite side of the proposed site.

This new proposed design offers program that is suitable for every level of society instead of focusing on upper middle class only as provided by OMA’s Dharma Niaga.

SPATIAL ORGANIZATION

ADAPTIVE REUSE STRATEGY This project covers Bank Mega site (vacant) and 4 units of old office house along Kali Besar, and one of them is called ‘Rumah Akar’ which has been proposed a new design for reincarnation of the corner lot office house by PT Han Awal & Partners Architects under Jakarta Old Town Revitalization Corporation (JOTRC).

Due to some problematic circulation of public movement around the site, especially on the corner of Fatahillah Square where Cafe Batavia’s footprint is offset towards the square and at the same time blocking the public movement from Fatahillah Square to Kali Besar. This new project proposes a new green corridor between Wayang Museum and proposed site which is connecting public movement from the square and Kali Besar. The new green corridor is also will completely penetrates one block of the old office house besides Rumah Akar while the front facade is still be retained.

In order to improve quality of public space, accessibility and walkability on site-specific scale, there are 2 green corridors which projecting towards entry point of Ex Cipta Niaga and Dharma Niaga heritage building. In addition, the courtyard of Rumah Akar is also extended towards new proposed green corridor to emphasize the quality of public space between old and new building.

A new street gallery is proposed behind the retained old facade of office house in order to showcase the hidden artifact of old office house that has been built in VOC colonial period. The street gallery is showcasing history of street vendors and street arts in Indonesia as those old office houses are being used by street vendors currently as their storage and rest area.

Apart from that, the new insertation elements of staircase and void into the old office house building block is to emphasize the uniqueness of internal courtyard in Rumah Akar. The main staircase is embracing the courtyard and the bridge is connecting to new and old block to serve street vendors community spaces on upper floor.

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First Floor Plan NTS

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M. ARCH THE 3 HOUSE / STUDIO E

3 HOUSE

M. Arch / Studio E

Introduction At the first stage, we were asked to design series of houses based on pragmatic and elements that reflect my interest. I have some initial ideas on bunker, courtyard and house of god from my own interest. In order to align all of my ideas into this final task, I decide to use shophouse typology as a container for these ideas to fit in and have close relationship with each other based on specific functions for every house.

Based on my precedent study, which is shophouse in Malacca, Malaysia . It is an artifact made by a joint venture between dutch as the designer and chinese as craftsmen. Shophouse typology has narrow frontage due to the tax imposed on the width of the facade by local government. Similar case was happened in Netherlands because some houses have narrow facade as well and also because of tax reasons too.

Proposed Site - Could be anywhere in Southeast Asia region such as Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam as the designated houses are suitable for tropical climate.

- Must be somewhere within shophouses area because of the structure and programs alignments - Every single house has a potential to stand alone anywhere Concept Idea So, this is the end product after I have done series of iterations from early task.

3 Houses that can fit in a shophouse typology in terms of programs, which is commercial, courtyard and tower. By using shophouse typology as my design restriction, each house has 7x7m dimension, and goes up to three stories high.

The five foot way at the frontage is an important element in this design which will determine the interior spaces function.

DONE

DONE

PART A ELEMENTS OF A HOUSE A catalogue which consists of all elements that can be found in a generic house

STAIRCASE & ANTITHESIS Izu House by Atelier Bow Wow SERIES OF STAIRCASES Mielke Stair Catalogue WALLS Maison A Bordeaux by OMA WINDOWS 3 Types of windows ROOFS 20 Types of roofs ROOF & ANTITHESIS

STAIRCASE & ANTITHESIS Izu House by Atelier Bow Wow

SERIES OF STAIRCASES Mielke Stair Catalogue

no 9

no 24

white - original model black - antithesis version

no 35

WINDOWS

3 types of windows

window from a pattern language:opening to the street

a window with deconstructive functions command

windows from house of uehara by kazuo shinohara

WALLS

Maison A Bordeaux by OMA

ROOFS

20 type of roofs

roof that opens to the sky

roof from excellent material

tensile roof a collaborative work with siti nur adiba

roof with multiple buildings under a green roof

a continuous roof

A-frame roof

roof that responds to the space below roof that spells a word

roof that has a really large span

roof that is the whole building

a factory roof

roof with multiple skylights

roof with great silhouette

ROOF & ANTITHESIS Silver Hut by Toyo Ito

original design

antithesis design

PART B HOUSE EXERCISES

Series of experiments adopting all elements from previous part HOUSE Dominated by Vertical & Horizontal elements NINE-SQUARE GRID HOUSE Original & Antithesis design HOUSE OF EXQUISITE CORPSE Collaboration with Stipe, Nick and Ye THE 3 HOUSE 3 Different houses in one typology

NINE-SQUARE GRID HOUSE And it’s antithesis

dominated by horizontal elements

initial design

antithesis design

HOUSE

Dominated by Vertical & Horizontal elements dominated by vertical elements

HOUSE OF EXQUISITE CORPSE Collaboration with Stipe, Nick and Ye

Further development of Stipe’s design

Final Groupwork Model

initial design

inspired by an internal courtyard in shophouse design

combination of 4 different models

M. ARCH VERTICAL VILLAGE / STUDIO D

VERTICAL V I LL A GE

Agitate - Housing Typologies: Multigenerational Living - Carlton, Victoria

In Carlton, most of the residential apartment is built with conventional housing typologies where each housing unit is arranged individually, hence all the residents are sharing the same centralized communal area within the apartment.

A centralized communal space is less efficient for multigenerational living because of mobility problem for elderly people and interaction between students and elderly generation is hardly occur at certain time. It causes from different range of age, problem with dementia and enormous communal space.

A centralized communal space could be difficult to reach by someone who live at different floor level or far away from it.

Only some people who lives nearly feels more comfortable and able to go there more often.

This new housing typology aims to provide a new atmosphere to very different lifestyle and give the users a generous communal area and outdoor space.

The essential idea about designated module which applying a ‘village concept’; to combine elderly residents and students in a small block at the same time sharing a small communal kitchen and lounge within the module itself. Whilst, the building is consists of several numbers of modules where each of them is arranged properly to maximize view towards landscape and allow natural daylight to penetrate into residential unit during winter.

This approach is encouraging residents to socialize and interact in a small communal area at first step and then it can be continuously to a bigger or centralized communal space.

This small communal area functions as a platform for the residents to mingle with other people more effectively.

Units are properly zoned from very private (unit with basic amenities) to semi-public (small communal area) and public (big communal space provided on ground level and external part of the building).

PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE PROPOSED SITE ALONG PELHAM ST

CARLTON

M. Arch / Studio D PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE PROPOSED SITE FROM UNIVERSITY SQUARE

SPATIAL ORGANIZATION

Every module has 2 units of active elderly, 2 units of less active elderly and 4 students. A module consists of 2 storey unit, 2 less active elder units are located on lower floor, while 2 active elderly on upper floor, and 2 duplex units for students. Less active elderly are located on lower floor to reduce movement from their residential unit to communal kitchen and lounge which is located on the same level.

All residents in a module are sharing a centralized communal kitchen and lounge together.

1 VILLAGE

CONCEPTUAL DIAGRAM

CENTRALIZED PUBLIC SQUARE

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‘NEW STUDENT ACCOMODATION’

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NORTH SUN DURING WINTER

SUNSET

RESIDENTIAL @ PODIUM PUBLIC SPACE HEALTH FACILITIES HOSPITALITY

SUNRISE

MAXIMIZE FIELD OF VIEW TOWARDS LINCOLN, UNIVERSITY SQUARE ACCESS FROM EXISTING NODES

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UNIVERSITY SQUARE MELBOURNE BUSINESS SCHOOL

LINCOLN SQ FITNESS

MUSALLA UOM

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LIBRARY GYM

MELBOURNE LAW BUILDING

YOGA/MEDITATION

LINCOLN SQUARE

MEDICAL RETAIL

OPEN PLAZA

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Site Plan NTS

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GYM LIBRARY

SPIRITUAL SPACE

MEDICAL SUITES

VOID

First Floor Plan NTS

EVENT ROOMS

SWIMMING POOL

TERRACE GARDEN

SAUNA

TERRACE GARDEN

ATRIUM

Second Floor Plan NTS

ATRIUM

TERRACE GARDEN

TERRACE GARDEN

SKYLIGHT

SKYLIGHT

Typical Floor Plan (Tower) NTS

DN DN

Student Suite (Upper)

Active Older Generational Suite NTS

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UP UP

Student Suite (Lower)

Less Active Older Generational Suite NTS

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Sectional Perspective X-X NTS

ONE VILLAGE MODULE EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC VIEW

BOUVERIE ST

Section Y-Y NTS

3x3m SUMMER SUN

SUMMER SUN

WINTER SUN

1.5m

WINTER SUN

+VIEW +PRIVACY +SHADING DEVICE

LEICESTER ST

MATERIAL: ALUCOBOND PANEL

NATURAL DAYLIGHT PENETRATES THROUGH SKYLIGHT ON TOP OF PODIUM ROOF GARDEN TO PROVIDE NATURAL DAYLIGHT FOR THE CORRIDOR BELOW

TERRACE GARDEN A COMMUNAL SPACE WHICH ENCOURAGE RESIDENTS TO INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER MAIN ACTIVITY: EXERCISE GARDENING GATHERING BBQ

VIEW FROM COFFEE SHOP IN A LANEWAY TOWARDS CENTRALIZED OPEN PLAZA

SECTION CUT THROUGH COMMUNAL KITCHEN AND LOUNGE SHOWS MAIN ACTIVITY IN A ‘VILLAGE MODULE’

B. SC. ARCH CHOW KIT VOCATIONAL SCHOOL / SEMESTER 6

CHOW KIT VOCATIONAL SCHOOL

Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur

B. Sc. Arch / Architectural Design Studio 6

Design Brief The task is to design a proposed Vocational Training Centre. With limited space of the site and in the midst of a hectic urban environment, it requires the student’s understanding of the site in local climate, urban context, architectural history and development of Chow Kit as well as socio-culture terms.

Introduction This community college is designed in public square identity of Chow Kit district. It is a new landmark space for Chow Kit people that discourages any social interaction and variety of community activities held by the community college itself. One of the best factor for being a new landmark for Chow Kit is the strategic location at the border of the district provides the opportunity to change people’s perception by showcasing the real educational image of the college to the public.

The existance of public square at the middle of the building gives an image of permeable and porous both visually and physically to allow the students and public people to dissipate and integrate the college programmes together with the Chow Kit community.

The college provides a staggered staircase with different hierachy at the front of the building for the Chow Kit community to merge themselves into a proper learning environment besides to get rid from rigidness of the building shape. There are four main courses offer by the school which is bakery and confectionary, hotel management, fashion design and beautician.

ISSUES vs OBJECTIVES

Site Planning

Site Plan NTS

Precedent Study

Binh Duong School

Place des Terraux

Site Analysis Design Intention - (Public Square) The main intention for the building is by merging 3 different elements of urban spaces which is plaza, public square and boulevard. The hierachy of the building is lifting the learning module on top and having commercial and civic centre below to follow the building typology of the site context. The ground floor area is open to public activity to generating uses and effective additional parkland.

Other than that, ground level also can be seen as physical extension of the adjacent existing shophouses. The college was designed to be fully open and visually porous for the seamless movement of people.

Setback

Microclimate

Vegetation

Connectivity

Visual Response

Solid and Void

Design Strategies

Ground Floor Plan NTS

First Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan NTS

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Service Level NTS

Semi Basement Plan NTS

Second Floor Plan NTS

Section X-X NTS

View from Jalan Sri Amar

View from Lorong Haji Taib 1 NTS

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Section Y-Y NTS

View from Back Lane

View from Lorong Haji Taib 2 NTS

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BUILDING SERVICES Mechanical Ventilation System

Fire Protection & Vertical Transportation System

Electrical Distribution System

Water Distribution System

D3 : RC fin

NTS

D1 : Planter Box + Bench

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Wall Section

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B. SC. ARCH MOONSIGHTING PAVILION / SEMESTER 3

B. Sc. Arch / Architectural Design Studio 3

MOONSIGHTING P A V I L I ON

Jugra Hill, Kuala Selangor

Design Brief The task is to design a proposed Moonsighting Pavilion. Thus, the site is rich with natural slope and located on the peak of Jugra Hill, it requires the student’s understanding of the site in local climate, rural context and architectural history terms.

Site Plan NTS

Introduction Jugra is a historical royal town, located near the seaside beach of Morib and the town of Banting in the district of Kuala Langat, Selangor, Malaysia. There are some landmarks on the Jugra Hill such as The Royal Palace of Jugra, Royal Mausoleum of Makam Sultan Abdul Samad, Jugra Lighthouse and Radar Tower own by Royal Malaysian Navy. Some part of the hill are covered by the Chinese graveyard along the route leading up to the peak of the hill. Moreover, the hill that located 146m above sea level, it has become a tourist attraction and it promotes outdoor activities such as jogging and paragliding apart of the heritage structures to visit nearby. The site location is very strategic to allows the practice of moon sighting for religious and astronomical purposes due to the sky can be observed without any obstructions of trees and other hills.

Main Issue (Public perception towards Islamic Architecture) Nowadays, dome shape is considered as a main language of islamic architecture which is wrongly interpreted by common people. The purity form of Kaaba (perfect cube) is symbolizing the originality shape of islamic architecture. In this design, the main intention is to apply strong square geometry element by manipulating the basic cube using desconstructive method. All the spaces are derived by substracting and protruding the cube while still maintaining the essence of original shapre.

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Design Intention - Manipulation of Kaaba Shape (Basic Cube) The Kaaba is the epicenter of Mecca, the cube shaped building at the heart of the most wellknown real estate in the history of mankind. Thousands circle the sacred Kaaba at the centre of the Haram sanctuary 24 hours a day. The Kaaba become one of the most significant thing in Muslim life because of it is the focal point as Qibla for prayers.

This building called as the House of Allah and its sanctity and antiquity is older than history itself. The importance of this building is become a gathering place of Muslim around the world during Hajj and Umrah pilgrimages at certain time of the year.

Site Study (Physically) To respect the originality of site condition such as slope and trees, the building was designed in such way which blends with contour and surrounding nature to respect to mother’s earth.

(Spiritually) Based on historical evidence and observation about the site, there are abundant of Chinese graveyard and Chinese influences. Long time ago, the area of Jugra Hill is owned by Malay Sultan. Thus, The Sultan sells the land to Chinese people due to some conflicts happen.

To respect the Chinese culture on the site, some Feng Shui belief and elements has been applied in the design.

The ‘Courtyard’ at the middle of main building symbolizing the relation between Islamic and Chinese cultures by merging the same element from each belief in terms of shape and type of vegetation used (bamboo).

Ground Floor Plan NTS

Second Floor Plan

First Floor Plan NTS

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Sketches

1. The new proposed block should not overpower existing landmarks.

2. Splitting the main mass into 2 parts due to follow/respect the terrain of sloping site.

3. The building is standing on stilts to avoid any significant damage and excavation work on site

4. Open deck on top floor is a place for observation activity which is able to capture wide angle without any obstacle.

5. Create a central courtyard that symbolize combination of main elements used by Islamic and Chinese belief (basic shape).

6. The ‘Islamic + Chinese courtyard’ is surrounded by all the main spaces for moonsighting activity. Open cafe with pergola roof provides breathtaking atmosphere towards Morib Beach.

Design Development

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Stage 2

Stage 3

Stage 4

Section Y-Y NTS

Section X-X NTS

WORK EXPERIENCE UTM-KPJ SPECIALIST HOSPITAL

UTM-KPJ SPECIALIST HOSPITAL Location : Architect : Status : Role :

Work Experience / July 2013 - December 2014

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai Campus, Johor Bahru, Malaysia M&R Architects Sdn Bhd, 2014 Tender Documentation Stage Team Coordinator, Designer

Introduction UTM-KPJ Specialist Hospital is a private hospital on a piece of leasehold land in Kulaijaya, Johor. This development is under a joint-venture agreement between KPJ Healthcare Bhd and UTM Holdings. UTM Holdings is a wholly-owned subsidiary and commercial arm of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), a research university in engineering, science and technology.

The proposed joint-venture is in line with the group’s objective to increase its hospital networks locally as well as leveraging on UTM’s capabilities in education to lead in the private teaching hospitals within Malaysia.

The new hospital building will have a multi-discipline services and the first phase will be equipped with 150 beds. The construction process of this hospital is expected to be completed in two years, with the option to expand its capacity to a maximum of 500 beds.

As Assistant Architect, my responsible was mainly to prepare early sketches design and preliminary drawings according the hospital planner desire as our client and also project manager. I also worked on drafting work for tender documentation, construction drawing, local authority submission and prepare presentation report.

B. SC. ARCH MODEL-MAKING / ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO 1

LINEAR, PLANAR HYBRID ELEMENTS

University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur

Model-Making / Architectural Design Studio 1

LINEAR: Iceberg

PLANAR: Aloe Vera

HYBRID : The Dragon

The exercises are introducing the elements of basic design with emphasising on the vocabularies of architectural language. The objective is to learn on how to apply these elements of basic design in creating different quality architectural space depending on certain situation.

University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur

SINGLE & DOUBLE CUBE

DOUBLE CUBE

This project introduce exercises on 3-dimensional, manipulation of cubes through additive and subtractive transformation as one of the purity of basic shape. The manipulation of a cube results in creating volume of spaces, adjacent spaces, dominant spaces and a special space.

SINGLE CUBE

B. SC. ARCH MEASURED DRAWING @ KANTANG, THAILAND

Others

MEASURED DRAWING @ KANTANG, THAILAND

Special Semester, Session 2010/2011

GROUP MEMBERS Ar. Aniza Abd Aziz (Lecturer) Hazim, Farzana, Ainul, Xiow Yin, Huda, Ishaq, Azmi, Siti Nur Syuhadah, Alia (UM) Chittinan, Kanokrat (PSU, Translator)

Abstract A collaboration programme between University of Malaya and Prince of Songkla University.

There are 4 different groups and each of them is assigned to do the measured drawing of selected heritage building at Kantang Province, Thailand.

Kantang Railway Station is considered as a gem in the town because of its distinctive old style building characteristics. It was selected to be recorded as it defines its own fascinating historical significance. It is also largely connected to the cultural, economic and social development of Kantang Town, giving it a stronger reason to be highlighted in this measured drawing excursion.

On the other hand, it is an example of a Neo-Classical style building during the British Colonial period in South East Asia. The building was somehow being influenced by the Thailand, Chinese and Indian style since it was built by the locak workmen.