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Sept2020 journey
OF NICHOLAS WIDJAJA
CAMPUS PROJECTS PAPER VILLA BAMBOO LIGHT GYM UTC TRAWAS STUDYING FACILITY NIWA STUDENT HOUSING CITY TOURISM GALLERY KEPUTRAN HOUSING MILITARY TOURISM GALLERY
CAREER PROJECTS Shophouses
Tenggilis Apartment
RSAL Funeral Home
Details & Renovation Drawings
Vision
Maximizing sites and materials potential like Frank Lloyd Wright Expressing beautifully the capability of structures like Santiago Calatrava Exploring modern technology and sustainability like Norman Foster Manipulating spaces and human senses like Peter Zumthor Utilizing natural light and emptiness like Tadao Ando Down to earth like Kengo Kuma
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.� -Frank Owen Gehry
CV and Resume Campus Projects
1 Paper Villa Bamboo Light Gym UTC Trawas Studying Facility Niwa Student Housing City Tourism Gallery Keputran Housing Military Tourism Gallery
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Shophouses RSAL Funeral Home Tenggilis Apartment Details & Renovation Drawings
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Career Projects
NICHOLAS WIDJAJA Architecture is always about a mix of art and science which I personally are fond of both. As a person adaptability and the love for new challenges are essentials, but as a designer consistency and accuracy are substantial. Being in a love hate relationship with design because sometimes it is not all about our desire to express but for the one(s) we are designing for instead. The best designers though will always be capable of balancing all which is why constant desire in improving self to perfection is a must.
biograph Nationality Date of birth Place of birth Gender
Indonesian 28 November 1996 Surabaya, Indonesia Male
EDUCATION 2012-2015 2015-2019
St. Louis 1 Catholic High School, Surabaya, Indonesia Science Class Petra Christian University, Surabaya, Indonesia Bachelor of Architecture (First-class Honours) Cumulative GPA 3.56 / 4.00
skills SketchUp Autocad Rhinoceros Lumion TwinMotion Microsoft Adobe
TRAITS 3D 2D Architecture 3Ds Max BIM Revit
Word PowerPoint OneNote Photoshop InDesign AfterEffects Illustrator
Problem solver Enthusiastic Thinker Hard worker Honest Loyal Optimist
INTERESTs Architecture &
Rendering Analysis Photography Psychology Engineering Urban spaces Pedagogy Sustainability
Live &
Gaming Working out Traveling Eating Outdoor sports Adventure
experience Sept 2016-Sept 2018 Active member of Petra Christian University Student Security Division July 2018 Group leader of Community Outreach Program 2018 at Kupang, Indonesia Sept 2018 3-man team Presenter of National Seminar of Disaster Responsive Architecture 2018 by Indraprasta PGRI University at National Museum of Jakarta Sept 2019-present Freelance Architect Taking design orders such as housing renovations to detail drawings Sept 2019-present Main Architect at PT. Agung Alam Anugrah (Real Estate Developer) Working on commercial projects such as shophouses, apartments from conceptual architectural to structural and MEP drawing.
Contact nicholaswidjaja@gmail.com
@nichw_96
+6281-980-5060
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Paper villa
2nd SEMESTER PROJECT
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First ever architecture project was a concept design of a private residential in a developed but with no land lots surrounded by unbuilt green areas.
Open to 4 sides view makes unlimited potential to design but also a lot of consideration for spaces and facades that should be comfortable for the resident.
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Picking up technical skills and drawing as key to non-verbal communication.
Personally favorite part of every architecture project from the very start which is making 3D perspectve and making the images as if they are real and alive.
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Apparently good section drawings should be able to give as much information as floor plans.
Contantly striving to find better angles of the building as a good one will always be photogenic from every angle.
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BAMBOO LIGHT GYM
3rd SEMESTER PROJECT
This project was intended to explore the capability of materials like red brick and bamboo to the fullest potential.
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Learning and playing with the concept of exterior spaces made between masses to create urban landscape and outdoor activities.
And sometimes just obsessed with the simplicity of black and white presentation.
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Also to keep it simple just with jointed bamboo and stacked red bricks become the building’s structure and also facade itself.
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As the brick shows toughness and rigidity, the bamboo shows the contrary with its curve just like Yin-Yang, this project wins best brick-bamboo building category.
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UTC STUDYING FACILITY
4th SEMESTER PROJECT
A site with contoured land outside the city on a hill area with a relatively steep slope is either an obstacle or a challenge which is quite interesting to learn and design.
Multiple techniques such as cut and fill or extended columns are suitable for these kinds of terrain.
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Designated as studying facilities for undergraduate student with a main library, hall, restaurant, guest houses, and other public buildings.
The urban spaces made between buildings are meant to be social interactive spaces and also connected pedestrian landscape.
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NIWA STUDENT HOUSING
5th SEMESTER PROJECT
First time implementing Computer Aided Design with other kind of 2D & 3D softwares, at the same time introduced to the fundamental rules and basic designs for mid-high rise building.
Learning about various anti-earthquake structures and nett-gross area planning are also essential and personally very interesting to learn and experiment.
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This mid-rise housing is programmed to accomodate undergraduate students to live, learn, and leisure as a part of their life in campus.
For public spaces, social and communal rooms are available for students to study and connect to one another, meanwhile back at their private place, their room are designed to make them feel more down to earth as the greens and roof gardens are spread across the outer and inside of every floors.
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Studying various kinds of reference for mid-high rise buildings, 1 keyword caught my attention as what probably going to be what the world really need in architecture and that is Sustainability.
Since sustainability consists from ecological point of view to the well being of users, the parameters of what is good should always be used in design no matter what it is.
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CITY TOURISM GALLERY
6th SEMESTER PROJECT
Being avant garde can either be a masterpiece or a failure, which is why a good simbolic architecture should not only represent something but also send an imporant message to the user of the building.
As for a city tourism gallery in Surabaya, tourists will always look for the diversity from the local people along with historical heritages and urban landscapes in city.
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And so the shape of the building are divided into two categories, the first one consists of jointed man-made shaped blocks which represents physical characters of the city meanwhile on the other side slanted curvy parts represents the spirit and soul of the city.
Spirit of place and diverse locality are really what make Surabaya as a city, and so as a gallery for tourists we must not only show them what we are and have, but also let them experience and feel the space and place existed only in Surabaya.
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Located right in the heart of the city, this building can not only be a gallery but also a landmark for tourists.
Shaped with wireframe and covered with exterior panels the curvy facade juxtapose itself with the mini blocks made out of same bricks and finishing from colonial buildings of heritage areas.
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It is funny how every student in this project become so philosophical about everything including myself, especially thanks to reference like Libekind and Jean Nouvel.
These imaginative shapes and facades needs very good details, which still in need to learn and experiment more sustainability wise.
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keputran housing
7th SEMESTER PROJECT
The word kampoeng often used for mid to low income people housing and this project intends to transform those 1-2 floor leveled housing to high rise buildings to minimize horizontal areas of land use with vertical approach.
The Keputran Kampoeng are actually one of Surabaya city’s iconic kampoeng because of these points: 1. Extended and contested spaces between housing users 2. Communal spaces along corridors 3. Repetitive non-united facade and composition 4. Unplanned natural/green elements 5. Lost spaces as extra potential spaces
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The problem is that these kampoeng experience points are lost in high rise building due to the contrast of environment and lost of physical housing diversity, which is why preserving and reviving those spaces in the way of infrastructure and modul planning can be the answer. Such as instead of closed walls and doors at corridors, why not open the housing corridors since the neighbours already knew each other, and also experimenting with temporal open space that can be used for various events with different kind of furniture arrangements.
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Net gross area planning are one of the most important thing to plan for high rise building either it is for commercial or non commercial use, but what interesting is a lot of architect nowadays does not really fully use those area as selling units instead design it as open communal or roof garden area with the purpose of non stagnant facade and spaces.
One of the key consideration for design especially not only when making a new building, but an entirely new environment is to include Sustainable Development goals points so that users well being and environment health are all well planned.
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Often wonder why some metropolitan city still has a lot of undeveloped slums next to their Central Business District (CBD), apparently it has to do with government system and politics. It was also interesting how some lecturer are willing to argue that kampoeng vibe will always vanish when implemented at high rise building, maybe some phenomenon just happens because they are , not made.
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MILITARY TOURISM GALLERY 8th SEMESTER PROJECT
This project was for last semester thesis located in the heart of the Surabaya City, right next to a mall and one of the most well known military heritage landmark that is a post war submarine. Paired with one of my favorite lecturer, who was very good at science design approach, using real factual data from site analysis as consideration of composition, axis, and zoning for design.
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Surabaya is known as City of heroes and rich of its military and historical elements, which is part of tourism appeal of almost every city.
After site analysis approach for the early process, simbolic transformation is the next step for the gallery to represent the military spirit.
One main mass on the center with tilted angle as if large group of brotherhood working together to an ultimate goal, while on the sides two masses hunged cantilevered to represent sustaining and enduring external or internal struggle along achieving those goals.
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Another aspect to achieve the intended military space experience is through interior with fine detailing.
Such spaces like aircraft showcase room should not be in an enclosed small room, but it should be on vast area horizontally and vertically to show how massive they are and playing with indoor materials like glasses which increase transparency and natural lighting create a sky like environment.
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A cantilever 20 meter long is a structural challenge with a thrill on its own, my love for problem solving like these often get my professor confused for why I did not choose engineering instead of architecture.
Personally through shape and structure are the true way of expressing architecture, and after that comes the elements that completes the building along with achieving the concept goal of the project.
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Shophouses
CAREER PROJECTS
Undergraduate architect venturing into the real world of architectural practice, and as usual greeted by the basic fundamental tasks like bathroom detail drawing. But apparently there are a lot of minor to major detail that is unteachable in campus, and can only be learn at practice or work since often what we drew at school are just concepts.
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Personally one of the most interesting task that cannot be learned in campus is structural and MEP technical drawing and details, good architect should understand and plan a building from the very bottom (foundation) to the very top of the roof with every aspect and details integrated. After graduated instantly hired into a local developer with a boss who is an expert engineer, using this opportunity to learn more about the professional practice architecture from planning to implementation on field for buildings like shophouses, offices, and apartments . The thing is most of the time what is originally planned is not always implemented because lack of integration and communication at practice with collaborators such as contractors and other designers, which is the reason why learning from practice experience is also the greatest teacher.
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rsal funeral house CAREER PROJECTS
An interesting commercial project which was at a site located in a military hospital area, funeral housing rooms for people to rent as they held their farewell ceremony for the death of their beloved but also reconnect with siblings, friends, and colleague from past times.
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Unlike the usual commercial project but more like a hospital the zoning for this project is more sensitive since there are some areas that only specific people can access. And so a circulation and routing system needed to be designed as well such as where the body will go from drop off to preparation area and finally to ceremony room where only some can access.
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apartments
CAREER PROJECTS
As the amount of open land area are decreasing, price of land per m2 are increasing which makes every area matters and so instead of designing a low-rise building, mid to high rise is more profitable invest wise for developers.
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LAY OUT
By gaining more numbers with less wasted spaces is the most efficient way to design a mid-high rise commercial building such as maximizing parking lots, rentable, and selling units. People who think of this from business perspective though often forgot that if the designer and developer do not think about what they should bring and give for the environment sustainability wise, in the long run the building will only affect the surrounding in bad ways.
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renovation & detail drawings
CAREER PROJECTS
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Konsultan Perencana / Designer Consultant
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Some interesting tasks that people asked for help are detail drawings for custom furnitures , and also revision for their water pump and piping planning. Other than that some basic home renovation plan tasks and interior designing services are small but quite the achievement. These small projects and detail drawings are actually fun to make since it is more down to earth and humanly scalewise rather than huge buildings, small to specific details are more planned.
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WORK IN PROGRESS (TO BE CONTINUED) As it has been a year since graduation, this architecture career path still so young and there are still so much to learn. But one thing for sure, designing not for self but for the sake of others and environment is the key to make a change in the world as an architect.