Part II Architectural Portfolio by Zafeera Marzukee

part II architectural portfolio

norzafeera nik marzukee Manchester School of Architecture M. Arch RIBA Part II

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studio 1 // final year thesis project emPOWERING BRADFORD, Regeneration of the ‘Pit in the City’

Research question: how can we re-insert carbon back into the ground below Bradford, Manchester and implement improved policies to enable Greater Manchester to reach net zero by 2038?

studio 2 // final year thesis project emPOWERING BRADFORD, Regeneration of the ‘Pit in the City’

Research question: how can we re-insert carbon back into the ground below Bradford, Manchester and implement improved policies to enable Greater Manchester to reach net zero by 2038?

studio 3 // final year thesis project emPOWERING BRADFORD, Regeneration of the ‘Pit in the City’

Research question: how can we re-insert carbon back into the ground below Bradford, Manchester and implement improved policies to enable Greater Manchester to reach net zero by 2038?

professional studies 1 // first year project Mycelium Use in Stockport Housing

professional studies 2 // first year project Algae-rhythm

b. sc. (hons) architecture // selected works SPRAY OUT Graffiti Art Centre LAUT Marine Science Play Area AXIS Informative Visitor Centre THE FORBIDDEN CHAMBER Maleficient’s Dwelling

architectural practice

Kota Damansara House Beranang House Arcoris Mont Kiara

revit proficiency

Professional Studies 1 Professional Studies 2

architectural model making

SPRAY OUT Graffiti Art Centre emPOWERING BRADFORD Regeneration of the ‘Pit in the City’

studio 1 // final year thesis project

emPOWERING BRADFORD, Regeneration of the ‘Pit in the City’

Research question: how can we re-insert carbon back into the ground below Bradford, Manchester and implement improved policies to enable Greater Manchester to reach net zero by 2038? Gas Tower Lift shaft Underground Colliery Tunnels Underground Water Tunnels

Bradford History Timeline 1980

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Conceptual Poster: Re-Imagining Bradford

Effects Climate change can cause various global problems such as flooding

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Methodology Re-wilding and soil inoculation steps to sequester carbon dioxide and improve the quality of the soil

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Aim To achieve a flourishing environment filled with Mycelium and nature

Masterplan Iterations

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Iteration 2

Iteration 3

Manifestos Manifesto 1 + 2

Manifesto 3

Manifesto 4

Manifesto 5

Rewilding, Fungi Inoculation & Community Gardens

Local Renewable Energy

EnerPHit (Passivhaus Retrofit) Housing

Improved Transportation Infrastructure

A public space for residents to grow plants and promote the growth of local wildlife. Mycelium can spread wildly throughout the area to speed up the tree’s growth and sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Gas holder as a local renewable energy power plant. The housing area, educational facilities, clinics, supermarkets, schools, and many other things will all be powered by electricity. Carbon filtration mechanism is installed to capture the carbon in the atmosphere

Affordable Passivhaus housing is provided for better thermal comfort, indoor air quality, and self-maintained moisture and humidity level. Homes built according to Passivhaus standards which feature more space and daylighting, enable users to reduce the consumption of electricity

Collaboration with the chief of Manchester Council to remodel the terrain for a better bicycle and pedestrian path would help to encourage the public to use public transportation thus increase the local biodiversity

Perspective View of the Developed Masterplan

Community Garden

Power Plant

Community Garden Existing greenscapes around the river are conserved to retain the natural urban biodiversity in

Public park is introduced to maximise the use of the River Medlock and to allow more accessible viewpoints for the Re-wilding Area community.

Green Energy Transportation

EnerPHit (Passivhaus housing)

The green corridor along the river can enhance the connection between the proposed Re-wilding Area manifesto sites

Re-wilding Area

Site Plan Public Space Tram Station

Propose Site Cycling Stop

Green

Humans and non-humans are able to cross the river through the new pedestrian bridge and cycling path

River Medlock

New cycling route

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Existing Tram

Existing Train

studio 2 // final year thesis project

emPOWERING BRADFORD, Regeneration of the ‘Pit in the City’

Research question: how can we re-insert carbon back into the ground below Bradford, Manchester and implement improved policies to enable Greater Manchester to reach net zero by 2038?

Mushroom Pods for users to rest and enjoy the wetland landscape

Elevated timber walkway to the Mycelium Factory

Wetland landscape

Ashton Canal River

Indoor Cafe

Solar Panels

Mycelium Production Room

Developed Drawings

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Main Ingress & Engress Mushroom Pods Ramp to 1st Floor Reception Biogas Factory Sync Breaker Room Exhaust Waste, Gas Steam & Heat Exchanger Room HV Room Mycelium Growing Lab Mycelium Drying Room Office Mycelium Laboratory Mixer Room Production Room Electricity Switchroom Communication & Telco Room Cold Water Tank & Pump Room Toilet & Changing Room Lift & Fire Rated Staircase To Ashton Canal River Services Accessibility

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2nd Floor Mezzanine 1st Floor Level

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Elevation 1 Scale 1: 500

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Walkway provided to Ashton Canal River gives intermediate access for the humans and non-humans to roam around. This also acts as a bridge to Ashton Canal Park across the river.

Environmental Strategy

Natural Daylight Daylight illuminates the interior space to minimize the consumption of electricity and helps to fasten the rate of drying process of Mycelium in the

Biogas Waste The hot air or gas escapes from the biogas generator located in the basement to be collected and transform into electricity

Natural & Mechanical Ventilation

Efficient low airspeed ventilation from the outside allows fresh air to circulate through-out the building

Roof Garden An amphitheatre for users to enjoy the space and vista surrounded with small to medium categories of vegetations

Multi-colored Photovoltaics Solar Panels To generate electricity for the production of Mycelium and power the gymnasium equipments

High Performance Envelope Wall, floor and roof are insulated to prevent thermal bridging for the comfort of users in each room

studio 3 // final year thesis project

emPOWERING BRADFORD, Regeneration of the ‘Pit in the City’

Research question: how can we re-insert carbon back into the ground below Bradford, Manchester and implement improved policies to enable Greater Manchester to reach net zero by 2038?

Photography Series: Identification of Characters and their Activity through Human Eyes Our aim to understand both human and non-human daily activities and engagement with the site context before we start to explore our thesis project. This help us to establish the site scene and wider landscape scenario for EmPowering Bradford site and to convey crucial messages through different experimental mediums.

Mediums explored consist of site context photography through human eyes, Mycelium and electrical network entanglement animation, wetland restoration drawings and physical sectional model.

Varley St Bradford Rd

Bradford Inn Bar

To reveal site’s potential by capturing existing

To show what activities take place surrounding the site

Beswick St

To convey ways in which humans are inconsiderate towards the natural environment and the nonhumans who inhabit it

Holt Town

Site Plan

Ashton New Rd

Philips Park Rd

Pollard St

Ashton New Rd

Etihad Stadium

Photography Series: Weaving human and non-human actors

Human actors from the site are characterized to become non-human, in this context as mushrooms to reflect Mycelium used through out this project and weave the characters into the landscape. This will show how the characters are placed within the site, utilising the amenities provided and entaglement with their surrounding as shown through drawing as a medium.

Animation: Empowering Bradford through Mycelium & Electrical Network Entanglement

‘A Journey Through the Past, Present and Post- Tropicality’ by Tan (2022) was the original inspiration for creating an animation to inform our audience of our project. This video inspired us to couple our own animation with various sounds to create a more immersive experience for the viewer. Link to animation video https://youtu.be/WAvFjkE5U3M Conveys that carbon is sequestered via Mycelium

Describes the similarities of electrical networks and mycelium networks

Portrays how this project will generate clean, renewable energy from solar and biowaste

Drawing: Wetland Restoration

Peter Cook, the founder of Archigram, inspired us through his use of abstract drawings to convey messages to his audience. Archigram was an experimental collective of architects that became famous for its radical architecture concepts in the 1960s and 1970s.

immediately attract our attention through their geometries, playful use of colour, abstraction and clear conveyance of nature as part of the design. These complex drawings allow the viewer to establish their own understanding of a project to a large extent.

“We were reading space comics and we were influenced by Buckminster Fuller” - Peter Cook.

What is poignant is the atmospheric qualities of each of the drawings. The audience receives a sense of the the overarching aim of these projects through emotive means, which is one of the aims of our drawings: to create an emotional response.

We were heavily inspired by Peter Cook’s drawings because the drawings

Gazebo

Rough sketch of an isometric drawing of the gazebo with connecting public footpath

Gas Holder

First iteration: wetland landscape

Isometric drawing of quarter part of the gazebo

Wetland landscape inspired by Peter Cook is added

Experimenting with various coloring medium to achieve the best drawing

Gauche is used as it allows the drawing and the main component to protrude

3D Drawing produced from Revit

First Iteration: Physical model of the gas holder is superimposed on top of the drawing

Footbridge

Isometric drawing of quarter part of the gas holder

Wetland landscape inspired by Peter Cook is added

Gauche is used as it allows the drawing and the main component to protrude

3D Drawing produced from Revit

Wetland landscapes inspired by Peter Cook are added

Isometric drawing of quarter part of the footbridge

Gauche is used as it allows the drawing and the main component to protrude

Gasholder sectional model Describe other programmes and activities

Explain building’s main function (power plant) Describe dimensions and spatial qualities

Gazebo

To allow users engage with the surrounding landscape and local wildlife Footbridge As an alternative access to the Ashton Canal Park located opposite of the gas holder and also welcome passers-by walking along the river

Gas Holder

Show materiality of wall build-up and application (e.g. rammed earth wall, Mycelium insulation)

Part of the gas holder taken to show the relationship between each communal space in every floor level to the bio-gas factory at the centre of the

Describe re-using existing gas holder structures to reduce embodied carbon

Substrate inoculation tests using coffee grounds, coffee mixed with sawdust, & sawdust Preparation

Coffee grounds

Coffee grounds & sawdust

Inoculation

Sawdust pellets

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Mix with: Oyster mushroom spawn

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Mixing

Coffee grounds & oyster mushroom spawn

Coffee grounds, sawdust & oyster mushroom spawn

Covering

Sawdust & oyster mushroom spawn

Coffee grounds & oyster mushroom spawn

Day 4

Coffee grounds, sawdust & oyster mushroom spawn

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Coffee grounds & oyster mushroom spawn top side

Coffee grounds & oyster mushroom

Coffee grounds, sawdust & oyster

Sawdust & oyster mushroom spawn

Oyster mushroom mycelium spawn substrate inoculation test results

Based on the substrate inoculation test results, we decided to use a coffee and sawdust mixture as this was fast growing, had good Mycelium coverage, was mostly solid, and produced an earthy tone which will be good at representing the ground below the site.

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Solid in places, crumbly in others

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Wetland restoration: Models

Place of gathering Material used: Laser cut MDF

Elevated walkway leading to Ashton Canal River Material used: Laser cut MDF

Components of the footbridge

Components of the Gazebo Wetland landscape & soil inoculated with fungi Material used: Rammed Earth

B.15 Model Making Award 2023 Winner, Manchester School of Architecture

Wetland landscape & soil inoculated with fungi Material used: Rammed

professional studies 1 // first year project

Mycelium Use in Stockport Housing

Green Pockets

Communal Stairs Our project seeks to support the growth of biological diversity whilst allowing human visitors to interact with nature through activities such as cultivating produce and exploration. By allowing the process of re-wilding to take place we hope to encourage fungi, plants and animals to thrive whilst minimising human intervention.

with minimal human intervention. We hope this will allow biodiversity to flourish and thrive within this urban environment.

construction industry. We will open this space to schools to encourage engagement and education into fungi and mushrooms.

We will refurbish the east and west mill to create residential apartments within the re-wilded space (creating natural pathways around the site for residents).

Our intention is to allow the majority of the site to undergo a process of re-wilding, where nature is allowed to run its course

We will also refurbish the sawtoothed shed to create a laboratory and research facility into growing Mycelium for use in the

Our aim is to grow the Mycelium on site to use in the refurbishment process. To encourage community engagement, we propose to create allotments for the public to grow their own produce and interact with others within the community.

Initial Site Response

3 Year Building Process Masterplan

Years 1 to 3

Preparing ground for re-wilding process by churning soil and planting native pioneer and phytoremediation species which clean contaminated soil (takes 1-3 years for grasses & perennials to become

Growing mycelium in on-site lab (2 weeks)

Refurbishing Weir Mill to Passive House standards with Mycelium SIPs constructed in on-site workshop

Drying mycelium onsite (2 weeks) Years 1 & 2

Making mycelium SIPs in workshop (process repeated)

Years 2 & 3

Building Programme & Circulation

Developed Drawings

Existing Building

Mush-Lab

Existing Building

Future Allotment

East Mill Building

West Mill Building

Residential Apartment, Co-Working Space

Residential Apartment

professional studies 2 // first year project Algae-rhythm

De-Carbonization plan is introduced in response to UN Climate Change (COP26) which aims to achieve 2030 emission reductions of reaching net-zero carbon by the middle of the century. 2m² of algae is believed to be equivalent to one tree which can absorb 22kg of carbon dioxide per year. Therefore, this is an invitation for the community in Stockport to integrate Algae into the development of the existing Merseyway Shopping Mall. 50-year-old sustainable plan is proposed to rewild the Earth with Algae infused photobioreactor as part of a sustainable lifestyle. To achieve a green and environmentally safe space for the Stockport community to socialize, the Algae photobioreactor is injected as part of the retrofit building façade to sequester carbon dioxide in the air and more oxygen is released from the facade. This helps to transform the non-living concrete building into a breathable Algae-infused building. A number of programs are introduced throughout the building such as the production of Algae infused tiles, worm food (compostable cloth), carbon-storing ink material and spirulina. This helps to exercise the community’s use of Algae in their daily life and actively engage with the environment.

Initial Site Response

Inner Courtyard

Landscape Narrative Roof Greenscape Cycling Path

Stepping Stones

Gathering Space

Walking Pavement

Building Process Masterplan District heating network system

Biogas Gas Heater

Biomass Algae Facade Control Centre

Heat Pump

Heating + Hot water

Site Plan

Geothermal Borhole Field

Section Detail Drawings Green Roof Detail 900mm height stainless steel railing Light vegetation Soil/ growing medium Filter sheet Pressed metal sheet coping Drainage layer Smooth gravel Waterproofing layer Wall cladding Thermal insulation Vapour barrier Thermal insulation Concrete deck

West Elevation

Glass Curtain Wall Section Detail: Unitised System Extruded aluminium mullion Extruded aluminium transom Floor finish Floor slab Metal-faced insulation panel Ceiling panel Double-glazed unit

Concrete Slab Section Detail Floor screed finish over insulation Rigid insulation above slab Thermo-block Perimeter insulation up-stand to prevent thermal bridging Concrete slab cast-in-situ Damp proof membrane Rough gravel Foundation blocks Reinforces concrete footing

Building Main Facade

Experimental Study Model

b. sc. (hons) architecture // selected works SPRAY OUT Graffiti Art Centre LAUT Marine Science Play Area AXIS Informative Visitor Centre THE FORBIDDEN CHAMBER Maleficient’s Dwelling

SPRAY OUT Graffiti Art Centre

Spray Out Graffiti Centre is located at the heart of Sentul Selatan to welcome visitors especially the youth to enjoy graffiti art as a form of expression and social place. Graffiti is introduced as the main activity to change people’s negative

Year 4 Semester 8

perception towards graffiti art and allow the acceptance of graffiti art to be displayed in a proper place. Graffitist are allowed to spray the interior and the skin of the building to highlight the main activity in the centre.

LAUT Marine Science Play Area

Selection and research on science theme with specific experimental and games is choosen. The study will be presented as a background study inclusive of precedent studies. Mainly, students are required to propose a designed

Year 3 Semester 5

interior space to accomodate selected science experiment and games within 200msq area. Experimental and game activities are proposed within the interior space created.

AXIS Informative Visitor Centre

Axis Infromative Visitor Centre is designed to allow visitors to enjoy the essence of Kuala Selangor when they are inside the building surrounded by lush greeneries of nature contrast to

Year 2 Semester 4

the hustle and bustle of concrete city. Combining the land and sea element of Kuala Selangor together to become an axis that intersects these two elements.

THE FORBIDDEN CHAMBER Maleficient’s Dwelling

A humble dwelling in an island setting for Maleficient to rest, sleep, eat and entertainment. The envelope of the dwelling is inspired from bat’s wings movement and also her

Year 2 Semester 3

black-horned bat-like headdress. The dwelling is designed under 20sqm area and most of the structure is made up of timber.

architectural practice

Kota Damansara House Beranang House Arcoris Mont Kiara

Kota Damansara House, Malaysia Norlia Architect Schematic design proposal & site visit

2020

Beranang House, Malaysia

2019

Arcoris Mont Kiara, Malaysia

2018

Norlia Architect Schematic design proposal

GDP Architects Sdn Bhd Prepared tender drawings for authority submission & site inspection

revit proficiency

Professional Studies 1 Professional Studies 2

Professional Studies 1

Ground Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

Detail Floor Plans

M&E Unit Services

Aided with Adobe Photoshop

Sunlight & Shadow Studies

Understanding area with low to high percentage of shadow casting

Professional Studies 2

5th Floor Level • Viewing Area

3rd Floor Level

• Roof Garden • Bridge connecting to the viewing tower • Lift machine room

2nd Floor Level • Algae Market Place • Workshop • Mezzanine

Ground Floor Plan

1st Floor Level • Restaurant • Kitchen • Laboratory • Mezzanine

Ground Floor Level • Reception • Office • Cafe • Courtyard • Algae Production Room • Water Pump Room • Electrical Control Room • M&E Room

Lower Ground Floor Level • Canoe Deck area

First Floor Plan

Detail Floor Plans

Fire-Rated Staircase Exploded Isonometric

architectural model making

SPRAY OUT Graffiti Art Centre emPOWERING BRADFORD Regeneration of the ‘Pit in the City’

SPRAY OUT Graffiti Art Centre

B. Sc. (Hons) Architecture RIBA Part I Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia

2019

Regeneration of the ‘Pit in the City’ (Studio 1)

Masters of Architecture RIBA Part II Manchester School of Architecture, United Kingdom

Material used: Plywood, grey board, modeling pipe, corrugated paper sheet, glass, balsa wood

Masters of Architecture RIBA Part II Manchester School of Architecture, United Kingdom

2022

Material used: Wire, cork, threads, watercolor paper, styrofoam & wood

emPOWERING BRADFORD

Regeneration of the ‘Pit in the City’ (Studio 2)

emPOWERING BRADFORD

emPOWERING BRADFORD 2023

Material used: Willow twigs, mushroom, modeling clay, moss, modeling trees, 1:500 human figure, colored acetate sheets

Regeneration of the ‘Pit in the City’ (Studio 3)

Masters of Architecture RIBA Part II Manchester School of Architecture, United Kingdom

2023

Material used: Oyster mushroom spawn, coffee & sawdust mixture substrate, laser-cut MDF boards, 3D printed components (lift fork, gymnasium & factory equipments), acetate sheets, grass tufts, 1:100 human figure & pipe

norzafeera nik marzukee Manchester School of Architecture M. Arch RIBA Part II