architectural portfolio Nur Filzah Jamjam I I U M
2008 - 2012 .throughout the school year.
Home is where the heart is Year One
This is a first studio project which requires to design a habitable space for a group a people. It’s called The Cube. This cube is design for students as a mini library. Be as a module, the cube is mobile and can be easily assemble and dissemble. However, every furniture and feature inside the cube is inseparable. Furthermore, the cube is self-sufficient. Installed with a solar panel, the cube can sustain itself during the day and night. Interior of the cube was design proportionately for user to sit, mingle and to even operate a booth to suit any possible occasion.
The brief is to design a ‘home’. An abstract idea of where the tranquility is. Moreover, given a client be an author, he visualizes several requirement which include serenity, openness to green, high, light and involving. The design stimulates openness from the point entering the house. However, with the level and different texture on the floor allow the owner to identify the scape which confine yet entangle the whole space in the house. Furthermore, with a double volume living room which located next to the pool giving the owner a piece of mind with the water sound and also pleasing in entertaining a guest. The house is where the heart of the author is. Totally calm and inspired.
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Year One
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the inhabitat cube
Inspired by nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, and a natural historian, Isabella Bird; the project is to invigorate the old building to a new use; A boutique hotel in Revitalizing the spirit of the place and time continuum. The concept for the project is to preserve and promote the cultural and physical heritage of it locality for present and future generation. The design is to preserve the existing faรงade and building a new 4 floor above which blend with the original feature and architectural language of the existing.
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Year Three
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the golden chersonese
The interior of the room is borrowing of a variety of styles from different sources and combining them. An eclectic style. With a rich culture and races in Taiping, it is best to mixed them in giving a very appealing environment of remembering the good old days. The classic rustic and quirky eccentricity furniture is rather harmony and artistic which carries piece of knowledge, thought and creativity. Therefore, it brings an amazing look to the designed of this room.
Safety and security institution. The goal of this project is to design an embassy building that will meet security, operational and program required by Republic of Albania. The project challenges the notion of security verses openness, where the building has to be totally secured yet the image have to look kindly welcoming. As divided into seven sections, the master plan of the building was arranged by zone. Public and private zone is fond of by semi zone where it acts as a social and interactive zone with an exquisite tropical landscape.
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Year Three
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security vs openness
land use
axis
wind circultion
green network
axis
zoning
building location
padestrian traffic
vehicular traffic
An urban study was first done to understand the project. Start with a site’s micro and macro analysis, the study continues to learn about the culture, aesthetic and neighborhood context.
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The project is an introduction to urban design planning assignment. In a group, the brief required to design a systematic government complex that best to portray the district in becoming one of a kind of the best city‘s quarters. The objective is to create a conducive environment to encourage the social exchange and healthy business in intensifies circulation that reassure productivity. The district is encompasses various governmental department and local business.
Year Four
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kampar district headquarters
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Year Four
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government’s residency
In aggregation with the district headquarters, the design continues with a government’s residency. Design is to tackle both planning and house layout. Given two type of the house, each of them has to share a similar design feature to be elegant and light. Big open common space and safe pedestrian walkway is a priority in developing the planning. In overall, the residency compound is to create a comfort and safety around and encouraging interaction in the neighborhood.
‘the best companion in Allah estimation is the one who is best to his companion and the best neighbour in Allah estimation is the one who is best to his neighbour’
Exploring a new design technology, the project goes top for a high rise. Moreover with a science and technology concerned with the design of the building, the project is to design a university belongs to Perusahaan Otomobil Nasional Sdn. Bhd. and offer students with automotive engineering courses.
Named Proton University | International Centre for Automotive Research, the university requires a large space on the ground floor for labs and workshop. therefore, the future extension are to go vertical and extra spaces are provided.
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Year Four
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vertical university
For the final project which also is a thesis, the typology introduced is an institutional civic space. It’s called a Centre for Literature Excellence. The thesis is to challenge the idea of rethinking an urban civic space in revitalizing the role of literature in engaging social well-being which in this case it refers to Malaysia. Study shows that literature has a huge potential in promoting culture communication. Sadly, it’s not well promoted and publicize. Therefore, the design thesis aims to accrue literary works and people to a centre, which the centre will be a productive literary hub of activities promoted to and dedicated for public to express, share and communicate ideas and thought. Moreover, by merging it with a square, the centre will not not limit on being only a literary hub, but as well as a public civic space with a purpose to reengineering the social well-being through a virtue thought by literature.
The programme is to celebrate the art of written words and the beauty of spoken verbs, where the architecture is not to be treated as an object but rather as an urban catalyst, promoting public uses with facilities for communities in a city where thought and voices can be seen and heard.
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Year Five
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centre for literature excellence
Literature is promoted by promoting the centre first. The centre will have a diverse selection of public spaces, each giving different type of citizen enjoyment. The stimulation of elengently complex civic realm helps a cultured renewed.
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The building applies the technology of rainwater harvesting which is the gathering, accumulation and storage of rainwater for later use. Traditionally practiced in arid regions, it is becoming vitally important in urban areas to tackle groundwater depletion. for this project the water will be priotize to water the landscape
This is a group work project during a Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia (PAM) Master Class Workshop. Collaborated with the other local university, we produced a project to support the Greater Kuala Lumpur Model. As it called KL:Void, the project is to enhance voids in KL by providing a flexible space to public to express and share their idea through art. On top of that, the aim of the project is to seek possibilities of cultural interaction between architectural system and its environment.
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pam master class workshop
Design Consideration
.....until we educating kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is clean up, there is no shortage of thing to do. Program
some collection of partime work Local Noodles Factory
KFC and Pizza Hut Restaurant
Private Residence
Private Residence
Hotel
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Design charette was held during the semester break which supervised by architect Philip Patrick Sun from Delta Health Center Inc. Being an expert on hospital architecture, he led the charette for a week on a topic public health. We start with a recce to several local hospitals, and then afterwards, we were given a task to design a teaching hospital at Kuantan, Pahang.
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design charette
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