404 Design Portfolio

404 Design Portfolio

404 is a documents containing the works carried out during a 4-years venture in search of question to be asked. More so than the asnwer, this documents celebrates the continous effort of questioning, intentionally creating errors that opens new perspective to the ideas.

*One of the module of JERIJI, a flat-pack furniture installation made from recycled timber

Getting Started

“Why did you study so intensively for so long? Isn’t architecture basically four walls and a roof?”

Works by Wan Ahmad Faiz Mohd Zaki

To enclose and contain, creating a feeling of wrapping or being envelope to the subject. The structure is treated like an organism, a parasite waiting to grab its prey. Its organic nature without a fixed shape gives it some degree of motor ability for functional purpose.

Opus

Prototyping

Pattern_Texture

Flexibility are one of the traits of the octopus. As an invertebrate, the boneless nature of the octopus body depends on the pressure to keep itself it shape. This pressure can fluctuate based on the need of the situation of allow morphability.

Design Studio 01

Design Studio 01

M.E.S.S.

Flat_Pack Making_Space

Tiba Retreat_House

Multipurpose Expanding Sphere Structure(MESS) is designed as a protable flat packed structure. It is adaptable and can be used on all surface. When unused, it can be compressed into a small packed structure for easy storage and carry.

To design a bridge linking mothernature and people, the house aims to showcase nature to its occupants. The design is organized based on programmatic hierarchy while framing pieces of nature, allowing the establishment of connection between the two.

Design Studio 01

Nut & Screw

Aluminium

Skin

Inner Foam

Design Studio 02

Design Studio 01 // Flat-Pack // Retreat House

Cultural Intervention

Urban_Infill Concept_Cafe

To design a place where artist can practice their art and culture freely. The presence of duality will enable the revitalization of the surrounding context. Visitors can witness thier performance while indulging in the local delicacies provided by the food hawkers in the buildings.

(a) Issues : Art & Culture x Hangout Spot

(b) Solution : Classic x Modern

(c) Target Users : Culture Lover x Hangout Folks

Design Generator:

(a) Food - Local Delicacies

(b) Business Type - Cafe

Sublimal Provocation

Summer_Camp Swim_School

Design Studio 04

Design Concept: Stimulus

To find what is the perfect element applicable to stimulate people to swim. The fundamentals elements of swimming is examined to find out the most important factors regarding humans experience in swimming.

Design Statement: A space that educate childrens and teenagers on the proper way of swimming and also assist overcoming aquafobia.

SITE ANALYSIS

1 + 1 Residence

Retirement_Cohousing

DESIGN CONCEPT: AMITY DESIGN STRATEGIES

Face with the challenge of designing with few precedents. A retiree cohousing community in Janda Baik test the different interaction between living organism to find a solution to cohesive living environment. Nature act as medium to instigate the human-nature relationship as well as human-human relationship. To avoid imposing a confing experience, barrier-free design become a priority in the design process without neglecting the need of safety. Nature penetrate the volume by creating voids spaces, doubling as nodes that enhance social interaction.

DESIGN IDEA

Raised Ground

Substract Volume

Green

Raised Platform

Buffer Zone

Terraces and Verenda

FORM DEVELOPMENT:

1. Elevate massing

2. Carved courtyard

Protected Green

Social Zone

Human and Human Human & Nature Social Ribbon Green Pockets

Facade

Social Ribbon Interactive Terraces

3.Program Zoning 4. Preserve green by subtration 5. Subtract for view and entrance

6. Sun and shadow manipulation 7. Insertion of elements in design.

View from Linking Bridge (2F)

View from outdoor deck (GF)

Schuler Haus

Student_Lifestyle_Hub

A design that actively and passively engaging the students is proposed using form, spaces, colour, light and nature. The design is articulated to become a space where student feels welcome and celebrated for their presence. The components of what constitutes a home is analyse and redefine to propose a ‘Home for Students’,

DESIGN STRATEGIES

FORM DEVELOPMENT

SOCIAL ELEMENT

Multimedia Display

WATER ELEMENT

Study Zone

Interactive Hardscape

Multipurpose Hall

F&B Zone

The Promenade

NATURE ELEMENT

The Water Plaza

The Amphitheater

The Boulevard

Illustrative Lifestyle

The Arena

The Promenade

The Boulevard

Various Works_

Collaborative Office Of Design & Architecture (CODA)

Internship

CODA was established as a collaboration office and a discourse platform in reinterpreting post-millennium models of education, design and branding of architecture and the city. CODA’s propositions are regarded as intervention against its surrounding. The socio-political-economical context is consumed as evidence in advocating the limits of possibilities, while the indigenous art, craft and the neighboring terrain milieu are the invisible source and muse that yields the shape of CODA’s architecture.

Various Works_

AKA Citylab Project Sdn Bhd

Architectural Assistant

Citylabstudio is inspired by cities of the world; its natural growth towards hyper-density + complexity, its conflicts + harmony with the natural systems, contemporary-ART scene, flux of demographic + economic demands..... etc. With these real issues & conditions in mind, citylabstudio constantly pursue possibilities to achieve the balanced solution; architecturally these concerns would promote arrays of New spatial typologies or hybrid conditions, that would further extend the environments

CV_

Wan Ahmad Faiz

Mohd Zaki

Bachelor of Science (Arch.) (Hons.), UiTM Shah Alam

LAM Part I

wan.ahmdfaiz@gmail.com issuu.com/w.a.faiz

Lot 841, Lorong Wakaf Che Rani, Kampung Baung, Jalan Pengkalan Chepa, 16100, Kota Bharu, Kelantan.

LANGUAGE_

Bahasa Malaysia

English

Chinese Mandarin Writings & Publications_

Error As A Tool

Sesi Suara: Ralat, 2013

When Money Speaks Louder Than Words

Sesi Suara: Taksub, 2014

JERIJI Installation Portfolio

2014

Transposing Superkilen Ideas Into KLCC

Urban Scape: A Study On Improving The Design of A Public Park in Malaysia

Topical Studies, UiTM, 2014

You Help Me Kill Malaysia In The Name Of Progress

Odd One Out Volume 01, 2015

Reflect & Refract

Sketches Collective:Pencil, 2016

‘

IKEA’ Cities

3nta Magazine, 2016

Personal dekstop publication on issuu.com/arca.my

EDUCATION_

2011 - 2015 Universiti Teknologi Mara

Shah Alam

Bachelor of Science (Arch.) (Hons.)

2006 - 2010 SM Chung Hwa, KB Secondary Education

1998 - 2005 SRJK (C) Peir Chih, KB Primary Education

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE_

Collaborative Office of Design & Architecture (CODA)

Architectural Internship

Citylab Project Sdn Bhd/AKA Assistant Architect

SKILLS_

Drafting & Modelling

AutoCAD, Vectorworks, Autodesk Revit Google Sketchup, RHINO, Grasshopper, 3dMax

Graphic & Presentation

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premier, MS Office, Lumion

COMPETITION_

First Prize Winner in Installation Competition

25th Architectural Workshop DUALISMA, 2013

First Prize Winner in Installation Category

PAM Student Exhibition, 2013

Silver Award

UiTM IID Competition at Penang, 2013

2nd(National) & 3rd Place(State) Prize Winner

UiTM 1000pitching Competition, 2015

Recipient in Digital Art Category

Nando’s Art Initiative 2015

Honorary Mention under AKA

MGBC Next Generation Green Office Competition