ZUHAIR SHAID |
ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 2009-2013
EDUCATION
2013
University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur BSc. Architecture LAM/RIBA Part 1
2010
University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur Foundation of Built Environment
2008
Science Johore Secondary School
2013
Dean’s List Award Sem 2, UM Dean’s List Award Sem1, UM UM Best Architectural Design Award Sem 1 & 2
2011
Winner, Photo Manipulation Competition, Terang XXIII Arch. Workshop 1st Runner Up, Suloh, Group Performance UM,Terang XXIII Arch. Workshop JPA Federal Scholarship
2010
Best Drawing, Stop Motion Animation, Taugeh Night, PASUM
HONORS, AWARDS
EXPERIENCE
2013
Internship, FOCUS Architects and Urban Planners Committee, DUALISM[A] 25th Arch. Workshop 2013, UM Artist, Start Carnivale Art Exhibition, MARA 2013 Committee, Sacred and Profane, Intaglio of Ilse Noor Exhibition
2012
Artist, ERTI , UM Art Exhibition Participant, “Architects are City Changers”,installation PAM Annual Exhibition Participant, Publication of Urban Design and Measured Drawing, Encounters with Ipoh, UM-NUS Joint Studio Participant, UM-UNPAR, Bandung Joint Studio
2011
Leader, Measured Drawing Kantang, Thailand Participant, Terang XXIII Arch. Workshop UTM Skudai
2010
Curator, Taugeh Art Exhibition, PASUM Committee, Golden Night, PASUM
ZUHAIR SHAID zuhairmdshaid@gmail.com +60164411612
CONTENTS BSc.ARCH | SELECTED PROJECTS Chow Kit Community College Chow Kit Youth Art Space Suhaimi Fadzir Art Gallery Bandung Community Centre
WORK | EXPERIENCE PR1MA Link House
PLAY | ART & ARCHITECTURE Form & Space Linear, Planar, Hybrid elements Stop-motion Animation Live Sketch
OTHERS | EXHIBITION & PUBLICATION ERTI Art Exhibition Encounters with Ipoh, Malaysia “Architects are City Changers” PAM Installation Measured Drawing, Kantang, Thailand
BSc.ARCH | SELECTED PROJECTS
COMMUNITY COLLEGE Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur
Activate backlane Community College
Design Project Sem.2 2013/ Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur
Design Brief
The task is to design a proposed Community College Vocational Training Centre. With limited space of the site and in the midst of a busy urban environment, it requires the students’ understanding of the site in local climate, urban context, architectural history and development of Chow Kit as well as socio-culture terms.
Design Proposal
Massive process of urbanisation leads to the improper management of city. Back lane which is one of the urban element has been misunderstood and misused with vigorous human activities. The first impression on back lanes would be ; dark, dirty and dangerous. Chow Kit backlane is different from most of the other backlane in Kuala Lumpur, The space is being utilise by the people who live there as a commercial area and connection linkage from one place to another. The intention for this Chow Kit community college is to connect the existing backlane of Lorong Haji Taib to the college site. The architectural of the space will create an opportunity to the people in the context of social interaction, commercial space and connectivity.
Community concept The multicultural community with different background and identity, Chow Kit is the best place for the celebration of the community living style with the integration of the college where it is the place for learning and knowledge centre.
De Stilj
De Stilj was loosely based on the concept around Cubism. The key philosophy of the De Stilj was a process of elementarisation, integration and collaboration. This philosophy was at the heart of Modernist movement however De Stilj came up with the concept of collaboration. It is basically based on materialism and functionalism. The elements of horizontal and vertical line, solid and void would enhance the appearance and function of the design.
Setback
Orientation
Pedestrian flow
Urban fabric
Vegetation
Vehicle flow
Site Analysis Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur
Nodal point
Visual link
Design development
Site Plan
Ground Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
Third Floor Plan
Lower Roof Plan
East-west facing facade wall section
Section A-A
Section B-B
View from Jalan Sri Amar
View from Lorong Haji Taib 2
North-south facing facade wall section
BSc.ARCH | SELECTED PROJECTS
YOUTH ART SPACE Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur
The Otherspace Youth Art Space
Design Project Sem.1 2013/ Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur
Design Brief
This studio project require the student to design a proper ‘CHOW KIT’s Adolescence Centre’ to fulfil the users (abandoned teenagers) and the client (Yayasan Chow Kit Malaysia) needs. As what we know the existing KL Krash Pad centre is an adaptive reused project of shop house units.
Design Proposal
Chow Kit Youth Art Centre is the reflection of the Chow Kit itself, representing the vibrancies of the youth and the community there. The emergence of the NGOs concerning the potential of the community of Chow Kit, this art centre will be the place for the people to show off their talent and joining art activities. The centre is focusing on the performance art, fine art, culinary and graphic design. The design form of the centre is visually interesting in order processes relative to behaviorism. Gestalt psychology was applied to catch the visual stimuli and affecting the sensual and emotion of the user. The strategy is using the void of spaces as communal resources with a network of urban settlement around the chow kit district. Triangles are the basic form of the art centre as they represent dynamic tension. Triangles have energy and power and their stable/unstable dynamic can suggest either conflict or steady strength.The strength of triangles suggests masculinity. Their dynamic nature make them better suited to a growing children with boost of young euphoria and positive energy. The attempts of the projects to see the void the spaces through the form making can create potential space for new establisment for chow kit children.
Gestalt theory Design Approach
A form of psychology that is interested in order processes relative to behaviorism. It was applied in order to catch the visual stimuli and to form perception. The uses of gestalt principle enhance the architectural value of the space and form. The rhythm of architecture can be felt as a result of building composition where the design can lead occupants through functional and aesthetic rhythm of a created place. Continuity. The continuation of the visions from one object to another. The Youth Art Centre was design with the architectural sequence that flow continuously. Similarity The lines of pedestrian walk on fornt of the centre still maintaining the grid of the urban pattern but in creative manner to attract public attention. Proximity. Elements are placed closed together to be perceived as a group. The centre is divided into three zones ; active zone for different kind of art activities , passive zone for relaxing and informal learning, rest zone for small residential dormitory. The different zones work as a whole where unity occurs. Foreground. The eye differentiates an object from its surrounding area. The urban pattern (row of shophouses) looks similar to one another. The art centre is designed dissimilar to the others to have a clearer image, where it can create a new landmark of Chow Kit. Closure. Spaces with variety of emotion: fully enclosed, half enclosed and fully open for different feel experiencing the spaces and to fulfill certain function in relation with the user need.
Setback
Orientation
Pedestrian flow
Urban fabric
Nodal point
Solid void
Site Analysis Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur
Commercial opportunity
View from Lorong Tuanku Abdul Rahman Kiri 4
View from Jalan Chow Kit
Section A-A
View from Jalan Chow Kit 3
View from Lengkuk Raja Laut
Section B-B
BSc.ARCH | SELECTED PROJECTS
SUHAIMI FADZIR Art Gallery
A Fusion past and present Art Gallery
Design Project Sem.2 2012/ Jalan Tuanku Abd Rahman, Kuala Lumpur
Design Brief
This studio project require student to design an art gallery for an artist, Suhaimi Fadzir. He is a member of National Visual Art Gallery, Malaysia. He had participated in the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010. Suhaimi Fadzir had won many Art and Architecture Awards and had exhibited in numerous Solo and Group Shows worldwide. Suhaimi integrates contrasting, even contradictory elements to create mixed media works that balance chaos and order. His artworks are amalgam of two professions (art and architecture); consequently, he coined the term “archipainting” to describe his work as “a painting with an underlying structure”.
Design Proposal
Based on his artwork, Life Cycle II, it can be conclude that his work never finish. It is the progress from time to time. He use the metaphor of bicycle as it tells many stories; life stories. From here, the design concept is the integration of two different elements : the emergence of the new, celebration of the past. Suhaimi integrates contrasting to his work; art and architecture.
Setback
Orientation
Connectivity
Visual Response
Solid and Void
Vegetation
Site Analysis Jalan TAR, Kuala Lumpur
existing site and facade
maximum built up area
emergence of new structure towards the facade
Design development
Site Plan
reverse the massing, creating public space
bringing light from the centre of massing
Ground Floor Plan
Mezzanine Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
Section A-A
View towards side of existing facade
View from Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman
Sustainability
Passive Cooling : Air flow through building. Stack effect; it can exhaust air from a building by the action of natural convection. The solar chimney in the middle of the building heat up the air surrounding the space cause the air from the entire building to flow through the chimney. The inside wall of the solar chimney made up from glass and metal which is black painted. Thus, the stack effect is increased without additional heating of the building. Direction of air entering windows, size, location and detail of windows determine the pattern of air flow through a building. Wind exert maximum pressure when they are perpendicular to a surface, and the pressure is reduced when the wind is at an almost oblique angle. The indoor ventilation is better with the oblique winds because it generate greater turbulance indoor.
Section B-B
Model visualisation
BSc.ARCH | SELECTED PROJECTS
COMMUNITY CENTRE
Bandung,Indonesia
Material honesty Community Centre
Design Project Sem.2 2012/ Bandung, Indonesia
Design Proposal
A place of meeting and social events. This community centre is the heart of living of Bandung city. Inspired from Sundanese house where sundanese people utilising the sources from natural environment the community centre is the reflection of sustainable building where it use natural material such as stone and wood for the material construction. The utilisation of free sources is the strategies for passive design.
Basement Plan
Ground Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
SitePlan
Second Floor Plan
Section B-B
South Elevation
West Elevation
Section A-A
East Elevation
North Elevation
3D visua
alisation by FOCUS Architects & Urban Planners
WORK | EXPERIENCE
PR1MA LINK HOUSE Resort City (FOCUS Architects & Urban Planners)
PR1MA Corporation Malaysia was established to plan, develop, construct, and maintain affordable lifestyle housing for middleincome households in key urban-centres. This development is PR1MA’s first “sustainable city” in Malaysia. It is located in Seremban Utara, Mukim Setiu and it covers 435 acres. My role was mainly to handle the submission plan for this particular project. I also worked on the design 3D modelling and presentation report.
Submission drawing
PLAY | ART & ARCHITECTURE
FORM & SPACE manipulation “An interlocking spatial relationship results from the overlapping of two spatial fields and the emergence of a zone of shared space. When two spaces interlock their volumes in this manner, each retains its identity and definition as space. But the resulting configuration of the two interlocking space is subject to a number of interpretations�. Ching F.D.K. (1996) This project introduce exercises on dimensional, subtractive and additive transformation of cubes as one of the great primary solid. It is a cube manipulation and articulation, creating slabs, volumes of space, a special space and adjacent spaces.
Single cube
Double cubes
PLAY | ART & ARCHITECTURE
LINEAR, PLANAR, HYBRID elements “Architecture is the unavoidable art�. Roth L.M. (1993) The exercises will introduce to the elements of basic design with emphasis on the vocabularies of architectural language. The aim is to learn on how to use these elements of design in creating a quality architectural space.
Linear element
Planar element
Linear & Planar elements
PLAY | ART & ARCHITECTURE
STOP-MOTION animation “ Sometimes there’s architecture in a film, and sometimes architecture is like a film. But sometimes the architecture is the film: When it rises above just being a thing to see, and becomes a mechanism for a way of seeing, that is the architecture of film” (Benjamin Marcus) The butterflies in the animation symbolise the impact of human in the planet. The idea is that even the tiniest change, say the beat of a butterfly’s wing can have enormous impacts towards sustainable of the world. Tiny sustainable changes one can make to affect not only themselves, but the planet.
PLAY | ART & ARCHITECTURE
LIVE sketches
Sketch study
OTHERS | EXHIBITION & PUBLICATION
ERTI art exhibition
ERTI : Giving meaning to an idea. The main idea behind the exhibition’s title is to offer its participants a rather wide theme to encompass their work, allowing them much freedom and diversity. The participants of this exhibition vary in culture, ethnicity and also faculty of study in UM including as far as built environment, science, medicine, education and engineering. Erti, featuring 20 budding artists was launched by Chief Librarian, Dr. Nor Edzan Che Nasir at the University of Malaya Art Gallery. The inspiration of the artwork came from the subject matter of the current design studio project, which is ‘Chow Kit Youth Centre’. This design is about a shelter for street teengers. With charcoal, the art expresses as each stroke would have imprints of finger
OTHERS | EXHIBITION & PUBLICATION
ENCOUNTERS WITH IPOH
urban design
The studies of Ipoh came about from a two-week trip to the city where the students from University of Malaya and National University of Singapore studied the city’s heritage and assessed its current state of urban development. The cultural and social fabric of this former “Tin Capital of the World” and its architectural heritage are explored through a series of site analysis, drawings, photographs and stories told by the locals. Detailed exploration on four shophouses - a trade house, a Sinhalese bar, a charcoal vendor’s shop and a seamtress modern shophouse was conducted to showcase the unique architecture and the local life. The buildings, along with Ipoh’s citizenry, comprise an intricate narrative fabric woven from the untold stories and familiar spaces of Old Town and Newtown. The fabric defines a cultural richness that appears to withstand the test of time. The telling of Ipoh’s heritage poses a challenging task since much of its lustre from the past has dimmed. With a rigorous study of the urban issues concerning its current state and an understanding of the perspectives of the people who call it home, the city’s historical essence can be appreciated through the students’ perspective portrayal of its subtle nuances.
OTHERS | EXHIBITION & PUBLICATION
ARCHITECTS ARE CITY CHANGERS
PAM installation
CurioCity: The city acts and responds as a living modular unit of development and changes. It is in the architect’s responsibility to show the way and light up the possibilities for a better city. That is why we as students choose to symbolize our part in our city change in these boxes of curious ideas that we’ve explored in school. The boxes tell of our ideas encased in modular units such as the city that grows in different stages of modular units as well. The hierarchy of changing boxes reveals the architect’s responsibility to control design in terms of orientation, firmness, appeal, transparency, stability and sustainability. The bulb lights up the ideas, putting our idea ecosystem under a protective light like an incubator. The mirror speaks about the layers and layers of ideas that we depend on to make designs work today, in reflection of the past and to mirror the future. There will be a future where these models are reach a turning point from student ideas to architectural planning; from conception to reality. We have built and we are still building our own curiocity. (Huda Nejim Al Asedi. 2012)
OTHERS | EXHIBITION & PUBLICATION
MEASURED DRAWING
Kantang, Thailand
It is a collaborative measured drawing between University of Malaya and Prince of Songkla Universitty. Students were divided into groups around 8 people per group and assigned to do the measured drawing of the selected heritage building at Kantang, Thailand. Fu Jian Gong Suo Shrine : This Hokkien Shrine is located at Ratsada Road, facing the Trang River of Kantang. Trang province of Thailand. The shrine comprises of three lots of shop houses. It was buildt more than 100 years ago by the Fu Jian community of traders whom migrated from the Fu Jian of China to Trang, Thailand. As a community centre for the Hokkien,it is utilised as a multifunctional building. It functioned as a place of gathering for various of celebrations such as vegetarian festival, wedding ceremony and worship purposes. It was a place for managing the funerals and for a short period, also functioned as a Mandarin school.