Areesa Shah: Creative Portfolio 2023

AREESA SHAHCreative Portfolio

AREESA SHAHInterior Designer

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Areesa is a Malaysian Architecture Part 1 graduate who is currently pursuing her master's degree in Interior Design at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University. She completed her three-year bachelor's degree in Architecture at Taylor's University, Malaysia

Her love for travelling has moulded her as a designer and adds depth to her understanding in design and what things could be rather than should be. Her passion in the creative industry goes beyond visual aesthetics, she explores the architectural musicality to widen her creative horizon. Areesa loves to visit art exhibits, flea markets and is happiest when diving into various creative projects, such as abstract painting, leaving her personal interpretations and touches where she goes

All of her experiences inspire her design and thinking process, and pushes her to dive deeper in the design world. Her favourite pastime along together with her interest in pursuing Interior Design, aims to strengthen the connection between people and the places they share, through design

KLANG COMMUNITY CENTRE

The royal town of Klang in Selangor is an enigma to the uninitiated Known to be a vibrant city because despite the lack in positive quality realm, people still come together to socialise. This informality is what Klang is truly made of, it leaves personal touches of one person after another, adapting to the everchanging needs

They need a home for all, to slow down and detach the community from social isolation between the elderly and the youth, while creating an approach of a positive intimate and informal quality realm. Focus is placed on community cohesion through third spaces, without disrupting existing linear nodes, and Klang community needs a point of convergence where sharing of knowledge, precious local craftmanship skills are gathered to conserve Klang’s heritage.

This community centre orbits itself around the intention to amalgamate the older and newer generation to intensify community cohesion and economic development for locals and business owners through local craftmanship activities, enhancing Jalan Besar, Klang as a whole while acting as a pause from the busy streets. This reduces social isolation, recapture the essence of informality and intimacy in Klang, the Community Centre to rejuvenate the vibrancy

External Rendering of Klang Community Centre using Enscape for Revit

Exploration of Design and Form through Exploratory Models

Volume presented as a corner lot, with an open space and an extended nose of space

Acts as interstitial space, protection against rain and sun, positive quality public realm created

Rotated to maximise views, fully immersing to the site, creating natural surveillance

Circumgyrate vertically in the compact-nature of site, dispersing spaces and activities, reviving vibrancy

Mix of cognitive and functional voids, to create permeability

Transparency of visual optics with terraces of multiple levels spilling out creating rapport with users

Collage of Inspirations

Derived from Site Visit

Cultural

Strong influence by ethnic enclaves resembles on the city's character

Back Lane

Permeability

Walkability from one district to another through shortcuts/alleys

Connectivity

Intense relationship between multilayer of paths creates dynamism and vibrancy

Communal Library

Sewing & Textile Workshop

Acceptance

Five-foot Walkway

Human scale of paths gives a sense of intimacy in an urban context

Variety of architectural style openly accepted proving development of community

Informal Spaces People love to hang out and engage in the spontaneity of informal spaces

Event Space

Curated Watchmaking Workshop Open Collaboration

Interactive Waterscape

Communal Garden

Café & Hangout Area

Sectional Perspective of Klang Community Centre

Jalan Besar

Exterior and Interior Renderings using Enscape for Revit

Roof to Floor Sectional Detail

02 MODELS AND TATTOOS

Exploration of various design elements and principles by manipulating the forms and techniques to portray cohesion in the fusion of different design elements and principles, showcasing creativity. The fusion between design elements and principles are translated into models and tattoo stamps, being exaggerated to emphasise on each focused elements.

LINES AND BALANCE

Defined by a point moving in space, combined to create feel of equilibrium, equal depth

LINES AND PATTERN Uniform repetition of lines to create pattern and manipulate the height of balsa sheets, to create shadows, portraying pattern

Placement of repeated squares creating a visual tempo and hung to attract eyes across spiraled-rhythm structure

SHAPE AND RHYTHM

MASS AND SCALE

Solid body articulated using a series of gradual changes in volume and scale

MATERIAL AND VARIETY Create warmness with different depth of materiality, variety achieved by using different shapes, sizes

CHOW KIT URBAN INCUBATO

Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur, is a honey culture. Despite the rich linkage of c see Chow Kit as deceitful, filled with workers and the homeless Chow Kit being shunned just because they are distorted demand of our society.

The intent is to incubate marginalise essence of Chow Kit, to inject sensat urban skin of Chow Kit, which is the poor This diminishes negative perce

Exploration of Design and Form through Exploratory Models

Base Mass with Grids

Interlace grid-like pattern create spatial experience of spaces-people-programs

Predetermine space as public realm, addition of space to create life between building

Define existing axis, new axis connect main nodes through interstitial space-street

Off-scale high-rise building provokes the continuation of silhouette of the fine grain

Spaces at different levels create visual connectivity between users

Cognitive and functional spaces surrounding voids develop informal connection

The Urban Room project integrates job opportunities, cultural essence and education for street kids, redefining peoples' negative perception by creating a place of reintroduction to the community. It acts as an urban synthesiser to encourage and prolong coexistence among the rich social groups.

Exploded Axonometry of Chow Kit Urban Incubator

South Elevation

This project aims to be a place where people can escape from their monotonous routine and to recuperate how they see fit The idea is to create a place with high integrity which is the key to engage community through vibrant spaces and programs, all while uplifting the neglected

Exterior and Interior Renderings of Chow Kit Urban Incubator

Second Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan

North Elevation

Detail 1

Rotatable Vertical Wooden Louvre

12mm dia Axle

EPDM Membrane roofing with Rigid Insulation on Steel Deck & 48x200 Common Joist Lumber

150x581 Glulam Beam

300x300 Glulam Column

750mm Growing Medium

160mm Concrete Planter Box

Cable Railing Post, Deck-Mount

Vegetation with 200mm Growing Medium with Vapour Retarder, Root Barrier supported by C S D il

Sectional Detail D C G

Wooden Vertical Fins

Detail 3

Glulam Column to Cast In-Situ Flooring

18mm Diameter Wholes for 16mm Through Bolts

10mm Steel Plate Knife Fin

300x300x10 Base Plate

16mm Anchor Bolts Grade 8.8

Rendering of Experi

Bazaar of Chow Kit

Roof to Foundation

SMOOTHIE SOCIETY TRANSFORMABLE KIOSK

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The kiosk is a space for the preparation, trading and consumption of smoothie bowls, designed to fit any streetscape, encouraging healthier snack option for everyone. It is the size of a standard carpark of 2.5 by 5 metres and can be expanded when in used up to an extra 2.5 metres.

Sink and appliances is placed within the moveable stairs

The compact design allows 1metre width stairs to be placed within the kiosk during storage

Exploded Axonometric of Transformable Kiosk

Double-hinge Plate Foldable Wall Timber beams form the wall divides into half using hinges, transforming it as shading device in operational mode.

Provides privacy and intimacy for users by extending the beams upwards to create a fence-like barrier.

Foldable Table

During storage mode, tables hang within the void in walls When in operational mode, tables can be used for open seating area above.

Space saving Slide-away Stairs

Maximises workability of upper kiosk by neatly slide the stairs sideways to close into the wall opening created based on stairs' profile

Kiosk is able to connect with bustling cityscape as façade has unique pattern results in strong retail image.

Open Rooftop Seating Area

CREATIVE ENDEAVOURS

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On-site Architectural Sketching

Drawing had become a tool to explore my design ideas and the advancement in my sketching was appreciated by those around me, as I experiment with different styles and hatching techniques as a medium for expression; exploring light, distance and form.

Abstract Paintings

Working with acrylic and the different element of abstract art, allows my mind to depict the contrast of gestural marks, colours, shapes to stimulate the mind of the observor and has taught me a lot on spatiotemporal dimensions of art and space

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