2023_Portfolio

MALVIN BUNATA WIBOWO

115 Mount Auburn Street Apt 14 Cambridge, MA 02138

email: malvin_wibowo@gsd.harvard.edu

website: malvinwibowo.com

linkedin: Malvin Wibowo

instagram: @malvinbunata

mobile: +1(213)275-6103

EDUCATION

Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, United States

Master of Architecture II (M.ArchII) Candidate 2023

Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) 2021

Graduated with Distinction

GPA: 3.95

Santa Laurensia High School. Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia

Completed in 2016

WORK EXPERIENCE

Graduate Teaching Assistant at Harvard GSD, Spring 2023

Worked as teaching assistant for GSD seminar Talking Architecture taught by Diego Grass. Model Behavior, October-November 2022

Participated, researched, and designed the architectural installation at Cooper Union by BairBalliet, curated by Anyone Corporation.

No More Room, April 2021

Participated, researched, and designed the architectural installation at SCI-Arc Gallery by BairBalliet.

Research Assistant for Itinerant Platforms, Summer 2020

Worked as research assistant for SCI-Arc’s research department in Hargeisa, Somaliland (online) coordinated by Masha Hupalo and Frederik Emil Seehusen.

Intern at BairBalliet, Summer 2019

Worked under Kelly Bair and Kristy Balliet on drawings, material preparation (Architectural Beast, JuiceBox Gallery, SCI-Arc Gallery Exhibition, and arch out loud Home Competition), model making, and website design.

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant at SCI-Arc, Spring 2019-Spring 2020

Worked as teaching assistant for SCI-Arc rst year undergraduate design studio.

SCI-Arc Youth Outreach Program, Spring 2019-Fall 2019

Contributed in SCI-Arc’s architecture workshop for high school students at SCI-Arc, coordinated by Betty Kassis.

SCI-Arc Youth Outreach Program, April 2019

Conducted SCI-Arc’s outreach program at Los Angeles City College with Chris Nolop and Bianca Hernandez.

SCI-Arc Youth Outreach Program, February 2019

Contributed in SCI-Arc’s architecture workshop for high school students at Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, coordinated by Betty Kassis.

I Am Rarely Home, December 2018

Volunteered in project site 3D modeling coordinated by SCI-Arc alumni: Sasha Marie T., Karim Saleh, and Spencer Daley.

Rough Coat, October 2018-January 2019

Participated, managed, and supervised the production of an architectural installation at SCI-Arc Gallery by Mira Henry.

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Blythe & Thom Mayne Undergraduate Thesis Prize Winner

Awarded the best undergraduate thesis prize by Blythe & Thom Mayne, re ecting SCI-Arc’s core mission to test the limits of architecture. Work published on SUCKERPUNCH daily. Graduation with Distinction

Graduated with distinction as Top 10% GPA for Bachelor of Architecture program.

SCI-Arc Spring Show 2017-2020

Works from Spring 2017-Spring 2020 selected and exhibited at SCI-Arc Spring Show.

KRobArch 2019 Student Animation Winner

Participated and won Best in Category for Student Animation Category.

Gruen Scholarship Recipient 2019-2021

Received Gruen Scholarship for academic year 2019-2020 and 2020-2021.

SCI-Arc 3B Studio Representation at IAAC, Spring 2019

Works selected and presented at Insitute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), Barcelona.

SCI-Arc Scholarship Recipient, Fall 2018-Spring 2021

Received SCI-Arc’s scholarship.

SCI-Arc Publication Archive, Fall 2016-Fall 2018

Works selected for SCI-Arc publication archive.

SCI-Arc NAAB Archive, Fall 2016-Fall 2017

Works selected for SCI-Arc NAAB archive. Works from Fall 2017 displayed for SCI-Arc NAAB Exhibition in Spring 2017.

SCI-Arc Open House Exhibition Fall 2017

Works from Fall 2017 selected and exhibited at SCI-Arc Open House.

SKILLS

Software Knowledge:

3D Digital Modeling: Rhinoceros, Autodesk Maya, 3ds Max, Revit, Blender.

2D : Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, AutoCAD.

Rendering : V-Ray for Rhino, Rhino Render, Twinmotion, Lumion, Unreal Engine.

Animation : Blender, Twinmotion, Lumion, Cinema4D, V-Ray for Rhino. Digital Video Processing: Adobe A er E ects, Adobe Premier Pro.

Digital Audio Processing: GarageBand, Cubase, FLStudio.

Miscellaneous : Microso Word, Microso Powerpoint, Microso Excel

Additional Skills:

Handcra physical models, laser cut, le preparation and post-treatment for 3D printing (PLA, resin, powder), sewing, music (vocal, piano, guitar, violin, and production).

Languages:

Bahasa Indonesia (Native), English (Fluent).

Hobbies:

Music : Instruments include vocal, guitar, piano, and violin. Writes, records, and produces personal projects.

Performing Arts : Music-directed, vocal coached, digitally orchestrated and coproduced high school students renditions of Broadway plays.

Queer Care - Romania Transplant Center

Spring 2021 | Thesis Project Studio

Imperfectly Beautiful - The Primitive Hut

Fall 2021 | Design Studio

Re-Dollying the Dolly (C*NS*RSH*P)

Fall 2022 Design Studio

Positions

Fall 2019 | Design Studio

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Beauty & the Belly

Fall 2020 | Design Studio

Model Behavior - Gameboard

October-November 2022 | BairBalliet

No More Room

April 2021 | BairBalliet

Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro LA

Under Construction

Rough Coat

October 2018-January 2019

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Beauty Marks

SprinAg 2022

Virtual Reality Film Set

Fall 2018 | Virtual Reality

QUEER CARE - ROMANIA TRANSPLANT CENTER Spring 2021

Advised by Kristy Balliet with Santiago Alvarez

The thesis uses reappropriation as a queer tactic to re-interpret concepts relating to care in architecture. To test and examine the thesis approach, the Romania transplant center was chosen as the project brief. The rigid medical program type is challenged through the lens of queer aesthetics in a different form language, one that expands concepts of comfort through the use of familiar objects in unfamiliar ways

The elements used in the project consist of stitches, plushies, and blankets. We chose these elements because of their manageable scale and soft qualities to expand the aesthetic possibilities into architecture. Everyday objects are typically connected to the domestic scale of what historically has remained available to the queer community. By making-do, they materialize creative outlets even through instances of limited resources. The thesis aims for queer aesthetics by borrowing from this long tradition of using domestic scale objects and brings them to the architectural scale. The project invites the user to pay attention to overlooked objects in a more serious manner.

The initial brief calls for different transplant departments, some of which include: kidneys, lungs, heart and liver. Based on the thesis, there is a need to redesign the project brief to include specific programs that would address some of the infrastructure challenges relating to queer care in the region. This is developed as a response to the long history of inadequate access to healthcare that queer communities have faced in Eastern Europe.

Interior Render

Vignette Renders

Model Photograph

Model Photographs

Axonometric and Roof Plan

Upper and Lower Plans

THE PRIMITIVE HUT IMPERFECTLY BEAUTIFUL Fall

2021

Instructed by Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein

The societal expectations of what beauty should be have been derived from the capitalistic cis-het-European-abled men’s point of view. The idea of beauty has the tendency toward perfection, which is a result of the oppression against minority groups like women that dates back in history. However, this perception of beauty should evolve in today’s context as it promotes unnatural expectations. As well as in beauty, architecture has also become the victim of this standardized perception. The proposal for the studio project not only comments on the social, cultural, and political issues that revolve around beauty standards for beings but also hopes to oppose the presupposed aesthetics in architecture by rejecting the traditional aesthetic judgment of what beauty should be, both in its normative and architectural embodiment.

The Primitive Hut questions the alternative understanding of what beauty can be in the contemporary era through architectural expressions. The proposal wants to challenge this perception by exploring the quality of imperfections in architecture: unfinished, uneven surface, irregular arrangement, wrinkled face, etc The Primitive Hut becomes a public kitchen with lounge spaces that uses imperfect food ingredients will become the program of the hut.

Model Photograph

THE IMMEASUREABLE ENCLOSURE RE-DOLLYING THE DOLLY (C*NS*RSH*P)

Fall 2022

Instructed by Sergio Lopez-Pineiro

Re-dollying the Dolly confronts the closure of Indonesia’s infamous red-light district due to rising positive HIV/STIs cases and locals’ negative perception of sex work. Ironically, this top-down censorship increases the spread as sex work still operates under the radar. The project reconsiders immeasurability through an enclosure that performs as a censoring device, where one can privilege from not being seen to create a safe space and therefore allows freedom of exhibiting oneself.

The proposal hopes for a more transparent exchange of information between the di erent parties while still providing a degree of censorship for the workers’ safety. The Localization Workers Front (FPL) represents the sex workers and conducts a tri-weekly meeting with the mayor, the security and moral polices, and the district leaders to discuss the regulation of sex work in the area. The acknowledgement of sex work as a business model from the neighborhood and the government is important to allow regular sexual health testing for the workers to reduce HIV/STIs spread.

Taking precedent from the Garden of Earthly Delights, the proposal features unwanted growth like lichens, moss, and fungi for unwanted activities to happen. The growth in the project o ers a lack of visual information that provokes the wandering bodies to enter a voyeuristic state, where the mind imagines what could happen behind the walls. This proposal grants users to take over the agency in censorship; it is no longer what is being put on them, instead, it allows them to choose what they want to show

Roof Plan and Programmatic Plans

Model Photograph

POSITIONS Fall 2019

Instructed by Anna Neimark

The studio emphasizes on each students’ development on their own positions in architecture. The project later is developed into a housing project that is bigger than a house and smaller than a residential project. The n-plex project, a sharing house typology, is situated in Boyle Heights. The house also explores di erent ways of sharing programs and cultures. The project also critiques the dominant heterosexual white European men point of view in architecture by presenting itself through its uid aesthetic expression. The project conveys its feminine sides through material exploration. The facade is seen as an autonomous entity that is so , squishy, and exible that can grow, overlap, drape, and tuck

House Prototype - Model Photograph

BEAUTY & THE BELLY Fall 2020

Instructed by Lucy McRae with Jonathan L. Ong

The reality that we are exploring hovers around the ethical dilemma of genetic engineering. With the rapid development of gene-editing technology, CRISPR will no doubt fall victim to the corporate world. And as with any market, a monarchy will eventually emerge: ONO Industries. This project illustrates the rise of new economic subsets that fall under the strict regulations imposed onto the world; in this case, a Beauty & Bakery. But how long would it be before someone decides to use this technology for something other than what’s allowed? The real question comes down to the need for such high-quality information in order to democratize this technology. It’s not about how to dismantle the structures, but rather how to enable them through the common voice of public intervention.

Film Still - Physical Model

Film Still - Bakery

QUEER (AND QUEERING) CINEMA BEAUTY MARKS

Spring 2022

Taught by Dennis Lim

Beauty Marks is an e ort to bring forward the irony of societal expectations regarding beauty standards. The idea of beauty, predated by history, has long been an oppressive device toward the minorities that puts forward the cishet-European-white men desire. In the contemporary era, these oppressed groups expanded their category to not only women but also include race, sexuality, and gender identity. Inspired by Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto, the Beauty Marks sees the short lm as an e ort to map the ction that is posed to the body socially, culturally, and politically. The lm puts forward the ugly truths hidden from the mainstream for the body to achieve the impossible beauty standards that we understand now. Beauty Marks invites the audience to pay attention to the hidden reality behind these expectations and reconsider what beauty means and how it constitutes the body by revealing the pain and sacri ce.

Stills from the Short Film

VIRTUAL REALITY FILM SET Fall 2018

Instructed by Alexey Mar n with Abeeha Abid, Jonathan L. Ong, Bianca Hernandez, Kate Stuteville, and Yizhan Zhong

Virtual Reality Film Sets explores the intersection of cinema, architecture, and technology, where physicality, space, and geography is being distorted and manipulated. The goal of the course is to expand the experience of cinematic scene beyond at screen, with the new technology Virtual Reality. The course develops a reimagination of a movie scene in a 360-degree environment that is reproduced through photorealistic 3D rendering and VFXs. The project explores the multiplicity of scale that can coexist in a built-world. The project disorients the viewers’ perception of scale: sometimes they exist in the scale of the club, but sometimes they are part of a miniature in another miniature.

Final Scene Equirectangular Map

BAIRBALLIET MODEL BEHAVIOR

October-November 2022

for Kelly Bair and Kristy Balliet

Description is taken from the project submission to the Model Behavior exhibition curated by Anyone Corporation and presented by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, in New York City.

The model is both a game board and a representation of domestic living modeled on the evolving building codes that both encourage densi cation of the singlefamily lot while questioning its contemporary validity. It models scenarios for living both as individuals and as a collective through the evolving migration of unstable cores that escape the con nes of their domestic boundaries in an e ort to contribute to the neighborhood at large.

4 pairs of hands built this model. The design extends a close examination of architectural interiors, speci cally moments of spatial interchange. Core samples are designed to evoke incomplete constructions, a potent concentrate within a limited footprint. The content of the model is a culmination of concepts embedded within a set of three domestic projects and one installation. House of Cores speculates on what happens when cores escape the home and take on other roles within the neighborhood, Writer’s Block receives cores to augment a basic housing block, a Standard ADU anticipates repetition and exibility, and lastly, No More Room, a large-scale installation that intensi es the qualities of the rooms that de ne us. While motivated by di erent sites and clients, the designs share a predilection for elevating the value of the unstable, the incomplete, and the productive imperfection that arises when architecture’s personal, social and legislative forces merge

Model Photographs

BAIRBALLIET NO MORE ROOM

April 2021

for Kelly Bair and Kristy Balliet

Description is taken from the rm’s website. No More Room was exhibition at Souther California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) gallery in Los Angeles, California.

Architecture has always been incomplete. Reliant on and completed by multiple subjects, perceptions, and associations, it is time to expand what is integral to architecture. No More Room leverages the contemporary relationship between the rooms we inhabit and the images we consume to produce a sense of being in multiple spaces at once, a type of quantum superposition in architectural terms. It is a layered construction of volumetric relationships centered around a designed core sample. Geologic in nature, it represents a partial architecture embedded with information from many points of origin and melds their traits to nd completeness in the round. It asks backgrounds and middle grounds to foreground spatial experiences. No More Room makes room for architecture as the territory between things.

Visit the Virtual Exhibition - SCI-Arc Gallery

Watch the Opening Night Variety Show

Exhibition Photographs by Joshua White

Above: Proposed Render Below: Construction Photograph by Kristy Balliet

BAIRBALLIET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES

August 2022 - ... (under construction)

for Kelly Bair and Kristy Balliet

This project is an exterior renovation for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles, a non-pro t a er school facility for children in the South Los Angeles area. As part of the rebranding of the management and inspired by the children, the design uses colors, patterns, and graphical projections to convey a lively spirit of the facility. The previous exterior of the institution used to collect dust at the corners of the building. BairBalliet decided to reactivate the corners by using poppy colors to create rooms. At certain point of views, the patterns and color blocks will align and start to atten and erase the sharp corners of the architecture.

Construction Photographs by Kristy Balliet

ROUGH COAT

October 2018-January 2019 for Mira Henry

Description is taken from the school’s website. Rough Coat was exhibition at Souther California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) gallery in Los Angeles, California.

Rough Coat is the story of constructing a monumental blanket. Blankets, as we know, are so , submissive, and tolerant. They are inviting to use and easy to put away. The monumental suggests something far more weighty, heroic, and labored. Out of this setup comes a certain range of performances. There are parts that behave well, parts that behave badly, and parts that act in a manner we may not quite recognize. The gallery, in this context, becomes a permissive space in which issues of color, tactility, tectonics, the body, labor, and the city are allowed to overlap and cohabitate. The project is not about constructing distance such that all things fall into focus. This stu wants us close.

Exhibition Photographs from Personal Archive