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2019 - 2021

I nvo l ve d f ro m s t a g e 0 to 3 (R I B A e qui val e n t) Residential - Renovation - Interior

Inte ri o r D e s igne r an d S al e s Niro C eramic (M) S dn B hd

T hro u gh my s k ill s in V i s o f t , p rov i din g t h e n e e d s o f s p a t i al ar r an g e m e n t for t h e c li e n t s i s t h e m ain key p ro s p e c t f o r t h e p r a c t i c e .

2019 - 2020

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In du s trial Prac ti c e Par t I N eu formation A rc hite c ts S dn B hd

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2018

I nvo l ve d f ro m s t a g e 3 to 5 (R I B A e qui val e n t) Commercial - Industrial - Residential

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2016

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M AT R A 2 8 th A rc hite c tural Wo rks ho p Univer s it y S c ienc e M alays ia , M alays ia 2016

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PORTFOLIO

CONTENTS

1 RIBA PART I

INTERIOR DESIGNER/SALES DESIGNER NIRO CERAMIC (M) SDN BHD

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Study Projects Malaysia / United Kingdom

POST-CAPITALIST HOUSING MANCHESTER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

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BURNLEY YOUTH SKILLSHARING HUB

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MANCHESTER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

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FREELANCE DESIGNER MAYSAFARCHITECTURE

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4 MARCH 2 DESIGN THESIS

DANCE, BODY & ARCHITECTURE MANCHESTER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

INTERESTS

CREATIVE ARTS GRAPHIC DESIGN, MODEL-MAKING, ILLUSTRATIONS AND DANCING

M.ARCH DESIGN THESIS

EXPERIENCE 1 WORKING NIRO CERAMIC (M) SDN BHD

Samples of Materials used for the inspired Japanese Interior design.

Material includes; Plants, Timber panels, and Concrete and Wooden raw theme floor and wall finishes.

Space: Living and Dining Room Illustrated interior design from a previous project with a pinch of modern WabiSabi inspiration.

Space: Living Room and deck PROJECT Retreat House, Malaysia DEVELOPER Niro Ceramic (M) Sdn Bhd ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES Design Proposals Interior Design Modelling Rendering

Space: Reading and Relaxing Area

SOFTWARE Visoft SketchUp Vray AutoCAD Microsoft Offices

In the middle of complex surroundings, this house was design with simplicity to emphasis and enhance the inner peace for the dweller.

The traquility of this retreat juxtapositioning with the naturalness of the context elevates the beauty and quality of spaces in the house.

With elements and priciples of Zen interior, private settings are naturally created as an escape for the people who seek relaxation.

Adequate amount of comfortable living environment in the city is the main key aspects in designing the spaces in this retreat house.

Space: Main Bathroom

Space: Second Living Room

Furthermore, transitioning spaces from one to another are yet renewed with nature, elegance and linear form of designs to encourage full functioning areas for the homeowners.

INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE PROJECTS

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PROJECT Kuantan 188 (Teruntum Tower), Malaysia

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The Kuantan 188 is the tallest iconic tower located in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia.

The tower initially commenced its construction with the local government ideas of Kuantan Waterfront due to its strategic setting.

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The surrounding amenities and facilities with scenic natural waterline contributes and escalate the functionality of the tower as main tourist attraction in the city. This tower eventually became the landmark of the city and improve wayfinding of the public journeys to roam around.

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RENDERED INTERIOR SPACES INCLUDES; 1 BALCONY

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BALCONY AREA

PROJECT Semi-Detached House, Malaysia DEVELOPER Freelance Project ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES Led Meetings Design Concept Design Proposals Interior Design Modelling Rendering Prepared the Bill of Quantities for Materials

The first floor plan of designed house.

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The project was inspired by a fusion of modern and contemporary aesthetics, with a combination features of concrete and timber.

The desired spaces, distinct both visually and physically as requested by the client.

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The materiality of the spaces are constantly adapted from the whole concept of the house thus the continuity of the ambience is noticeable.

With a pinch of nature intergrated with the rest of the furniture enhances the mood and provides adequate amount of comfortable living environment for the dwellers.

Living room for the family interaction.

Dry Kitchen

M.ARCH DESIGN THESIS

2 4 M.ARCH DANCE, BODY AND ARCHITECTURE

Study area curated with simplicity to promote modern interior design with a pinch of creative elements.

STUDIO &rchitecture TUTORS Stefan White Mark Hammond Samuel Holden

Debenhams Tram Station

Market Street Follies The Heart of Piccadilly Gardens

SOFTWARES Autodesk Sketchbook Sketch Up AutoCAD The masterplan concludes all the interventions of public realm in Manchester city. It is the ultimate place to realise your sense of self, to bring back the sense of belonging and freedom.

The spaces are interconnected and derived thoroughly on the movement of public-dancers.

Journey into the interventions of public daily routines provide difference experiences for the end users of these spaces.

These sketches are made in the early stage of generating ideas for a public realm. Based on research and few studies of existing public spaces in Manchester city centre, several aspects and features were taken into consideration in building a new open facilities to accommodate people in daily basis.

Piccadilly Gardens Tram Station

Piccadilly Gardens Bus Station

Various movements of people in the city centre has been implemented as the concept of the future design of the public spaces, the exisitng layout will be transformed through juxtapositioning axises of attractions and facilities.

The designs and methodologies adapted to the public spaces help characterising the city scapes to be even more inclusive in terms of safety, accessibility and programmes. Identified dancers and the public accelerate the process of rethinking these spaces to facilitate people with differences.

As shown above, one of the well-known dances in the western, Ballet, analysed to create a modular pattern for public spaces development.

The iteration merges the concept and movement of ballet dancing and the six Keys of Dynamism in Dance.

M.ARCH DESIGN THESIS

2. Debenhams Tram Station

New layers of public spaces were added to the station which creates high street where people can express themselves in any performative activism without disturbing the existing circulations of the streets. Giving access to the disabled people is one of the most prominent aspects in order to create an inclusive environment of public spaces

Walking as Dancing, the principles or Keys of Dynamism in Dance were adapted to iterate the morphology of the site context. In the process of designing and creating an inclusive space for the public-dancers, various styles of dance movements were used as a guide to curate structures thus providing new layout of the existing Manchester Piccadilly Gardens.

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The original layout will be maintained as it does serve the function of a waiting area. Integration between greenery and leisure areas consolidate the definition of public realm design. The design of the seatings are incorporated into the landscape design and the process is most parallel to each other.

3. Piccadilly Gardens Bus Station

1. Heart of the Piccadilly Gardens

This sectional perspective of Piccadilly Gardens illustrates injected programmes in the spaces.

An illustration of programme in the section of the new Bus Station juxtaposed with nature and spacial public spaces.

M.ARCH DESIGN THESIS

Market Street Follies

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Mini vertical gardens accommodated in the follies help to calm the busy circulations

The seatings and stairs provide more spaces for the to freely perform their talents on it

FOLLIE 2

Dancing Walkway

FOLLIE 1 Staggered platforms in the follie can facilitates different types of performances on the street

The section for the communal space; the children play areas provide spaces for families to have their leisure The section for the communal space; the seatings, tables and a platform for any performative activism.

Illustrated Market Street Follies were design to create an in-between leisure spaces for the public-dancers.

M.ARCH PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 2

1 5 M.ARCH A POST-CAPITALIST ANARCHO-ARTS “CO”LONY

The circulatory raised timber grid structure on site serves as a mutifuntional space for both ease of access between residents, as well as a space to be occupied by the “C O” activities developed from the brief including creatively working; collaborating; growing; and distributing to the wider community. The image above is the exploration of the programme through the section of this creative housings.

Study area curated with simplicity to promote modern interior design with a pinch of creative elements.

STUDIO &rchitecture TUTORS Joe Dempsey Jamie Samuel Holden SOFTWARES Autodesk Sketchbook Sketch Up AutoCAD This project is a rumination on the marginalisation of young BAME people affected by our complex systems of living. This co-housing scheme has optimised arts as a medium for co-living.

We hope this project serves as anti-thesis to our existing hypercapitilised systems of working and living, and as a symbol that alternative methods can be developed in response to heightening racial dispossession.

The act of creation builds selfesteem, helps to dismantle the hierarchies the marginalised group are faced with, as well as serves as a method of catharsis.

The act of collaboatively making encourages teaching and learning.

By integrating the wider community, the research question is not limited to the site. The ethos, speculation and post-capitalist anarcho-artistic methods of the actors can be interwoven within a wider Burnley.

The growing of produce to allow for the communal kitchen and cafe to thrive helps to facilitate cohesion through interactivity between users. The growing of plants, fruits and vegetables facilitates the growing of confidence and community.

M.ARCH PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 2

View catches a glimpse of the varying activities occurring within the scheme. A resident is fashioning his place of sleep on an outdoor mural programme activity, whilst another picks produce grown on site to be used in the communal kitchen and canteen.

Participation in Upkeep

SHARING

MAKING

GROWING

WIDER COMMUNITY

Forming New Platforms

Low-Tech Build Shared Ownership

(ABOVE) The sectional perspective drawing captures all of the “Omega” activities occuring acorss the site for both the residents and the wider community. The residents share their space, and ownership of their housing units whilst still being able to make and grow produce.

The space is open to be used by the wider community through markets and arts events.

Community Re-use of Existing

“OMEGA” CONCEPT The diagram illustrates all of the Degrowth strategies on site operating within the larger sphere of “Omega” that oversees the conceptual framing of this project. These factors were all taken into through an in-depth site analysis in terms of social and resource sustainability, and therefore “sourcing” first and allowing the design to proceed.

M.ARCH PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 1

1 6 M.ARCH BURNLEY YOUTH SKILLSHARING HUB

These are the interventions that has been adapted to the new developed theatre for skillsharing activities.

STUDIO &rchitecture

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TUTORS Stefan White Mark Hammond Samuel Holden SOFTWARES Autodesk Sketchbook Sketch Up AutoCAD In order to overcome the current pandemic, The Skillsharing Hub will serve as a centre where the experts engage with the local youth of Burnley in the progression of their quality of life thus the economic growth of Burnley.

Through this hub, youth will attain various prominent knowledge inclusively in creative arts.

Scissor Roof Trusses

Classical Ornaments Walls (CreweInteriors) Conventional Masonry Exterior Walls

M.ARCH PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 1

Cycle of Programme in the Burnley Youth Skillsharing Hub LOCAL EXPERTS

TEACHING

EXCHANGING

LEARNING

Auditorium

The initial form of the theatre before the new concept design are injected.

Studio Unit

Art Gallery

After using De-Growth method in reusing materials from the existing building.

Model Making

Sculpture Exhibition

(ITERATION) - Consolidated programmes are juxtaposed with the building analysis and this section illustrated how the auditorium of the building is embedded with the creative programmes such as Art Gallery, Sculpture Exhibition, Studio units and Model Making. In this section, portrayed the programme spaces are connected to each other and there are clear links which relates to the concept of LOOP ( Learn, Gain, Make, Exhibit, Sell, Teach).

Through this section, most of the interior parts were reused as a structure for the new designed spaces.

A modular space for the Youth model-making workshop in the new wing of the building.

EXHIBITING

7 INTERESTS ARHICTECTURAL MODEL-MAKING

Methodology: Chiharu Shiota

Methodology: Ayumi Shibata Adapting Ayumi Shibata, a Japanese singer and modern artist methodology on exploring and potraying the layers of life and hows the world is actually limitless.

As practiced in MArch Year 2 Design Thesis performance, the 3d layered paper arts has their own sentimental value and aesthetics. Each layers potray different meanings and stories and together they coexist in this world helps blurring the blankness in possibilities.

A mini model exploring the journey of a dancer in her daily routine.

A science centre for youth in the city of Kuala Lumpur.

Bachelor of Science (Hons) Architecture

Master of Architecture

Her artwork which I adapted from is the In Silence, 2019.

State of Being (Boats) delivered her message of how things are connected through memory of a human. She used threads in each of her artworks to represents the same meanings with a distinctive aesthetical and sentimental value. The introspective research is the fulcrum around which all the artist’s works revolve, exploring the universal themes of existence, death, solitude and memory with a meditative approach that allows the viewer to come into contact with the artwork and its creator.

Bachelor of Science (Hons) Architecture

INTERESTS MARCH & BSCARCH

7 INTERESTS ARTS AND CRAFTS

This model was built based on existing design of the Vandusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre to study how sustainability works for rooftop garden design. This building was awarded the most Sustainable Building 2014.

7 INTERESTS DIGITAL DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATIONS

INTERESTS MARCH & BSCARCH

7 INTERESTS COMIC ILLUSTRATIONS

As I am intrigued in digital and graphic designs, I have also curated few portraits of friends into cartoon characters.

Through the Autodesk Sketchbook Pro, I have mustered up few skills in using multiple pens and brushes in composing colors and features.

These are few of the line-art sketches I did for my online business during the pandemic of Covid-19. To ensure that I muster up the skills in doing arts, I constantly curating arts during my free time with different styles of artworks.