AMIRSAFWAN_ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO 24'

amir safwan

Experienced working in creative industries and currently indulging myself into architectural illustrations and graphics to have a thorough understanding of architecture from another perspectives. With the skills and knowledge attained, I aspired to expand my experiences into detailed specialisation in real-life practice.

experiences

Freelance Designer Part I

Desaminda Jaya Sdn Bhd

2019 - 2021

Involved from stage 0 to 3 (RIBA equivalent)

Residential - Renovation - Interior

Interior Designer and Sales

Niro Ceramic (M) Sdn Bhd

2019 - 2020

Early phase design including building materiality

Commercial - Residential - Interior - Material

Industrial Practice Part I

Neuformation Architects Sdn Bhd

2018

Involved from stage 3 to 5 (RIBA equivalent)

Commercial - Industrial - Residential

education

The University Of Manchester - Manchester Metropolitan University

(2021 - 2023) Master of Architecture RIBA II

Application Post: Architectural Assistant Part II

Manchester amir.mahayudin@gmail.com + 44 7810675926

Meeting clients for project discussion and also prepare presentations and visuals for interior design projects.

Utilising SketchUp and Vray

Through my skills in Visoft, providing the needs of spatial arrangement for the clients is the main key prospect for the practice.

Prepare the Technical Detailed drawings by using AutoCAD and authorities consultation for eight (8) projects involved.

One of the Head of Manchester School of Architecture Live (MSALIVE) Group 8 with Ryebank Fields Volunteering Project

MARA Technology University, Malaysia

(2015 - 2019) Bachelor of Science (Hons) of Architecture RIBA I

High

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe InDesign

Microsoft Office

skills involvements

Autodesk AutoCAD

SketchUp

Visoft

Autodesk Sketchbook

Intermediate

ArchiCAD

Adobe Illustrator

Lumion

VRay

Beginner

Autodesk Revit

Rhino

NYALA 31st Architectural Workshop

Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

One of the Head Performance Team

Prepare and design movements for performance team for closing Performance Night and Flashmob

AmalFSPU

MARA Technology University, Malaysia

Head of Fundraising Team

Gathering ideas on crowdfund from public through creative activities; busking, vendors and charity events

Mestika FSPU

University Science Malaysia, Malaysia

Treasurer

Administrate and manage the financial assets, expenses throughout annual activities and performances

MATRA 28th Architectural Workshop

University Science Malaysia, Malaysia

One of the Head Performance Team

Designing choreographies and backdrops for performances for architecture students performance night

design projects interests

Design Thesis

Dance has become one of the main but exceptionally expensive interest for the people to indulge in. As a designer and also a person who is passionate in dancing, I did a research on how to intergrate daily basis routine with dance and architecture, “ Dance Body and Architecture ”.

Adaptive Reuse

Burnley Youth Skillsharing Hub is created due to lack of creative centres in Burnley for the young generation to express themselves and escalate their quality of life. Various arts specialisation will be injected into the programme of the refurbished building through the local experts.

Digital Design

After a few years of studying, I consequently developed my own type of visualising buildings and nature into pieces of artworks. I engaged real life structure and abstract to understand and explore spatial functionality and aesthetics value of an artwork.

Performative Arts

My upbringing involved various types of performing arts such as singing and dancing together with my family and friends. I comprehend and adapted the knowledge in dances into a new method of designing a creativethesis for my master’s project.

INTERIOR DESIGNER/SALES DESIGNER

NIRO CERAMIC (M) SDN BHD

RIBA PART I

INTERNSHIP/INTERN ARCHITECT

NEUFORMATION ARCHITECTS SDN BHD

RIBA PART 1

FREELANCE DESIGNER

MAYSAFARCHITECTURE

MARCH 1 ADAPTIVE REUSE

GRAPHIC DESIGN, MODEL-MAKING, ILLUSTRATIONS AND DANCING RIBA PART I

MARCH 2 DESIGN THESIS

DANCE, BODY & ARCHITECTURE

MANCHESTER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

POST-CAPITALIST HOUSING

MANCHESTER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

MARCH 1 ADAPTIVE REUSE

BURNLEY YOUTH SKILLSHARING HUB

MANCHESTER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

CREATIVE ARTS

Niro

ROLES

Design Proposals

Interior

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.

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.

Space: Second Living Room

Space: Reading and Relaxing Area

Space: Main Bathroom

Space: Living and Dining Room

Space: Living Room and deck

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.

Retreat House, Malaysia

Ceramic (M) Sdn Bhd

Illustrated interior design from a previous project with a pinch of modern WabiSabi inspiration.

Illustrated masterplan of the tower and its public facilities on site equivalent to the Stage 3 to 5 RIBA.

PROJECT

Kuantan 188 (Teruntum Tower), Malaysia

DEVELOPER

Neuformation Architects Sdn Bhd

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Drawing Amendments

Building Law

Building Services

Fire Safety Discussion

Site Visits

Clients Meeting

Drawings Submission

SOFTWARE

AutoCAD

Microsoft Offices

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.

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.

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

SOFTWARE

Visoft

Microsoft Offices

RENDERED INTERIOR SPACES INCLUDES;

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.

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.

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

Dry Kitchen

Third Bedroom

Second Bedroom

Master Bedroom

of designed house.

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TUTORS

Stefan White

Mark Hammond

Samuel Holden

SOFTWARES

Autodesk Sketchbook

Sketch Up AutoCAD STUDIO

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.

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.

Piccadilly Gardens Bus Station

Market Street Follies

Debenhams Tram Station

The Heart of Piccadilly Gardens

Piccadilly Gardens Tram Station

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

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.

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

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.

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

1. Heart of the Piccadilly Gardens

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

An illustration of the new developed spatial design of the tram station that promotes social activities.

2. Debenhams Tram Station

3. Piccadilly Gardens Bus Station

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

The section for the communal space; the seatings, tables and a platform for any performative activism.

FOLLIE 1

Dancing Walkway

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

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 briefincluding 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.

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TUTORS

Joe Dempsey

Jamie Samuel Holden

SOFTWARES

Autodesk Sketchbook

Sketch Up AutoCAD STUDIO

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.

SHARING MAKING GROWING WIDER COMMUNITY

(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.

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.

Forming New Platforms

Community

Participation in Upkeep Shared Ownership

Low-Tech Build

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.

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

TUTORS

Mark Hammond

Samuel Holden

SOFTWARES

Autodesk Sketchbook

Sketch Up AutoCAD STUDIO

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.

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Scissor Roof Trusses

Classical Ornaments Walls (CreweInteriors)

Conventional Masonry Exterior Walls

Stefan White

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

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

(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.

Model Making

Auditorium

Studio Unit

Art Gallery

Sculpture Exhibition

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

Cycle of Programme in the Burnley Youth Skillsharing Hub

Methodology: Chiharu Shiota

Her artwork which 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.

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.

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.

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