PORTFOLIO
MU'AADZ (2022-2024)
Riza Kaflan
Mu’aadz bin Mohamad
muaadzriza00@gmail.com +65 8817 8569 linkedin.com/in/muaadzriza
About Me
“ With a strong passion for design that can change lives, I am spurred on and live by this methodology. Having studied in Nanyang Polytechnic, I learned invaluable team building, management, technical and problem solving skills. I am always interested to provide my input and gain experiences.”
Education
2018 - 2021
Madrasah Al-Arabiah (O - Levels)
Work Experience
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (Barista)
2022 - 2025
Nanyang Polytechnic (Diploma in Architecture)
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
Redmart Pte Ltd (Decanter)
01 The Learner’s Escape
02 Biomimicry: Beeficiency
03 Minangkabau Museum
04
3D Section The Hive
05 Uprooting Culture (IBDC)
06 Hands-on Building
01 THE LEARNERS ESCAPE
Tasked to breath fresh air into Cathay Green, The Learners Escape is a building redefined with inspiration from the saying “Hiding in Plain Sight”. Troubled youths can take advantage of the hands on education offered whilst still hiding from the outside world.
During Singapore’s tormenting times of World War 2, The japanese ran rampant in Singapore. The Japanese army showed little to no mercy to those they deemed not to their liking for various reasons, this struck terror in many public hearts.
Home was no longer a safe haven, therefore they resorted to hiding in the Sri Thendayuthapani Temple where they would hide for weeks at a time, forming a mini community within the temple itself. This place is where they would go to get away from their problems. This proved effective as the Japanese Army did not find anything suspicious about the temple and therefore they left it alone.
Form Evolution
Taking Inspiration from the neighbouring topography, We begin with running individual lines across for better ventilation and maintain the notion of “hiddenness”
With respect for the sun and shade, a curvature is formed to also take on the look of mere bumps on the ground to enable users to walk around unnoticed
After solidifying the curves, A portion of the pods are cut to allows visitors to view the neighbouring university, NTU. Providing a form of motivation for the users.
Exploded views
Sections
02
BEEFICIENCY
Imitating the life cycle of a bee, this school requires students to go through specific activities in stages, one at a time. each podis hosted by one tutor, the pods can house up to 5 students in each lesson.From flora and fauna all the way to construction, our school offers various activities.
Research on the overall life and system of bees, delving indepth through its inner workings
Forms and Spatial Distribution
03
MINANGKABAU MUSEUM
Minangkabau Musuem is a project located near Masjid Sultan, It represents the strong malay cultural heritage around the area. With Inspiration from the malaysian stories of bull horns, the building fol -llows suit of its design.
3D SECTION OF THE
This was a group project to delve more into the details of Singapore’s best architectures. We chose The Hive as we saw it as a unique piece of work with interesting technicals
HIVE
Site Visits
As a group, we went to The Hive for site visits and learnt more about the workings of the balconies. We took photographs, sketched and studied more about the building.
Section 2D
Our first section done on AutoCad, focusing on the Architectonics aspect of the whole section
05UPROOTING CULTURE
Uprooting Culture: Resurgence of The Arts is a group project for the International Building Competition (IBDC) 2024 focused on bringing back lost cultures for future generations, in which we emerged as finalists.
Research Ideation
When given the competition brief, we immediately indulged in the different possibilities our architecture could become. We expressed our creativity in utilizing site analysis’, taking advantage of public roads and sounds as well as innovating with the site context.
Section & Renders
These are some of the sections and renders that we did for the competition.
06HANDS-ON BUILDING
Collaborating with Universiti Teknologi Sarawak, Students from NYP managed to build 2 pavilions with bamboo for a rural village. With everything from scratch, we had to learn many new techniques fast
Trip to UTS
In Sibu, Sarawak, we were brought around for a tour of the area before discussing more on building the pavillions.
On this trip, we had to learn how to use a lot of tools that were foreign to me (being a city boy). It was an eye opening experience to see how things are really made, utilized and inplemented in real life. I enjoyed the experience of being on-site and being where the work is.
