Rizwana Lubis: Portfolio 2025

Architecture Portfolio

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a. Urban terrain projection Medium: Ink on vellum

Professional Work 01. The Craft that Binds | AlvinT 02. Gerobak Majalah Tempe | AlvinT 03. Geldert: Plan | Atelier Cho Thompson 04. Priscilla: Custom Furniture & Index | Atelier Cho Thompson

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The Craft that Binds Brand activation project with The Balvenie & AlvinT. Authors Alvin Tjitrowirjo Angela Mayrina Rizwana Lubis

Alexandra Gabriella Riko Kumara Willyatama Effendy

Role Space Planning, Drafting, Copywriting

Location Indonesia Design District

Brand Activation & Program “The Craft that Binds” is an artist installation by AlvinT in collaboration with The Balvenie. In today’s digital age, our senses are often dulled by technology, limiting how we experience the world. Crafts, however, demand more than just sight—they engage touch, smell, sound, and taste, forming a deeper connection with materials and makers. In this special exhibition, The Balvenie and alvinT celebrate craftsmanship, inviting visitors to rediscover a sensory experience that reconnects us with the richness of tradition, perspective, and character often lost in life.

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Barley Ceiling Installation The wheat ceiling installation is built upon the existing grid of the alvinT showroom, while the barley ceiling enhances the landscape of The Balvenie’s whisky harvest in Speyside.

This design creates a dynamic experience, allowing the audience to immerse themselves in a touch of Speyside during craft workshops, the Maker’s Talk, and whisky pairing dinners—capturing the essence of being in Speyside.

Elevation A

Elevation B

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Plan: Spatial Experience

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Gerobak Majalah Tempe Brand activation for a digital media, Majalah Tempe.

Authors Alvin Tjitrowirjo Rizwana Lubis

Angela Mayrina Egi Juliansyah

Role Ideation, Social Media, Facilitation

Location Indonesia Design District

Brand Activation & Program “Majalah Tempe” is a digital magazine designed to spark conversation around Indonesia’s pressing issues in the design industry, many of which affect the younger generation. The name “tempe” symbolizes the magazine’s nourishing content, much like the hard work behind design. The brand uses the gerobak (food cart) typology to evoke a sense of closeness and familiarity, much like sharing food—in this case, a humble bag of tempe—sparking thoughtful dialogue.

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Geldert: Plan Preliminary plan drawing for schematic design phase.

Firm Atelier Cho Thompson

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Role Drafting

Location California

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Priscilla: Furniture Index Curating furniture option for client’s family room, dining room and living room.

Firm Atelier Cho Thompson

Role Created furniture package.

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Location California

A. Furniture Index 75”

47”

36”

128”

81”

39”

OPT 1 Bernhardt Helena Fabric Sectional 124” x 24” x 32.5”

OPT 2 Bernhardt Joli Fabric Sectional 101” x 42” x 32.5”

OPT 3 Design Within Reach Pastille Collection Sectional Chaise 105” x 65” x 33”

OPT 1 Armadillo Sistine Peregrine 75% Indian Silk & 25% Wool Pile Off-the-Shelf Sizes: 10’ x 14’

OPT 2 Warp and Weft Ebba Silver Wool and Silk Off-the-Shelf Sizes: 8’3” x 10’11”

OPT 3 Restoration Hardware Patna Hand-Knotted Wool Rug Grey Mongolian Wool Off-the-Shelf Sizes: 10’ x 14’

a. S1 Family Room

175”

175”

b. R1 Family Room

B. Custom Furniture Index 30”

60”

OPT 1

c. C1 Booth Chair

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OPT 2

OPT 3

Academic Work 05. Pinwheel Place 06. Care Space 07. Silo Memories 08. Rescape 09. The Terrace 10. Silo Memories

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Pinwheel Place Multipurpose dwelling with timber structures prioritizing disaster resiliency.

Authors Rizwana Lubis Aditya Kosman Alden Gendreau

Role GIS Mapping, Site Research, Project Design, Project Modeling.

Rendering, Plans, Sectional Perspective, Diagrams

Location Greenville, CA

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Rest Wing Programmed for healthcare services such as labs and clinic for diagnosis.

Short term housing is available at the second level for traveling/resident doctors and nurses.

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Work Wing Programmed

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services such as hardware store and maker spaces, as well as office spaces at the second floor.

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Play Wing Programmed for community services such as a restaurant, bar and a multipurpose room.

Isometric Dwelling d

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Courtyard Programmed for a natural environment with native plants and fire-barrier plant schedule.

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Program

Site Context

Site selection at residential/commercial parcel.

Three Pronged Approach The concept is centered around a three-pronged approach consisting of rest, work, and play. Each components are led to measure three-scenarios of Everyday, Service, and Emergency. Below is the programmatic scatter graph:

Graph Notes a. Circles are to scale with programmatic urgency from community responses. b. Tangent to circles are relevance to the programs.

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Plan

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Detail Drawings

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Roof to Column Connection

Rammed Earth to Foundation

Roof to Rammed Earth

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Rendering

a. Rest Wing

b. Work Wing

c. Play Wing

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Care Space Identifying zones to allow care programs.

Authors Rizwana Lubis Suvin Choi

Role GIS Mapping, Site Research, Project Design, Rendering, Sectional Perspective, Diagrams

Location Greenville, CA

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Activities and System

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Regenerative Water Water filtration system to restore Wolf Creek.

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Recovery with Water Programmed area centering the calming, regenerated water underlining a healing element.

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Silo Memories Responding to historical context and the existing missile silo site in rural Colorado.

Authors Rizwana Lubis

Role GIS Mapping, Site Research, Project Design, Rendering, Sectional Perspective, Diagrams, Poem

Location Aurora, CO

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Water Neurosis The transformed missile silo will be adaptive to the existing water pipes - trascending driplets of water to our own reflection.

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Acoustical Neurosis Our natural tendency is to find the balance between the noise and the quiet. The transformed missile silo will charter the path to finding the silverlining.

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Sensory Neurosis The transformed missile silo questions our senses to retrieve a memory that was once lived.

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Program

Pitter-Patter, a poem.

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Pitter-patter - the sound of dripping water. The dark and hidden subterranean underground complex suggests little about who lives under. The sight of vast pavements and maintenance encroaches on Colorado vegetation. Junk was thrown in different places whilst cracks were cast on the concrete walls of what was once the isolated space of a warhead. Rusting pipes provide ways for chemically contaminated water, feeding its landscape where its green deteriorates over time. In the end, we were deceived in our curious minds through the history and time of a system of contention.

Pitter-patter. An empty tunnel at the cost of $1.5 million dollars. Housing the largest and most expensive underground launch complex that was commissioned. Rusted walls of stories never told. Of a cylindrical shape pressured by the earth above. Pipes and cables of the most advanced technology and economy, 62 years ago. What would it mean now?

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Pitter-patter. Old photographs picture the imagination. "Airmen using the ‘dangerous’ personnel entrance”, “In the distance, one of the 2 mysterious towers at 724-C”, “the instrument array tubes deployed and gathering vital information in all their glory”. Close your eyes and fantasize about these sayings of a forsaken place. What time didn’t tell us that it was home to a system safe to narrate the next best innovation, changing the lives of people that were brought into the war, and affected by the war

Pitter-patter. Lives captured as memory are verbal and experiential, through a celebratory gathering where people were asked to mourn while eating food provided by the widow - a funeral. But in the moment of silence, and for the only one who speaks of the memory, its picture is vivid. What could a memory be when it is lived? c.

Pitter-patter. The sound of memory. For when harmony and joy were once removed, now lived a new beginning to the literary. When memory is destined to be lived, it diffuses nostalgia. When it is given a place, it gives a chance for a memory to be lived forever. Pitter-patter, pitter-patter, pitter-patter...

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Rescape Reparative action to Indigenous beliefs and practices based on Usufruct Law. Authors Rizwana Lubis

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Role GIS Mapping, Site Research, Project Design, Rendering, Sectional Perspective, Diagrams, Poem

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Interior Circulation

Location Aurora, CO

Rooftop Mechanism By encouraging an economy that restores native plants and resources while respecting Indigenous beliefs and practices, Rescape can establish an alternative to market-based economic exchanges that have destroyed Indigenous economies. The dwelling is designed to dialogue a self-sufficient local economy within the courtyard typology supported by the bioretention mechanism creating water recyclying opportunities.

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Courtyard Mechanism

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Bioretention Mechanism

Modularity The two modes of dwelling randomized to increase the probability in variety. The varying economic mechanism increases more economic facets for Indigenous communities.

Module A

Module B

Process Models

a. Grounded Water Model

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b. Puzzled Water Works

c. Elevated Water Works

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The Terrace Contextualizing the homesteading movement in a food-diversed ecosystem.

Authors Rizwana Lubis

Role Site Research, Project Design, Rendering, Sectional Perspective, Diagrams.

Location Jackson Heights, NY

Program The ability for green spaces increasingly populating through each level for different programs that would exist by its needs and number of occupancy. Inspired by the homesteading movement, it addresses the importance of cultivating food, renewable energy, and the opportunity for financial independence, especially in a diverse area like Jackson Heights, NY.

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Level 1

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Level 2

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Level 4

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Level 3

Centering Water for Service Based on Louis Kahn’s Served and Servant theory, The Terrace seeks to understand how water (servant) can be of service to residents and the growing vegetation (served) categorized by two fins shown below.

Seviced by Water

Water to Service

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Desert House Exploring panoramic opportunities for the artist’s activity.

Authors Rizwana Lubis

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Role Site Research, Project Design, Rendering, Sectional Perspective, Diagrams.

Location Joshua Park, CA

Environment: Artist’s POV A table is presented as part of the constraint to challenge the spatial relationship and change the term of its use. The table becomes a multipurpose object where the program fluctuates of use.

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Environment: Artist’s Living The interior architecture reflects the movement of the figure-ground, where it begins to dissect apart the overlapping element and conforms to design decisions created from the transitions.

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