Zaafirah Rahimah's Architecture Portfolio 2023

SELECTED UNIVERSITY AND POLTECHNIC WORKS

EDUCATION

2021-Present

National University of Singapore, Bachelors of Arts in

Architecture

2018-2021

Singapore Polytechnic, Diploma in Architecture

2014-2017

Christ Church Secondary School

2008-2013

Admiralty Primary School

MILESTONES

Edusave Certificate of Academic Achievement 2020

Director’s Honours Roll 2020

Edusave Certificate of Academic Achievement 2019

Edusave Merit Bursary Award 2017

Edusave Merit Bursary Award 2016

EXPERIENCE

Mar 2020 - Apr 2020

Sunray Woodcraft Construction Pte ltd

Apr 2020 - June 2020

Digital Building Innovation Centre (DBIC)

@ Singapore Polyetchnic

EMAIL

Zaafirahrahimah@gmail.com

WEBSITE

https://www.linkedin.com/in/zaafirahrahimah/

SKILLS

Adobe Photoshop

AutoCAD

Sketchup

Revit

Rhino

Enscape

ArchiCAD

Twinmotion

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Premiere Pro

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

Model Making

FARADAY BANK

Most Secure Bank for High Profile Clients

Needs of the Site

The Faraday Bank is a banking space for clients who do large transactionns often. Tanjong Pagar calls for a banking space as most of the other banks are mainly located in the Marina District. The site is also a bustling business district which contains a lot of clients that manage big corporations. Thuus, having a banking space at Tras Link Park would create more accessibility. The large transactions made are vulnerable to cyber attacks. Therefore, the clients have to physically present at the bank to approve the transaction in person. The piece of infrastructure that this project is tackling is the service of Internet provision.

Distrupting the Internet Infrastucture

Studying the strengeth of network signals islandwide, Tajong Pagar has a very strong internet connection as it is in the central business district area. According to research, hackers can intervene the personal information of banks by accessing it through the signals in the air. Thus, the design intention is to build a safe banking space free of cyber attacks. The stragegy used in this project is the Faraday’s Cage concept, where the elecctromagnetic signals cannnot reach the space inside the cage. Instead, they reflect off. As a result, hackers would not be able to intervene the safe transaction points in the proposed bank.

Approaching the Faraday Bank

The zone outside the bank is one of the last few moments before the distruption of Internet will occur, causing the users to detox from the overuse of phones in these day and age. The Bank allows a seamless connection to the pre-existing park by being located at a much higher level.

Client Meeting/ Service space

The ‘egg’ is the most secure space with absolute disconnection from the public internet services. The layering of the alumminium mesh distrupts all electromagnetic signals from reaching into this space where clients can meet up with the top executives for discussion.

Approaching the Faraday Bank

On the first storey of the Bank, the entrance to reach to the high profile bank above is hidden away under the raised topography, which disguises itself as a continuation of the park. The park below allows for some connection to the internet so that the bankers can come down to the first storey to order food delivery services if they wish.

Office Space

The office spaces makes use of the intra-net, the network system which is separate from the public server for for purpose of privacy. The office spaces protect the most secure space in the middle by encompassing it in a bracket-like staggered form.

RUMAH BATIK

Project Description

The direction that we were headed in was persona-based for a batik painter. With the introduction of the batik painter, many challenges arose as the batik painter needed controlled climatic conditions for each of the processes in batik painting which included sketching, melting, waxing, dyeing, washing and drying requiring different amounts of windflow and sunlight.Ultimately, the facade was applied to the site Golden Mile Tower’s carpark, where an integration of our facade and the Batik-making process applied onto our workshop and pavillion. Besides ensuring the space is made comfortable and sustainable through passive design, we ensured that poetics and culture were not absent from our design, and created a suitable backdrop for the art to flourish and its skill to be taught to future generations.

Batik House

Windflow Study

Quadratic - Opening Iteration

Cylinderic Rotating Light Tunnels

Testing with Rectilinear Shifting Light Tunnels

Combined Iteration

Modules

Shade + Ventilation

Harnessing light into Interior + Ventilation

Maximum Shade + Less Ventilation

Square to Diamond Module

Allows for easier collection of water to be reused. Not only is it sustainable, the visual and auditory senses are stimulated by the calming flow of water which aids the artist in his craftmaking.

5th Storey Plan

Exploded Diagram

6th Storey Plan

Elevation

PAVILLION

The pavillion is designed for the our persona to have a private office where she can also do gardening from the modules in the facade. She can use the harvest to make tea and dye for her batik art.

Work area inside of Pavillion

Lounge/ Drying Area

Gardening Herbs for Batik Tints

Melting Area/ Pantry

COMMUNITY VISTA

The buildings in the surrounding site are mainly mixeduse, commercial and residential buildings where apartments are just stacked directly on top of one another with little communal spaces set at specific intermediate levels for them to gather, causing ineffectiveness in fulfilling a good potential of a communal space which encourages many interaction and exchanges of ideas with neighbours.

The design intent is to instil a better sense of community living to help people living in the downtown core break away from the busy life of working, living and caring mainly about climbing the socio-economic ladder and really interact with people as communication is an important life skill that improves mental and social health.

Change in ratio of living to communal spaces

Cuboids

Aggregation

Experimenting with cuboids to see how they can connect with each other like lego bricks to form living spaces that gives attention to the privacy.

Opening up the surfaces of the cuboids to see how they can create meaningful communal spaces around the living units.

Testing on aggregating modules like lego bricks.Each communal space is shifted to observe how users can move from one communal space to another.

Lego bricks stacked Living studs plugged in Structure Vertical Circulation

Design

The building is divided into 3 zones; food, resource an gym. These were the type of spaces that bring people together in the early kampung life. This project tries to revive similar spirit.

The units are plugged into the communal structural cores, similar to how capsules are bolted onto steel columns in Nagakin Capsule Towers.

The final design evolved from stacking lego bricks to plugging them into communal cores made of structural columns and beams.

Plug in System Zoning

Site Response Circulation through the different communal spaces

Second Storey Mezzanine

SELECTED WORKS @ SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC

A mystical look as residents approach the building with different cantilevers

Visual connection from unit to exterior communal space

Communal Resource

Main communal space on 2nd story mezzanine