PROJECT 8 : PERFORMANCE NIGHT

" IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE MOST GRACIOUS AND THE MOST MERCIFUL"




Assalamualaikum and hye.. (^_^).. 

here are project 8 which is the last project of this  semester. after about 4 month we've been through all this together combining all 7 major (architect, interior design, town planning, construction management, quantity surveyor, building surveyor and last but not least building technology) now had comes to the ends. 

lets see the pictures below.. 

_le familia of studio RUS 104_

_ID clan_

_me with bff, the girl with pink kebaya was known as 'MISS X'_

_Archi student parade_

_three of us, (ID students) , me getting sleepy (^_^)_ 

_ID student in action_

_ID student combined with planning student_

_with classmate, often speak  Chinese languages  with me, in the process to remember it back, thanks friend_

PROJECT 7 : EXHIBITION

" IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE MOST GRACIOUS AND THE MOST MERCIFUL "




Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah.. 

firstly I wanted to thank the lectures Dr. Mazran and Dr. Azree that had given me an opportunity to be apart of committee group to handle our big project which is project 7 and project 8. Me together with Faizreen as my leader, Fajrul and also Fitri responsible on the food for the both project. (^_^).. 

lets move to the main topic, which is exhibition for the project 7. This exhibition aims to exposed student to challenged of designed a small exhibition to display all their works that have been done from the project 1 to 6. 

 have a look at the pictures below... 

_my id family total up 17 person (^_^)_

_view of id booth from the top_

                                               

_ the night before the exhibition(everyone expect for the perfection on that historic day)  _

_again, view from the top (^_^) looks amaze right_

_logo and portrait section_

_presentation drawing section_

_ sense of place, neighborhood and community section_

_man made and natural structures section_

_interior design model, made by Joshua_ 

_interior design and planner booth with sculpture and chair models on top_

_guess who in the id house?? _

_putri (the master mind) , munawarah (the joker) and redha (the manager)_  

_three of us "bff", actually four ( miss X was not here, busy taking pictures maybe)_






That's all for now, can't wait for the performance night isn't it..?? yipee!! (^_^").. 

6XT (B) PROJECT : REPORT FOR AMPHITHEATER.

"IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE MOST GRACIOUS AND THE MOST MERCIFUL" 

Assalamualaikum.. and hye everyone... 

this entry is all about the final report for our project 6. This report has been prepared by our group member which is Chow Li Peng (Penny) who are really good in writing and her English also was excellent. 

First let me introduce you all my group members: 

·         Muhammad Ikhwan Bin Mohd Aripin (Leader)

·         Chow Li Peng (Assistant, Final Report Co-ordinator)

·         Ang Xue Wen  (Weekly Report Coordinator)

Land Surveyor Team

·         Norhazwani Binti Sobli

·         Ting Ming Kai

·         Nur Syabihah Binti Ismail

Design Team

·         Muhammad Ikhwan Bin Mohd Aripin

·         Nur Syafiena Binti Zulkurnai

·         Najwa Harzani Binti Ezumi Harzani

Construction Team

·         Khairusy Syakirin Bin Norizan

·         Muhammad Amirul Bin Izmi

·         Muhd Hasif Hanis Bin Hassim

·         Nur Azleem Binti Mohd Rozi

·         Hariz Bin Izhar

Costing Team

·         Chong Jia Jiun

·         Chang Fuk Wei

·         Cheng Yu Chia

_Our team logo ( Imagine.achive.unity)_

HEPTEX 

Heptax is a multi-disciplinary housing, building and planning firm that aspire to find greater meaning in all of our actions and are never satisfied with the status quo. The five purposes below are the fundamental values of our practice. These values are more than abstract beliefs: they are the foundation for what drives all of us in all our actions and at every level of our group.

The unity from our multi-disciplinary team allows us to imagine designs that will challenge the status quo and to achieve high quality in building construction. The two leafs in the middle of our logo represents unity. Gold is used to shows our ability to achieve high standards.

Site analysis 

site location, land use and traffic

The proposed site for the amphitheater is located on an open space, hill slope next to the School of Housing, Building and Planning (HBP) in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM).

To examine the traffic, all roads leading to the proposed site were examined and road category determined. Next to the proposed site is Jalan Canselori which is a street road that has relatively slow traffic compared to other roads in the university. The main users of this road are students and staff from the School of HBP. It is also a road that can be accessed by the local university bus system. Hence, the visitors to the amphitheater will not have problem getting there via public transport. In fact, there is a bus stop at the entrance to the proposed amphitheater site.

To the other side of the proposed site is a building for HBP as well as an electrical house and water tank. The area behind the electrical house and water tank is the USM boundary, which runs along a major, busy road, Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah. Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah is a leading road to the Bayan Baru, Penang FTZ area. As such, the site is affected by noise from Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah road. Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah is an arterial road that leads to Jalan Lim Chong Eu freeway as well as to Penang Bridge. 

The sun path was investigated between 8-10am and after 4pm. Our assumption is that these are the hours where events are most likely to place at the amphitheater. Assuming our stage and amphitheater will be sea front facing, the sun will rise from the left of the stage and set on the right of the stage. As such, we are not typically concern as to whether to orientate the amphitheater to be perpendicular to Jalan Canselori or perpendicular to the nearest HBP building. 

hydrology and drainage

The drainage is located on the top of the slope near Jalan Canselori. This drain is sufficient to accommodate the rainwater even during the monsoon season. 

vegetation

Most of the vegetation that exists in this area is palm tree and rain tree. The palm tree has been on the proposed site for more than 20 years while the raintree is at least 60 years old. The trees do not really provide any shades as they are sparsely grown. The distance between one tree to another is at least 5-10meters. Due to the maturity of the tree, we have decided to keep the trees as part of our landscape. 

lighting 

Heptax decided to use lighting that will “light” the actor for maximum visibility and maximum modeling, with minimum shadow. To do this, the basic compromise lighting will be used whereby a pair of beams crossing on to the actor (one for each side of the face) from positions that are both forward and to the side of the actor. The suggested angle is often around 45 degrees in both directions. 

Step lighting will also be installed on each step of the staircase to keep patrons safe when it is dark. Street lighting will be installed around the amphitheater to keep the area bright in the evening.

Building construction for stage

roofting and side walls

Here are the following materials required for stage roofing. The curve shaped roof will be supported by both the right and left wall panels. Top steel plates will be used to fasten the roof metal cladding to the left and right wall panels.

Roofing and Side Walls	Material Required
Outside sheeting	Metal clad
Frame	Glued laminated timber (Glulam)
Inside finishing	Wood plastic composite

back wall

Back Wall	Material Required
Façade/Finishing	Clear acrylic glass to form mosaic design, glass cutter
Frame for acrylic glass	Lead cane, solder, glaze
“X” frame	2”x4” Timber

The back wall with its glass mosaic design is definitely the highlight of the amphitheater that is complicated to build. Each piece of clear acrylic glass will need to be traced/cut according to its unique design. The glasses are then soldered to the lead to give it structural integrity. Finally a layer of glaze is applied to the joints to prevent water from sipping through. These glass mosaic is supported by a 2”x4” “X” frame timber. 

foundation and flooring

The soil condition (clayey) and steepness of slope were key factors when deciding the right type of foundation for construction. Heptax decided to go with a pad foundation. This type of foundation usually refers to those being rested on stratum with adequate bearing capacity and laid less than 3meters below ground level.

Foundation	Material Required
Reinforced concrete pad	Concrete
Column stump	2”x4” timber
Flooring	Cengal timber

Several flooring options was considered by the team, such as, cengal, engineered hardwood floor or concrete. Engineered hardwood floor was eliminated due to its less water resistant nature of the product. Finally cengal, although more expensive was chosen because of its durability, weather proof quality and aesthetic. 

     

6XT (A) PROJECT : DESIGN AN AMPHITHATRE

"IN THE NAME OF ALLAH THE MOST GRACIOUS AND THE MOST MERCIFUL"

For the project 6, I would say that this might be the biggest project in this semester. In this project we have to build and design the amphitheater ( for 'live performance' function ) that includes the aspects of site analysis, architectural and interior design, structure and material selection, simple costing, project management, and construction technique. So, that means in a group of 16 members we have to built this amphitheater  and manage this project like in our real life. each group  consist of 7 different major and every member should participate in this project based on their knowledge and ability in certain work. some student in our group are expert in calculation and account, so they handle the quantity surveyor part, some others else expert in gain the information regarding the site analysis but for us , we doing more than that. each member give full responsibilities in this project. we combines our idea in everything, every members are free to gives their idea and I am proud to have them as a team.

for the design, at first stage we all decides to make a simple sketch on the amphitheater. so every one should gives at least one of their ideas on what kind of concept and stage that they wanted it to look like. so we just upload it on facebook and who gets the "like" the most, means that his/her design will be selected. so, i've come out with my design which is

taraaaaaa!!!

_Front view_

_The main structure of my design, just a random sketch =)_

_The rear view_

concept : The transformation of Angular


BIG NO TO MY DESIGN!! (^_^")

because lots of aspect need to be considered on my stage design, so, as for the result we all together had decide to choose our leader design which the concept was inspired by the Lotus Flower as our final design.

here it is.. tingggg!!!

_ presentation board on each view of the stage_

This design is created from the lotus flower concept with integration of transformation of angular concept. the lotus flower has a lot of meaning to most Asian traditions like India, China and Japan especially. The figure shows that the drawing of our final design. The bud of lotus flower that we can see it from the roof and also the wall shape. there totally have 4 walls inside. Beside, the stage is covered with 3 roof which is lotus flower bud shape, then, the front part of roof side and backdrop have integrated with the concept of transformation of angular which is representative the structure of leaf.

_Site plan_

as for the landscape, me and Najwa planned together to design a green environment and also considerate to the people with disabilities.  we put lots of trees in our design because of two main point, first is because of the amphitheaters location  is placed near to the traffic, so its will effect the sound of the performance and will makes the audience feel uncomfortable. to avoid that, as you can see at the bottom left of the picture, it is a lots of trees have been planted to create the baffle zone for the amphitheater. besides that the trees also can filter up the contaminated air around the place, trees will soak up the polluted air and release the fresh air to the surrounding.  

_floor plan_

Thats all for today... bye.. Assalamualaikum.. (wish I could do  better than the previous project especially on the presentation session). Thank you everyone!! (^_^)v

5TH PROJECT : SENSE OF PLACE ( NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY)

" I THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE MOST GRACIOUS AND THE  MOST MERCIFUL "

Assalamualaikum..

Hye everyone.. 


for the project 5 we have to choose one of these 6 neighborhood areas from the list below :

• Bayan Residences, relau, penang
• Sunway Mutiara, batu Maung, penang
• Sunway Bukit Gmbier , penang
• Siara 81, Sg. Ara, Penang
• Sunway Merica, Sg. Ara, Penang
• Setia Greens, Sg.Ara, penang 

we need to make a site visit to our chosen site to get the information and details for our project. 

I choose Sunway Merica, Sg Ara as my analysis site. on 19th oct me and Putri together go to the Sunway Merica travelling by bus. its not very hard to find that residential area because it is located beside to Mutiara Perdana school. The analysis going smoothly because the weather is good earlier, but in the end its raining but not too heavy, besides the guard was very kind, because he know that we went there for an education survey. so he just ask me and Putri to buy him coffee as a treat for let us in. (^_^)..  

for the rest, let the picture do the talk.. hehe (^_^).. 

_entrance to Sunway Merica, besides to Mutiara Perdana school_

_the garden located in the middle of the residential area_ 

_drainage system_

_TNB boxes_

_neighborhood around the residential area_ 

_drawing stage_

_head explode stage_

_coloring stage_

_the site analysis (sun orientation, wind direction, vehicular circulation)_

thats all.. bye everyone.. daaa.. 

4TH PROJECT : PRESENTATION DRAWING

" IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE MOST GRACIOUS AND THE MOST MERCIFUL "

hye..... 

This project is about presentation, presentation and... presentation.. i felt disappointed to my self  because i had given an opportunity by the lecturer to talk in front of the students but i ruined it. (-_-).. i don't know why, maybe i'm too nervous so that i could not present it well. I do realize that most of the student did not understand what i am trying to say because of the low tone of my voice that i am using. 

start from today, i will motivate my self to built up my confident level especially on talking in front lots of people. i've ask the expert advice regarding this matter and  she told me to join the public speaking classes in order to improve my presentation skill, speech and also improve my confident. I'm not alone here, because Alaa Hamed and my other friend named Munawara also interested to join this class,  InsyaAllah, when there's a will, there's a way. (^_^).. 

_drawing in progress (^_^")_

_Axonometric drawing_

_A3 size cartridge paper for axonometric and perspective drawing_ 

_human figure, next time i should draw the real human figure rather than a cartoon like the picture above(0_o")_

_presentation drawing_

_the completion of my presentation drawing_




 

Thanks to Dr. Syarmila because she help me a lot in this project. especially on how to make my drawing look more nicer and realistic and also how to make shadow in my drawing ( perspective drawing ) and (axonometrix drawing ). Thank you so much, I'm really-really appreciate it and will keep remember her advice for the coming project.