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New semester, new pledge, new resolution. The Workbase Selection is now open for all students registered for Design Subjects this semester. However, there have been some changes in the Workbase system, particularly in the lower years. The Workbases now follow centralized coordination and no longer have a separate project brief as it was before.

This system is hoped to reintroduce the students to the core of architectural design during the lower years and only introduce them to specializations in the upper years (particularly at the Thesis level). Hence the selection criteria for this semester boils down to which workbase master the students prefer to work with.

Follow the link below to register your Workbase preference(s)

http://www.tanggam.com/limesurvey/

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1. Tokyo Institute of Technology
2. Chinese University of Hong Kong
3. University of Tokyo
4. American University of Sharjah, UAE
5. Kyoto University
6. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
7. The School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi
8. University of Tehran
9. Kyugn Hee University, Seoul
10. Technion University, Tel Aviv

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JOHOR BAHRU 14 Jun- Permintaan tinggi terhadap kerjaya arkitek dan tawaran yang baik menyebabkan ramai lulusan jurusan berkenaan tidak melepaskan peluang bekerja di luar negara.

Tindakan itu sedikit sebanyak menjadi punca kekurangan jumlah tenaga kerja profesional tersebut di negara ini dan jumlahnya tidak selari dengan keperluan negara yang sedang pesat membangun.

Menurut Timbalan Presiden Pertubuhan Arkitek Malaysia, Ar. Saifuddin Ahmad, negara ini melahirkan jumlah lulusan jurusan senibina yang berkualiti sehingga mendapat permintaan tinggi untuk mengisi pasaran kerja di luar negara.

“Kebanyakan lepasan universiti tempatan mencari peluang kerja di Singapura dan Timur Tengah. Malah, siswazah yang menuntut di luar negara juga cenderung untuk bekerja di sana berbanding balik ke Malaysia.

“Kekurangan tersebut turut ditambah dengan bilangan mereka yang lulus peperiksaan senibina tahap ketiga juga adalah kecil,” katanya selepas merasmikan Bengkel Senibina ke-23 anjuran penuntut senibina Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) di sini, semalam.

Turut hadir, Dekan Fakulti Alam Bina UTM, Prof. Madya Dr. Ahmad Nazri Muhamad Ludin.

Program yang bermula kelmarin dan berakhir Jumaat ini mengetengahkan tema Terang 2011 menyaksikan penglibatan seramai 400 peserta daripada 21 institusi pengajian tinggi seluruh negara.

Saifuddin berkata, universiti tempatan juga melahirkan jumlah lulusan senibina yang sedikit jika dibandingkan dengan negara maju lain.

“Tetapi harus diingat bahawa biarpun jumlahnya sedikit, mereka adalah golongan yang berkualiti, cuma masalahnya adalah jumlahnya tidak mencukupi apatah lagi dengan pembangunan pesat yang dikecapi negara pada masa ini,” katanya.

Sementara itu, Ahmad Nazri berkata, setiap tahun UTM hanya melahirkan kira-kira 80 siswazah senibina.

Menurutnya, jumlah tersebut dikurangkan daripada 100 kepada 80 orang bagi menjaga kualiti graduan supaya sesuai dengan pasaran kerja dan selaras dengan kehendak negara dalam melahirkan modal insan kelas pertama.

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Beautification drive: Mohd Jaafar launching ‘From
Abandoned to Abundance’ seminar in Johor Bahru
Tuesday while Prof Dr Mohd Hamdan (left) looks on.

JOHOR BARU: The local council here hopes to rid the city of abandoned buildings by offering incentives to developers interested in reviving these projects.

Among the incentives are a 50% discount in fees for building plan submission, 50% on improvement service fund and 50% on building charges and waiver of deposits.

Johor Baru City Council (MBJB) mayor Mohd Jaafar Awang said the incentives were meant to reduce the many “eyesores” in the city.

“I hope these incentives will lead to developers restoring abandoned buildings,” he said after launching the “From Abandoned to Abundance” seminar about reviving abandoned commercial premises here yesterday.

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Introduction

You cannot miss them – those monoliths that remained abandoned for years on end. They blight our urban landscape. They are grave cause for concern , a festering wound- to those who have invested in them, to neighbouring property owners and to every caring member of our urban community. They undermine would be investors confidence in the Region’s ability to sustain our economic promise.

No concerted effort appear to have been taken to address the situation. We have invited a number of speakers ranging from those who have first-hand experience in investing, dealing and in administering such buildings, property professionals who have advised clients in managing property assets in project and construction management and in marketing such properties. We have invited a well known speaker to discuss the adequacy of our existing laws and their implementation to deal with the situation.

Participation will have a chance to express their views besides listening to the speakers in an open discussion session.

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The rapid economic growth in Malaysia since its independence more than 50 years ago have driven the change of the skyline of her main cities. Land is the most sought after commodity in the city scape; its high value forces developers to maximize the efficiency of the building in order to gain maximum profit.
However, there is a need to address the growth of highrises particularly in relation to the environment. As the world’s resources becoming more and more scarce and demands continue to rise, there is a need for buildings, be it big or small, to be green and sustainable. The dialogue is hoped to intrigue the intellectual minds in building for a better future in Malaysia.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS SEMINAR

This seminar is targeted for those involved in the contemporary highrise industry in Malaysia: from practicing architects and engineers to law-makers, future industry leaders as well as the end users themselves.

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Registration form for this Seminar

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INTRODUCTION

‘DESIGN Thesis’ is a final major design exercise in the formal education of a student architect to test his/her accumulated knowledge and skills in handling architectural problems. It provides a unique opportunity for students to pursue their own interests in architecture and the built environment through the medium of a building or a complex of buildings of their own choice from preparation or investigation of brief to design proposal, and accompanied by a full documentation of investigations, findings, alternative decisions and conclusions. A thesis should also be able to provide excitement and exploratory opportunities for the student; allowing for challenging solutions, element of surprise and the crossing of threshold in architectural ideas.

DESIGN THESIS PROPOSAL

Students are required to submit their proposal in the form of Statement of Intent. This will be then be subject to approval by the Coordinators and the respective panels before embarking on the studies.

Read more for submission details and procedure.

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Situated at the estuary where Skudai River and Danga River meets the open sea at Straits of Johor, is Kampung Bakar Batu. There was once lush mangrove forest, rich with natural resources; fishes, crabs, prawns and etc were the natural resources which sustain the living of a unique ancient aborigine Austronesia proto-malay race called ORANG SELETAR.

Orang Seletar calls themselves Orang Asli Laut, not kuala , bukit (hill) or hutan (forest). They are the ORANG ASLI SUKU LAUT / Sea people which has genetic links to the Orang Suku Laut of Riau ( Indonesia), Mokens of Phuket (Thailand) and Orang Bajau of Sabah & Philipines. There’s popular believes that all ORANG LAUT / sea people originated from Riau, Indonesia, and have been positioned to various places along the `Spice Trade Route ‘ to guard the sea route against pirates attacks alike to the NAVY today. Orang Seletar were positioned at Seletar, Temasek ( now, Singapore), guarding the coast all along Straits of Johore for centuries. They later call themselves `Orang Seletar’ due to their base in Temasek, where their village was.

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http://www.openoffice.org

Yes, you read that right! OpenOffice is an open source alternative to Microsoft Office, delivered to you with free open license. I’ve started using it for a couple of days, and from what I can see, it can do exactly the entire Microsoft Office Suite can. Of course, certain features are propriety to Microsoft, but being open source, it means third party could create application or add new features that could simply be integrated into you application.

The application suite includes:

1. Writer – equivalent to Word. Could use any Word document files, template and so on.
2. Calc – equivalent to Excel.
3. Draw – almost comparable to CorelDraw or any graphics editing software. Basically a doped up version of Microsoft Paint.
4. Impress – equivalent to Powerpoint.
5. Base – a database processing/management application (which I doubt we’d ever use).

I’ve started using it, and it seems a great alternative to Microsoft Office. It has garnered support from the open community, and have been commended in several computer magazines. Consider me converted!

Now, I know students don’t usually have much money to spend on software (ahem!), especially in these dark days. At the same time, as an academic community, we preach originality and respect over copyright ownership. Now we have a great alternative to Microsoft Office at no cost at all! I urge students to try this application and report back to me. If successful, I would recommend the department to move towards this application right away.

We already utilized free Google Sketchup. Now free OpenOffice. If only the Draw application could rival CorelDraw or Adobe Illustrator, all we need to buy is Microsoft Windows.

Download and install it now. Only 142MB.

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Penang, June 17^th: A group of architecture students from the Science and Technology College (KST), UTM City Campus managed to top the Malaysian Architecture Jamboree design competition for the second time in a row in two years at the 20^th Architecture jamboree, TRANXXIT University Sains Malayia (USM), Penang.

Aizat Amir Hasrat, Vincent Lai and Wong Zhi Shen, second year students won the first place for the design category while Atta Indrawani, a third year student won the first place for the multimedia category. The competition is an annual event in occasition with the ‘Alam Bina Week’ held at USM on June 12^th.   More than 20 delegations from IPTA’s and Polytechnics took part in the jamboree. KST were represented by 20 students led Iziq Eafifi along with their Mentor Lecturer, Norhayuri Abdul Hadi and Kamarul Ariffin A. Kadir. This is the second success in the same categories. In 2007, KST UTM won the same categories at the International Islamic University of Malaysia.

Team KST UTM was also announced the runner-up for best performance and best male actor in the Intervarsity Culture Night during the event.

Read more or discuss about the TRANXXIT workshop here.

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