This project involves the documentation of our Studio 6 Architectural Design Project, to apply the principles learned in Project 1 to our final project.
The objectives of this project include to understand the application of management techniques in the control and direction of project resources, to evaluate the dynamic changes which occur during a project’s life cycle and the nature of a project’s success and to understand the means of evaluating and managing risks that can lead to success and failure in a project’s performance.

My task is to document my Design Studio Project from the point of view of a Project Manager.
The 5 main components to be included are:

1. Introduction of Project (clients, stakeholders, objectives and goals).
2. Design Analysis, picking up issues of Design Suitability and Project Viability and specifically related to your design. 
3. Project Procurement and Resource Planning 
4. Risk Analysis, and Maintenance Strategy 
5. Success Criteria, WBS, Gantt chart 

This project involves the application of the principles, issues and theories discussed thus far in the Project Management module, and their application into a simple construction project.
Students are expected to be able to define project characteristics, objectives, organizations and success, to apply Project Management tools and techniques to control and communicate to achieve a common goal as well as to summarize strategies for the execution of the development process in response to the client's objectives.

In a group of 6, our task is to design and manage a simple construction project in a way that emphasizes cost, quality and time, with a measurable ‘success criteria’.
There are 4 main components which include:

•  Introduction, Expanded organizational chart, Conclusion with 1 case study
•  Design (Analysis, Proposal), Success Criteria
• Project scheduling & monitoring - Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) / Gantt Chart
• Minutes of meetings, meeting agendas

Taylor's University has selected your esteemed Project Management company among few other companies to propose a new recreational area. The purpose is to manage and facilitate any future outdoor activities for staff and students, as this will create a common bond within the campus community.
As a start, the 'Recreation District'will be used for the upcoming Architectural Workshop to be held at the University compound in August 2018. As such, it needs to be carefully planned and implemented to its completion before August 2018. In order not to interfere with the campus activities during the semester, a proper project management plan has to prepared.
Budget allocation: RM 1,500,000 (not inclusive of professional fees) 

Site Information and Other Requirements: 

In addition to the ability to develop our own position in developing the individual project within the theme of ‘sustaining humanities’- architecture for people, place and time, one key aspect of the design project is to develop holistic and integrated aspects of technology, environment and cultural context in architectural design.
Subsequent to developing a Design Strategy and Schematic Design, students are required to further develop scheme with the incorporation of environmental strategies and technological resolutions. The intention of integrating the E&T aspect is to strengthen design on the aspect of sustainability and buildability. The studies will be included in a 5000 word comprehensive design report. This phase is integrated with the module Building Technology 2. The co-requisite module looked into how to improve the structural aspect and buildability of the project.

Design Strategy and Schematic Design



Final Design






















Final Executive Report

Architectural Design Project is a studio that forms the cap stone for the Bachelor of Science (Hons) Architecture programme, emphasizing on the broad theme of sustaining humanities.
This module is a thematic studio based on the theme of “sustaining humanities’ architecture for people, place and time. Designing for sustainability has been a fundamental issue for architects in our time within global and regional contexts. In line with the current discourse on sustainability, It upholds the believe that architecture can create better places, that architecture can affect society and humanity, and that it can have a role in making a place civilized by making a community more liveable.
Students are required to further develop the proposed design project given by the studio supervisor that reflects the theme and finalize a programme that addresses the needs of the required user group, as well as provides spaces that invite interaction with the surrounding contextual conditions.

In this first part of the project, we students are to assemble all the parts and pieces of the bigger picture:
1.Reviewing building code and local or city ordinance,
2. Initiative on establishing design parameters,
3. Take initiative consider and study solar analysis and other site specific analysis,
4. Research on precedents or do actual visitation to projects related and directly relevant to the proposal and
5. Research on demography, user profile and understanding who we are designing for.

Following is the digital presentation done by my group for the pre-design analysis.
Site given is located in Titiwangsa Lake Garden, Kuala Lumpur.