On 12 March 2017, the Landscape UTM Alumni Workshop Series was continuing with the second workshop which entitled “From Form to Concept”. This workshop patronised by 9 practising Landscape Architects who are all UTM alumni. The workshop participated not only the final year students but also a crowd from lower year landscape students. The workshop began with a design critique session of the final year students’ projects. Likewise, the crit session essentially to internalise students’ conceptual design and their critical thinking in developing landscape master plan and detail area design.
After the lunch break, the program continues by the open lecture delivered by LAr. Mr Lee Fei Chong, Alfred and Mr Ng Sze Oun. Both speakers respectively shared the creating a landscape plan using form composition, philosophy concept through art; and inspiring futuristic to create the good design concept. Throughout workshop session, another fruitful learning process pertains a great landscape design involvement is from concept stages till landscape detail construction.
December 2016, Department of Landscape Architecture from Faculty of Built Environment, UTM Skudai was invited to entry landscape design competition for equestrian centre initiated by Dato Sri’ Mahamad Fathil Mahmood, the owner of 3Q Equestrian Centre, Rawang. A team of 10 landscape students accompanied by 4 lecturers (Dr Zanariah Jasmani, Dr. Lee Yoke Lai, Dr. Sapura Mohamad, and En. Ahmad Long) conducted a field survey and site study at Rawang’s Equestrian Centre.
UTM competition team prepared a landscape master plan for two months and consequently presented our landscape design proposal conceptual theme: ‘Lush Tropical Riding and Living’ at Dataran Prima, Petaling Jaya on 2 March 2017 (Thursday). Besides, a dynamic roles of landscape aesthetic design, the key idea integrations of tropical landscape design and ecosystem services is to heighten and sustain the landscape services and landscape management of an equestrian centre. The result of this competition will be announced in early April 2017. In all, students gained a fruitfulness opportunity from this competition that allows developing a greater understanding of equestrian landscape design as well as to play their roles in young entrepreneur landscaping.
Department of Landscape Architecture CSR program with Form Five students from Sekolah Menengah Kayu Ara Pasong at Mukim Api Api, Pontian. Ten students from SBEL1414 and Dr Ismail Said conducted the motivational field program with 29 school children and assisted by Penghulu Mukim Api Api, Mohammad Ali. The program was held at Tanjung Piai National Park on 17 March 2017 from 8:00am to 12:00 pm.
FBE won Silver Medal Award at Invention, Innovation and Design (IID) competition held 9th March 2017 in Amansari Residence Resort, Johor Bahru Malaysia.
Invention, Innovation and Design (IID) competition was first mooted by the UiTM main campus in Shah Alam in an effort to promote innovations in all faculties and campuses as feeders for participations at the university level IIDEX (Invention, Innovation and Design Exposition). IID Johor was first organised in compliance with this requirement from the Research Innovation Business Unit (RIBU).
Nurshikin Mohamad Shukery who has developed A Flexible Multi-Criteria Integrated Performance-based Decision Making: A Prototype, won Silver Medal Award under Professional Level for Social Sciences category. The research has developed a significant tool for contractor selection, by helping organizations to select a competent contractor and decreasing the subjectivity of the decision-making process. The advantage as gave by the system favour a reliable indicator to predict performance of construction project by selecting a contractor based on his best performance. The team members are also participated in the IIID Johor 2017 are Dr. Hamizah Liyana Tajul Ariffin, Dr. Nafisah Abdul Rahiman and Syamsul Hendra Mahmud.
The 1st monthly seminar for the 2ndsemester 2016/2017 of DURP was held on the 23rd of February 2017 (Thursday) at Seminar Room B03, Faculty of Built Environment (FAB).The seminar was accomplished in two (2) parts. The 1st half featured, Miss Nadzirah Hosen, a Post Graduate Student who attended the IUCN World Conservation Congress (WCC) in Honolulu, Hawaii from 1-10 September 2016. Nadzirah’s attendance at the Congress was funded by IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature)’s WCPA (The World Commission on Protected Areas) Young Professionals Fund. The Congress provided her the opportunity to meet, interact and share knowledge and ideas with current and future champions
in world conservation. At the WCPA Members Assembly and Young Professionals Introduction (YPI) session, a highlight of the WCC Opening Ceremony, Nadzirah had to introduce herself, UTM and Malaysia to the Congress delegates. The Congress featured a workshop, exhibition, knowledge café, poster presentation and pavilion activities. Amongst the places visited whilst in Honolulu are Waikiki Beach, U.S Army Museum of Hawaii, and Armed Forces Recreation Center. Nadzirah concluded the sharing session by highlighting the benefits of attending WCC which were the networking opportunities, the face to face with experts, the awareness of new trends, the “energy” of like-minded individuals, the expansion of resources, the “breaking out” of the comfort zone and last but not least, having fun.
The 2st half saw, Ellida binti Samsudin, a 4th Year, Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning student from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning (DURP), Faculty of Built Environment (FAB), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Johor Bahru, share her experience away from home and UTM. She was on the exchange students program under the ASEAN International Mobility for Students (AIMS) 2016 programme at Tokyo Metropolitan University (TMU), Japan. The programme was sponsored by The Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia. Ellida highlighted the procedure and request for
credit transfer, securing funds for her living expenses and other needs that she had to undertake prior to her departure for TMU. The one semester (1st September – 30th January 2017) stint away from UTM exposed her to a different academic setting and environment, intriguing and fascinating places visited during the academic field trips, for example, Totoro Forest, Ota Open Factory, Kyoto, Osaka, Tokyo City, Odaiba, Shunjuku, Shibuya, Chiba, Akihabara, Fukushima, Enoshima-Kamakura and Yokohama City, the interesting culture, for example, Tokyo Grand Tea Ceremony 2016, Asakusa Geisha
Show and kimono experience, the unique food and the cold wintry weather. Ellida described the Japanese people as very kind, helpful and respectful. Given all the hard work prior to her departure, the enriching and unforgettable experience, to Ellida, is no match at all, it was worth it. The seminar ended at 12.45 pm.
