Kuala Lumpur – The annual Asia Young Designer Awards (AYDA) competition organized by Nippon Paint, was first launched in 2008. The Asia Young Designer Awards (AYDA) seek to encourage students to be more innovative, creative and empower them to a higher level of professionalism in the architectural and interior design industry. It serves as a networking platform among educational institutions, practitioners, and key industry stakeholders. Beyond just a competition platform, exposure from the AYDA program allowed students to gain first-hand industry knowledge via personalized coaching, mentoring, skill-building, and a series of workshops by experienced lecturers, professionals, and design industry players. The benefits further established the AYDA competition as a unique platform in nurturing future designers. The platform also provides opportunities for young designers to learn among peers from within and across the globe. The year 2021 marks the 13th year of AYDA competition journey in Malaysia, and which is now marks as one of the prominent designer awards in the Asia region. This AYDA Malaysia program was conducted on more than 60 virtual roadshows and reached out to over 2,000 students. In the year 2020, the organiser had received over 1,118 submissions from over 60 colleges & Universities in Malaysia.
The theme of the AYDA competition was preset as “Forward: The Human-Centred Design 2020” playing the role of understanding human behavior and implementing such observations when developing sustainable design solutions and push design boundaries beyond. The AYDA 2020 panelists comprised 8 judges for the architectural category, they were Ar Sarly Adre Sarkum, Ar Alvin Lim Hai Seah, Ar Chan Seong Aun, Dato Ar Tan Pei Ing, Ar. Jasmeet Singh Sidhu, Ar. Lee Chor Wah, Ar. Serena Hijas, Ar. Koh Wai Tuck while the Judges of Interior Design Category comprised IDr Lai Siew Hong, Ms. Christine Rowland, IDr Indra Ramanathan, Mr Martin Haeger Mbe, IDr Monie Mohariff, IDr Ooi Boon Seong, IDr Ronnie Choong Swee Beng, and Mr Lim Yong An.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and Movement Control Order (MCO) execution by the government throughout January 2021, the organizer had decided to move the physical Award Ceremony from the stage to the virtual Award Ceremony. The Virtual Award Ceremony was broadcasted publicly on the AYDA Malaysia Facebook page via the Facebook live channel, scheduled for 21 January 2021 (Thursday) at 6 pm. The first virtual AYDA award ceremony was officiated by the opening speech by Mr. Yaw Seng Heng, the group managing director of Nippon Paint Malaysia, and followed by Dato Edward Chong, the managing director of IJM Land Berhad.
In Year AYDA 2020, out of 26 finalists, there were 14 & 18 shortlisted finalists in Architecture Category and Interior Design Category respectively. Aw Khai Hong and Muhammad Adri Imran Bin Ramli were among the Architecture Category finalists for AYDA year 2020. Both of them were among the top students from UTM Architecture Program. Aw Khai Hong participated in the competition with his Bachelor of Science in Architecture (BSc Arch) Final year project, supervised by Ts Ar Noraslinda Abdul Rahman, the senior lecturer from Architecture Program, Faculty of Built Environment UTM entitled “Resilient Cultural Pillar” while Muhammad Adri Imran Bin Ramli, who is currently taking the Master in Architecture (M.Arch) program of UTM submitted one of his Pre-Thesis Design projects supervised by Associate Professor Dr. Khairul Anwar Mohamed Khaidzir from Architecture Program, Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying UTM titled “Highstreet Intersection Tower Vertical Walkability” to AYDA 2020.
UTM Architecture Program, as one of the Architecture Schools in Malaysia has never failed to give full and continuous supports to students in participating in the National and International level competitions including AYDA program. The school believes students learn actively and efficiently via competition by giving themselves the opportunity to explore the impossibilities beyond their limits in professionalism and encouraging them to expand their networking and expert skills, which is in line with the ultimate goal of New Academia Learning Innovation (NALI) promoted by UTMLead.
Prepared by: Dr. Leng Pau Chung
AYDA 2020 Finalist and People’s Choice Award won by Aw Khai Hong’s work entitled “Resilient Cultural Pillar”, supervised by Ts Ar Noraslinda Binti Abdul Rahman from Architecture Program, Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying UTM.
One of the AYDA Finalists won by Muhammad Adri Imran Bin Ramli with his work entitled “Highstreet Intersection Tower Vertical Walkability”, supervised by Associate Professor Dr. Khairul Anwar Mohamed Khaidzir from Architecture Program, Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying UTM.
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Kuala Lumpur– The Master of Architecture students and lecturers from Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying (FABU), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, had made UTM proud again by winning in the final edition of PAM-ZSR Architecture Prize Competition 2019. The competition was hosted by Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia (PAM) in collaboration with Z&SR Architecture Ventures Sdn Bhd on March 2nd, 2020.
The competition which began in August 2019 was concluded in mid-October last year and attracted more than 60 students’ entries from nine accredited architectural universities in Malaysia. The prize-giving ceremony was held at PAM Centre, Kuala Lumpur. The cash prizes and winning plaques were given by PAM President, Ar Lillian Tay together with the prize benefactor, Ar Norzaini Mufti and his company partners after the ceremony was officiated.
This time, a total of 16 winners bagged the cash prize worth RM35,000. After the fifth year of taking a role as the prize benefactor, Ar Norzaini announced that 2019 was the final edition wherein Z&SR Ventures hosting the competition. It is to give way and encourage other practitioners to be involved in ensuring a sustainable continuation of the program to help groom the emerging architects in the country in promoting their design ideas and creativities.
Ever since PAM-ZSR first started in 2015, the UTM Architecture fraternity under the Faculty of Built Environment then, has shown a great commitment by consistently participating in the competition. Without fail, the lecturers and students continue to dominate and won the top prizes each year for both Undergraduate and Postgraduate categories.
Winner David and Finalist Ngew, standing proudly at the podium for their 2019 winning entries.
By maintaining the reputation for 2019 edition, the Master of Architecture students, UTM have soared again and bagged home top prizes for two out of six shortlisted projects in the postgraduate categories.
David Nee Zhi Kang impressed the judges and emerged as the winner for his unique work on urban design and architectural scheme entitled ‘Artisanal Fisherman Community Wharf’ where he bagged RM5000.00 cash award. David was supervised by Dr. Sharifah Salwa Syed Mahdzar, who also received a plaque and certificate as the advisor for the project. PAM Z&SR competition committee had also recognised David for his outstanding achievement in his previous win for the undergraduate category in 2018.
Another student, Ngew Kah Sheng with his work entitled ‘The Theatre of Play’ also secured RM 1000.00 cash prize in the finalist category. Ngew’s scheme was supervised by Ar Chan Wai Lai, who also received a plaque and certification for his supervision of the work. Along with David, Ngew also emerged several times as top winners of PAM Z&SR Architecture Prize Competition in the past years.
*Keep the spirit high and hearty congratulations to all UTM Architecture students and lecturers.
Towards achieving our mission to develop professionals who are responsible towards shaping sustainable built environment through synergistic partnership with industries, professional bodies and alumni. Congratulation to all!
