by webmaster FAB | Mar 11, 2011 | News, Uncategorized
A group of four docents and 34 undergraduates from Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta (UMS) made an inbound visit to Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment from 5th to 6th March 2011. This is the second visit from the Javanese, the first was in 2009. Likewise, UTM’s landscape architectural undergraduates had performed two outbound academic visits to UMS in 2008 and 2009.
Before arriving in UTM, the UMS group had spent three days in Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Melaka. In Kuala Lumpur they visited Hijjas Kasturi Architectural Office (Figure 1) and Offices of Securities Commission, in Putrajaya they toured Putrajaya Convention Center, and in Melaka they visited several places in city. Three postgraduate students, Farhana Abdullah, Juliana Johari and Siti Aminah, whom were from Green Innovation Research Group accompanied the group to guide them to visit the places in Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Melaka.
The inbound visit generated at least three outcomes: (1) exposing UMS students in architectural and urban development in cities of Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, Melaka, Nusajaya and Singapore, (2) attending a short design presentation on designing urban spaces, and (3) exchanging design ideas between UMSM students. In Nusajaya, UMS and UTM visited housing development of UEM, the Ledang Heights, and Johor New Administrative Center at Kota Iskandar (Figure 2). At UTM campus, three UMS students presented their urban design projects followed by two UTM students presenting their urban design project of Segamat town (Figure 3).
UTM students were presented by EARTH members whom arranged accommodation and food supplies for the Javanese guests. On the 6th March, EARTH arranged a dinner for the guests at Dr Ismail Said’s house. Several alumni were invited to the dinner and to share their working experiences in consulting or contracting offices in Singapore or Johor Bahru. UMS students and docents were much amazed by the program qualities, punctuality and orderly manner. They said that they learnt a lot on architectural language and project planning, and they were much pleased by UTM’s hospitality.
On the last day, 7th March, Farhana Abdullah, Juliana Johari and Siti Aminah accompanied the UMS students and docents to Singapore for a one-day tour. The Indonesian group stayed one night in Singapore and departed back to Solo on the following day, 8th March and reached Solo at 2:30pm local time.
by webmaster FAB | Jan 13, 2011 | News, Uncategorized
Two students from Master of Architecture stationed at Green Innovation Research Group, Faculty of Built Environment, were awarded with Asian Graduate Student Fellowship 2011 from National University Singapore (NUS). The students are Farhana Abdullah and Juliana Johari. The former is currently supervised by Dr Kei Saito and Dr Ismail Said, and the latter is supervised by Dr Hisyam Rasidi and Dr Ismail Said. Farhana is doing research on green plot ratio in central business district in tropical cities whereas Juliana is investigating on planting technology of vertical greenery for tropical buildings. They will attend the fellowship starting 16 May to 31 July 2011 i.e. for 2.5 months. They are among 38 recipients from Asian universities receiving the fellowships. The fellowship benefits are as follows:
1) A monthly allowance of SGD1,000.
2) A monthly housing allowance of SGD250.
3) A settling-in allowance of SGD150.
4) A sum of $100 on a reimbursement basis for miscellaneous expenses
5) A one-time round trip travel subsidy by the most economical and
direct route on a reimbursement basis upon being accepted for the
fellowship.
6) Access to library and computer resources on campus.
by webmaster FAB | Jan 1, 2011 | event, Uncategorized
Maklumat penggantian dan pengemaskinian kad matrik mahasiswa adalah seperti berikut :
Tarikh : 3 hingga 7 Januari 2011
Masa : 9.00 pagi hingga 4.00 petang
Tempat : Dewan Sultan Iskandar
Maklumat Lanjut
by webmaster FAB | Dec 28, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
Members from Green Innovation Research Group have submitted 17 full papers for a conference, SEATUC5, which will be held at Hanoi University of Technology from 24 to 25 February 2011. To access to the papers, please contact Dr Kei Saito at kei@utm.my. Copyright of the papers is held by the secretariat of SEATUC5.
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Members
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Topic of Paper
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Didel Mabilong Juliet and Dilshan Remaz Ossen |
The Effect of Water on Out Door Paved Surfaces; A Strategy to Mitigate Urban Heat Island |
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2
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Farhana Abdullah, Kei Saito, Ismail Said |
The Influence of Green Plot Ratio on Urban Temperature: A Review on Implication of Urban Greenery |
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3
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Juliana Johari, Mohd Hisyam Rasidi, Ismail Said |
Planting Technology of Green Roof for Building in Tropical Cities: A Review on Plant Selection |
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4
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Kei Saito, Ismail Said, and Mohd Hisyam Rasidi, Michihiko Shinozaki |
Quantitative Study of Relationship Between Urban Structure and Ambient Microclimate in New Developed Housing Area in Johor, Malaysia |
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Nursuriani Shaffee, Ismail Said and Mohd Hisyam Rasidi |
Evolution of Carving Motifs in Malay Vernacular Architecture in Kelantan and Terengganu |
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Nurzuliza Jamirsah, Ismail Said, and Mohd Hisyam Rasidi |
Urban Green Space as Part of Ecological Corridor as Medium to Stimulates Social Cohesion Among Diverse Culture in Malaysia |
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Mohamed Ahmed Said and Ismail Said |
Park Visitation in Residential Areas: A Case Study in Khartoum |
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Sara Izrar Aziz, Mohd Hisyam Rasidi, Ismail Said |
Developing a Sustainable Ecological Corridor Based on Biodiversity Quality in a New Township in Malaysia: A Review |
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Lai, L.Y and Ismail Said
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Urban Design Studio Project: The Revitalization of Dungun as a Cultural and Heritage Town |
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Ismail Said and Nor Zalina Harun |
Factors Attributed to Placelessness of a Public Place in Historic Town of Penang, Malaysia |
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Nurzuliza Jamirsah, Ismail Said, and Mohd Hisyam Rasidi
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Urban Green Space as Part of Ecological Corridor as Medium to Stimulates Social Cohesion Among Diverse Culture in Malaysia |
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Widya Fransiska Febriati Anwar, Ismail Said, Dilshan Remaz Ossen and Mohd Hisyam Rasidi
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Rebuilding and Redefining the Identity of a Place: Influence of Condition of Urban Material on the Existency of Identity |
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Mohd Hisyam Rasidi, Nik Nurahayu Nik Soh, Ismail Said, Tetsu Kubota and Koji Tajima |
Participatory Approach to Elicit Children’s Knowledge on Outdoor Environment in Residential Neighborhood |
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Zanariah Jasmani |
The Impact of Land Development on Soil and Water in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia |
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Muhammad Farid |
A Geographic Information System (Gis) and Multi-Criteria Analysis for Sustainable Tourism Planning |
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Sumaiyah Othman |
Innovation in Teaching Urban Landscape Design Studio |
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Nor Fadzila Aziz and Ismail Said |
Potentialities and Challenges of Green School Ground for Children’s Outdoor Learning: A Review |
by webmaster FAB | Dec 27, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
On 13th until 17th of December 2010, Universiti Putra Malaysia has organized the annual Assembly of Landscape Architecture Students Malaysia which known as ALAM 2010. This program was held to gather all landscape students from all over Malaysia including the community college students. ALAM 2010 is the fourth assembly after ALAM was organized by Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia in 2007, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 2008, Universiti Teknologi Mara, Perak in 2009. ALAM is one of the educational and social programs for landscape students from various local universities allowing students and academics to gather and discuss on landscape architectural issues. It also affords students to establish friendship and networking.
For 2010, all public universities and a few community colleges has been called for program briefing at UPM about two months earlier before the program started. UTM was represented by Encik Mohd Farid Azizul and a few students. The theme given was There is No Place like Home, and students were required to do an environmental issue sculpture or visual arts. Seven universities participated in this program including UiTM Shah Alam, Uitm Seri Iskandar Perak, UTM Skudai, UIAM Gombak and UPM Serdang, and the colleges were Kolej Komuniti Selandar Melaka, Kolej Komuniti Masjid Tanah Melaka.
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Skudai was represented by 22 students. The preparation of the program started after Hari Raya AidilAdha. They discussed on the ideas of how to present something that can move people to aware about the environmental issues like pollution and development. Lead by Muhamad Zaimudin Azman, they finalized the ideas after one week discussion and presented it to Dr Sapura. The preparation was not going so well at first because there was not much budget to do the sculpture on a space of 3m x 3m. With a faculty fund RM3000, the students managed to come up with a brilliant sculpture. The preparation continued nights and days until Saturday before we leave to UPM on Sunday night.
About 180 students have joined this program at UPM. With sponsorship helps from many landscape companies and ILAM, the program which was led by Mohamad Aliff Bakar and his team was successfully organized. Many joyful activities were held for the week. The students also learned from an environmentalist, Karam Singh Walia, on matters how to care the natural environment. Even though UTM sent the least number of participants, the team managed to win the first place of the overall competition program.
by webmaster FAB | Dec 20, 2010 | News, Uncategorized
On 14 to 17 December 2010, a group of five staff from Department of Landscape Architecture attended IFLA Symposium on Cultural Landscape organized by the Seoul National University, South Korea. The theme of the symposium was Identity of Traditional Asian Landscapes that enabled academics from Asian universities to share viewpoints on cultural landscape issues and its meaning. Dr.Hamidah Ahmad, Dr. Sirima Nasongkhla, Dr. Sapura Mohamad and Assoc. Prof. Dr Ismail Said, presented their paper at the IFLA Symposium. In addition, landscape architect Mohd Za’i Kandar fromTropics Design and tutor, Lee Yoke Lai joined the symposium group.
Generally, there are 21 papers were published on the IFLA symposium proceeding which encompassed papers from Seoul National University Korea, Tsinghua University, Chinese Cultural University from Taiwan, Sala Design from Cambodia, University of Indonesia, Trisakti University from Indonesia, Hanatoyo Landscape from Japan, CEPT University from India, and Shahid Beeshti University from Iran. During the technical tour at symposium, all the participants provided wonderful experiences to visit Changdeokung Palace (Biwon Garden) and Hahoe Village (Korean traditional village). At the end of symposium workshop, all the committees decided to have the paper to be published in a book. In addition, the symposium discusses the establishment of a journal, Asian Landscapes. The theme for the next IFLA Symposium on Cultural Landscape is Redefining Cultural Landscape.
For those who wish to access to the content of the proceedings of the symposium, please contact Lee Yoke Lai at lylai@utm.my or Dr. Sapura Mohammad at b-sapura@utm.my.
Two students from Master of Architecture stationed at Green Innovation Research Group, Faculty of Built Environment, were awarded with Asian Graduate Student Fellowship 2011 from National University Singapore (NUS). The students are Farhana Abdullah and Juliana Johari. The former is currently supervised by Dr Kei Saito and Dr Ismail Said, and the latter is supervised by Dr Hisyam Rasidi and Dr Ismail Said. Farhana is doing research on green plot ratio in central business district in tropical cities whereas Juliana is investigating on planting technology of vertical greenery for tropical buildings. They will attend the fellowship starting 16 May to 31 July 2011 i.e. for 2.5 months. They are among 38 recipients from Asian universities receiving the fellowships. The fellowship benefits are as follows:
