Two teams from UTAR won a total of
six awards at the 5th Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area· ASEAN
International University Bamboo Design and Construction Competition, held on
18 December 2022. About 1,000 teams from 500 universities from Thailand,
Malaysia, Indonesia, Laos, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Macau and China participated
in the competition.
The competition aimed to build an
international platform for innovation and creativity with global influence.
Through the combination of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao greater bay area
and the talents of ASEAN universities, the competition explored a new mode
of innovative collaboration, attracting all universities to exhibit the same
understanding while forming deep cooperation between China and ASEAN.
Themed, “半亭
‘Half Pavilion’, the competition used the special
architectural form of a half-pavilion, to create a new landscape of visible
profile bamboo structure, a new scene of bamboo structure that can be seen
in section and a new exploration of structural integrated design based on
weather resistance.
3005 VICE VERSA
The
Equilibrium of Space
The project “3005 Vice Versa” won
Competition Champion First Place, First Place for Comprehensive Expression,
First Place for Best Creativity and Second Place for Engineering and
Structural Design. The team members for project “3005 Vice Versa” were Lee
Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science (LKC FES) Bachelor of Science
(Honours) Architecture students Liong Zhi Ying, Boon
Jing Jack, Chan Qi Wei, Oo Zhi Ling, Wong
Puy Yan and they were supervised by Specialist I Ar Loh Khang Yong. The team
walked away with a cash prize of RMB10,000, a trophy and certificates.
3018 BEYOND THE EDGE
Harmony Between Heaven & Human
The project “3018 Beyond The Edge”
won Competition Champion Second Place and Second Place for Comprehensive
Expression with a cash prize of RMB6,000, a trophy and certificates. The
team members were LKC FES Bachelor of Science (Honours) Architecture
students Lim Zhi Xing, Eden Ling, Lam Jia En, Ng
Keqing and Yip Xiao Tung. They were supervised by LKC FES Specialist I
Abd Muluk bin Abd Manan.
The competition was co-organised
by Nansha Birdpark, UTAR Department of Architecture and Sustainable Design
and South China University of Technology School of Architecture. It was
supported by Pertubuhan Arkitek
Malaysia (PAM), Malaysia Architecture Students Alliance (MASA),
Malaysian Bamboo Society, Southeast Asian Designer Alliances (SADA) and UTAR
Centre of Sustainable Design (COSA).
The juries of the competition were
Yangcheng Design Alliance Chairman Sheng YuHong, PAM 2022/2023 Vice
President Ar Adrianta Aziz, South China University of Technology Zhong
GuanQiu, Malaysian Bamboo Society Ir Major (Ret) Ahmad Mazlan Othman, UTAR
LAr Dr Beh Jing Han, University of St Joseph Ar Nuno Suares, Architect Ar Dr
Eleena Jamil, City University of Hong Kong Dr Charlie Q. L. Xue, COSA
Chairperson Dr Lim Poh Im, and Southeast Asia Designers Alliance Vice
Chairman Iris Hong-Yi Ying.
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