Student Work Showcase

Celebrating exemplary student design projects that demonstrate sustainability, creativity, and critical thinking.

This archive showcases outstanding student work from my sustainability-focused design and theory courses, particularly ARC5630: Sustainable Development Issues. Each featured project demonstrates clarity, depth, and a thoughtful integration of environmental strategies in architectural design.

The Master of Architecture program at Universiti Putra Malaysia began in 2016, building on the foundation of the Bachelor of Architecture, first offered in 2004. Since then, the program has grown in strength and depth under the Faculty of Design and Architecture (FRSB), with a strong emphasis on sustainability, contextual responsiveness, and design innovation.

These works celebrate student creativity and critical thinking, illustrating how sustainability can shape—and elevate—architectural innovation from the outset.

Explore the collections below, organised by academic year:


Academic Year 2024/25

Theme: Designing with Climate, Rooted in Subang
A curated selection of eight one-board submissions based on the Subang Airport site, demonstrating how integrated environmental strategies, both passive and active, can drive meaningful, place-based architectural design.

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Academic Year 2023/24

Theme:
Coming soon – highlights of creative proposals from the previous cohort

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About the Assignment

The Green Design Proposal is an assessed assignment under ARC5630, requiring students to integrate a minimum of 12 sustainable strategies—across transportation, stormwater management, passive cooling, solar design, ecological diversity, and material use—into their final studio projects. As a key exercise in applying integrated environmental strategies in studio projects, each board reflects the student’s ability to turn environmental knowledge into architectural action.

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