ARC2625 Internship Report

Pre-Intern Start- Week 0

26th Dec – 30th Dec

I’ve started internship earlier than the planned time as our firm requires more helper in completing their competition in the light and motion festival in Putrajaya, named LAMPU 2016. So I’ve been called to help in their Light exhibition model construction. At the end of the competition we’ve got the third place. In this project I’ve seen and learn ways in doing models and how to design playing with light and shadows, which I think it’s very inspiring and interesting that would be helpful in my future work and projects.

Week 1

P17 Rumah Teres Façade Design

The first project that I was given as an introduction was a rumah teres façade design in Precint 17 Putrajaya. I am required to design the façade according to the client’s requirement by using Sketchup for easier visualization. In this project I’ve started building the 3D model from the drawings from AutoCAD which is quite challenging as I am not used to such complicated construction drawings. In this project I think it was a very good start for me to get used to build a model from AutoCAD drawings in Sketchup, which gaves me a good foundation in the projects later on.

Karisma Apartment Masterplan Coloring

After the façade design was done and reviewed, I am then given the job to render the floor plan of an apartment with material and color to be presented to the client. I am given with the floor plans of the apartment and required to color them to differentiate different spaces, greens and facilities in the building using Photoshop. This is a very good exercise for me to learn about how to prepare presentation drawings that is more interactive and clear that clients could understand more about the building instead of just plain AutoCAD drawings.

Week 2:

IJM Masterplan Proposal, Kuantan Pahang

This is a masterplan proposal that my firm is working on. The masterplan was prepared in AutoCAD and now it is required to render it with materials to be presented to the clients. Hence, I was given the job the photoshop the materials into the floor plan. Instead of just rendering building interior, masterplan renderings are a lot harder and complicated as we need to render the surrounding context as well.

Eco Majestic Rumah Teres, Semenyih

In this week I’ve also went to site inspection with my colleague senior Architect, Mr. Malinja. We went all the way to Eco Majestic to inspect the completion of Rumah Teres units and check are they complying the Building By-Law. This is really eye opening and I’ve learnt what the requirements are when we design a residential house, which will be really helpful for me in designing.

In this week I’ve also helped out in preparation of submission drawings by helping them to arrange and fold the drawings for submission.

Week 3:

BP Anderson House renovation CAD Drawing

I’ve took a few more days in week 3 to complete the IJM Masterplan proposal rendering, and after that I am given a job that is to produce an AutoCAD drawing of the before and after renovation drawings of a client of the company before. In this project I am required to draw how the building look after renovation according to the photo taken at site. In this project I’ve learnt how to read AutoCAD drawings which is so detailed and complicated. More than that, I’ve also learnt how to draw the components in houses with more details and accuracy.

Week 4

PPA1M Precint 15 Proposal, Putrajaya

After completing the renovation CAD drawing, I’ve given a task to prepare a presentation drawing of a masterplan proposal from AutoCAD to show the different type of housings and surrounding context by using photoshop. The project is easier compared to the IJM as this only requires normal coloring instead of inserting materials to let it look realistic, which is also a good exercise for me in doing Photoshop. I have clearly felt more used and faster in doing Photoshop which definitely speeds up my efficiency.

Week 4 & 5

IJM Masterplan Medical Center building Proposal

This time in this project, IJM masterplan proposal, I am required to design concept of medical centre in the masterplan. I am given guidelines and directions of how the building should look and function as. The design should fit to the concept Green Carpet where it should be a green building with a lot of greeneries that they have a certain linkage between other buildings in the masterplan, either in appearance or connectivity. This is a very challenging project for me to design a building in such a big scale although it only requires the form and exterior of the building. The Architect

Nicholas Kang (Head of company) has reviewed my design a few times and he had given a lot inspiring comments and advice about how I should do the design. After a few modifications, I strongly felt the design changes into something more logical and workable, and of course more interesting.

In this project I’ve not only worked on Sketchup in 3D modelling, I’ve also learnt how to use Lumion 6.0 to render the building. This is a really good opportunity and exercise for me to learn rendering using Lumion and I felt that it is really good and useful for my future projects, in school or work. After producing the 3D model and rendering the model by using Lumion, then I proceed to photoshop to future touch up the whole image by adding lively-ness for example humans, birds, and etc to make the image look realistic and lively.

Week 5 & 6

IJM Masterplan Proposal

After completing the medical centre concept renderings, I’ve then needed to proceed and redo the renderings for IJM’s master plan as there are some changes in design. It definitely took me a long time to redo the renderings again as this time I am required to do it better and more visually tempting. After Ar. Kang reviewed the rendering he gave a lot of comment as it wasn’t good enough, like the focus are not strong enough at the most important things in the master plan and the materials are not sharp enough. Hence he gave me some advice and gave me another chance to modify the renderings. After the changes and he finally accepts the product. In this project I’ve learnt to be critical in doing presentation drawings where we need to let the client to know what are we trying to tell by just using our drawings. This project definitely also enhances my photoshop skills.

Week 7

PPA1M Precint 15 Proposal, Putrajaya

Week 7 I am given the job to produce the 3D of site plan of P15 masterplan in Putrajaya for client. I am given the job to firstly prepare the AutoCAD drawings to be ready for 3D making. This is a good exercise for me to learn about transforming AutoCAD to 3D in Sketchup. I am required to delete all the hidden lines and extra information in the AutoCAD drawings so that it won’t add extra load for the 3D file. After doing the 3D site then I am required to arrange the housing units into the plan. In this project I have known the importance of making your drawing and 3D model clean and less heavy as when we do such a big masterplan proposal it would be very time consuming and hard for your computer to support such a heavy file.

Week 8

The last week of internship I was given another task to hatch the AutoCAD drawing of the master plan of PPA1M Precint 15, Putrajaya. In this task I am required to hatch the plan in AutoCAD with solid colour according to their colour code that is set to differentiate different elements in the site, such as road, type of housing, pedestrian, pond and etc.

After completing the hatching I am given another task to create a list of schedule of number of houses and type of housing in the master plan by using Microsoft Excel.

More than that, I’ve been assigned to modify the drawings that has changes after sending to the consultant. The task allows me to enhance my autoCAD reading and drawing skills.

I’ve also been assigned to do calculation for building ventilation percentage of a project. This is the time that I had the chance to use what I’ve learnt in module Building Science. In this task I had learnt on how to calculate the percentage of openings over wall of a building that it complies the requirement or not.