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Papers by Hailane Salam
The Malaysia Architectural Education Conference, 2012
The intention of this paper is to share the experiences from the recent Urban Design Research Lab... more The intention of this paper is to share the experiences from the recent Urban Design Research Laboratory (UDRL), Centre of Studies for Architecture brief studios at four international venues in the last two years. These programmes were made possible from the Students Mobility Fund given by the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia to all IPTAs to promote and expose students to international academic opportunities; thus developing knowledge and skills needed to become productive members of the global community. The theme of the collaborative urban design workshop was based on 'The Potentialities of Places' which focused on the potential and dilemma of global cities. The study aims to fill in the gap in the literature by investigating the programme that promotes students' creative imagination in generating new ideas on contemporary urban living and working conditions. Through identifying and analyzing these foundations that the UDRL posits itself as a hub to promote extensive international design research network, based on a reflexive structure of cultural exchange and knowledge transfer. This paper delineates some of the projects conducted at four different venues in Poznan, Sydney, Oxford and Berlin. Furthermore, the results of the study provided support to how this practice-oriented laboratory can foster a creative atmosphere which oscillates between thinking and making in order to generate solutions to real world problems.
UiTM Sarawak Conference 2012: A c a d e m i cTransformation through Strategic Collaboration, 2012
ABSTRACT Architectural design projects allow students to develop designs through a creative lear... more ABSTRACT
Architectural design projects allow students to develop designs through a creative learning process of exploration. Various programmes have been conducted by Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Shah Alam, in communicating diverse ideas to promote dialogue on emerging definitions of design as a tool for innovation. The Urban Design Research Laboratory (UDRL), UiTM, has successfully organized international urban design workshops, which are concerned with site specificity, with the first being in Poznan, the second in Sydney, and most recently, in Berlin and Oxford, with the main objective to generate urban design concepts and ideas. Realizing that international exposure is the key to success in today's world, these programmes have allowed students to engage with local expertise, academicians and others from the industries to resolve local complex problems using the method of ‘extreme innovation’. In the spirit of collaborative engagement, these workshops promote cross-cultural exchange of ideas and creative learning strategies. However, the international collaboration setting is often a challenge for students in addressing cross-cultural differences in design regulations and issues in specific countries while exploring diverse ideas and generating ideal solutions in these programmes. The crux of this paper is to share the experiences as well as the outcomes of the workshops. Many positive results are gained from these international collaborations with student-centred design methods that are flexible, appropriate and inclusive generating greater students’ awareness. By analyzing the value of the workshops to students’ ability to explore, these programmes would enable us to establish some amicable new directions that can improve the creativity of future students. It is hoped that a clear picture of design exploration methods in the programmes could benefit the overall success and impact on academics in preparing the students to excel and meet the global challenges.
This paper argues for a much broader role of Green Building by emphasising the relevance of spiri... more This paper argues for a much broader role of Green Building by emphasising the relevance of spiritual aspect to its practice values. It focuses on a worldview that is grounded in Islamic intellectual tradition that promotes a holistic vision of sustainability with three major aims. Firstly, it is to present a critical evaluation of the secular view of current Green Building practice that relies on rating systems as a measurement of value. Secondly, this paper seeks to highlight the fact that the spiritual aspect is absolutely essential, which seems to be the underlying quality that is missing in today’s society. We have lost the spiritual understanding of nature that has been embedded in our tradition, particularly in the traditional Malay architecture. Lastly, it is to provide an alternative worldview by learning from the tradition that holds the most promise for sustainability. It connects revelations that contain a spiritual message for humans with its symbolic cosmology with all...
The Malaysia Architectural Education Conference, 2012
The intention of this paper is to share the experiences from the recent Urban Design Research Lab... more The intention of this paper is to share the experiences from the recent Urban Design Research Laboratory (UDRL), Centre of Studies for Architecture brief studios at four international venues in the last two years. These programmes were made possible from the Students Mobility Fund given by the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia to all IPTAs to promote and expose students to international academic opportunities; thus developing knowledge and skills needed to become productive members of the global community. The theme of the collaborative urban design workshop was based on 'The Potentialities of Places' which focused on the potential and dilemma of global cities. The study aims to fill in the gap in the literature by investigating the programme that promotes students' creative imagination in generating new ideas on contemporary urban living and working conditions. Through identifying and analyzing these foundations that the UDRL posits itself as a hub to promote extensive international design research network, based on a reflexive structure of cultural exchange and knowledge transfer. This paper delineates some of the projects conducted at four different venues in Poznan, Sydney, Oxford and Berlin. Furthermore, the results of the study provided support to how this practice-oriented laboratory can foster a creative atmosphere which oscillates between thinking and making in order to generate solutions to real world problems.
UiTM Sarawak Conference 2012: A c a d e m i cTransformation through Strategic Collaboration, 2012
ABSTRACT Architectural design projects allow students to develop designs through a creative lear... more ABSTRACT
Architectural design projects allow students to develop designs through a creative learning process of exploration. Various programmes have been conducted by Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Shah Alam, in communicating diverse ideas to promote dialogue on emerging definitions of design as a tool for innovation. The Urban Design Research Laboratory (UDRL), UiTM, has successfully organized international urban design workshops, which are concerned with site specificity, with the first being in Poznan, the second in Sydney, and most recently, in Berlin and Oxford, with the main objective to generate urban design concepts and ideas. Realizing that international exposure is the key to success in today's world, these programmes have allowed students to engage with local expertise, academicians and others from the industries to resolve local complex problems using the method of ‘extreme innovation’. In the spirit of collaborative engagement, these workshops promote cross-cultural exchange of ideas and creative learning strategies. However, the international collaboration setting is often a challenge for students in addressing cross-cultural differences in design regulations and issues in specific countries while exploring diverse ideas and generating ideal solutions in these programmes. The crux of this paper is to share the experiences as well as the outcomes of the workshops. Many positive results are gained from these international collaborations with student-centred design methods that are flexible, appropriate and inclusive generating greater students’ awareness. By analyzing the value of the workshops to students’ ability to explore, these programmes would enable us to establish some amicable new directions that can improve the creativity of future students. It is hoped that a clear picture of design exploration methods in the programmes could benefit the overall success and impact on academics in preparing the students to excel and meet the global challenges.
This paper argues for a much broader role of Green Building by emphasising the relevance of spiri... more This paper argues for a much broader role of Green Building by emphasising the relevance of spiritual aspect to its practice values. It focuses on a worldview that is grounded in Islamic intellectual tradition that promotes a holistic vision of sustainability with three major aims. Firstly, it is to present a critical evaluation of the secular view of current Green Building practice that relies on rating systems as a measurement of value. Secondly, this paper seeks to highlight the fact that the spiritual aspect is absolutely essential, which seems to be the underlying quality that is missing in today’s society. We have lost the spiritual understanding of nature that has been embedded in our tradition, particularly in the traditional Malay architecture. Lastly, it is to provide an alternative worldview by learning from the tradition that holds the most promise for sustainability. It connects revelations that contain a spiritual message for humans with its symbolic cosmology with all...