Architect's Desk

The Architect's Desk was designed to respond to the architects' way of working. Two layers of tempered glass to be used as light box or storage, horizontal fins to store drawing rolls, and a clean,white cantilevered table structure, hooked to the wall made up the elegant and minimalist form of this table.

Design by Hafiz Amirrol and Tria Prabawati

Asia Afrika - Zoning and Programming

SAPPK Print Studio 2009-2010

Architectural Monograph - Offerings By Design

Offerings by Design

Architectural Monograph 1

Edited by Syed Sobri Zubir

Design by Fairuz Reza and Hafiz Amirrol

Offerings by Design is an attempt to generate alternative schemes of urban form in a locality where much contestation of cultural continuity has been debated. This monograph looks at the ritual of offerings practiced in the paradise island of Bali, Indonesia as a form of cultural sustainability that moulds and gives life to their built environment.

108 pages, extensive color and b/w illustrations

160 x 230mm, Paperback, 2010

ISBN 978-967-305-410-7

RM 35.00

IDR 100,000

USD 12.00

Email h.amirrol@gmail.com  for orders

Towards a Better City Design for Asia-Afrika, Bandung - Site Studies and Programming Studies

Site Studies for the future development of Jalan Asia-Afrika, Bandung, Indonesia. Click here for:

Volume 1 - Site Studies

Volume 2 - Program Analysis and Urban Design Strategies

ITB Campus Design Competition 2010

Competition entry for ITB Campus Design Competition sponsored by the Japan International Cooporation Agency (JICA) and Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia.

Design Team: Hafiz Amirrol, Chichi Asda, Enzeline Fransiska and Komang Tria Prabawati

Grameen Bank Housing Loan Project, Bangladesh

The Grameen Bank Housing Loan Project in Bangladesh was set up to support some of the poorest members of the rural community the means and materials of improved housing. Since its inception in 1984, the program has been helping to built more than 59,000 units of houses in 13,000 villages all around Bangladesh. Click here to read more...

Euralille: Centre International d’Affaires Lille

Lille, a formerly significant city, was leading a slightly melancholy existence. Once a mining and textile town, it had fallen into hard times. But the tunnel between England and the continent and the TGV network will transform Lille as if by magic and make it important in a completely synthetic way.

Rem Koolhaas, SMLXL, 1995

Facility programming studies on the development of Euralille master plan.

d3 Housing Tomorrow 2010 Exhibition Mexico

Convolution Dwelling, along with other winning and top submissions from the d3 Housing Tomorrow 2010 international architectural design competition has been selected for exhibition at UDESIGN Monterrey, one of the largest interdisciplinary art, architecture, and design events in Latin America. The conference, sponsored by the Universidad de Monterrey, will be held in Monterrey, Mexico from March 2 through March 4, 2010.  d3 anticipates over 1,500 invited guests at the opening event.

Curators: Prof. Gregory Marinic and Fernando Ignacio Lozano

Website: www.d3space.org

Rejuvenating an Ex-Mining Township

Bangka-Belitung…

dua pulau cantik di semenanjung bagian Barat Indonesia yang telah lebih dari tiga abad lamanya terus menerus

diperebutkan, digadaikan, diperjual-belikan, hingga akhirnya terpaksa rela menerima kemiskinan dan kekeringan…

kini bangkit untuk meraih kemenangan…

(terinspirasi dari buku Kepulauan Bangka-Belitung, 2003)

Bangka-Belitung

two beautiful islands in the western part of peninsula Indonesia

which has been continuously contested, pawned, traded for more than three decades

and finally forced to accept poverty and drought…

is now back to gain victory…

(inspired by the book Bangka-Belitung, 2003)

Landscape Urbanism design competition entry for the re-development of new landscape for the Bangka-Belitung Ecological Park, Indonesia, 2010

Competition Website: www.sayembara-babel.com

Design Team: Hafiz Amirrol, Komang Tria Prabawati, Chichi Asda and Enzeline Fransiska (Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia) in collaboration with Shindi Indira and Dila Andini (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)

Convolution Dwelling - Final Design Proposal

Design Team:

Hafiz Amirrol and Chichi Asda (Architectural Design)

Chairul Maulidi (Urban Design)

Reagen Mulia (Landscape Design)

Tutors and Juries:

Dr. Baskoro Tedjo, Ir. Achmad Tardiyana, Ridwan Kamil (Architecture)

Dr. Woerjantari Kartidjo, Dr. Widjaja Martokusumo (Urban Design)

Dr. Budi Faisal (Landscape Design)

Researching Romo Mangun

Click here for the analysis presentation.

Designing New Futures: A Design Approach Analysis for Lapangan Gasibu

Design approach analysis for a subversive design intervention at Lapangan Gasibu, Bandung, Indonesia. This analysis combines transgressive design approaches in subverting the current condition of the site, which is one of the most important site for the city of Bandung.

Evening Video Presentation: Eko Prawoto

Arsitektur tidak seharusnya menjadi suatu entitas yang lepas, bahkan sebaliknya harus menjagai integritas eksisting nya. Berarsitektur merupakan proses bekerja kolektif, karya yang diwujudkan ditumbuhkan dari 'dalam' dan diharapkan merupakan ungkapan nyata dari kebersamaan komunitas. Dan sekalipun relatif dalam porsi kecil, arsitek dapat berperan di dalamnya..... (Eko Prawoto, Agustus 2008)

Architect: Eko Prawoto

Date: Thursday, 17 December 2009

Time: 1600 WIB

Venue: Galeri Arsitektur, SAPPK, ITB

Guest Lecturer: Dr. Budi Faisal

Video Courtesy from Cemeti Art House and Eko Prawoto

Kampung Activity as Spatial Assemblage

Industri Dalam - Measuring Accessibility Through Urban Parameters and Space Syntax Analysis

In creating a robust neighborhood, both empirical and parametric based behavioral analyses were conducted to improve the connectivity, networks and configurations of built forms of the proposal. By introducing strong paths as the primary circulation route, connecting dwelling clusters, nodes and public spaces within the site have proved to increase the quality of the site’s value of integration and connectivity

The modified connectivity route allows for the implementation of our concept in integrating modern yet regionalist dwelling system that will encourage and allow the spirit of communality or ‘paguyuban’. A clear direction in structuring the connectivity of the area helps in creating a self-sustaining compact neighborhood, and this design approach is a response from the locality of the site itself.

*Urban Parameters Analysis by Chairul Maulidi, with empirical analysis by Reagen Mulia, Chichi Asda and Hafiz Amirrol, ITB 2009

The Youth Monument, Bandung

Design proposal by Hafiz Amirrol, Firman Irmansyah, Edy Subangkit and Michael Lengkey for Public Space Design Competition, IAI, 2009.

Evening Video Presentation: Rem Koolhaas

Architect: Rem Koolhaas (OMA)
Date: Friday, 4 December 2009
Time: 1500 WIB
Venue: Galeri Arsitektur, SAPPK, ITB
Guest Lecturer: Achmad Deni Tardiyana

Preserving the Spirit of 'Guyub' in High Density Dwelling

The idea of the massing layout and clusters configurations is to create a spatial quality where high density dwelling can still be appreciated with a decent quality of open and green space. Each layer of the higher units will have access as if they are still at the ground level. This will allow people to meander around the neighborhood without having to feel that they are being separated by the multi-layered building structure, and will also allow a more permeable collective dwelling system.

Simultaneity, continuity and ephemerally characterize the flowing public spaces, therefore is an assemblage of the different dwelling clusters. This strategy is hoped to preserve the spirit of communality, or better known as 'guyub', which have existed in the current collective dwelling lifestyle of the society, even their dwelling units will be transformed almost vertically. 

Design Team:

Hafiz Amirrol and Chichi Asda (Architectural Design)

Chairul Maulidi (Urban Design)

Reagen Mulia (Landscape Design)

Modular Construction for Units' Infill

We are seeing the design of this housing proposal as an ongoing process, not as a finite product designed by the architects. To implement the idea of this ongoing process of development and flexibility of change, the non-structural building skins (exterior and interior) can be easily change by later intervention by the users themselves. Infill panels such as window frames, wall panels, ventilation panels, etc. were designed as modular units, thus allowing them to be altered based on future needs. However, these changes are being limited only within a controlled and allowable perimeter, pre-determined and planned by the architects. This is to control and prevent unwanted growth of the units that may results to structural problems as well as other planning problems such as layout configurations, uniformity and ventilation flow.

Design Team: Hafiz Amirrol and Chichi Asda