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ARC 2625 INTERNSHIP REPORT STUDENT NAME : CHIEW SWEE MUN STUDENT ID : 1007P79022

Abstract

This report aims to describe the learning outcome during my internship, which

took place from January 13rd to March 14th 2014 (8 weeks) at LOOK DESIGN

ARCHITECT (LDA) in Kuala Lumpur, under the responsibility of Ms Shahira.

In this Practicum 2, it was categorized into two modules which areARC2613

Working Drawings (Detailing) and ARC2622 Working Drawings

(Documentation).

The main goal of my internship was to learn the requirements, activities and

operations involved in working in the architectural / construction industry in

Malaysia. Firstly, I will present the context of my internship, with the subject

and the company environment. Secondly, I will show the organization of this

internship, with the order of the different tasks and explanations about

organizational issues. Thirdly, I will expose the technical aspect of my

internship, in order of showing the technical choices and issues I had to face

with. Then, I will present an outcome on this internship, to show the interest of

this internship for both the company and myself, and to expose my experience

feedback.


Introduction

Look Design Architect (LDA), is an architecture firm registered under

Lembaga Arkitek Malaysia (Registration No.: SP/L 335) that located Batu 3,

Jalan Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur. It was established in the year of 2008, by the

principal architect, Ar. Look Chee Meng. Mr Look had decided to study

architecture since he was young, and took his bachelor degree program at

University College London (UCL). He further obtained his Ar. title and started

involved in construction field. At the earlier stage, the company had gone

through some relocation of the office building around Jalan Ipoh area. Mr

Look also had a partnership with another architecture firm, which is

ARCHITRON, before he detached and established his own company.

The current office‟s location of LDA is at No.4, Jalan Berkok, Off Jalan Ipoh,

51100 Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia. It is a 2-storey terrace house which its ground

floor is transformed into a studio(Figure 1.0)(Figure 1.2) and the upper floor is

remained as residence for Mr Look‟s family (Figure 1.3). The company is now

operating with the concept of home studio, that able to provide relax and

comfortable working environment. Sometimes it is preferred to be called as a

studio, but not an office. The building is renovated to add some green features

for eco-friendly and energy saving purpose. The ground floor studio has an

open courtyard for receiving natural lighting and ventilation during day time,

with some plantations that giving us fresh sense and good eye view.

The company‟s name, LDA, came from Mr Look‟s surname, but it actually

also can be annotated as “Life, Design, Art” or “Life, Design Attitude”, which

has become the company‟s motto and objective.


Projects

Interior renovation project of old shop lot (HIAP CHEONG REALTY

SDN.BHD.) The site (Figure 2.1) is located at 77, Jalan Ipoh. Kuala Lumpur.

The programme is to reorganise the floor plan layout in more security, and

suitable for their nature of work. At 15th January, Mr Ar. Look had assigned

me going for site measure and returns accurate floor plans (Figure 2.2) by

using Auto CAD and also produces a 3D sketchup model (Figure 2.3). In this

task, I‟m enjoyed the process during site measure and recording data (Figure

2.4) (Figure 2.5). Besides that, I had learned how to assign grid line, standard

thickness of the wall, size of doors/windows, spaces, fire escape, natural

ventilation& building by law of an shop lot in Kuala Lumpur during CAD at the

design stage.

The second project that I had involved which located in Country Home,

Rawang. Selangor. It is a façade design project for abandoned shop lot

(Figure 3.1). At first the client wanted to demolish the whole shop lot and

rebuilt it since the building it is an old fashion, but then Mr Ar. Look had

proposed to redesign the façade of the building in more practical and

economical way rather demolish the whole building. The design scheme is

adding the billboard on the building facade to increase the sense of colour,

and also built in the triangle steel-structure platform for vertical farming (sun

shading device & green purpose) to cover the old facade (Figure 3.2). In this

task, I had assigned to involve some part of design, produced Construction

drawing (Figure 3.3)& Elevations drawing (Figure 3.4) by using Auto CAD.

During this project, I had learned the aesthetic of design and also learned how

to draw the construction detail drawing.

The third project that I had involved is 44-storeyhigh rise building, Beverly

Heights – Block A& B (Figure 4.1) located in Hulu Kelang, Gombak, Selangor

Darul Eshan. This project consume a lot of time, because the clients kept on

changing their demands. At first Mr Ar. Look assigned me to arrange the

furniture into the floor plan by using Auto CAD for presentation purpose

(Figure 4.2). Throughout this task I had learned some standard dimension of

furniture, the size of spaces, and the quality of living. After that, Mr Ar. Look

had given me a task which is design the circulation/ path for this building

(Figure 4.3). In this task, I have learnt building by law of high rise building, the

length (meter) between fire staircases, (e.g. from the building death end run

though a fire staircase, the escape path required at least 10 meters; from a

fire staircase run through another fire staircase, the escape path in between

can be maximum up to 60 meters) the size of fire lift, the width of corridor, the

connection of the circulation (e.g. transfer staircase). In addition, I had


involved to arranging the parking lots (Figure 4.3) for this project and last to

produce set of working drawing (Figure 4.4) by using Auto CAD. In this task,

using (8400mm x 8400mm) grid line to set up the column into the basement

car park area, thus it can fit 3 parking lots in between the columns; it is the

most efficiency way for car park arrangement. Due to the clients keep

requesting some changes of design; the floor plans and the elevations (Figure

4.5) are affected; so far this project had not conclude yet.

For project Seksyen 16, Bungalow located at Petaling Jaya. Selangor. Mr Ar.

Look had assigned me to in charge the B.P which is Building Plan. In this task,

I had learned how to fill in a set of form with title „‟BORANG‟‟, calculation the

basic costing, and checked to check list (Figure 5.1). During week 5, I had

went to the MBPJ (Majlis Bandaraya Petaling Jaya) (Figure 5.2) located at

Jalan Yong Shook Lin to do consultation (Figure 5.3). I found out that

indifferent areas, the authorities‟ have their own format, procedures and

requirements with regards planning or building submission drawings, and

different way for folding the submission drawings paper (from A1 fold into A4

size).(Figure 5.4)

During week 6, I went to a site visit located in Cheras. It is 24-storey

apartment, The Imperial Residency.(Figure 6.1) It is my first time visit a high

rise construction site, it let me more understand the construction process and

the construction method e.g. the most interesting is the transfer beam for high

rise building.


Lastly, I gain lots of experiences and skills during these 8 weeks practical.

My special thanks go to Ar. Look Chee Meng, the Principal Architect of Look

Design Architect) and his wife Madam Tan Su Yin for the acceptance of giving

me a chance to accomplish my industrial training program in the firm. They

are also giving me a lot of valuable advises and knowledge during the training

period. I would also like to express my sincere gratitude to my senior

colleagues Zaki Maghfur, Yong Soo Yung, Low San Sit and Look Su Fong for

giving me lots of support and helping me to improve my theoretical and

practical skills in the field of Architecture, and also willing to spend their time

to help me solving any queries during the whole training period. Besides, I

would also wish to thank the interns that had worked together in the firm.

Thanks to Tang Zhi Jun and Gan Wen Huang for giving me helps and support

in the work. Deepest thanks to everyone in the company for giving me a

pleasure and comfortable working environment. (Figure 7.1)

„‟Thank You‟‟


Figure 1.0: Overall view of ground floor studio (LDA).

Figure 1.2: Overall view of ground floor studio (LDA).


Figure 1.3: The upper floor (LDA) is remained as residence for Mr Look‟s

family.


Figure 2.1: Site photo. Front view of HIAP CHEONG REALTY SDN.BHD.

located at 77, Jalan Ipoh. Kuala Lumpur.

Figure 2.2: Ground Floor Plan & First Floor Plan of HIAP CHEONG REALTY

SDN.BHD. (Before & After)


Figure 2.3: 3D Sketch Model of HIAP CHEONG REALTY SDN.BHD.

Figure 2.4: Measurement & Data recording on paper.


Figure 2.5: Draft. Rearrange floor plan layout.


Figure 3.1: Site photo. Abandoned shop lot located at Country Home, Rawang.

Selagor.

Figure 3.2: Façade design. 3D Sketchup Rendering.

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Figure 3.3: Section A-A & B-B.

Figure 3.4: Front Elevation


Figure 4.1: The view of Beverly Height – Block A& Block B. Sketchup

Rendering.

Block A

Block B


Figure 4.2: Penthouse Corner Duplex. Completed Floor Plan with furniture

blocks are going to present by Mr Ar.Look to the clients.

Figure 4.3: Arranging circulation/ path way, fire escape & parking lots.

Figure 4.4: Working Drawings of Beverly Heights.


Drawing No: 00

Drawing No: 01


Drawing No: 02

Drawing No: 03


Drawing No: 04

Drawing No: 05


Drawing No: 06

Drawing No: 07


Drawing No: 08

Drawing No: 09


Drawing No: 10

Drawing No: 11


Drawing No: 12

Drawing No: 13


Drawing No: 14

Figure 4.5: Elevations of Beverly Heights in Auto CAD.


Figure 5.1: „‟Borang‟‟ form from MBPJ.


Figure 5.2: Visit MBPJ for consultation.


Figure 5.3: MBPJ. Interior.


Figure 5.4: Format of title block &format of foldingfor MBPJ.


Figure 6.1: Construction Site – Imperial Residency located in Cheras.


Figure 7.1: LDA Chinese New Year‟s Annual Dinner.

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