{"id":161587,"date":"2022-01-11T16:45:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T16:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=161587"},"modified":"2022-01-11T16:54:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T16:54:30","slug":"iium-student-wins-first-place-in-architecture-category-at-14th-ayda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=161587","title":{"rendered":"IIUM student wins first place in architecture category at 14th AYDA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Wahida&nbsp;Fitriah&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOMBAK, 12 January 2022: In conjunction with\u00c2\u00a0the 14<sup>th<\/sup>\u00c2\u00a0Asia Young Designer Awards\u00c2\u00a0(AYDA), Muhammad Afzal Bin Asmi\u00c2\u00a0from\u00c2\u00a0Kulliyyah\u00c2\u00a0of Architecture and Environmental Design (KAED), won first place\u00c2\u00a0in the architectural\u00c2\u00a0category.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand,&nbsp;Amirah Afiqah,&nbsp;a&nbsp;student&nbsp;at&nbsp;City University of Malaysia&nbsp;won the&nbsp;first prize in the interior design category.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AYDA&nbsp;has become&nbsp;synonym&nbsp;among architectural&nbsp;and&nbsp;interior design&nbsp;students&nbsp;in Malaysia since it is an annual&nbsp;prestigious competition&nbsp;organised by&nbsp;Nippon Paint Malaysia in collaboration with IJM Land&nbsp;Berhad.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite&nbsp;Malaysia&#8217;s facing&nbsp;the pandemic throughout 2021,&nbsp;the students&nbsp;were persistent to&nbsp;participate in the competition, hence,&nbsp;AYDA received&nbsp;1,276 entries for both architectural and interior design categories.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AYDA was held for the&nbsp;second time during the pandemic&nbsp;of&nbsp;2021. So, due to the&nbsp;constraints of&nbsp;COVID-19,&nbsp;activities&nbsp;such as&nbsp;personalised&nbsp;coaching and mentoring for the participants were conducted virtually.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In regard to&nbsp;the theme FORWARD: Amplifying Empathy Through Design,&nbsp;focusing on&nbsp;the multiple functions&nbsp;and stability of the&nbsp;building&nbsp;structure, Muhammad Afzal and Amirah Afiqah&nbsp;had successfully widened the&nbsp;scope&nbsp;of architectural design&nbsp;considering their impressive concept and innovation,&nbsp;thoughtful perspectives&nbsp;and the ability&nbsp;to&nbsp;meet&nbsp;consumers needs as well as the requirements of the theme.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group Managing Director of Nippon Paint, Mr. Yaw Seng Heng said, \u0153In the current&nbsp;era&nbsp;of architectural and interior design, designers creativity is needed to balance between&nbsp;commercial value and incorporating&nbsp;the elements of nature as well as&nbsp;consumers emotions.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afzals&nbsp;project,&nbsp;which&nbsp;is better known as&nbsp;Sejahtera Community&nbsp;Centre,&nbsp;aimed&nbsp;to&nbsp;enhance&nbsp;the quality of life&nbsp;of local entrepreneurs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile Amirahs&nbsp;innovation emphasised&nbsp;on mangrove&nbsp;for the purposes of commercial, social,&nbsp;educational&nbsp;and&nbsp;conservation of its habitat.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As representatives of Malaysia,&nbsp;Afzal and Amirah will be&nbsp;competing&nbsp;with&nbsp;participants from 16 other&nbsp;countries&nbsp;in presenting their projects internationally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If&nbsp;they win the first place&nbsp;for both categories, they will be sponsored to&nbsp;join&nbsp;the&nbsp;Design Discovery programme&nbsp;for six weeks&nbsp;at&nbsp;University Graduate School of Design in Boston, America. ***&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source:&nbsp;Remaja&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Wahida&nbsp;Fitriah&nbsp; GOMBAK, 12 January 2022: In conjunction with\u00c2\u00a0the 14th\u00c2\u00a0Asia Young Designer Awards\u00c2\u00a0(AYDA), Muhammad Afzal Bin Asmi\u00c2\u00a0from\u00c2\u00a0Kulliyyah\u00c2\u00a0of Architecture and Environmental Design (KAED), won first place\u00c2\u00a0in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":161588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,114,11,8,19,3,24],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[156,12,180],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/photo_2022-01-12_00-11-16.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161587"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161604,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161587\/revisions\/161604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/161588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}