Syamin Amira Muriddan
Master of Architecture
Manchester School of Architecture
Specialisms: Architecture / Interior Design / Illustration
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
Syamin Amira Muriddan
First Name: Syamin Amira
Last Name: Muriddan
Specialisms: Architecture / Interior Design / Illustration
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My Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
University / College: Manchester School of Architecture
Course / Program Title: Master of Architecture
About
Recently graduated with a Master of Architecture (Part II) from Manchester School of Architecture, with a multidisciplinary foundation spanning urbanism, adaptive reuse, climate-responsive design, and architectural recursivity. Grounded in a passion for place, community, and imaginative interventions, my approach merges creative thinking with social purpose—positioning architecture as a tool for meaningful spatial and urban transformation.
As part of the Flux atelier at MSA, I developed a thesis in collaboration with LandSec U+I under The Future of the Future brief, exploring play as a civic and design strategy for participatory regeneration. This experience strengthened my ability to engage with real-world stakeholders and design for complex, evolving urban contexts.
Prior to my postgraduate studies, I trained under the LAM Part I qualification and gained professional experience across architectural, interior, and visualisation disciplines in Malaysia. From conceptual design to technical documentation, interior fit-outs to architectural storytelling through visuals, I have worked on diverse project scales with a strong eye for detail and design coherence.
The City Playhouse envisions play as a civic instrument—an architecture of care, connection, and collective imagination. Developed through a collaboration between the university, myself as the student, and LandSec U+I under the brief The Future of the Future, the project explores how play can serve as a temporal and spatial agent for urban transformation. More than a building, the City Playhouse is a prototype for participatory regeneration. Comprising a gallery, storehouses, a makerspace, a design studio, and a sorting facility—interwoven by a raised logistical corridor—it forms an infrastructural network for creativity, care, and exchange. Designed with a modular kit-of-parts approach, the architecture draws from recycled steel and circular material strategies to support adaptability and long-term resilience. From Placemaking to Playmaking, the thesis proposes a framework where incremental, playful interventions seed deeper systemic change. Beginning with speculative exercises in Flux:Labs and evolving through public co-design initiatives, the project culminates in a trail of site-responsive installations—inviting communities to imagine, construct, and reshape their urban futures. Grounded in the industrial legacy of its context yet open to the unknown, the City Playhouse challenges conventional notions of permanence. It positions architecture not as a fixed object, but as a living scaffold—capable of evolving alongside the city and its citizens. Through joy, reuse, and imagination, it poses a provocation: could play constitute a new architectural paradigm for the future?
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