LAr. Safiy Zakwan Baseri is currently a Landscape Architect at Gamuda Land. Graduated in 2012 from University Teknologi Mara Malaysia (Uitm), he was an active member of the student society there, eventually appointed as the President of ALAM (Assembly of Landscape Architecture Students Malaysia) where UiTM Shah Alam was the organizer in 2011. He was awarded also with an excellence award (Student Category) at the MLAA (Malaysian Landscape Architecture Award) 2013.
He comes from an island up north - Langkawi, where tourism and agriculture are the key economy. The island itself is rich in cultures, legends and natural resources. An island built on values of its history and community. He cherishes the place that he grew up in, making him the person he is today. Through the years of learning in the university, he started to understand the arts & design, historical aspect of landscape and the method of shaping the land. Those knowledges excited him and making it clearer of the potential that he could do for the sake of environment, cultural enrichment and even the community. Afterwards, he worked with one of the local consultants Morphosis Design as an assistant landscape architect and he was accepted to join a multi-national township developer - Gamuda Land at the same position. He was then given the opportunity to support on upcoming developments and planning from the design stage up to the completion.
In 2016, he developed his position as a Senior Landscape Architect, and broadening his responsibilities to strategize the landscape briefs, developing and managing Junior Landscape Architects in term of technical skills, talents and communication skills. Other than that, with his team, he has the opportunity to learn more on the cultural aspects of the surrounding community especially the orang Asli circle. Safiy received his certification as a professional landscape architect in 2018 and currently working with the company in managing the landscape design, planning and developing sustainable policies as well. As a certified LAr, this position challenged him to be more diligent in order to assist the Head of Landscape Department. The biggest goal is to develop a new sustainable policy that will spearhead the company’s direction in township developments. In 2021, he was promoted to Manager and as the team is growing bigger, and the landscape department is seen as one of the locomotives for sustainable design, in which he was given the trust to lead.
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