1. INTERVIVEW WITH
MR. RAMESH
An Architect and and
An Interior Designer.
Page 3 : Ramesh a Double
Charmer.
Page 2: Experience as a
Lecturer.
Page4: Goals and Vision.
Page 5: Learn from your
mistakes.
Page 6: An asset of this Market.
Page 1 : Biography.

2. Mr. Ramesh starts his career
as an architectural manager in
1997 till 2006. After becoming a
senior architect, he worked with
Unit one design Sdn Bhd
‘’It was here where my real
exposure and training to design
and architecture took place under
the tutoring of my former bosses-
John Ding and Ken Wong’’
announced Mr. Ramesh.
There, he got the opportunity to
work on several projects and
international projects like in Hong
Kong, Philippines, and Japan.
Unit one design | interiors +
architecture 1

3. Experience As A
LecturerIn 2007 Mr. Ramesh left Unit one design thinking to join
international architectural firms, travel around the world
and work oversees. But at the same time, some of his
friends from Limkokwing University, request him to teach
there because he used to interviewed students from this
school and complain about them. He accepted to teach at
Limkokwing University as an Interior design lecturer.
Through this, he got a lot of Experiences.
‘’The most important thing
in Life: Is to have
EXPERIENCES
A client came back from Australia came at Limcokwing to
meet interior Design school for a small renovation.
Limkokwing encourage students to do outside projects, get
involve and have good practice and ask Mr. Ramesh to set a
competition between all his students for this renovation.
The competition could not take place knowing that all the
students have different course and different
timetable, which depends on the courses, chose by the
student.
Mr. Ramesh said: ‘‘ my students came
from different courses so it’s a bit
difficult to organize this competition. As
the client was stressed and didn’t know
what to do, I chose to do it myself for
fun and for free’’.
By Peerun Bibi Ameerah
Ramesh in this Office during
interview
La Risata Ampang
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4. While, working in Limkokwing, he
received a call from the same British
company that he went for interview for a
new project.
This was an opportunity for him to organize
his dream wedding with his wife in Bali in
2008.
While working for the British company, his
first official project was an apartment. While
working for Limkokwing he was at the same
time working for the British company as a
freelance.
After getting married in June 2008, he
resigned from Limkokwing as a lecturer to
start full time freelancing into Seshan
Design Sdn Bhd - his own freelance
architecture & design consultancy practice.
double
Charmer
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5. Goals and Vision
Mr. Ramesh Goals keep changing. The
biggest change of his life is to get married and
have a kid. After he gets married, he settled his
own office and that was never planed. After the
birth of his daughter his goals changed by
getting sufficient project, get enough money
and travel once a while. He used to dream to
be a famous architect, winning international
award and so on.
At the end of last year he started getting a few
interesting projects which have potential to get
into international magazines.
Now Mr. Ramesh's Goal is to be able to get into
bigger projects but he doesn't want to end up
like a big firm because according to him, big
firm can only do big projects and small
projects are too small to be considered.
He wants to stay in the same office and
reorganize it, such as an office where they can
do larger projects for example; they are getting
few apartments job. They are moving slowly to
get a big job and while moving into a big
firm, he still wants do to small projects like
restaurants. His vision is to create an
office, which does big and small projects where
the staff can choose the projects the want to do
and to get built.
Ramesh believes that by doing big projects
only, people can get bored, due to time
consuming and may want to change to smaller
projects as well. Mr. Ramesh wants to diversify
his projects by doing small and big projects at
the same time
Mr. Ramesh’s daughter
Mr. Ramesh’s office
Desa Ukay Condo complited end of
2011
The Bee at Publika, Solaris
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6. “Learn
From
Your
Mistake”
They are very selective about project.
They don't just take projects for the sake of
doing it. They do it for portfolio and for
learning. For example the hotel that they are
doing now, it is not the greatest one and it may
not be like a 5 stars hotel and not look
fantastic, but they are doing it to have
experience and learn about hotel design or for
hospitality design that will
be publishable.
Mr. Ramesh says: ‘’I have a
lot of friends working in
international firm for the past
three four years who do only big
project, they all get tired because
they keep on doing designs and
their project doesn't get build''
The side extension of
Menerung house ( in
construction)
Setiakasih House
completed in 2009
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7. An Asset
Of this
Market
Ramesh’s projects at Unit One Design were
very successful which satisfied all his clients.
When he decided to open his own office, these
customers decided to follow him due to the
quality of his work. That is how Mr. Ramesh
wins in this market; by receiving new project
from his establish customers and word of
mouth.
Ramesh never takes projects that he cannot
do because people remember and it plays on
the firm’s reputation. The most important is
not to do big project and have a lot of money
but to do sufficient projects that can be
completed in a precise delay and make the
client satisfied.
Some of his friends work in big firms and keep
doing only designs for 3 years. For them to
start a new project while the previous project is
still under the design process, they need to
resign and join another company because in
contrast to other companies, his projects are
done faster.
In big companies, their knowledge are very
narrow, they don’t have a diversify projects and
tasks. Mr. Ramesh Company does different
type of projects and all staff are involves in the
project, has different task and has the
opportunity to increase their skills.
He did a lot of fast-track
projects like restaurants and now
wants to move towards big projects
not as Twin Tower or KLCC but big
enough like apartments, hotels.
3D study model of
the Menerung Houce
( in construction)
Balcony on the 1st floor of
the Menerung House (In construction)
San Francisco Coffee at
Publika, Solaris Dutamas
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8. PICTURES
DURING THE
INTERVIEW
My Team with
Mr. Ramesh
During the interview During the interview
Mr. Ramesh showing some of his
portfolio after the interview.
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