Wednesday 10 December 2014
Project 1: My community My Commitment
Introduction:
In this only project, we are in group of 10 to identify an
environmental-community related issue in your local community.
The issues have to be genuine and any solution had to be provided
by my team must have an impact to the environment and community. We were
required to visit my project site to collect more information for further step
in our project. The site we chose was an orphanage, name Rumah Charis.
Collaborating with the Food Aid
Foundation, an organisation that is a non-profit that operate as a food bank
with primary objective of providing basic food to charitable homes,
rehabilitation centres, feeding centres, poor families and destitute, our
design is based mainly on how to provide food stall for them so it is easier to
distribute the food during charity event. Food Aid Foundation was managed by
professionals with experience in the food services industry and supported by a
team of staff comprising of employees and volunteers, with a pool of cooks and
drivers, that are ready to serve those in need.
The material that our group
proposed is highly recyclable and most of it can be reuse so we can save more
on the environment. Our material consist of reuse wood and plywood, reuse pvc
pipes and fitting, nails, sand paper, shellac, screws and metal hinges. The pvc
pipes are used as table stand legs. It’s easy to assemble, light, and has a
strong tensile strength which is one of the strongest when compared to any
plastic. Wood is used as a base to keep the food on it as wood produce such
strength for compression of the weight. Wood is also chosen because its easy to
recycle it back or reused it for other purpose.
Here is some photos which show the progress of us making the “food stall” and the moment we having
fun with the orphans:
Here is the link of the video made:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP5oTlnWorY&feature=youtu.beHere is our report:
https://word.office.live.com/wv/WordView.aspx?FBsrc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fdownload%2Ffile_preview.php%3Fid%3D790364404355224%26time%3D1418232805%26metadata&access_token=100001104519123%3AAVKkuhdvC8OhTb-aff6yiYZLNvK6woDimn_opY7dxqoU3w&title=ENVIRONMENTAL+SUSTAINABLE+DESIGN+final.docx
Reflection:
Through this project I realized and recognized the role and
responsibility of an architect towards environment and society. This project
gave me a chance to involve creativity in attempting to explore the current
environmental circumstances.
