16 Prefabricated Modular - final presentation 5/6

Another 4-girl group, Preaw, Oil, Pear and Nam. They began with the idea of making something simple and easy to build by something in modular system and also it could be able to pre-fabricated from a factory. So at the site, you just have to assemble everything to become a building They found fishing net quite interesting because while it is in a modular system, it is very flexible - so perhaps it can be used to accomodate with uneven slopes in the site.


The one-to-one-scale model made out of PET bottles, which is one of the biggest garbage around...They wanted to communicate this modular, pre-fabricated system and moreover, if possible, some recycle materials. The small space was cover by the so-called net structure by hanging.



After coming back from Phi Phi Island, they explored several structures to meet their concept of prefabricated and flexiblity.



The structure system that could become different architectural parts that could accommodate different activities.


Very nice and interesting models.


The most difficult part in their project is to map everything on to the site.



The final project.

12 Water Collector - final presentation 1/6

Benz, Zing, Name and Tool came up with this idea of a building that besides the required functions, it should be able to act as a rain water collector and preserve. Although presently, the school has several rain water preserve tanks, they are not enough to keep water to spend for the whole year. They began with the idea of big roofs that act as rain water collectors. When the rain water falls from one level to another, it could create a temporary wall. Also water tanks could be part of some walls of the building.


They got the idea from visiting the Sea Gypsy Village where the villagers just use simple metal sheet to get water from the roof into their simple containers.


The roof diagrams.




The mapping of the rain directions and contours of the site. Since the do not want to cut the big trees in the site, the only area where they can build the big roofs is only on the left part of the site.


The models during the design process.

The one-to-one scale model at the site.

The final planning of the project. The main space for all the training activities is a big space on the front part of the building, also a big roof to collect the most water for the building itself and the school. The small rooms on the back of the site are the guest rooms where the smaller roofs could collect water to be used within each unit.


The lower level of the building is simply toilet and water tanks.



The final model. The space in between the buildings is quite nice pleasant. Congratulations guys! You did quite a good job.

02 How to Make a Notebook: the 1 st lesson

The first lesson of the class for our Phi Phi Design Build Workshop is how to make a notebook. The notebook will be used in the class, during the workshop. It will have to be the documentation tool to map your ideas... - the first lesson of how to be a 'good' designer.

The main reference is from this book, Interaction Desing Premier ( vol. 1), published by Postmedia Books Milan. It is a book written by all the people I know very well: Stefano Mirti, Walter Aprile and Britta Boland. They are an architect, a computer scientist, and a graphic designer who worked and taught together at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea for five years. The book is about 'how to design' anything, not only interaction design.



It gives you a reference of design and how it works with technology from quite a radical approach. The significant point of the book is that the book is printed only the chapter overview. The rest is in the DVD attached to the book, where you have video clips and so on too. :)



The making of your own notebook requires a lot of careful thoughts: from what is your habit, how you use the notebook, where you will use it, where to buy the materials and tools...and so on. It is quite elaborated process..

These are some sample pages from the book. The graphic is quite nice: a compliment to Britta.



Then we discussed about some example of a notebook and its owner. Here is Pim and her fancy Moleskine notebook with an elastic band and a little pocket inside.


The student presented the notebooks they made upon the class situation and the workshop. Here are some interesting ones, few out of 24.

Here is Name's notebook. His notebook is all waterproof! Instead of paper, he uses plastic with waterproof pen... well, this allows no mistake of drawing and writing..


Toey's notebook has three kinds of paper: normal 80-gram paper, water color paper and tracing paper for any purpose you can imagine.


This is Joe's notebook. Perhaps the most popular one. He likes to skecth very much, and most of the time he has a problem comparing his old sketches with the new ones.. because of way the pages are binded together. His solution is this special binding that you can move and flip the page on both sides.. so you can see two or three pages at the same time. although they are not binded next to each other. :O


Well, the binding is a little bit complex - personally I don't understand it completely still.. but it is nice and interesting. :)

The last one if Fam's notebook, a very organized one. She divides her notebook into two parts: the metric which could fit the sketch, the concept and the context at the same time, the other one is called mind mapping part, where she could make diagrams into more or less unlimited space....:O




Well, hope the notebooks are good enough to keep all the good ideas for the building then!