Isabelle Fleming BDES2027 2020 Let Every Voice Be Heard
Isabelle Fleming 490356814 BDES2027 2020 Group 5A Tutors: Rob Brown & Jed Long
RAW Impact is an Australian non-profit organization saving families and helping build the safe community they deserve. Families living in poverty in Cambodia often live in shanty, leanto houses that are unstable and unliveable in the rainy season. RAW Impact works with local village leaders to partner with these families in building new homes that not only lift them up out of the dirt and the flood zone but also lifts them up to realise new hopes and dreams for themselves and their family. They have started constructing homes out of treated bamboo as a sustainable resource and the with a phenomenal response.
SUSTAIN Partnering with villagers to provide sustainable livlihoods through farming and argicultural initiatives.
EDUCATE Building school infrastructure and providing teacher training to increase the capacity of local primary schools.
PROTECT Innovative design and build projects to provide safe housing, community infrastructure and freedom from debt slavery.
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Ta Skor Village Phnom Pehn
Site Location
Climate
Outside of Cambodian Tropical heat and capital Phnom Pehn, the humidity all year long village is a 40 min ride to with proximity to sea the city. leaving water vapor in the air.
Sun Path
Wind
Direct harsh sunlight with an angle of 55 ° on December 21 and 78 ° June 21
During November to April, sea winds from northeast. May to October, strong air from southwest.
Dry Season November - April Very dry with the average rainfall less than 50mm
Wet Season May - October Average rainfall of 220mm with additional thunderstorms and monsoons
Bamboo’s quick growth and harvest cycle make it an ideal building material. It’s inexpensive, lightweight, and can be easily cut.
Leads to a cost effective and productive build. Allows for assembly production with low skill labour.
Thresholds allow for transitions of work into home. They designate the transition of space for residents and their visitors.
For a productive household, circulation is critical for the hard working adults in the dark early morings out of the house.
With an open concept critical to ventilation, family’s still need certain levels of privacy and security as they move further into the home.
Bamboo’s structural integrity depends on the protection from the harsh sunlight and the damaging flooding water.
With villagers and volunteers as labour, easy to learn joinery and efficient building designs will allow for simple construction.
Critical for tropical climates, ventilation and allowing hot air to escape will determine the family’s overall well being inside the house.
Although Bamboo can be versatile in its shape, the most efficient way is to build with straight pieces. Joining the bamboo together in a diagonal grid system is simple using dowels and lashing. Then shaping this grid system can be transformed into very organic structures. This core and oval posses great strength through their forms while also becoming greatly flexible in formation possibilites. Critical buildability advantage for team assembly production.
Wrapped around itself
Inner Core
Mirrored then connected
Outter Core
Structural System With each intersecting point being 1 metre high, floor joists are supported in them and slotted to the opposite side. This grid system allows for endless opportunities for interior layouts depending on the lifestyle and needs of the family occupying.
Plastic Skylight
Thatched Roof
Sustainable bamboo material
Inner Core Outter Core
Open for thermal comfort Material Protection Buildability
High above ground footings
Along with this structural system, techniques of vernacular design were encorporated. Steep pitched thatched roofs, local materials, and indoor/outdoor thresholds were key components in creating the ideal home for these families. Their safety and well being is the most important factor as well as giving them a home to call their own.
With the vision for the expanding village, three model homes were created for different family types
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8m
16m
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Ariel view of the expanded village with the three additional family homes. This expansion adds two shared bathrooms that include water collection tanks.
Since the burm becomes the vital pathways during the flooding wet season, the expanded site for these homes has continued to grow the circuit around the village.
Fisherman’s House Consists of a husband and wife with their two young children. The husband is a fisherman. The fisherman’s day begins very early in the morning with the trip to the river for the days work.
A
Upper Level
Ground Level PLAN A 1:100 on A4
SECTION A 1:50 on A4
Circulation of the fisherman’s early morning routine was the key considerations in this home. The direct path from the private upstairs sleeping area, down past a side storage for his gear, then out the door makes for a convenient morning and evening. The central core allows the heat to escape the top and smoke to escape from the charcoal cooking done daily. It also enables an open floor plan all around it. The bamboo slats all around allow for the gradient of privacy through the home and into the more private areas upstairs. While still feeling communal and welcoming to the rest of the village as it is common to have visitors frequently throughout the day.
Mechanic’s Family Husband and wife with two grown up children. The husband is a motorbike mechanic who works from home with his two children learning the trade.
B
Upper Level
Ground Level PLAN B 1:100 on A4
SECTION B 1:50 on A4
The Mechanic’s shop is located in the front of the home while still seperating the public from private. The neccessary shade make it the ideal work space out of the sun while providing more shade and therefore more gathering space around the house. The mechanic’s shop space is on solid concrete to support the weight of motorbikes and other heavy equiptment while still elevated to protect from flooding. With the many adults in the house, the importance of seperated private areas was critical. The sleeping area upstairs has a seperate bedroom with various mosquito nets hanging over the sleeping mats.
Grandma’s House Consists of one mother, four children, and one grandmother. The mother works in the nearby rice fields while grandma stays home to look after the young children.
C
Upper Level
Ground Level PLAN C 1:100 on A4
SECTION C 1:50 on A4
Accessibility and surveillance for the grandmother and many grandchildren were the central design factors for this home. With grandma taking care of the children all day, this layout allows for easy supervision and ample play space. The half level is a variation that allows for a kids play space underneath and only a half set of stairs for the children and grandma’s convenience. While the open plan is ideal during the day, this home as well as the others, is guarded by the collapsing door that can be securely locked at night.
Model Images Scale 1:20
Model Images Scale 1:20
References http://www.buildingtrustinternational.org/BTIBambooToolkit.pdf ibuku.com kulkulfarmbali.com rawimpact.org healthabitat.com https://issuu.com/katarzynakrawczuk/docs/bamboo https://www.dezeen.com/2013/09/25/blooming-bamboo-house-by-h-and-p-architects/
Link To Youtube Video Presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOyUFiDlMQ0
Isabelle Fleming BDES2027 2020 Let Every Voice Be Heard