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Pimchanok Kimsawat portfolio

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Pimchanok Kimsawat contact: tel: e-mail: skype: address:

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Pimchanok Kimsawat portfolio project type

architectural project research experience design project research architectural project construction study architectural project architectural project architectural project

The selected projects contained within this portfolio are from academic projects, commissioned works and products of hobby. They best reflect my personality, interests, skills and thinking process.

The outcomes of the projects derive form, volume, function and aesthetic values through self-exploration process including experiments and research and requestioning system and users routine within a space.

For example, Lotus Archive challenges worshiping routine in Buddhism while The Treaty challenges political interaction through broadcast.

The following works are also credited to colleages and instructors at INDA, Chulalongkorn University providing the dynamic working environment.

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01 Accordance : ASEAN cultural centre 02 Ice Distribution in Bangkok : site research 03 Escape Hunt Experience : escape game design 04 Macau Meta Realities : research on The Venetian Macau 05 Lotus Archive : collection of individual virtual fund-raising projects 06 Sendai Mediateque : construction and service system study 07 Let’s Go Green Exhibition : Exhibition Room

at Thai Health Centre Escape Hunt 08 Vaults of Pulp : INDA design build for

community 2013 - Sweden 09 The Treaty : the political sanctuary

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Pimchanok Kimsawat portfolio experiences

Creative Design E V Development co. Ltd., - Bangkok, Thailand

2015.04 - 2015.08

Architectural Internship Thingsmatter co. td., - Bangkok, Thailand

2015.01 - 2015.04

Fine Jewelry Customer Care Viva Diamond store - Bangkok, Thailand

2014.08 - 2015.01

Interior Renovation Project Management 120 sqm apartment, 10Z3 - Bangkok, Thailand

2014.05 - 2014.10

Fashion Design spa uniforms - Bangkok, Thailand

2014.06 - 2014.10

academic experiences International Design Community Project Vaults of Pulp - Stockholm, Sweden International Research Studio Meta-realities - Macau, China

education

software usage skills

INDA, Chulalongkorn University Young Artist of the Year.

Royal Over-Seas League Thailand

notable courses

History and Theory of Architecture.

Fundamentals of Structural Design.

SE Asia / Tropical Architecture.

Construction Technology.

Architecture, Community and Ecology.

Contemporary Theroy in Architecture Environmental Technology and Integrative Building System Design.

Architecture and Urbanism Prints Media Technology.

News, Infomation and Society.

other related skills

Model Making, Design Development, Basic Structure Knowledge, Fluent in English and Thai

interests

Architectural Drawings, Art History, Architecture History, Animations and Films Analyses

2012.05 - 2012.06 2012.04 - 2012.05

Design Built Workshop Salvotore Ferragamo window display - Bangkok, Thailand

2010.08-2014.05

Chulalongkorn University International Program in Design and Architecture (INDA) - Bangkok, Thailand BSc in Architecture

2010.08 - 2014.05

Harrow International School - Bangkok, Thailand As - A2 levels Physics Mathematics Further Mathematics Fine Art

2009.01 - 2010.05

Jerudong International School - Bandar Seri Begawan , Brunei IGCSE

2006.08 - 2009.12

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe After Effects, AutoCad, Cinema 4D, Maxwell Render, Rhinoceros, SketchUp

awards & recognitions Design Merit Award.

2012.05 2010.06

01 Accordance ASEAN cultural centre

The project is to design ASEAN Cultural Centre. Students must come up with an distinct functionality of the project. Given three sites to choose from, the student must strategically analyse and pick the most suited site for their concept.

AN countries. The site is chosen for its location that connects to three tracks of public transportations.

With high capability to be accessed by mass crowd, the project is intended to be a strip of boulevard with multi-purpose rooms alongside for activities.

The selected functionality of the project is to display ceremonies and celebrations belonging to all ASE-

Accordance with its pneumatic multi-purpose rooms different colours representing groups of pneumatic structures three chronically interchanging floorplans throughout the year

Accordance longitudinal section drawing showing activities at its full capacity

Accordance longitudinal section drawing showing activities at its full capacity

Accordance, ASEAN pneumatic cultural centre situated on Chareonkrung road on a narrow patch of land in between Yannnawa temple and Taksin Bridge, Bangkok, Thailand. As the country is currently moving towards ASEAN agreement and higher number of immigrants is expected, Accordance responsibilities is to emphasis different cultures while coalescing cultural differences. This is done by providing different functions such as public working space, library, post office, restaurants, auditorium, ceremony halls, exhibition rooms and market, the complex has its fundamental goal for maximizing flat public space on the ground for daily commuters traveling by road, water, train tracks and local community based around the site.

The site is on Soi Chareonkrung 52 or informally referred as Soi Wanglee. Since ancient times the Architectural Project 01

area has been a hub of evidence for cultural mixtures. The history of the Soi can be dated back since the Rattanakosin era where it was one of the busiest ports of its time called Wanglee port. The Soi is famous for Chinese commercial trades and it stretches of Chinese shop houses along its alley. It was an important symbol and memorial of Chinese community in Bangkok until it was demolished in 2006. Next to Soi Wanglee is the royal Thai Buddhism temple called Yannawa Temple, an ancient temple since the Ayutthaya era. The temple itself is famous for its century’s year old Thai/Chinese architectural features and its long development in Thai Buddhism practice. The temple also provides museum, school as well as broadcasts its own weekly TV program. Additionally, on the north side of the site within walking distance, there are a small Chinese temple and a mosque. The site Accordance

Accordance plan drawing including floorplan of all buildings, tensile shadings available on the project, landscape design and pneumatic multi-purpose rooms

itself is carpeted with flat concrete and is currently an informal parking lot. Accordance provides the opportunity by facilitating its neighborhood with maximum public space for activities and traffic flow.

Because of the narrow and uneven public footpath outside of Accordance site, the space accessibility which Accordance provide will be prioritize by the public to access the medium of transportation available. With this, Accordance can also be an attractive option for mass gathering because of its large capacity while Janny Pimchanok Kimsawat

maintaining fluid traffic flow. The possibilities which Accordance space can provide are events such as hosting exposition, fairs and ceremonies.

Accordance spatial division intends to divide and display multiple occurring activities happening at the same time; this can be similar to the experience of ‘window shopping’. Using the pneumatic architectural technique, the commuters walk from one end of the site to another, observing and capturing different experience of different activities happening. Cultural ceremonies are welcome page 02

cision making of building footing positions and landscape design. The process involves using mapping technique, studying Prada Transformer by OMA, 3D models and various physical models.

Nevertheless, the layout can be adjusted upon request, Accordance has its three formal layouts that are changed to complete one cycle in 365 days. The following layouts chronically are Loop starting in April, Grid and Waterfront which is changed when the rainy season ends. section drawing

to perform at Accordance to maintain traditions of immigrant’s ethnical rituals. Ceremonies in South East Asia countries can be categorized into three types; religion related ceremonies, social ceremonies and political ceremonies. Insulated pneumatic halls and partitions allow the activities to overlap without any disturbance of sound and space. In addition, the layout of Accordance is flexible as the structures can be disassemble and reassemble only within one night.

site analysis diagram circulation within 500 metre and 1450 metre radius

Even though, the floor plan of the complex is flexible, the permanent constructions are designed according to three popular events that generate mass gathering in Thailand; Laykratong ceremony, Songkran ceremony and shopping. The studies of floor planning, circulation and characteristics of each events were carried out and used in de-

It solves the problem of transiting, offering alternative walkways, and provides green space and common area. With these qualities, its popularity will be guaranteed since the first day of opening.

It takes a single walk to experience the cultures that Accordance to offer. Furthermore with the oncoming ASEAN change, the influx of immigration will further enhance Accordance personal. There isn’t any preference on how to use the space available, but it is only up to the community to decide on how it is shaped. The essential goal of Accordance is to emphasis different cultures while coalescing culture differences without letting political or wealth diverge it. It hopes to be the platform which channels the power of the community not the power of politics or wealth.

elevations from north, east, west and south directions Architectural Project 01

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02 Ice Distribution in Bangkok site research

The research was conducted by identifying large Bangkok ice manufacturers and map out their clients on a map.

There are three main ice manufacturers . All are found to deliver their products only to their wholesale customers such as local markets, malls and super markets. their distributions are decentralised and centralised depends on the suppliers’ strategies.

Ice is a medium to keep the products such as fish and live stocks fresh until its delivery.

The second usage of ice in tropical climate Thailand is through consumption i.e. drinks. ice distributions in Bangkok centralised and decentralised distributions

03 Escape Hunt Experience escape game design

Escape Hunt Experience is a global entertainment franchise specialising in a team puzzles solving experience with many goals such as “escape the room” or “find the bomb”. They provide entertainment services to both public and corporate clients as well as being the largest branch in the world.

in secret compartments located in their respective designed environment. In this instance, the goal is to escape the room after finding all the clues available for escape. All simulations is designed with intriguing stories to keep players entertained.

Their entertainment service consists of solving live practical puzzles to achieve a certain goal. For instance, their “escape the room game” is a real time simulation which requires the participants to escape from imprisonment by team-working and solving their practical puzzles to escape. These practical puzzles can include a locked door with a key code, finding objects to manipulate and looking for clues Escape Hunt Experience logo

04 Macau Meta Realities research on The Vanetian Macau

Macau Meta Realities is a three week summer project with objective to identify elements and techniques required to create ‘a world within the world’.

Venetian Macau is a luxury hotel with casinos and its own shopping mall owned by Las Vegas Sands.

Unlike its neighbour complexes, Venetian Macau decorates itself with foreign architectural elements and simulates cannel and streets in Venice inside its mall - ‘a sky under the sky’. The end product of the project is to create an education board game.

the meet-up with Matthew Prier, an executive director at The Venetian Macau

The crew was broken up into groups of interest; furnitures, ornaments, lightings, signage, frontage, floor plan, service systems and people. Within each group, students separates into more focused card designed for educational board game on Macau Meta Realities One card indicates different elements found in The Venetian Macau.

This particular card indicates a character of visitors.

interior design of shopping mall at The Veneetiann Macau

example of responding reactions of roles at meta realities

Leaning - Arm Resting Golden Handrail

Arm Resting - Hand Behind The Neck Brown Steel Chair

Leaning Over The Rail White Dirt Hand Rail

Sitting Back On The Edge GRC White Dirt & Green Steel HandRail

Leaning Back - Arm Resting GRC White Dirt & Green Steel HandRail

example of actions upon meta reality furnitures

topics such as columns, windows, tiling, air conditioning system etc. As for People, there were population of visitors and meta reality people.

Population information includes quantity, race, age range and type of visiting. However, Information of memberships and hotel guests cannot be accessed by public and found confidential even under a request for educational purpose. Therefore, population information was gathered by recording during our 10 day visit.

a part of photos taken during 10 days trip to conclude roles and charactors play within meta reality

collection of characters found in a set of meta reality 10 Research Project

Macau Meta Realities

At all entrances, video was recorded for 20 minutes at 1000, 1400 and 1900 every other day in five days to conduct three sets of visitors’ quantity at different time of the day. There were 36 videos all together. Furthermore, at random, visitors at entrances were shot a photo each. The process lasts for 10 minutes a time after every video taking.

With over 2,000 photographs, we concluded 24 characters of visitors with different races, age range and purpose of visit. In addition, staff uniform and roles were identified to have 18 characters.

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05 Lotus Archive

collection of individual virtual fund-raising projects

The intention of the project is to explore a new way of tourism using virtual simulation over Ayuthaya ruins. The student must pick a building from Ayuthaya ruin complex and with a strong argument relating to the site and its history, raise an issue they would like to apply to the project.

While Ayuthaya ruins is an evidence of the old settlement of Siamese capital city, its current exhibition or educational centre is uninspired compared to international standard in my opinion. However, the outcome of my project is not educational oriented but is rather interactive.

conceptual idea of Lotus Archive

At the end of the project, I completed a design of a system with conceptual rendering image, history research of the building, site analysis, studies and experiments that help introducing myself to virtual space designing.

conceptual idea of Lotus Archive connection between spiritual, virtual and physical realms

Vihara Pra Mongkarabophit cut open computer generated render drawing

The Lotus Archive is a non-profitable institution that offers services that fundraise financial aids for the people who are in need of help. It is a virtual platform displaying different fundraising projects by individuals, while visitors are able to donate their money to the projects of their interest.

The Lotus Achieve will be exhibited inside Vihara Pra Mongkarabophit, an ancient Thai architect building located in Ayuthaya. Vihara is located next to the old grand palace making it a popular tourist destination in Ayuthaya, with groups of local and foreign tourist constantly touring.

The building currently contains a 12.5 metric tall golden Buddha image called Pra Mongkarabopit.

they endorse the most. In result, the Lotus hologram will grow bigger with the size of the donation To be registered as a fundraiser, one must sign up on the Lotus Archive website. This can be done via a smartphone or a computer with internet access.

After registering, the user must propose their charity project and the time duration of their fundraising. After successfully proposing and registering, a hologram of a Lotus will appear with the project name on it. To help tourists decide on which project they will like, the owner of the fundraiser can give out speeches which can be accessed by the tourists once they touch the Lotus hologram. The

The concept is to use 3D hologram projectors to project the virtual Lotus flower inside the Vihara building for the tourists to see. Each of the fundraising project is represented by a single hologram of a Lotus flower, with the project name highlighted underneath it. The projection of the Lotus flower will be scattered around the base of the Buddha image, allowing tourists to perceive each fundraising projects. The tourists will then be able to donate to specific project depending on what a journey through a foreign space an isomatric drawing showing characteristic and scale of a space

bols is the absent fundraiser. The Lotus in particular is a symbol of virtue and tradition used to show respect between the physical world and the spiritual world in Buddhism. This coupled with the usage of incense sticks, depicts the medium of communication between the two worlds.

This isn’t so different from other religious such as Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Shinto.

experimental design of virtual space to exhibit two selected objects Without rules of physics, the design followed the information of objects and human behaviour.

donation itself can be made physically by going to a collection point nearby or be done via online banking. In the end, once the project is completed the total collection of donation will be transferred to an organization that aids the proposed project.

site research on Vihara Pra Mongkarabophit the diagram includes the past Vihara after every major renovations, stores around Vihara represented in different colours Architectural Project 06

Lotus Archive

The most important aspect of this project is the essence of Buddhism. The Lotus Archive for example is developed from the composition of the Buddha image, which is the encompassment of thousands of ancient amulets and small scared urns donated by the people. It’s a metaphoric principle signifies the Buddha image as a trace of existence of the donators, while the Lotus symJanny Pimchanok Kimsawat

Moreover, the smoke created by the incense sticks acts as a dimension bridge connecting the spiritual world and physical world. This may to an extent help extenuate the hologram Lotus symbols for those who are able to see beyond this world, with the smoke as a medium of communicating.

Before the start of our projects, we have decided to study human behavior in new environment. This was done by recording and mapping pupil dilation.

These information received from the research was used to make a 3D model of characteristics and scale of an environment. In addition, we did a small sub project using Cinema4D and Rhinoceros softwares to generate an experience within a virtual space.

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vertical circulation

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Sendai Mediateque

Construction and Service System Study

reinforced concrete slabs

The assignment was to choose a building and show its structure and service systems, comparing and cooperating information found with theories and techniques learned from the lectures.

The work must be printed in A3 sized paper and pinned up for a silent review on the submission date. The students were given two weeks to complete the task. The assignment was assigned in Construction Technology class with 3 credits.

Sendia Mediateque has an outstanding structural system. Despite supporting columns not being vertically erected up right, the columns are not merely generic looking columns but they are hollow tubes with white rod bracings holding up heavy slabs. The technique absolutely allows transparency within the building and in between the interior and exterior spaces.

water system

air-conditioning system

The project was first tackled by constructing a 3D model from available floor plans and the building’s structural system information virtually visualizing the possible locations of the air-conditioning system, water system, and of course vertical and horizontal circulations. Actual numbers and sizes of elevators, lights, air conditioning outlets are compared with results of calculations from given equations and charts.

column structure

It appears that both service and construction systems of the building do not follow the theories and techniques learned from the lectures. However, they are still decent guidelines.

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horizontal circulation

07 Let’s Go Green Exhibition exhibition room at Thai Health Centre

Thai Health Centre, a public facility contains “Let’s Go Green” - one of the many exhibition rooms available. The purpose of the facilities and exhibitions is to promote healthy society and environment in thailand.

Let’s Go Green exhibition is an interior renovation project undertaken by Thingsmatter - a small but highly regarded architectural firm. The project started at the end of 2014 and ended in May 2015.

To provoke green awareness, Thingsmatter undertook the project by using environmentally friendly materials and emphasizing on their natural tone. For example, the material used for the walls are paper rolls and ply wood. The material used for the floor is waterproof paper tiles. mini theatre zone in Let’s Go Green exhibition one of the two zones in the exhibition room

exhibition zone in Let’s Go Green exhibition one of the two zones in the exhibition room

The room is divided into two sections - mini theatre and exhibition area.

In the exhibition area, there are two physical models which Thingsmatter meticulously crafted in additions to other contents. Silhouette town is an all white coloured interactive model, which viewers can slide carious elements to different positions to fabricate their own sustainable town. Thai Health Centre building model is located at the centre of the room displaying various environmental features on its building itself.

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Let’s Go Green Exhibition

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08 Vaults of Pulp

INDA Design Build for Community 2013 - Sweden

The project is a multidisciplinary collaboration between Chulalongkorn University architecture students, designers, gardeners, chiefs, engineers and artists from Sweden. These varieties of intertwining skills accumulated in a sculpture and a garden created from gluten plastic - renewable materials, located at Rosendal Garden.

Vaults of Pulp sculpture the sculpture representing Rosendal’s and biodynamic gardening ‘s philosophy

Gluten plastic is developed by visionary Swedish company “Innventia”. It comes from wheat from Sweden fields and is mostly used in the baking industry and as feed. Gluten plastic is completely organic and 100% biodegradable like bread. All gluten plastic used in the sculpture was produced by students at Innventia’s chemistry lab, using industrial heat press under 400 bar of pressure and 120 celsius to turn gluten powder into hard rubber in form of sheets.

gluten plastic produced by the students at Innventia

gluten plastic powder before being heat pressed

tree mapping diagram existing trees in Rosendal Garden catagorised by its type

Furniture Mapping diagram series of furniture existing in Rosendal Garden.

Rosendal is made with the purpose of being a bio-dynamic garden, which respects its location and surrounding environments. The core of project Vaults of Pulp is to construct a sculpture and a garden that reflects on this practice. Hence, the location where the sculpture and the garden is, is in direct connection to the heart of Rosendal - the compost. In Autumn, the entire sculpture and the garden will biodegrade and become new plants in coming season.

master isometric diagram of Rosendal Garden including terrain, human behaviours, crop arrangement and architecture in Rosendal Garden.

The garden created around the sculpture consists of a combination of wild herbs from the island of Djurgarden’s forests and cultivated plants from Rosendal greenhouses and fields.

Visitors had the chance to harvest the salad and herbs and create their own taste sensation.

The project lasted three weeks in June. It began with an introduction of organic farming and food processing from the gardener, Niklas Karlsson at Rosendal to create an understanding of bio-dynamic farming and its philosophy. crop drawings samples of crops grown in Rosendal Garden visitor versus location diagram variation of visitors and their locations in relation to time and weather of the day

furniture and usage diagram variation of behavioral usage of each furniture

demography study record of visitors at Rosendal

time and usage diagram tme spent at different type of space

building drawings architecture existing in Rosendal Garden

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09 The Treaty political sanctuary

Israeli and Palestinian conflict has always been on international attention since the first peace process in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1949. The conflict between these two ethnic political groups involves many sensitive issues such as land division, security, right of return of Palestinian refugees and status of Jerusalem. On the process to the final agreement, all activities involving peace making must be done on 31.7833째 N, 35.2167째 E. 31.7833째 N, 35.2167째 E has witnessed political conflict for the past 4,000 years and counting since the first settlement as early as the early Bronze Age (c. 3000-2800 BCE) from Proto-canaanite to the Empire of David, Byzentine, Ottoman, the British and Israel.

The Treaty started with the research through qualiThe Signature the treaty signing ceremony at 11 am, Temple Mount, the Old City of Jersusalem

study of selected natural space

ties of naturally-grown crops and volume they provided as its architecture must be kept at its most neutral - not supporting any practices from any cultures.

The project is a response to Visceral Intricacy IV studio, Artificially Natural - The Argritecture of Tomorrow, written by Fredrik Hellberg.

The Treaty on Temple Mount complete construction

The prolonged conflict between Israeli and Palestinian has always been a sensitive international issue since 1949. The peace process was arranged for the two neighboring countries to meet and set an agreement.

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The place to hold such important event must, of course, facilitate the meeting with high security but most essentially it must show respects to all sides - neutral. As architecture is filled with codes and symbolism, local The Treaty

nature seems to be the most neutral setting.

The Treaty is focusing on architectural design proposal of the last destination for the reconciliation.

With full awareness that currently 31.7833° N, Janny Pimchanok Kimsawat

35.2167° E is holding one of the world’s historical landscape and the most important religious site in the Old City of Jerusalem, the Treaty deserves its place together with other 42 important monuments on the platform. page 14

study of selected natural space

a drawing of physical model showing the understanding of natural space

plant species found within a selected natural space

For thousands of years, Temple Mount has been used as a religious site for at least four religions; Judaism, Christianity, Roman religion and Islamic. The evidence on this land indicates wars and chaos throughout its history and The Treaty will signify peace.

Referring to the Master Plan Drawing, construction phases are represented by the different colors, darkest being the earliest phase. The Treaty specifically uses a traditional stacking sys-

tem, while also using Temple Mount’s very own Jerusalem stones. Walls are made to divide each rooms to facilitate such great events while not interrupting the existing circulation of the holy sanctuary. Trees on Temple Mount are mapped and learned for its species. The removed trees are marked codes and left as dashed circles. The replanted trees are represented with solid circles with their own individual codes. Shading of rooms are made of selected tree breed that stretches its branches far towards the horizontal sides.

construction in phases after historical political events, The Treaty turns into an active memorial park.

The Entrance the recreational park on Temple Mount and a memorial of Israeli and Palestinian successful peace making 09 Architectural Project

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The Signature the treaty signing ceremony at 11 am, Temple Mount, the Old City of Jersusalem

The Direct Talk The meeting of two leaders at 10 am

The Entrance (red) allows any individual whom are involved in the peace process to enter without interfering with any existing pilgrims or tourist circulation.

The Entrance provides a drop-off where a narrow stair way leads the users up onto the sanctuary. Furthermore, on its north and south wings, the staff will find library, meeting rooms, offices and rest rooms.

The Direct Talk (blue) is constructed next for the final meetings where top leaders meet. It consists of a small reception area, three meeting rooms, bathrooms and pantry.

early draft of The DirectTalk interior

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The Signature (purple) is the last phase built for the signing of the treaty. It provides a stage with seating’s for top leaders as well as a camera area for witnesses and the media.

After the treaty is signed by top leaders, The Treaty is maintained to be a memorial public space where some Jerusalem stone walls will be un-stacked or removed for aesthetic and safety reasons. Trees are to be left grown and groomed.

The Signature intended positions of people, furnitures and size of trees at the treaty signing ceremony

early draft of The DirectTalk interior

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