Woven Wisdom / Rooted Lives A Cooperative Textile Community in Sri Lanka TAASI EAST
Overview
Most impacted area by war and water issues
(Our site)
90,000 war widows at the end of a 30-year civil war
WAR WIDOW
800,000 Tamils emigrated during the conict
DISPLACEMENT
280, 000 people internally displaced
TSUNAMI TRAUMA
Massive death and destruction were caused by the December 2004 tsunami
ETHNIC VIOLENCE
Ongoing periodic conflict between Tamil, Sinhalese, Muslims and Christians
Culture Religion & Identity
* Religion population in Eastern Sri Lanka
* Religion population in Batticaloa
The average temperature in North East Sri Lanka is 27 °C (81 °F ) The annual precipitation is around 1750 mm ( 69 inch)
Climate
Winter Monsoon Tropical Storm "Hudhud" 2014
Summer Monsoon
Flood in Sri Lanka 2016
Hydrology
Ecology (Vegetation and Soil)
Rock outcrops
Streams crossing our site from east to west
Site feature
Economy
1960-1977 1980-2009
Women hold political power in Sri Lanka
2002-2006 2009 - Present
Many women were victims of direct violence, being raped, killed, or maimed during the civil war, and were internally displaced Emphasis of bringing women into formal negotiations during peace process and awareness that women are not only victims, but individuals with rights and agency
Women and Peacebuilding
Many local civil society organizations, INGOs, and foreign states volunteered to address issues relating to the health, economic empowerment, employment, and political representation of women
Resources: Cornelie Quist (2015).Widows' Struggles in Post-War Sri Lanka: Elusive Peace, Pervasive Violence Sri Lankan Women’s Struggle for Security and Justice
Suriya Women's Development Centre, Batticaloa Eastern Social Development Foundation, Batticaloa Muslim Women's Research and Action Forum, Ampara and Batticaloa Sarvodaya Women's Movement Women's Rural Development Societies, various locations
Existing Women-focused Organizations in the Eastern Province
Women’s issues
Project Overview
HEALTH OF INDIVIDUALS, SOCIETY AND EARTH
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
WOMEN‘S EMPOWERMENT
OBJECTIVES
CREATIVITY
SUSTAINABILITY
COOPERATION
COMMUNITY
Sustainability as Framework
Energy Solar Energy -Solar Panel -Solar Oven -
Bio Energy -Bio Gas -Bio Mass -Bio Material
Waste
Water
Climate
-waste water -organic waste -human waste -solid waste
-Capture -PuriďŹ cation -Storage
-Wind Corridor -Sunken Space -(Courtyard Effect)
Restoration
Self development
Reconnecting
Back to grid
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Overall Structure
System Section
Handloom Weaving in Sri Lanka
Handloom Weaving History Timeline in Sri Lanka
Handloom Weaving Input & Output
Handloom Weaving Sustainability Strategy We try to capture the rainwater from roof top, purify it in the rainwater tank, and then storage it. And we also reuse water from the daily use and agricultural into textile dyeing process. There are also solid waste from fiber extraction and weaving process, and we were thinking about turning those waste into biomass energy.
Economic Self-sufďŹ ciency and Sustainability
Economic Network
Physical Network: Build new economic networks: Adapt to native condition to reduce the costs, achieve community self-sufficient (mini-industry chain: agriculture - manufacturing - services)
provide women for jobs strengthen external connection build local manufacturing workshops
Virtual Network: Establish the online visiting and selling platform: Advertise native culture and crafts, promote the physical economy development
cooperate with international organizations establish online store post the crafts making and culture introduction video
Provide women with the job opportunities Focus on the women issues, provide jobs for local women, relieve the family economic pressure. Encourage home factories, develop homemade crafts.
Strengthen external connection Develope export trade: Develope the trade with surrounding areas and overseas
Drive the construction of road systems
Establish the connection with international organizations: Help to sale the products
Increase the local visibility
Develop virtual tourism Respond to the impact of coronavirus to the physical tourism
Provide the platform for advertising the native culture and handicrafts
Benefits: Profit from the tickets of virtual tourism & increase community visibility
Increase the sales of the local specialty products (agriculture produces and handicrafts)
Provide more jobs for local people and women, promote the development of trade with outside
Weaving as Economic Strategy & Concept for Community Building
Commercial mode in Parai Nilam & Cooperation with surrounding villages
Cottage industry
Disabled, unwilling to engage in textile industry
Community Center Business Incubation
Get the subsidy from local government, decide the industry type, production process and sales channel by themselves
Women co-housing industry Have certain working group
Production Chain Commercial Center
Community industry
(handloom, textile, handicraft, natural dye)
Community Center ●
Training (Basic technical skills & advanced skills, the thinking about design)
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Education (lecture hall, schools, children care center) Recreation (sports area, performing center, Exhibition hall, restaurant, tea/coffee house) Religion (meeting hall, spiritual spaces) Aid (aid agency, hospital) Hotel (surrounding villagers/tourists)
Production Chain
Commercial Center ●
Resources
middle scale
cultivation : weaving/natural dye/eat/medical Large cultivation area/healing garden/cultivation lab
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Standard workshop (ensure production) Innovation design studio (inspire new idea)
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Raw Material
Textile: fabric production/gray cloth Weaving/handicraft: pretreatment of plants (size, width…) Natural dye: powder (pure color/mixed color) Standard workshop (ensure production) Innovation design studio (inspire new idea)
Finished Production
Sell (online/offline) Exhibition (online/offline)
Market street : trade with tourists/villagers,
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Exhibition hall :mainly for academic
communication, small scale Warehouse :mainly for store goods and export/import, large scale Parking lot Drive way
Water Management Principles
1. WATER VOLUME CALCULATION
2. WATER SYSTEM LAYOUT
Landscape Principles
1 Outcrop and material principle
2 Ecology - Plants Utilization Utilizing native plants as much as possible to satisfy living and economic needs, while improving microecology.
3 Wide Life Danger - Eco-barriers Combining the attractive and the repulsive to build eco-barriers guiding elephants away from our core site and contributing to elephant-human harmony.
Site Planning Principles
Site Planning Principles
Program Location ● ● ● ● ●
Agriculture Recreation Textile Industry Residential Common Building
Circulation ● ●
Public Private
Terracing Strategy Future Development ●
Adjacent Connection
Site Planning Principle Previous Proposals From Landscape Principle Group & Landscape Program Group
Landscape Principle
Terracing
Healing Landscape
Elephant Habitat
Textile Industry
Site Planning Principle Previous Proposals From Landscape Principle Group & Landscape Program Group
Elephant Barrier Water Flow
Site Planning Principle Elephant Barrier Reservoir & Tank System
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Site Planning Principle Agriculture Program
More Agriculture Planting
More Textile Material Planting
Kitchen & Community Gardens
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Site Planning Principle Recreation Program
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Three Types of Water System 1. Reservoir & Tank System 2. Architectural System (among buildings) 3. Canal System (eg. agricultural irrigation)
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Site Planning Principle Previous Proposals From Landscape Principle Group & Landscape Program Group
Residential Area Textile Work Place Common Buildings
Site Planning Principle Residential & Common Building & Textile Industry Allocation Residential Area Textile Work Place Common Buildings
Text ile
Library / Archive Center
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Children Center Women Center Parai Nilam Center
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Site Planning Principle Public & Private Circulation Major Public Road Community Routes Common Buildings
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Site Planning Principle Terracing Strategy
Architectural Principles
Architectural Principles Spatial Logic Safety - Shared Living - Privacy
Passive Climate Control - Rain and Flooding - Humidity: Circulation
Relationships Ground Courtyard Water Garden
Community and Privacy
Unit Typologies ●
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Bathrooms and Kitchens face Gardens ○ Access to water tanks, produce, and composting Courtyard for cooling ○ Water collection during rains, covered walkways From entrance into a series of semi-public spaces before access to the most private spaces (bedrooms)
Clusters
Composting Landscape
Composting Toilet for Residential House -Kitchen -Toilet Filter: seaweed, clay pots, charcel, sand -Home Garden Composing area
Waste Treatment & Recycle
Biogas and Biomass Process In Agriculture
Storage tank
Proces Tank
Water storage (in architectural realm) Multi-function: Planting
Multi-function: Waterwall
Solar power generation
Solar Panel
Solar Oven
Solar powered water desalination
Solar water heaters
Final Proposal
Site Program Residential Program ● ● ● ●
Single Private House Single Shared House Single Family Two Families
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Communal Kitchen (Outdoor) Public Restroom (Compost toilet) Yard & Home Garden Barns (Storage / livestock)
Common Program ●
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Children Center
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Community Center Village Meeting Laundry Room
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Library & Archive Center
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Parai Nilam Center Guest House / Hostel Cafe / Food Area
Textile Industry Program ● ● ●
Warehouse Weaving Sheds Drying Yard
Women Center Dormitory (Short term) Children Care Clinic Training Room Office
Private
Public
Final Proposal Village Layout
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1. Parai Nilam Center 2. Agriculture 3. Elephant Barrier 4. Library / Archive Center 5. Textile Building & Furniture Workshop 6. Children Center 7. Gathering Area 8. Women’s Center 9. Community Center 10. West Village 11. East Village 12. Spirit Journey 13. Main Reservoir
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Site Construction Phasing Existing Landscape
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Site Construction Phasing Year 1-2
Elephant Barrier - Palm Trees - Electronic Fence - Neem Trees Reforestation of Spirit Walk Areas
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Site Construction Phasing Year 3
Upper & Lower Reservoir
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Site Construction Phasing Year 4
25 Families - Living in the future Women’s Center - with food gardens and adjacent pond.
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Site Construction Phasing Year 5
Main Reservoir Start Building - Houses built in West Village, more people move in
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Site Construction Phasing Year 6
Main Reservoir Complete - Three large reservoir connect in the Central Valley - Agriculture begin in West Village
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Site Construction Phasing Year 7
Main Textile Building & Furniture Workshop Start Building - More houses build in West Village. - Agriculture begin in East Village
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Site Construction Phasing Year 8
Main Textile Building & Furniture Workshop Complete - Children’s Center and Community Gathering Place start building - More houses and water tanks build in West Village
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Site Construction Phasing Year 9
Upper and Lower West Village Housing and Reservoir Finish - Main gathering plaza build.
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Site Construction Phasing Year 10
East Village Housing Development Begin
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Site Construction Phasing Year 11
East Village Housing Complete
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Site Construction Phasing Year 12+
Parai Nilam Center Complete Library / Archive Center build in lower reservoir
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Planting Phasing
Healing Landscape
Spirit Journey| gender
The woman performs the role of wife, partner, organizer, administrator, director, re-creator, disburser, economist, mother, disciplinarian, teacher, health officer, artist and queen in the family at the same time. Apart from it, woman plays different roles in different ages. This spirit journey will utilize spatial experiences to show sri lanka women’s roles in each stage of their lives.
BACK TO FOREST(RESTART)
DRYING LAWN(CONTRIBUTOR)
WORKING
THE FLOWER SUPPER(MOTHER)
CROSSING MOUND(GROWING)
MEDIATION POND(BORN)
WATER MIRROR(START)
START
BORN
GROWING
MOTHER
WORK
CONTRIBUTOR
RESTART
Buffer Zone SPECIAL CROPS
ELECTRICAL FENCES
PALM TREES
WATER POND
WATER TOWER/ WATCHING TOWER
Women’s Center
Design Criteria
Features
Textiles Center
Resources | fiber plants Soil Type Rocky, Dry, Sandy Dry In Water All Soil Types Well drained, rich soil
Plant
Part of plant used in textile production
Other Plant Parts & their Uses
Bowstring Hemp
Leaves
Dried rhizomes & roots: antiseptic ointments. Roots: purgative, tonic, expectorant & anti-fever remedies.
Hemp
Outer Layer of stalk
Any other part: Biogas
Bamboo
Woody Stalks
Leaves & Roots: Biogas
Water Hyacinth
At least 50 cm mature stem
Leaves: Feed livestock, biogas
Leaves and fiber from fruit
Branches: construction, craft. Sprouts/roots/sap: medicinal. Stems:, brushes,ropes. Any: Biodiesel
Husks (coir fiber), leaves
Fruit: sugar, oil, feed, pith: soil cond., animal bedding, husks: charcoal, remove impurities, buffers, roots: med.
Roots (dyes)
Leaves: tea, oils, salve- digestion, sore throat,wounds. Seeds: feed livestock. All parts may be eaten.
Palm (Borasus F.) Palm (Cocos N.)
Plantain
Natural dyes
Natural mordants
Textile Center Location and Layout
In order to reduced the noise pollution of 40 looming machines in the textile center, we proposed to move the textile center away from the residential area, where could be surrounded by rock and vegetations. Meanwhile, the textile center is half-surrounded by water and rock to be make the workers feel cooler. The architecture might also interacting with the unique rock there.
Storage 400 sqft
Fiber extraction Bamboo Fiber extraction 500 sqft
1000 sqft
Pre-Dye 1000 sqft
Dyeing 1000 sqft
Weaving Room 4000 sqft (Noise isolation wall)
Rooftop drying 2000 sqft
Drying Yard 2000 sqft
Men Toilet
Women Toilet
Central Courtyard (surrounded by bamboo) (water collection and raw material cultivation)
Tea room
Meeting room
Material library & display
WEAVING CENTER BUILDING
DYEING CENTER BUILDING
With half open space, the rooftop of weaving center is another choice for drying in rain season. There is a ramp to the rooftop, which could make transfer easier. The rooftop is a ramp with solar panels on it, so that we could collect water in a rain season and collect sunshine in a sunny day.
With the rainwater collection system, the dyeing center can be a self-sufficient system. We keep same color in the same tank to reduce the pollution and reuse the dyeing material. We could also use plants to extra and remove heavy metals from soil.
Drying Scene
Children’s center and all community gathering space Sathya & chenjie
Textile Center Children Center Women Center
Concept and Principle Safety
Minus Interference
Linear spine/architectural composition
Lilypad Form
Facade Materiality
Parai Nilam Center -Smera & Shreeyaa
Parai Nilam Centre Concept
Parai Nilam Centre Textures
Parai Nilam Centre Plan
LAND FOR AGRICULTURE
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HOSTEL
750
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GALLERY
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Parai Nilam Centre Section
ACCESS TO ROCK AREA
Parai Nilam Centre Entrance
Parai Nilam Centre Path to the hostel
Residential Area Organization Logic
1 house (92 m2 / 1 floor, total two floors) + 1 courtyard (50 m2)
1 cluster (5-8 houses) + kitchen garden + plaza + fresh water tank (rainwater from rooftops) + fresh water channel + grey water channel
3 clusters + a larger tank (seasonal maybe) + community garden + communal laundry space + bio-remediation swale
1 village + 1 or 2 community center ( laundry room_ 2 washing machines / 50 people bio-remediation basin compost toilets )
Residential Housing Typology
Unit Design
Unit Plan
Unit Section
Home Garden
Residential Life Scene
Product designs Characterized Furniture: design based on local wildlife.
Elephant Bench 1.2.3
Elephant Bench 3 The prototype of the Bench is transformable, and has a large space inside for storage.
Function: bench, desk, tea table, cabinet
Elephant Bench 3
Various material choices come from local production.
Material: fabric, wood, bamboo, palm leaves, cotton
Technic: carving, sewing, weaving
Elephant Bench 3
Decorating samples for children center
Material: fabric, wood, bamboo, palm leaves, cotton
Technic: carving, sewing, weaving
Children’s Bench
Other business ventures
PROGRAMS
Job Opportunity Products