Design Studio is my core subject in Master in Architecture. We are assigned to do a real life project for RAW Impact (Raising Awareness Worldwide) an Australian non-governmental organisation (NGO) working in Cambodia. The RAW Impact organisation is creating powerful change through sustainable projects in Cambodia.
It is a very meaningful project, whereby assisting the poorest rural communities to built a factory, so that the communities can work there. We are required to developed a comprehensive understanding of the process of planting, growing, harvesting and processing bamboo. The factory is built using mainly bamboo, but we are able to use supplementary materials.
The accessibility makes transportation of building materials and work forces difficult. Thus, the project maximized use of local resources including workers and affordable local materials. With this situation, local bamboo and stonework was selected to be the main materials of the building. Besides that, it able to reduce the transportation of delivering building materials from one place to the site.
The main idea of this factory is to achieve a sustainable integration of landscape and architecture. Therefore the placement of our building is chosen carefully, so as to least interrupt the natural conditions, situated on a natural flattened part. It is composed of four separate segments which able o maximize air ventilation with higher velocity.
The facade design response towards the sustainable passive design, off cut bamboo is used to create bamboo panels that can be interchangeable throughout the year. During the bamboo process, there are a lot of off cut bamboo pieces, which able to reuse instead of throwing it away and became more thrash to the environmental. By using cut off bamboo not only able to use as decorative, it acts as a normal partition wall to the spaces. Hence, the usage of other material such as stonewall or concrete wall able to reduce.
By designing this factory allows me to developed my knowledge on usage of material and able to explore on the advantages of bamboo. As an architecture student, I learnt how to design a building to achieve sustainable integration between architecture and the materials used.
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