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MY COMMUNITY MY COMMITMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
[ARC 1413]
MY COMMUNITY MY COMMITMENT
PROJECT REPORT
GROUP MEMBERS
NAME STUDENT IDPRESTON LIEW RU PING (L) 0313822
LEE JO YEE 0314880CHUNG WEI JIN 0313789LING HUI SIM 0313855
YUAN KAI SHIEN 0314818WOO WEN JIAN 0315123
CHAN PIN QI 0314676BENNY TAN SHIOWEE 0315447SHIRLEY LIEW QIAO LI 0315671
NICOLAS WONG XIAO EN 0314377
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
NO. CONTENTS PAGES
STAGE I: PREPARATION & PROPOSAL
1.1 INTRODUCTION
-PROJECT CONTACTS
-PROJECT OBJECTIVES
1.2 ISSUES IDENTIFICATION
1.3 SOLUTIONS
1.4 PREPARATION & PROCEDURES
- MATERIALS LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS DIGRAMS
- WORK DISTRIBUTION
- GANT CHART
1.5 FINAL PROPOSAL
STAGE II: WORK EXECUTION
2.1 WORK PROGRESS
- BREAD SELLING- BOOKSHELVES, BENCHES AND BROOMS HOOKER MAKING- FLOOR FURNISHING
2.2 BUDGET & EXPENSES
2.3 COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS
STAGE III: FINISHING AND FINALIZATION
3.1 OUTCOMES & RESULTS 37-48
3.2 REFLECTION 46-47
3.3 REFERENCES 48-49
3.4 ATTACHMENT 50-74
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INTRODUCTION
1.1
INTRO
DUCTI
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“MY COMMUNITY MY COMMITMENT” Project Proposal
Environmental community service is a type of service in which the
public reach out towards environmental-community-based organizations
such as social-service organizations, non-profit organizations and faith-based
organizations. It is one of the many ways for people to contribute back to the
society while taking into concern, the environmental issues as well.
Paying It Forward is a project that brings the aim to further develop
students’ community and team-working skills. These skills are crucial in
developing the students’ good professional design practice in the future. As
an active member of the community, students are encouraged to deepen
their understanding towards their environment and realize their
responsibility towards it. By identifying community related issues around
them, students are required to come up with solutions using the most of
their creativity which may be of tremendous help in solving real-world
challenges in the future.
PROJECT CONTACTS
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1. Organization name: Refuge For The Refugees (RFTR)
2. Contact person:
Andrea Prisha (Co Founder & Secretary of RFTR) +6 012 254 7853
Heidy Quah Gaik Li (Founder & Director of RFTR) +6 012 307 3714
3. Address: Chin Children's Education Centre (CCEC), Sungai Besi
4. Website: https://fb.com/refugefortherefugees
5. Email: [email protected]
6. Case study for the background:
This education center is mainly a refuge for Myanmar children whose
parents are currently working in Malaysia. There are a total of 75 students
and 5 teachers who come from Chin, Myanmar. There are 6 classes
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Posing in front of the camera, the little boy from the school shows no fear to strangers.
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carried out in this education center ranging from kindergarten to primary
5. Occasionally, a volunteer would come over to teach the students as
there is one teacher short.
The education center is located in a low cost flat with poor conditions.
Attention and awareness has to be raised from the authority to really look
into their environmental issues.
7. Reference: Business card and Brochure
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Persons-In-Charge for the Refugees School - Miss Andrea and Miss Heidy.
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PROJECT OBJECTIVES
I. To increase student’s awareness of current environmental issues locally.
II. To encourage creativity in attempting to solve the current environmental
and community circumstances.
III. To allow students to explore and discover the opportunity to work with the
community and for the community.
IV. To create awareness of the significance of creating environmentally
sustainable product to the public.
V. To be able to understand and explain the principles of sustainability from
environmental and also social perspectives.
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Working together as a team is the key to achieve success in any project.
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Reasons for choosing this particular community project :
The refugees are victims forced to leave their own country due to
some unforeseen reasons and stay in a foreign country for an unknown
period of time. Most of them do not have citizenships and even rights to
study.
We believe that every human has equal rights and there is no reason
that we should treat someone badly because there are not Malaysians.
Hence, as a bunch of young architectural students, our aim is to make
positive CHANGES to their environment by applying what we have learnt.
We wish to make them feel like they are home, a better place to live and
study even in foreign country.
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Store room that kept all the textbooks and teaching
materials.
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ISSUES IDENTIFICATION
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In this chapter, we are going to show the environmental and
community issues faced by our case study and our site visits to the center.
We had our very first site visit of our case study on 22th September
2014. The aim of the visit was to find out the environment or community
issues faced by the case study meanwhile engage to the community.
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Photos from top left to right clockwise:1. Our first site visit to the site. 2. The shop houses building block outside the apartment.3. The way to go into the apartment.4. The way from the apartment to the entrance of the school.
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CCEC (Chin Children's Education Centre) situated in Sungai Besi is a
school of Refugees. Their school is located underneath an apartment that
most of the foreign workers. Therefore, there is limited and compact space
within that area. Upon reaching the apartment, we started to record our
observation. The hygienic quality was pretty bad and the unpleasant smell of
rubbish filled up the atmosphere.
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Unpleasant smell from the rubbish bins situated at the ground floor of the apartment.
The entrance of the school.
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We carefully made our way to the school, which is situated at the
ground floor inside the apartment. Despite of the dark and uncomfortable
surroundings, we were immediately welcomed by a bunch of cute little kids
at the entrance of the school.
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Narrow,dim hallway before the entrance of the center.
The entrance of the center/ school.
The inner view of the center facing the entrance.
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After a few rounds of observations and discussion with the principal of
the school Mr.Joseph, we have noticed some key environment issues and
condition of the school.
I. The bookshelves in the reading zone were insufficient to store all
the books and the reading materials were arranged loosely due to
their different sizes. There were few more boxes of stationaries
were on the ground.
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Beside, files that kept records of the children information are
normally bigger than the dimension of the bookshelves. Hence,
the files in the principal room were randomly arranged without a
special cabinet.
II. Flooring. The cement casted flooring of the school was uneven and
has several holes that will cause the students to trip and fall easily.
The problem also make hard for the students to move the partitions
when they change classes.
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III. Kitchen Area. The kitchen shelves for the storage of plates, cups,
cooking utensils and etc were in a broken and poor condition.
Brooms and cleaning materials were placed randomly on the floor
without a proper cabinet.
IV. The entrance of the school is empty and lack of furniture
although there is a big open space. Children found a lack of benches
to sit while waiting for their
parents or to rest.
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V. There was a panel of windows that were broken down and left
behind only the steel bars. Rain poured in through the opening and
disrupted the class. The children have to move their classrooms to
another location or postpone the lesson.
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VI. Partition. Each classroom was separated using a thin layer of
plywood board or a thin piece of cloth. Thus, there was no sound
insulation between each classrooms.
VII. Toilet bowl. They have insufficient toilet bowls to suit the students’
needs.
VIII. Mural painting. Beautify and enhance their surrounding with
drawings and plants.
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1.3
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SOLUTIONS
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No.
ISUUES SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS ACTIONS
1. Bookshelves 1. Build a new adjustable bookshelf in the library by using recycling wooden pallets.
2. Provide new cabinets/bookshelves for the storage of books in the principal office.
Agree by the school and Proceed.
2. Kitchen Area 1. Make a new kitchen shelves to store the utensils.
2. Strengthen the original kitchen shelves.
3. Prepare a hanging porch to hang the brooms and mops by using simple wood construction.
Agree by the school and Proceed.
3. Flooring 1. Refurnish the floor with new cements.
2. Repair and fix the holes to smoothen the surface.
Agree by the school and Proceed.
4. Benches 1. Build some benches that are convenient for the children to change their shoes and to wait their parents. The benches can be made from simple wooden construction with the aids of abandon tires.
Agree by the school and Proceed.
5. Windows 1. Raise fund and find professionals to install new windows.
Agree by the school but will proceed out of the timeline of the project.
6. Partitions 1. Amend the partitions by sandwiching it with layers of cotton that will insulate sounds.
2. Renovate the rooms with adjustable partitions coming out from the wall.
Renovations for the partitions is beyond our capabilities in term of monetary and profession.
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7. Toilet Bowls 1. Buy small plastics toilet bowl (for kids).
2. Renovate to have more children customized toilet bowls.
Not sustainable and practical as it’s unhygienic to use plastic toilet bowls.
Renovation for the toilet is beyond our capabilities in term of monetary and profession.
8. Mural Painting 1. Interactive and interesting paintings on the wall for the children
Too distracting for classes.
In conclusion, we have decided to contribute our parts by improvising
and amending the chosen aspects below:
1. We will prepare two bookshelves for the center: one to be placed
in the library with its adjustable abilities and another one in the
principal office to store the files.
2. We will install a brooms and mops hooker to be placed at the
corner of the kitchen area.
3. We will hand make two benches in front of the entrance
4. We will raise fund and prepare the cement which is needed for the
floor furnishing of the center.
Please refer to Page 33 “Work Progress” for further details.
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PREPARATION & PROCEDURES
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MATERIALS LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS DIGRAMS
1. Light Truck Tires
A tyre is a ring-shaped vehicle component that covers the wheel’s rim on vehicles or other type of transportation (bicycle) to form a soft contact with the road. The component normally made from rubber, typically inflated or surrounding an inflated inner tube.
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0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Cumulative Energy DemandGlobal Warming PotentialAcodification PotentialNutrification Potential
Figure 1 : Results of the product Life Cycle Assessment for passenger and light truck tires
Figure 1 shows the highest contribution to all environmental impact
categories derives from the use phase of the tire (approx. 90%). The reason
is the rolling resistance of the tire, which needs to be overcome when the car
is in motion. This consumes energy.
The acquisition of raw materials accounts for approximately 5% of the
environmental impact. Impact attributable to the manufacturing process is
even lower. Transportation between the different life cycle phases amounts
to no more than 2% of total environmental impact during the product’s life
cycle.
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LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT
OF TIRES
Relative Contributions (%)
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2. Paint
Paint is a colored substance which is spread over a surface and dries to leave a thin decorative or protective coating. The ingredients of paint normally consist of additives, binder, pigment, filler and water. The ratio of amount is based on the quality of the product.
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Figure 1.1 LCA of TIRES
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Figure 2 shows environmental impacts of packaging, distribution and
disposal from the paint recycling process were excluded on the premise that
new virgin paint production would require the same number and type of
packaging. It was also reasoned that environmental impacts of distribution
would be the same for the new virgin paints as well as for the recycled paint.
This is because the company has the same client base. So, the impact would
be the same if the company is to manufacture and/or distribute the same
amount of new virgin paints that they are recycling. Furthermore, it was
assumed that no other ingredient is added to the old paint materials in
producing the recycled paint.
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Old paint
Transport
Sorting & Inspecting
Filtration
High Speed Mixing
Storage Tank Mixing
Packaging
Figure 2: Lifecycle Environmental Sustainability Assessment of Paint Recycling Process
Distribution to retailers
Unrecyclable’ disposal in landfill
Metal and Plastic Containers’ Recycling
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Figure 2.2 above presents the main operations in the solvent-based
household paints production lines, the input to the units and the pollution
sources. Work place pollution parameters are VOCS, particulates, and
noise. Spills or leaks could occur through the whole process, and may
contaminate the water if discharged to the sewer. Chemicals empty
containers are generated, and considered hazardous. Those hazardous solid
wastes should be safely disposed into a landfill.
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Figure 2.1: Flowchart Water-based Paints Production Line
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3. Wooden Pallets
Fossil fuels, biofuels and electric power are the non-renewable energy
sources to provide energy in producing wood pallets. The energy use of each
life cycle process in relation to functional unit is shown in Figure 2.
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Paint Manufactur
e
Warehouse and
Distributions
Paint Retailers
Consumers
Figure 2.2 : L.C.A. of
PAINT
LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF
PAINTS
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WORK DISTRIBUTION
No
.
Students Site Work Post Work Notes
1. Preston Liew
Ru Ping
- Record the project
- Furnishing the
woods
Multimedia
presentation –
Video
Provide transportation
2. Nicolas - Floor Furnishing Prepare project Provide transportation
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Production of palletsEmbodiedenerg: 5.8 GJCarbon dioxide emission:6.04g
Heating oil and Natural gasemission: 100.1 g CO2 and 62.8 g CO2/MJ
Fossil fuel heating
Wood pallets
stove or furnace
60 to 90% reduction of carbon emissions.
Silv
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re
Round
Woo
d Tr
ansp
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tion
Sawm
ill O
pera
tion
Raw M
ater
ial T
rans
porta
tion
Pelle
t Pro
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ion
Pelle
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nspo
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Pelle
t Com
busion
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
Electric Energy *(MJ)
Fossil Energy (MJ)
Renewable Energy (MJ)
LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF WOOD PELLETS
Figure 3.1 L.C.A. of the Wooden Pallets
Figure 3 Total use of energy in each life cycle process
Switching
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Wong timeline
3. Benny Tan
Shiowee
- Install
Bookshelves
- Install Benches
A3 Poster
4. Yuan Khai
Shien
- Install
Bookshelves
- Install Kitchen
hooker
Designing the
Bookshelves
Provide transportation
5. Woo Wen
Jian
- Install Kitchen
hooker
- Install Benches
Design the
kitchen hooker
and benches.
Provide transportation
6. Chan Pin Qi -Bread Selling
-Sponsorship
Finding
Documentation
– A4 Report
7. Ling Hui Sim - Documentation –
A4 Report
Prepare the
L.C.A.
diagrams
8. Shirley Liew
Qiao Li
- Bread Selling
- install benches
Manage
accounting
and A3 Poster
9. Megan
Chung Wei
Jin
-Bread selling
-Took photos and
Documentation
– A4 Report
10. Lee Jo Yee -Bread selling
-Install Bookshelves
Documentation
- A4 Report
Provide transportation
GANT CHART
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The timeline of this project from planning to completion is showed below:
It will be a single event that takes place approximately a total of two months
to complete. Works were progressively updated each week.
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1.Bread Selling
With the purpose of raising funds and also getting the public’s attention
towards the refugee, we decided to search for bakeries which are willing to
provide us with breads and pastries to be sold out to the public. We
approached Free Mori Bakery and they were willing to cooperate with us to
give a helping hand to the children of the refugee center
They provided us with a variety of pastries for example The Bun Family
which consists of
Raisin Buns and Chocolate-filled Buns Butter-glazed Buns Marble Milk Buns Polo buns Mille Danish and even small packets of Chocolate Chip Cookies.
After obtaining and packing the stocks on a Tuesday morning, we
divided ourselves into small groups and went to different places to sell the
pastries. The places that we went to were Taylor’s College, Inti College, area
around SS15, Sunway University and of course, our very own Taylor’s
University Lakeside Campus. While selling the breads, we also asked for
donations from the public while showing them information flyers about this
education center. This fund-raising sale went on for two days and we
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collected a total amount of RM1320.75. Please refer to pagexx for the
financial report.
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All members packing the pastries, ready for the sale
We sold the bread along the street and shop houses to raise
fund for our project.
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2. Bookshelves, benches and brooms holder
making.
I. DESIGNING PHASE
We started planning and designing the bookshelves first as it was our main
priority for the children. The books are not organized and are kept in the
shabby bookshelves in a messy orientation as the sizes of the shelves are
not big enough to fit all of the books. Initially we decided to design the
bookshelves in the shape of a cruciform to accommodate different sizes of
books and also light up the place aesthetically.
After visiting the education center a few more times we realize that the
initial idea is not practical as the books are too many and the cruciform
bookshelves do not provide enough space for them. We came up with the
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Initial draft of the design of the bookshelves
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second idea which is to use wooden planks and build an extra wooden shelve
on a wall in the classroom.
Other than the bookshelves, we also designed some benches for the children
to sit on outside of the education center. We used wooden planks as the
material to make the bench and also rubber tyres to elevate the bench from
the ground.
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Front elevation of the
shelf
Side elevation of the
shelf
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Draft of the design of the
benches
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Final design of the benches
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The last furniture that we designed was the broom holders. We came up with
the idea of using wooden planks as the base to drill the hooks to hold the
brooms and dustpans. To secure it to the wall, rubber tubes were used to tie
the wooden plank to the hook on the wall. Latches were also installed to
further secure the broom holder.
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The draft for the design of the broom
Final design of the broom holder
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II. PREPARING PHASE – MATERIAL SEARCHING
In order to build the bookshelves, benches and broom holder, we needed
wooden pallets as our main building material. Luck was in our hands when
we successfully obtained the sponsorship for these wooden pallets from a
recycling center in Bukit Beruntung.
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Members moving the wooden pallets from the lorry into their cars.
Members visiting the recycling center to get the wooden planks. Shown above are the wooden planks
that the recycling center provided.
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We went to the wooden pallets factory which is situated at Kuala Kubu Baru, Selangor to get the sponsored materials for our bookshelves.
A week after obtaining the wooden planks, we started planning and
building the bookshelves and the benches. We booked the campus’s
workshop which has all the facilities that we needed to make the furniture.
Mr.XXX contributed a lot by assisting us with the carpentry work and also by
teaching us how to use the various machines in the workshop. It took us 3
days to finish all of the carpentry work which included sawing, sanding and
also shellac works.
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Members getting to work in the
workshop
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III. TRANSPORTING PHASE
After completing the carpentry work, we booked a day with the principle of
the education center to go set up the furnitures. Early in the morning on that
day, 4 of our members, Preston Liew, Lee Jo Yee, Woo Wen Jian and Yuan Kai
Shien drove their cars to help with the transportation of our materials to the
education centre. First, we set off to Nicolas Wong’s house to collect the
tyres for the benches which are temporarily kept there.
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Members were sanding the surface of the wood
Tyres that were piled into a member’s
car
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After loading the tyres into the car, we headed off to campus to collect the
wooden planks to set up the bookshelves.
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Members were moving the wooden planks from the workshop into
the cars.
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IV. INSTALLING PHASE
After loading all the wood into the car, we set off to the education center to
start our work. We started unloading the wood and tyres to the main
entrance of the education center where an open space is located. We set up
the bookshelves first by fitting the slots into the frame of the shelf and then
fastening them with hammer and nails. After the bookshelf was set up, we
moved it into the classroom and secured it to the wall.
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Group members setting up the
bookshelf.
Group members assemblying the
bookshelf.
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Group members figuring out the best way to fix the
shelves
End product of the shelf
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The next furniture that we set up was the broom holder. Holes were drilled
into the walls to install the hooks first before tying and securing the broom
holder to the wall.
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Members securing the broom holder to the
wall.
Members filling holes in the wall with the putty
filler.
End product of the broom holders. It is elevated from the ground with multiple hooks
to keep the brooms and dustpans organized.
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The next furniture that we installed was the Ikea shelf which was to be
placed in the principal’s room.
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Members trying to fix the shelves with the help of the Ikea user
guide.
Members trying to fix the shelf onto the wall with the help of the
principal himself.
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The last furniture that we installed was the benches. This requires more
work as the tyres were hard to drill in. We successfully set up both
benches by the entrance in the end.
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Members trying to drill the nails into the tyres to secure them
together.
First bench that was installed on the
right side of the entrance.Second bench that was installed on the left
side of the entrance.
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3.Floor furnishing
The floor of the education center is damaged with many holes in it which
might cause the children to fall when they run around. In order to fix this
problem, we have decided to buy cement to fill up the holes in the floor. We
used the money raised from the selling of breads to buy the cement. Two of
our members, Yuan Kai Shien and Benny Tan went to transport the stocks of
cement from the factory to the education center to be applied onto the floor.
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However, the kind people from the education center volunteered to help with
the cement work. After the cement work was completed, the floor is
smoother and flatter, creating a safer environment for the children to study
in.
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Transferring the cement from the factory to the education
center.
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BUDGET & EXPENSES
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Below is the account recording the amount of money that we have spent
throughout the project.
RM RMCost of goods sold:Bread Sales 1150.0less Cost Price 482.7 667.3
add RevenueDonation 674.4
1341.7less ExpensesHardware 151.0Plywood 47.0Cement 180.0IKEA Book Shelf 210Petrol Fees 120 708.0
633.7
We have raised a total of RM1341.70 and spent an amount of RM708
throughout the project on materials, transportation and others. We have
decided to donate the rest of the money, in amount of RM633.70 to the
organization in trust them to put into good use.
Type Description Amount (RM)
Fundraising Bread Sales 667.3Donation Cash 674.4TOTAL 1341.7
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Grand account:
Budget table:
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Type Product/ Description Quantity
Cost (RM)
Total (RM)
Hardware 1’’ x 2’’ Wood 2 4.0 8.0Hardware Sand Disc 10 0.6 6.0Hardware JCP Disc 2 3.5 7.0Hardware Nail 2 0.5 1.0Hardware Nail 4 1.75 7.0Hardware Sand paper 5 1.0 5.0Hardware Wire 2 1.5 3.0Hardware Hammer 1 18.0 18.0Hardware D-Bit 1 4.5 4.5Hardware Wood Finishes 1 50.0 50.0Hardware L Bracket 1 19.0 19.0Hardware L Bracket(Small) 4 1.5 6.0Hardware L Bracket(Black) 3 1.5 4.5Hardware Woodfiller 1 4.0 4.0Hardware 3’’ Screw 1 3.0 3.0Hardware ¾’’ Screw 1 2.0 2.0Hardware Wall Plug 1 1.0 1.0Hardware Hook 2 1.0 2.0Hardware Plywood 5 9.4 47.0Hardware Cement 10 18.0 180.0Furniture IKEA Book Shelf 1 210.0 210.0Expenses Petrol Fees - 120.0 120.0TOTAL 708.0
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Expenses table -
Hardware:
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Place Type Contribution
Free Mori Bakery HouseProvide breads for charity drive in cost price.
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COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTION
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INTI Subang Campus Community (SS15) Support the charity drive and also make donations to contribute in this project.
Sunway University Community
Taylor’s University Community
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Taylor’s Subang College Community (SS15)
Anonymous met in Taylor’s College.
Personally donated RM500 to our project and requested to be anonymous.
Shop lots around Subang areaShowing their support in the charity drive.
Sponsor and provide us the non-functioning, end-of-life tyres.
Sponsor wooden pallets for us.
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Mr.Fendi
i
Provide professional knowledge for form work designs and carpentry work.
Acknowledgement
We have taken efforts in this project. However, it would not have been
possible without the kind support and help of many individuals and
communities. We would like to express our deepest appreciation to all those
who provided us the possibility to complete this project.
Special thanks of gratitude we give to the lecturer, Mrs Salvi whose
contribution in stimulating suggestions and encouragement helped us to
coordinate the project especially in writing this report. Furthermore, many
thanks go to the colleagues who helped a lot in each other to finalize this
project within a limited time frame.
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OUTCOME & RESULTS
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A) Not enough storage for books and stack of different height of books above the existing bookshelves
Solution: Build an adjustable bookshelf, which can fit different heights
of
books according to demand
Material used: Timber, Screws
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Longer books are
being stacked up the
top of the
bookshelves, as each
slot of the
bookshelves is not
An additional shelf is
added to a corner of the
classroom.
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B) Poor condition of flooring
Solution: Providing cement for the local community for building a new
layer
of floor by selling bread for funds.
Material used: Cement, sand and water
62Uneven
floor
Befor
e
Afte
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C) Disorganized of cleaning tools behind the classroom, affects the
hygiene of the
place.
Solution: Provide a hanging rack for locating the cleaning tools to
avoid
touching the ground.
Material used: Timber, steel hook, rubber tube
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The solution was to cover up the holes of the floor. Therefore,
we raised funds to buy the cement for the flooring work.
Befor
e
After
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D) Plain entrance of the school
Solution: Provide a bench for the students to play with and sit on while waiting for
their parents.
Material used: Timber, tire
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Cleaning tools are placed on
the floor with the rubbish
scattered all over thloor. The
cleaning tools are all in dirty
condition even after washed.
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E) Insufficient space for locating longer file, being stacked horizontally in
the
existing cupboard, hard to take out.
Solution: Buy an IKEA bookshelf that hang on the wall, which can be
adjustable to fit the length of the files.
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Plain
entrance
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Material used: IKEA bookshelves
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The files are being stacked horizontally, making it hard to
take.
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Disorganized files in the
shelves
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REFLECTION
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We have had the opportunity to do this community service helping
the refugees for the last several weeks. We had never really done this kind of
service before, so we knew that this was our opportunity to do some
community service to help others. We have found through the experience
that we really like to do this project, because in the near future we will
probably volunteer on our own, rather than doing it for a class.
Doing service projects is a great way to get involved with the
community. There are always people and businesses looking for help, and it
is usually easy to find a way to help. When we had to do volunteer services
for the refugees, we were excited because we had never really volunteered
for a long period of time. It was very interesting, because it actually made us
feel like a better person for helping someone in the community.
Moreover, we learnt new problem solving skill where we apply in the
refugee school in order to improve their learning environment. Those
children are so kind and talented. They deserve a better place to study. We,
a group of passionate architecture students have found the right time to pay
back to the community. We apply our knowledge in analysis and then design
workable furniture to improve their quality of life. I learnt that it is important
to observe surrounding before come out with a design. The design will be
more relevant to the site if you know exactly what the site’s condition is and
also what the user's needs.
Furthermore, we have learnt that this is a project that brings the
aim to further develop students’ community and team-working skills. These
skills are crucial in developing the students’ good professional design
practice in the future. As an active member of the community, students are
inspirited to deepen their construal towards their environment and realize
their responsibility towards it. By identifying community cognate issues
around them, students are required to come up with solutions utilizing the
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most of their ingeniousness which may be of tremendous avail in solving
authentic-world challenges in the future.
Overall, we feel that doing this project only better ourselves, and it helps
others. It is a great way to support a community as well as meet new people,
and to help out others. We feel that everyone should do more community
services, and for something that they are passionate about. We were glad we
got the chance to do this project, because we feel better about ourselves
knowing that we helped others, and we look forward to many more
opportunities like this.
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Others:
7. https://www.facebook.com/refugefortherefugees
8. http://www.masterpeace.org/blogs/post/
refuge_for_the_refugees_the_girl_who_believed_she_could_make_a_differe
nce
9. http://refugefortherefugees.blogspot.com/2012/06/refuge-for-
refugees.html
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