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PROJECT REPORT
GROUP MEMBERS
NAME
PRESTON LIEW RU PING (L)
LEE JO YEE
CHUNG WEI JIN
LING HUI SIM
YUAN KAI SHIEN
WOO WEN JIAN
CHAN PIN QI
BENNY TAN SHIOWEE
SHIRLEY LIEW QIAO LI
NICOLAS WONG XIAO EN
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STUDENT ID
0313822
0314880
0313789
0313855
0314818
0315123
0314676
0315447
0315671
0314377
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
NO.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
-PROJECT CONTACTS
-PROJECT OBJECTIVES
1.2
ISSUES IDENTIFICATION
1.3
SOLUTIONS
1.4
1.5
FINAL PROPOSAL
WORK PROGRESS
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BREAD SELLING
FLOOR FURNISHING
BOOKSHELVES MAKING
2.2
2.3
COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS
3.2
REFLECTION 46-47
3.3
REFERENCES 48-49
3.4
ATTACHMENT 50-74
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INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
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PROJECT CONTACTS
1. Organization name: Refuge For The Refugees (RFTR)
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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
4. Website: https://fb.com/refugefortherefugees
5. Email: refugefortherefugees@gmail.com
Posing in front of the camera, the little boy from the school shows no fear to strangers.
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 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.
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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.
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Persons-In-Charge for the Refugees School - Miss Andrea and Miss Heidy.
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PROJECT OBJECTIVES
I.
II.
III.
To allow students to explore and discover the opportunity to work with the
community and for the community.
IV.
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ISSUES IDENTIFICATION
Store room that kept all the textbooks and teaching materials.
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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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 16th 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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Unpleasant smell from the rubbish bins situated at the ground floor of the apartment.
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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.
Narrow,dim hallway
before the entrance
of the center.
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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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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.
III.
Kitchen Area. The kitchen shelves for the storage of plates, cups, cooking
utensils and etc were in a broken and poor condition.
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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.
VI.
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Partition. Each classroom was separated using a thin layer of plywood board
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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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SOLUTIONS
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No.
ISUUES
1.
Bookshelves
SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS
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.
ACTIONS
Agree by the
school and
Proceed.
2.
Kitchen Area
Agree by the
school and
Proceed.
3.
Flooring
Agree by the
school and
Proceed.
4.
Benches
5.
Windows
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Agree by the
school but will
proceed out of the
timeline of the
project.
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6.
Partitions
Toilet Bowls
7.
Renovations for
the partitions is
beyond our
capabilities in term
of monetary and
profession.
Not sustainable
and practical as its
unhygienic to use
plastic toilet bowls.
Renovation for the
toilet is beyond our
capabilities in term
of monetary and
profession.
8.
Mural Painting
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A tyre is a ring-shaped vehicle component that covers the wheels 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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100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Acquisition of
Raw Materials
Transport
Tire
Production
Tire Use
Figure 1 : Results of the product Life Cycle Assessment for passenger and light truck tires
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LIFE CYCLE
ASSESSMENT OF
TIRES
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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Old paint
Distribution to
retailers
Transport
Unrecyclable disposal
in landfill
Filtration
Packaging
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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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Consumers
Paint
Manufacture
LIFE CYCLE
ASSESSMENT OF
PAINTS
Paint
Retailers
Warehouse
and
Distributions
3. Wooden Pallets
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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.
60 to 90%
reduction of
carbon
emissions.
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Wood pallets
stove or
furnace
Production of
pallets
Embodied
energ: 5.8 GJ
Carbon dioxide
emission:6.04g
LIFE CYCLE
ASSESSMENT OF
WOOD PELLETS
Heating oil
and Natural
gas
Fossil fuel
heating
emission: 100.1
g CO2 and
62.8 g CO2/MJ
Switching
WORK DISTRIBUTION
No. Students
Work
1.
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2.
Nicolas Wong
3.
Bookshelves / A3 Poster
4.
Bookshelves
5.
6.
Chan Pin Qi
7.
Documentation A4 Report
8.
9.
10.
Lee Jo Yee
Documentation - A4 Report
GANT CHART
The timeline of this project from planning to completion is showed below:
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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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WORK PROGRESS
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1. Bread Selling
With the purpose of raising funds and also getting the publics 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 Taylors College, Inti College, area
around SS15, Sunway University and of course, our very own Taylors University
Lakeside Campus. While selling the breads, we also asked for donations from
the public while showing them information flyers about this education centre. This
fund-raising sale went on for two days and we collected a total amount of
RM1320.75. Please refer to pagexx for the financial report.
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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 second idea
which is to use wooden planks and build an extra wooden shelve on a wall in
the classroom
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Other than the bookshelves, we also designed a bench 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.
In order to build the book shelves and the benches, we needed wooden pallets
as our main building material. Luck was in our hands when we successfully
obtained the sponsorship for these wooden pallets. We would like to express our
utmost gratitude towards Mr. xxx for his contribution.
Members moving the wooden palletes from the lorry into their cars.
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Members visiting the recycling center to get the wooden planks. Shown above are the wooden planks
that the recycling center provided.
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 campuss 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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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 Wongs house to collect the tyres for the
benches which are temporarily kept there.
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After loading the tyres into the car, we headed off to campus to collect the
wooden planks for the set up of the bookshelves.
Members trying to move the wooden planks from the workshop into the cars.
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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 figuring out the best way to fix the shelves
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3. Floor cement
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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FINAL PROPOSAL
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REFERENCES
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