TYIN Tegnestue: Soe Ker Tie (Butterfly Huts), Safe Haven Bathhouse, Safe Haven Library and Old Market Library

Soe Ker Tie House: TYIN Tegnestue designed and built six dormitories for the orphanage in Noh Bo allowing it to grow from housing 24 children to 50.
Safe Haven Bathhouse: A bathhouse to meet the basic hygiene needs of the Save Haven Orphange in Ban Tha Song Tang, Thailand through a collaboration of the Karen and Western cultures.
Safe Haven Library: A library for the Save Haven Orphanage.
Old Market Library: An old market building transformed into a library using local and reused materials. The community building is separated into two zones -- bookshelves on one wall and areas for reading or quiet activities on the other.

Project Type:
architecture

Project Mission/Goal:
improve the human spirit
increase awareness of the environment and/or address climate change
respond to our growing need for clean water, power, shelter, healthcare, education
address humanitarian crises

Project Description:
For the past year humanitarian design organization TYIN Tegnestue (from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology) have built four incredible projects. These buildings include Soe Ker Tie (Butterfly Huts), Safe Haven Bathhouse, Safe Haven Library and Old Market Library.

They are most known for dormitories for Karen refugee children in the village of Noh Bo on the Thai-Burmese border. The six woven bamboo huts, dubbed Soe Ker Tie, or The Butterfly Huts because of their “winged” appearance were designed with the children’s happiness and health in mind. As simple as these new dorms may seem, they provide something wonderful for a growing child - a space to call their own to learn, sleep and play in.

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http://www.tyintegnestue.no/
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All Photographs(c): Pasi Aalto

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Project Details:
LOCATION: Ban Tha Song Tang, Thailand
DESIGN FIRM: TYIN Tegnestue
DESIGN TEAM: Pasi Aalto, Andreas Grøntvedt Gjertsen, Yashar Hanstad, Magnus Henriksen, Line Ramstad, Erlend Bauck Sole
DATE: Nominated for buildings between Nov. 2008 - June 2009
END USER: 60-79 Karen refugee orphans
NUMBER OF BENEFICIARIES/USERS: 68 sponsors
FUNDING: 60 Norwegian companies
COSTS:
Soe Ker Tie House: 68.000 NOK ($11,366 USD)
Old market Library: 27.000 NOK ($4,513 USD)
Safe Haven Library: 29.000 NOK ($4,847 USD)
Safe Haven Bath House: 22.500 NOK ($3,770 USD)
AREA: 10 sq m/107 sq ft (per unit)

Nominated by Cameron Sinclair

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