SCHOOL PARTNER: Lamak Elementary School
LOCATION: Sitio Lamak, Barangay Mayana Barili, Cebu City, Philippines
The benefits of design comes in manifolds. Design can build a school for children in a remote area where access to water, energy, and educational materials are difficult to distribute, Design can promote a healthier environment for the children in a school building by using sustainable materials and techniques, Design can support indigenous and native designs and practices in a country that is becoming Westernized. The Salakot School Project allows us to explore good design that can save lives.
PARTNER DESCRIPTION: Lamak Elementary School
The Salakot school design is a low-cost school made from sustainable and indigenuous materials for low-income families .The proposed public school building renovation of the Salakot School is for the Lamak Elementary School, located in Sitio Lamak, Baranagay Mayana Barili, Cebu City, Philippines.
The proposed public school building renovation of the Salakot School is for the Lamak Elementary School. The school was founded before World War II. There are about 200 students in school with about 40 students per class. The school has six classrooms, 6'x8' per classroom, and there are about six (6) teachers. The school caters to the elementary grades, from Grade 1 to Grade 6. In 2009, first year high school will be opened. Thus an expansion for additional classrooms is necessary.
LOCATION: Barili, Cebu City, Philippines
The Municipality of Barili is located southwest of Cebu City. Barili, is a 3rd class municipality, with 42 barangays, allowing a total population of 60,430 in 11,164 households and a land area of 117.15 square kilometers, the greater portion of which is devoted to agriculture. Rice, Corn, Coconut and Bananas are the major agricultural products of the municipality. Aside from agriculture, Barili also has quite a good number of industrial and commercial enterprises. Rice and corn milling, basket making, furniture making, mat and hat weaving, livestock and poultry raising.
Barili seeks importance in education and is a municipality that has the best education system. Barili has an Elementary, Primary and Secondary Schools, College and Technical School by both the government and private sector. Majority of the people speak and write in both English and Filipino.
Barili stresses on their “Clean and Green” program and believe firmly on recycling. Trash receptacles are color-coded. Each set three drums, painted red (for plastics), green (for tin cans and bottles), blue (for leaves, papers etc.). These garbage are collected daily by the two garbage trucks of the LGU
“The Philippines has a tropical weather, however, since the school is in the mountainous region, the weather is cool. During the times when it’s very cold, one can see the children and their parents wearing overcoat which they buy from “ukay ukay”, a Filipino term for bargain shopping.” Esperanza F.Garcia
Lamak Elementary School is located in a mountainous barrio 7 kilometers from the town of Barili. It is built on the top of hill with a mountain full of forest for a backdrop.
PROGRAM
You are free to create a program based on the needs of your school.
From the school Moderator- Esperanza Fiel Garcia
The school caters to the elementary grades, from Grade 1 to Grade 6. In 2009, first year high school will be opened. Thus an expansion for additional classrooms is necessary.
The school is habitable except that it lacks the facilities of a regular US based school. There’s a need for more comfort rooms and school needs a kitchen where teachers can teach the pupils how to cool and HE or Home Economics room where pupils can be taught how to make beds, set the table for dining and other fine things that a boy or a girl should learn. The government cannot as yet help the school with these problems. Thus there’s a need for private individuals to help.
The school is located in a barrio that quite and peaceful where residents are all farmers. Most of the children are thin and starvy looking. They wear rubber slippers. They can taste pork only during very special occasions like fiestas and at the eve of All Saints Day. People will slaughter their pigs at the eve of All Saints Day because they offer food to their relatives who died. These. Most of the time they eat vegetables and root crop harvested from their farms. Every Sunday they attend mass at a chapel built by a monk near their place.
Because of abject poverty they cannot buy TV sets. But the children do not miss this luxury because it is common in the barrio that TV sets are wanting.
DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS
SITE/CONTEXT
The preliminary design of the urban landscape was designed prior to designing the school. It is integral to have hindsight of the community and how a community can function effectively, before designing a school. The school will only be productive and successful if the community complements the functions of the school campus.
The purpose of the urban plan sketch is to promote a self-sustaining lifestyle for the community. Barili’s economy largely relies on agriculture. To design an rban landscape that enhances their agricultural practices and be able to benefit the homestead of the families in Barili is only appropriate.
The ecological reference in the Urban Landscape Plan was used as zoning reference for the site. The Banaue Rice Terraces, in the Philippines, dubbed as one of the 8 wonders of the world, was used as inspiration. Using the tiers that the rice terraces has, the zoning was used in order to distinguish the separate zones in the ecological reference. The zoning in the site plan includes:
Zone 1- Education (Salakot School, Lamak Elementary School)
Zone 2 – Homestead
Zone 3 – Fully Irrigated Garden
Zone 4- Livestock
Zone 5 – Plantation & Commercial Crop
ARCHITECTURE/BUILDING CONSTRUCTION - Earth Bag Construction
Earthbag is an inexpensive method to create structures which are both strong and can be quickly built. The technique requires very basic construction materials: sturdy sacks, filled with inorganic material usually available on site (such as sand, gravel, clay or crushed volcanic rock). Walls are gradually built up by laying the bags in courses — forming a staggered pattern similar to bricklaying. The walls are curved to provide improved lateral stability, forming round rooms. This form of construction is then appropriate for the round walls of the Salakot school design for the Lamak Elementary School.
SPATIAL PLANNING
1. Alibata
Alibata is the ancient script of the Philippines. Alibata is the Filipino writing used before the Spanish colonization, and no longer used today. It is important to re-introduce the writing form back to the Philippine education system. Adorning the classroom walls with the Alibata alphabet will be a reminder for children of their heritage.
2. PlayPump
The PlayPump system is a water pump that provides easy access to clean drinking water, powered by children at play. PlayPump has lead to improvements in health, education, gender equality, and economic development. The interior courtyard of the school will integrate the playpump system. The water feature that surrounds the exterior of the school will benefit the PlayPump system.
"While children have fun spinning on the PlayPump merry-go-round (1), clean water is pumped (2) from underground (3) into a 2,500-liter tank (4), standing seven meters above the ground. A simple tap (5) makes it easy for adults and children to draw water. Excess water is diverted from the storage tank back down into the borehole (6). The water storage tank (7) provides a rare opportunity to advertise in outlaying communities. All four sides of the tank are leased as billboards, with two sides for consumer advertising and the other two sides for health and educational messages. The revenue generated by this unique model pays for pump maintenance."
INDIGENOUS MATERIALS AND DESIGN
1. Local Designer:
Kenneth Cobonpue is a furniture designer from Cebu, Philippines. Cobonpue uses modern design with local and organic fibers and materials to design his pieces. Hiring local artisans promotes support for natural materials and native designs.
2. Local Materials:
a. ABACA
Abaca, known as Manila hemp, is the strongest natural fiber in the world. It is grown mainly in the Philippines. The furniture designs in the classroom will be made from Abaca fibers.
b. BAMBOO
Bamboo is the most eco-friendly material in the world, as it is renewable. The Bamboo culm can grow up to one meter in a single night. Fortunately, the Philippines has an abundance of bamboo. Bamboo is flexible, stress-resistant, and an endless regenerative resource, making this resource appropriate to support the architectural structure of the Salakot school. Bamboo flooring will also be used.
c. RATTAN
Rattan palm vine can grow up to 600 feet long. In the early days, rattan was used for rigging small boats, hauling and bailing as supports for suspension bridges, and for lashing bamboo frameworks of thatched houses. Rattan will be used in the wall designs and furniture of the school.
PASSIVE SOLAR
The school design allows natural light to go inside each classroom from two sides of each wall. This decreases energy use within the building.
NATURAL VENTILATION
Cross ventilation happens when cool air from outside enters a building and forces warm air out through an outlet such as a window or door. Due to the tropical climate in the Philippines, natural-ventilation strategies in architectural design is important. Creating cross ventilation in a school brings in oxygen and creates a cooler environment. The design of the school allows natural ventilation in the classroom and interior space of the school.
Location
- Affordable/Cost-effective
- Architecture for Humanity
- classroom
- Climate - Tropical
- Competition
- Context - Rural
- Culturally Sensitive
- Disaster Mitigation - Earthquake-resistant
- Economic Development/Livelihoods
- Education
- Education
- Education Facility - Primary School
- Education Facility - Secondary School
- Energy - Efficiency
- Energy - Renewable
- Green Design/ Practices
- Low Maintenance
- Materials - Environmentally Sensitive
- Materials - Local/Indigenous
- Materials - Reused/Recycled
- Materials - Traditional
- Non-Profit/ Community-based
- Open Architecture Challenge
- Orient Global
- school
- Solar - Passive
- Student Work
- ecofriendly
- ecological
- Energy efficient
- indigenous design
- low cost
- low income
- Philippines
- philippines
- play pump
- salakot school
- schools
- sustainable design
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SCHOOL PARTNER: Lamak Elementary School
LOCATION: Sitio Lamak, Barangay Mayana Barili, Cebu City, Philippines
The benefits of design comes in manifolds. Design can build a school for children in a remote area where access to water, energy, and educational materials are difficult to distribute, Design can promote a healthier environment for the children in a school building by using sustainable materials and techniques, Design can support indigenous and native designs and practices in a country that is becoming Westernized. The Salakot School Project allows us to explore good design that can save lives.
PARTNER DESCRIPTION: Lamak Elementary School
The Salakot school design is a low-cost school made from sustainable and indigenuous materials for low-income families .The proposed public school building renovation of the Salakot School is for the Lamak Elementary School, located in Sitio Lamak, Baranagay Mayana Barili, Cebu City, Philippines.
The proposed public school building renovation of the Salakot School is for the Lamak Elementary School. The school was founded before World War II. The school caters to the elementary grades, from Grade 1 to Grade 6. In 2009, first year high school will be opened. Thus an expansion for additional classrooms is necessary.
LOCATION: Barili, Cebu City, Philippines
The Municipality of Barili is located southwest of Cebu City. Barili, is a 3rd class municipality, with 42 barangays, allowing a total population of 60,430 in 11,164 households and a land area of 117.15 square kilometers, the greater portion of which is devoted to agriculture. Rice, Corn, Coconut and Bananas are the major agricultural products of the municipality. Aside from agriculture, Barili also has quite a good number of industrial and commercial enterprises. Rice and corn milling, basket making, furniture making, mat and hat weaving, livestock and poultry raising.
Barili seeks importance in education and is a municipality that has the best education system. Barili has an Elementary, Primary and Secondary Schools, College and Technical School by both the government and private sector. Majority of the people speak and write in both English and Filipino.
Barili stresses on their “Clean and Green” program and believe firmly on recycling. Trash receptacles are color-coded. Each set three drums, painted red (for plastics), green (for tin cans and bottles), blue (for leaves, papers etc.). These garbage are collected daily by the two garbage trucks of the LGU
“The Philippines has a tropical weather, however, since the school is in the mountainous region, the weather is cool. During the times when it’s very cold, one can see the children and their parents wearing overcoat which they buy from “ukay ukay”, a Filipino term for bargain shopping.” Esperanza F.Garcia
Lamak Elementary School is located in a mountainous barrio 7 kilometers from the town of Barili. It is built on the top of hill with a mountain full of forest for a backdrop.
PROGRAM
You are free to create a program based on the needs of your school.
From the school Moderator- Esperanza Fiel Garcia
The school caters to the elementary grades, from Grade 1 to Grade 6. In 2009, first year high school will be opened. Thus an expansion for additional classrooms is necessary.
The school is habitable except that it lacks the facilities of a regular US based school. There’s a need for more comfort rooms and school needs a kitchen where teachers can teach the pupils how to cool and HE or Home Economics room where pupils can be taught how to make beds, set the table for dining and other fine things that a boy or a girl should learn. The government cannot as yet help the school with these problems. Thus there’s a need for private individuals to help.
The school is located in a barrio that quite and peaceful where residents are all farmers. Most of the children are thin and starvy looking. They wear rubber slippers. They can taste pork only during very special occasions like fiestas and at the eve of All Saints Day. People will slaughter their pigs at the eve of All Saints Day because they offer food to their relatives who died. These. Most of the time they eat vegetables and root crop harvested from their farms. Every Sunday they attend mass at a chapel built by a monk near their place.
Because of abject poverty they cannot buy TV sets. But the children do not miss this luxury because it is common in the barrio that TV sets are wanting.
DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS
SITE/CONTEXT
The preliminary design of the urban landscape was designed prior to designing the school. It is integral to have hindsight of the community and how a community can function effectively, before designing a school. The school will only be productive and successful if the community complements the functions of the school campus.
The purpose of the urban plan sketch is to promote a self-sustaining lifestyle for the community. Barili’s economy largely relies on agriculture. To design an rban landscape that enhances their agricultural practices and be able to benefit the homestead of the families in Barili is only appropriate.
The ecological reference in the Urban Landscape Plan was used as zoning reference for the site. The Banaue Rice Terraces, in the Philippines, dubbed as one of the 8 wonders of the world, was used as inspiration. Using the tiers that the rice terraces has, the zoning was used in order to distinguish the separate zones in the ecological reference. The zoning in the site plan includes:
Zone 1- Education (Salakot School, Lamak Elementary School)
Zone 2 – Homestead
Zone 3 – Fully Irrigated Garden
Zone 4- Livestock
Zone 5 – Plantation & Commercial Crop
ARCHITECTURE/BUILDING CONSTRUCTION - Earth Bag Construction
Earthbag is an inexpensive method to create structures which are both strong and can be quickly built. The technique requires very basic construction materials: sturdy sacks, filled with inorganic material usually available on site (such as sand, gravel, clay or crushed volcanic rock). Walls are gradually built up by laying the bags in courses — forming a staggered pattern similar to bricklaying. The walls are curved to provide improved lateral stability, forming round rooms. This form of construction is then appropriate for the round walls of the Salakot school design for the Lamak Elementary School.
SPATIAL PLANNING
1. Alibata
Alibata is the ancient script of the Philippines. Alibata is the Filipino writing used before the Spanish colonization, and no longer used today. It is important to re-introduce the writing form back to the Philippine education system. Adorning the classroom walls with the Alibata alphabet will be a reminder for children of their heritage.
2. PlayPump
The PlayPump system is a water pump that provides easy access to clean drinking water, powered by children at play. PlayPump has lead to improvements in health, education, gender equality, and economic development. The interior courtyard of the school will integrate the playpump system. The water feature that surrounds the exterior of the school will benefit the PlayPump system.
"While children have fun spinning on the PlayPump merry-go-round (1), clean water is pumped (2) from underground (3) into a 2,500-liter tank (4), standing seven meters above the ground. A simple tap (5) makes it easy for adults and children to draw water. Excess water is diverted from the storage tank back down into the borehole (6). The water storage tank (7) provides a rare opportunity to advertise in outlaying communities. All four sides of the tank are leased as billboards, with two sides for consumer advertising and the other two sides for health and educational messages. The revenue generated by this unique model pays for pump maintenance."
INDIGENOUS MATERIALS AND DESIGN
1. Local Designer:
Kenneth Cobonpue is a furniture designer from Cebu, Philippines. Cobonpue uses modern design with local and organic fibers and materials to design his pieces. Hiring local artisans promotes support for natural materials and native designs.
2. Local Materials:
a. ABACA
Abaca, known as Manila hemp, is the strongest natural fiber in the world. It is grown mainly in the Philippines. The furniture designs in the classroom will be made from Abaca fibers.
b. BAMBOO
Bamboo is the most eco-friendly material in the world, as it is renewable. The Bamboo culm can grow up to one meter in a single night. Fortunately, the Philippines has an abundance of bamboo. Bamboo is flexible, stress-resistant, and an endless regenerative resource, making this resource appropriate to support the architectural structure of the Salakot school. Bamboo flooring will also be used.
c. RATTAN
Rattan palm vine can grow up to 600 feet long. In the early days, rattan was used for rigging small boats, hauling and bailing as supports for suspension bridges, and for lashing bamboo frameworks of thatched houses. Rattan will be used in the wall designs and furniture of the school.
PASSIVE SOLAR
The school design allows natural light to go inside each classroom from two sides of each wall. This decreases energy use within the building.
NATURAL VENTILATION
Cross ventilation happens when cool air from outside enters a building and forces warm air out through an outlet such as a window or door. Due to the tropical climate in the Philippines, natural-ventilation strategies in architectural design is important. Creating cross ventilation in a school brings in oxygen and creates a cooler environment. The design of the school allows natural ventilation in the classroom and interior space of the school.
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Dear Esperanza Garcia
all the best for this wonderful project
kindly implement biogas-technology to improve health & hygiene & provide free
renewable energy - kindly view : http://www.sulabhinternational.org/
Kindly introduce biogas technology into your project :
http://www.sulabhinternational.org/st/community_toilet_linked_biogas_pan...
Dr.Peter Riefenthaler
for your feedback :
"Dear Dr., Riefenthaler,
It is wonderful to be connected to you. Thank you for your encouragement. The school design was my thesis in back in my undergraduate degree - and would only hope to make it happen, someday. Thanks for your ideas. Look forward to future collaboration.
Yours in partnership,
Esperanza
Esperanza Garcia
"
kindly view my proposals on schools in general :
http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/projects/4488
http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/projects/scaleafrica
kindly introduce biogas technology to improve health & hygiene & provide renewable energy as experienced by Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak :
http://www.sulabhinternational.org/st/community_toilet_linked_biogas_pan...
& kindly cooperate with : http://www.villagevolunteers.org/about-us/
all the best for your projects
Dr.Peter Riefenthaler
my proposal:kindly install a biogas-digester adjacent to the toilets
improving health & hygiene plus generating energy for cooking & lighting
experienced by Dr.Bindeshwar Pathak :
http://www.sulabhinternational.org/st/community_toilet_linked_biogas_pan...
all the best for your project
Peter Riefenthaler
kindly view similar projects & comments with similar proposals & solutions :
http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/projects/4488
http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/projects/4896
http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/projects/4357
http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/projects/3879
http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/projects/4173
http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/projects/4064
http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/projects/umueze#comment-17530
http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/projects/worldhandsproject#comment-17...
http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/projects/nabae
http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/node/3658
http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/projects/3784