The New Proposal of the 'Celah' Project Year 2007

RAG 132

Proposal No.2

*Because our group has change the proposed place, so we do a new proposal for the new proposed place.

Group Members :
1. Mohamad Ali Shahcheraghi (Building Technology, Iran)
2. Pattara Hatsadeevijid (Architecture, Thailand)
3. Loo Chui Shen (Quantity Surveying, Malaysia)
4. #Yang RuiDong (Construction Management, China)
5. Zayummie Mohamad Yusof (Urban and Regional Planning, Malaysia)
6. Zhang Bei (Interior Design, China)

#Yang RuiDong (Major in Construction Management) is our group leader.


Part 1 :

Objective:

1 . To beautify the HBP area
2 . To develop the HBP area
3 . To make the HBP area more convenient to all people

We put our 1M Plate behind the IT lab.


Place:

The area between the E47-E48 building and the E15 building.

Node and Path:

NODE --> Building E40 & E38

PATH --> The land between the E40 building and E38 building.

Problems:

1. The area is full of grass and mud. There will be full of mud after raining. This makes the place not so convenient to walk through as it will make the shoes of the person who pass through that place become very dirty.

2. There are lots of love grasses there, where the love grasses use to stick their seeds on the passers-by’ socks and pants. This will make people feel itchy and uncomfortable.

3. There is a slope nearby the E40 building, and this is quite dangerous as :
~There is no any warning board or dangerous sign board there.
~There is no any fence there.
~People will easily fall down the slope.

4. That area is a quite dangerous place. The reasons is:
~There is no any post light there, and it is too dark there.
~There are so many students always pass through the area, means that there are a lot of people
are using the path way there.


Improvement:

1. For the first and second problem, we should put our 1M Plate there and make it become a pathway. Hence, people can easily pass through that place without having any inconvenient feeling.

2. For the third problem, we should build a fence and place some warning board or dangerous sign board there.

3. For the fourth problem, we should add some post lights there. This will lighten that area and make that area not so dark.


Advantages:

~ Can make the HBP area more convenient to all people.
~ Can make the HBP area safer.
~ Can apply the sustainable development concept on that area.


Target:

The target of the improvement is HPB students, HBP staffs and HBP lecturers.

1) LECTURERS and HBP STAFFS

- Easier for lecturers who pass through from the office to the IT lab to do research
- Lecturer can find the reference easily in resource centre by passing through this path from their office during rainy day

2) STUDENTS

- Easier for student to do their website assignment easily in IT lab by just passing the path
- Let students meet their lecturers in office which located near the IT lab when having problems.
- For safety purpose when walking at night
- Convenient for people who want to cross the path when rainy day
- Easier for student to reach the resource centre to imbibe knowledge after tutorials in E48 building.


Part 2:

“Zero” cost of the project:

We cannot use any of our money to do this project, so we have to get the money from HBP or get some sponsor to complete our project.

How can we get the material and where did we get the materials?

We get all of those materials around USM. Some of the materials come from the HBP area and some from the construction area. All those materials is the materials that are already thrown by the construction workers. Therefore, all the materials are the recycle materials, and the 3-R concept can be fulfilled.

How to do the 1M plate?

1. First, we measure 1M x 1M on a big board, and we cut it off using a saw, which we lend it from the workshop which located in HBP.
2. After that, we measure the length of the plate and cut off four sticks to do the beam of the plate.
3. Then, we cut off two more sticks and make a ‘X’ cross beam at the back side of the plate to make it more stable.
4. We do the other 5 plates by repeating the step 1-step 3.





REFERENCES:

These are the photos at where we put our 1 M Plate:

We put our 1M Plate at the place Which behind the IT lab.





This is the way we put our 1M Plate.





How people use to walk through our 1M Plate.

Report of 1M Plate Project

REPORT OF THE ‘CELAH’ PROJECT YEAR 2007

On the 1^st August 2007, all the HBP students have to start their ‘CELAH’ Project. The objective of this project is to beautify the HBP area.

The ‘CELAH’ Project is a ‘Zero-cost’ project, which means that we cannot spend any money on this project. To complete this project, we have to find the resources and sponsor ourselves.

To start the part 1 of this project, we have to form a group which contains 6 people with different major from HBP, i.e. architecture, interior design, urban and regional planning, quantity surveying, building technology, and construction management. We have form an international group, which contain Malaysian, people from Thailand, people from China and people from Iran. The major of each our group members is as follow :

1. Mohamad Ali Shahcheraghi (Building Technology, Iran)

2.Pattara Hatsadeevijid (Architecture, Thailand)

3. Loo Chui Shen (Quantity Surveying, Malaysia)

4. Yang RuiDong (Construction Management, China)

5. Zayummie Mohamad Yusof (Urban and Regional Planning, Malaysia)

6. Zhang Bei (Interior Design, China)

Yang RuiDong (Major in Construction Management) is our group leader.

We also have to name our group. After discussing, we finally decided to name our group as ’EVERGREEN’ since we have to relate sustainable development and environment to this project. To fulfill the requirement, Pattara and Zhang Bei had together design the name card of out group, and we manage to summit the name card on 4^th August 2007.

We have started the part 2 of this project by doing a research at HBP area. We finally decided to study the area between E47-E48 building and E15 building. We had done a research on what problems were that area facing and the methods to solve all the problems. We manage to summit our proposal on 8^th August 2007.

To start the part 3 of this ‘CELAH’ project, we first have to find all the materials that we need. We had to go to the construction site of HBP to ask for some wood. We also success to find a lot planks from the HBP workshop after we get the permission from the people who in charge in the workshop.

We need some tools, such as hammer, saw, nails and chisel, for this project. Since we cannot spend any money on this project, we decided to borrow all the needed tools from the HBP workshop.

After we had found all the materials and tools that we needed, we started the part 3 of the project by cut the plank to 1 meter long and 1meter wide. Then, we cut the wood to 1 meter long as the framework of the 1 M plate. After cutting all the woods and planks, we hammer the woods and planks together according to our design.

Lastly, we decorate our 1 M plate and improve the weakness of the plate which had already done.

We finish the part 3 of the ‘CELAH’ project by moving our plate to the place that appointed by Mr. Wan Burhanuddin.

We had faced a lot of problems when doing this project. First, it is not so easy to find all the materials freely. Second, some woods are too hard and not easily to cut, whereas some woods are too easily broken.

Third, the joint was not easy to do well, as it is hard to estimate the depth of the joint that we had cut. Fourth, as our group is the international group, it is hard to communicate to each other.

However, we finally overcome all the difficulties and succeed to complete the ‘CELAH’ project. Besides, we have managed to foster our relationship between each group members. Thanks to ‘CELAH’ project, it really bring lots of benefits to all of us.

PROPOSED SITE :

This plate belong to 66. LOO CHUI SHEN (95464)


This plate belong to 84. Mohamad Ali Shahcheraghi (91030)


This plate is belonging to 99. Mr. Pattara Hatsadeevijid (94360)

This plate belong to 233. Zhang Bei (98911)

This plate belong to 232. Zayummie Mohamad Yusof (95628)

This plate belong to 177. Yang RuiDong (98908), which is our group leader .

Proposal of the 'Celah' Project Year 2007

RAG 132

Proposal

Part 1 :

Objective:

1 . To beautify the HBP area

2 . To develop the HBP area

3 . To make the HBP area more convenient to all people

Place:

The area between the E47-E48 building and the E15 building.

Node and Path:

The first node is the E47-E48 building.

Another node is E15 building.

The path is the non-develop land between the E47-E48 building and E15 building.

Problems:

1. That area is a quite dangerous place. The reasons is:

～ There is no any post light there, and it is too dark there.

~ There are so many students always pass through the area, means that there are a lot of people are using the path way there.

~ There are also a lot of students walk through there at night, as they are going to studio to finish their studio work.

~ It is not so convenient if there is no any post light there.

~ Recently there are too many rap cases happening in the campus area. People can be easily attacked by other there.

2. The area is neither a recreation place nor a develop place. It is quite a waste if we leave the place as a non-develop area or a vacant land.

3. There is a slope nearby the E15 building, and this is quite dangerous as :

~There is no any warning board or dangerous sign board there.

~There is no any fence there.

~People will easily fall down the slope.

Improvement:

1. For the first problem, we should add some post lights there. This will lighten that area and make that area not so dark.

2. For the second problem, we should develop that area by build a pool, plants some plants, some trees, some flowers there.

3. For the third problem, we should build a fence and place some warning board or dangerous sign board there.

Advantages:

~ Can make the HBP area safer.

~ Can beautify the HBP area.

~ Can provide a recreation place to let HBP students and staffs relaxing there.

~ Can apply the sustainable development concept on that area.

Target:

The target of the improvement is HPB students, HBP staffs and HBP lecturers. Of course, the other faculties or other courses students also can go there to have a relaxing time.

Part 2:

“Zero” cost of the project:

We cannot use any of our money to do this project, so we have to get the money from HBP or get some sponsor to complete our project.

How can we get the material and where did we get the materials?

We get all of those materials around USM. Some of the materials come from the HBP area and some from the construction area. All those materials is the materials that are already thrown by the construction workers. Therefore, all the materials are the recycle materials, and the 3-R concept can be fulfilled.

How to do the 1M plate?

1. First, we measure 1M x 1M on a big board, and we cut it off using a saw, which we lend it from the workshop which located in HBP.

2. After that, we measure the length of the plate and cut off four sticks to do the beam of the plate.

3. Then, we cut off two more sticks and make a ‘X’ cross beam at the back side of the plate to make it more stable.

4. We do the other 5 plates by repeating the step 1-step 3.

Intervention : Project Celah

On 1st August 2007, our lecturer En. Wan Burhanuddin had give us the second project on “intervention”.

The project is about we need to built six pieces of 1m plates. We are required to choose a nodes and a path in the HBP quadrangles and hence, improve it. There are a few conditions about the IM plate that we need to take consideration in our project :

~The I M Plate :

- Should be in zero cost

- Should be in 1m length and 1m width, means the plate is 1 m² large

- Able to withstand the weight of 200kg

- Each should be carriable by two persons

- The height of the plate is depend by our own

We need to form a group which consist of 6 different majors, i.e. construction management, urban and regional planning, quantity surveying, architecture, interior design and building technology.

My group name is “EVERGREEN”, where this name related to the sustainable development and the natural. My group leader is Yang RuiDong (CM), whereas other group members are Mohamad Ali Shahcheraghi (BT), Pattara Hatsadeevijid (Architecture), Loo Chui Shen (QS), Zayummie Mohamad Yusof (Planning), and Zhang Bei (ID).

We need to hand in our name card in both soft copy and hard copy to our lecturer before 4th August 2007. The deadline for this project is 15th August 2007.

This is our team logo and name card :

Housing...An Act or A Product?

Housing...An act? Or a Product?

What is the meaning of Housing?

According to Wikipedia, housing is a building lived in by people. The word "house" may also refer to a building that shelters animals, especially in a zoo.

It generally has walls and a roof to shelter its enclosed space from precipitation, wind, heat, cold, and other elements. Domestic pets and "unwanted" animals (such as mice) often live in houses.

The social unit that lives in a house is known as a household. Most commonly, a household is a family unit of some kind, though households can be other social groups, such as single persons, or groups of unrelated individuals. Settled agrarian and industrial societies are composed of household units living permanently in housing of various types, according to a variety of forms of Land tenure. English-speaking people generally call any building they routinely occupy "home". Many people leave their house during the day for work and recreation but typically return to it to sleep or for other activities.


What are the housing problems facing in Malaysia?

In Malaysia, there are not all people afford to buy a house, or even a low-cost-house.
This is because nowadays, houses are very expensive.

Besides, the space in Malaysia is limited. There are not enough area to build houses. Hence, this causes the price of the land in Malaysia inceases every year.


Why there is a housing problem in Malaysia?

This is because when the price of the petrol increases, it will indirectly affect the pricing of everything, include the pricing of the real estate. This will then increasing the cost of the houses. Therefore, people have to earn more money to purchase a house.


Housing as a product:

Housing (n) [Perumahan] = Product

Housing are the buildings or other shelters in which people live. It is a place to live or a dwelling.

It involve different form such as aggregation, division...

There are different types of houses, such as bungalow, farmhouse, victorian house, treehouse...

There are different cost level of housing, such as low cost housing, medium cost housing and high cost housing.

And it also different in management such as self management or condominium where all people involve manage things together.


Different types of houses.

Housing as an act

Housing (v) [Merumahkan] = Act

Nowadays, people mostly see housing as an act but not as a product.

There are five main category in housing as people see housing as an act .That is :

1)Hand keys

This is use when the house owner moved into the ready-made house.


2)Structure and infill.

Infill on existing structure. For example, put in furniture, television, cupboard and others to upgrade the indoor environment of a house.


3)Core house

A core house is a house put on the site with basic amenities, i.e. water and electricity only. Toilet and one room of core house are built and sell it to the public. The buyer can renovate and extent the house again as long as he/she afford.


4)Site and service

To build on the existing infrastructure


5)Provide land

Land is needed to build the houses.



Questions :

Encik Wan Burhanuddin had gave us some question to think about:

1) What is the difference between Housing as a verb(act) and as a noun(product)?

Answer :Housing as an act refer to the process of a building from construction,to usage and then to the demolition but as an product, it refer to the building that people live inside or use it as a shelter to get protection


2) Who is the actors who use housing as a product?

Answer : Those actors are house owner and house user.


3) Who are the actors who use housing as an act?

Answer : The actor who use housing as an act are the land owners, developers, occupants, designers such as architects, planner and interior designers, contractors and government.

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