The dorms were designed for rapid construction using local
materials and techniques in order to house child refugees from bordering
Burma (Photo: Line Ramstad/Allyse Pulliam)
The Children Development Center in the Thai town of Mae Sot recently
completed the last of four low-impact bamboo and timber dormitories
designed to provide temporary shelter for up to 100 children. The dorms
were designed for rapid construction using local materials and
techniques in order to house child refugees from bordering Burma.
The first of four 72-sq m (775-sq ft) dormitories was completed
within four weeks of its April 2012 commencement. The architects behind
the project, Albert Olmo, Jan Glasmeier and Line Ramstad, decided from
the outset that the buildings should be made from materials that could
be either reused or resold.
The decision to design with local traditional construction methods in
mind was made in order to make future maintenance of the buildings
easy. It was also decided that no one dorm should sleep more than 25 to
prevent crowding.
It should be stressed that these dorms provide temporary
accommodation. In all the Child Development Center, which is run by the
Mae Tao Clinic, is home to more than 500 refugee and ethnic minority
children, and in January enrolled 1141 new students, a rise of 4 percent
from the previous year. The increase has been attributed to the
outbreak of further conflict in Burma in the closing months of 2010.
The cost of the dormitories (€1700, or US$2100, each) was met by the
Embassy of Luxembourg in Bangkok and built by G'yaw G'yaw, a Thai
construction company founded by Norwegian architect Line Ramstad that
specializes in community buildings for Karen refugees in Thailand.
Source : http://www.gizmag.com
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