SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & DESIGN Centre for Modern Architecture Studies in Southeast Asia (MASSA) Bachelor of Science

(Honours) (Architecture) ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABLE DESIGN (ARC 1413/1412) __________________________________________________________________________________ Paying It Forward Project

Service Learning experiences should give students a chance to make a positive contribution in their community. Thank you for submitting a proposal to have a new environmental/community activity for organization approved.

Members: Muhammad Naim Bin Ahmad Mukif Muhammad Saufi Bin Azlee Arif Haiqal Bin Mohd Razal Amir Hakim Bin Sazali Muhammad Arif Bin Shafii Ahmad Ridhwan Bin Ahmad Mohammad Harris Bin Shahrul Annuar Preshant Rasu Syed Zain Bin Syed Azman 0303348 0303396 0300923 0314707 0303005 0311384 0303768 0312813 0304845

Email: Organization Name: Pusat Jagaan Kasih Bestari Contact Person: Ustaz Din

Address: LOT 5930, Jalan Jati Kg. Melayu Subang 40150 Shah Alam, Selangor

Phone Number: 016 - 2516515

Content:

1) -

Introduction Brief Intro Issues Proposed Idea

2) Design Idea - Original Condition 3) Design Execution New Floor plan Bicycle Rack Store Furniture Rehal Design Solution Expenditure Timeline Process Meeting Minutes Work Distribution

4) Sustainable Environmental Strategy - Life Cycle Materials 5) Work Distribution - Day by day report - Working hour graph 6) Conclusion 7) Appendix

Introduction Rumah Jagaan Kasih Bestari is an Islamic orphanage centre that is currently housing 50 children. The centre provides shelter, schooling equipment as well as academic and religious education. It was established in 2007. The centre is located in Lot 5930, Jalan Jati Kg. Melayu Subang, Shah Alam, Selangor. It is in a form of a small single-storey detached house with a reasonable amount of outdoor space.

Identifying Issues Based on our observation, the organization suffers from numerous issues, firstly there is no adequate area for the children to place their bicycle, and the bikes are placed on the side and sometimes at the front of the porch. Secondly, the greenery of the area lacks care. The lack of space in the area makes it difficult to store hardware and gardening tools. The condition of the rehal (a small table specifically made for the al-Quran). Solutions From our numerous discussions with the guardian of the house, we have decided to tackle the issue of the lack of bicycle storage by constructing a bicycle rack. This in time will help the organization to be able to store their bicycles in a unique and systematic manner, and at the same time increases the organization awareness towards the environment. We also designed the bicycle stand to be completely portable , this is because the unit will be placed outside of the house , therefore when it rains the guardian has requested us to make it portable and easy to use . For our second project we decided to convert a space underneath the water tank into a storage room for equipment ranging from gardening tools to hardware. We did this by using 0.16 mm diameter PVC pipe, and gluing them on top of another. With this in place equipments ranging from gardening tools to hardware are kept away from children thus avoiding unnecessary accidents. Last but not least we decided to fix the rehal that were broken and unusable, we did this by cutting, sanding and replacing the wood.

Design Idea Floor plan

The floor plan shows the outdoor area of the compound and a partial part of the building, the bathroom. All dimensions are in meter.

Original Condition

Unorganized bicycles.

The area we want to construct the storage area for the tools.

Poor condition of the rehals that needs restoration.

Design Execution

Old vs. New Floor Plan

Bicycle Rack (Initial vs. Final)

Bicycle Rack (Initial vs. Final) Initially, the bicycle rack was designed to be a permanent structure therefore no handle and wheels were included in the design, on top of that, a strip of long wood panel is placed behind the tyres for support. During the development process, we were told by the guardian that he wished to have the rack to be movable, therefore we went back on the design and made a numerous changes such as adding handles at one end of the rack and a pair of wheels at the other end, on top of that we were advised by the workshop technician that the wood panel is not effective to be a supporting unit therefore we decided not to include the panel in our final design.

Store Furniture PVC Tool Shelf (Initial vs. Final)

Store Furniture PVC Tool Shelf (Initial vs. Final) Initially the design of the tool shelf is to have 3 layers of large PVC pipes stacked on top of each other to create a multiple rounded space for the storage of small gardening and hardware tools. As for the bottom half, the initial plan is to have a multiple storey of wooden planks stacked a few centimeters apart from one another to create a multiple of flat shelves in additional to the rounded ones. During the development process we came to a decision of minimizing the number of the wooden flat shelves due to eliminate the additional weights that could weaken the PVC structure.

Store Furniture Wooden Tool Rack (Initial vs. Final)

Store Furniture Wooden Tool Rack (Initial vs. Final) Based on the initial design, the wooden tool rack consists of three vertical wood planks that act as the structure with a number of horizontal wooden planks. Based on that design, the design will be anchored down to the wall. During the development process after the site were being revisited and analyzed, in addition to a further dialogue with the guardian, we came to a conclusion of having the rack unanchored and moveable instead. In order to achieve that, two additional support were added into the design to act as legs.

Expenditure

Timeline 12/4/2013 : Surveying for a suitable site. Omiey home but was rejected.

15/4/2013 : Getting a site at Rumah Bakti Nur Syahirah.

19/4/2013 : Getting the approval from the lecturer on the site and design .

22/4/2013 : To meet and discuss with the owner of Rumah Bakti Nur Syahirah

26/4/2013 : Getting the approval from the lecturer on the site and design

29/4/2013 : To meet and discuss with the owner of Rumah Bakti Bestari

03/5/2013 : Getting the approval from the lecturer on the site design .

15/5/2013 : Gathering the recyclable materials (woods and tyres) .

27/5/2013 : Wood separation in progress . Separate the good wood .

12/6/2013 : Working on the restoration of the rehals and cleaning the woods .

14/6/2013 : Buying extra materials such as screws , bolts , nuts , and varnish

20/6/2013 : Completing the bicycle rack and the wooden rack .

24/6/2013 : To finish the PVC pipes, clearing the sites and to set all the furnitures to the site.

Meeting Minutes

Date: 12th April 2013

Time: 3:00p.m.

Location: CODA Studio, Level 1

Objectives: To survey suitable sites for this project.

Attendance: Naim Ahmad Mukif Mohammad Hafiz Mohammad Harris Muhammad Arif Muhammad Saufi Syed Zain Amir Hakim Preshant Rasu Arif Haiqal Ridhwan Ahmad

Activities: On this meeting, we discussed the suitable site for this project. Places we surveyed was orphanage, refugees centre, and animal shelter. After an hour of surveying as a group, all of us agreed to do our project at a cat shelter called Omeys house located in Kepong. After deciding the site, we discussed a suitable date to visit the cat shelter. One of us called the owner to discuss briefly about the project and made an appointment to meet him.

Meeting Minutes

Date: 15th April 2013

Time: 10:00a.m.

Location: Omeiy Cat Shelter, Kampung Melayu, Kepong

Objectives: To meet and discuss with owner about our project and identify major and minor problems in the shelter. After discussion, we need to select problems that suits the criteria of our project.

Attendance: Naim Ahmad Mukif Mohammad Hafiz Mohammad Harris Muhammad Arif Muhammad Saufi Syed Zain Amir Hakim Preshant Rasu Arif Haiqal Ridhwan Ahmad

Activities: The group gathered in campus and headed to the cat shelter. We met the owner and discussed about the project and problems in the cat shelter. After discussion, we had a quick tour around the shelter and identified the problems we wanted to solve. All of us head back to campus and

discussed on the design. The problem we decided to solve is a proper playing area for the cats. Each member came up with a design and the best is chosen.

Meeting Minutes

Date: 19th April 2013

Time: 10:00a.m.

Location: CODA Studio, Level 1

Objectives: To get approval from the lecturer on the site and design.

Attendance: Naim Ahmad Mukif Mohammad Hafiz Mohammad Harris Muhammad Arif Muhammad Saufi Syed Zain Amir Hakim Preshant Rasu Arif Haiqal Ridhwan Ahmad

Activities: Our proposal was rejected as it was not impactful. We were advised to find a more suitable site for the project. We searched for some suitable site and listed down around 5 orphanage. The first on our list was an orphanage call Rumah Bakti Nur Syahirah located in Cheras. We called the orphanage and discussed briefly about our project. We made an appointment with the owner to have a proper discussion.

Meeting Minutes

Date: 22nd April 2013

Time: 10:00a.m.

Location: Rumah Bakti Nur Syahirah, Cheras

Objectives: To meet and discuss with owner about our project and identify major and minor problems in the shelter. After discussion, we need to select problems that suits the criteria of our project.

Attendance: Naim Ahmad Mukif Mohammad Hafiz Mohammad Harris Muhammad Arif Muhammad Saufi Syed Zain Amir Hakim Preshant Rasu Arif Haiqal Ridhwan Ahmad

Activities: The group gathered in campus and headed to the orphanage. We met the owner and discussed about the project and problems in the orphanage. After discussion, we had a quick tour around the shelter and identified the problems we wanted to solve. All of us head back to campus and

discussed on the design. The problem we decided to solve is the lack of chairs and lack of spaces to keep their shoes. Few members of the group came up with a design.

Meeting Minutes

Date: 26th April 2013

Time: 10:00a.m.

Location: CODA Studio, Level 1

Objectives: To get approval from the lecturer on the site and design.

Attendance: Naim Ahmad Mukif Mohammad Hafiz Mohammad Harris Muhammad Arif Muhammad Saufi Syed Zain Amir Hakim Preshant Rasu Arif Haiqal Ridhwan Ahmad

Activities: Our proposal was rejected as it was not impactful. We were advised to find a more suitable site for the project. We then pick the second orphanage in our list called Rumah Bakti Bestari located at Kampung Melayu Subang. We called the orphanage and discussed briefly about our project. We made an appointment with the owner to have a proper discussion.

Meeting Minutes

Date: 29th April 2013

Time: 10:00a.m.

Location: Rumah Bakti Bestari, Subang

Objectives: To meet and discuss with owner about our project and identify major and minor problems in the shelter. After discussion, we need to select problems that suits the criteria of our project.

Attendance: Naim Ahmad Mukif Mohammad Hafiz Mohammad Harris Muhammad Arif Muhammad Saufi Syed Zain Amir Hakim Preshant Rasu Arif Haiqal Ridhwan Ahmad

Activities: The group gathered in campus and headed to the orphanage. We met the owner and discussed about the project and problems in the orphanage. After discussion, we had a quick tour around the shelter and identified the problems we wanted to solve. All of us head back to campus and

discussed on the design. The problem we decided to solve is the improper placing of bicycles and lack of storage area. All of us had a discussion on the design.

Meeting Minutes

Date: 3rd May 2013

Time: 10:00a.m.

Location: CODA Studio, Level 1

Objectives: To get approval from the lecturer on the site and design.

Attendance: Naim Ahmad Mukif Mohammad Hafiz Mohammad Harris Muhammad Arif Muhammad Saufi Syed Zain Amir Hakim Preshant Rasu Arif Haiqal Ridhwan Ahmad

Activities: Our proposal was approved and some improvements needed to be applied on the design. We discussed to improve the design and then planned a suitable day to find materials. Before ending the meeting, we looked up for placed we could get recyclable materials nearby and found a place in PJ.

Meeting minutes

Date: 15th May

Time: 12:00pm 5:00pm

Location: PJS 5.

Objectives: To gather recyclable materials such as wood and tyres. If all materials managed to be collected, we will clean all of it at a members house.

Attendance:

Naim Ahmad Mukif Mohammad Hafiz Mohammad Harris Muhammad Arif Muhammad Saufi Syed Zain Amir Hakim Preshant Rasu Arif Haiqal Ridhwan Ahmad

Activities: All of us meet up in campus and went to PJS5 with several cars so we could transport the materials back. We arrived there and separate into two groups to gather the materials as this method would save us some time. In 30 minutes, we manage to collect used tires from workshops and unused pallet from the garbage disposal area. We place the materials in one car,

and transported it back to one of the members house to be cleaned. The tyres were washed with water and soap to remove to bad odour and dirt.

Meeting minutes

Date: 27th May 2013

Time: 12:00pm 5:00pm

Location: Workshop, Ground Floor, Taylors University

Objectives: To separate the good wood from the pallet. The wood needs to be sand and some part is to be cut as some parts of the wood is chipped and has splinters.

Attendance:

Naim Ahmad Mukif Mohammad Hafiz Mohammad Harris Muhammad Arif Muhammad Saufi Syed Zain Amir Hakim Preshant Rasu Arif Haiqal Ridhwan Ahmad

Activities: We gathered at the workshop and ask for advice from Mr. Fendy, the workshops technician, on how to separate the wood. We were given crowbars and manage to separate all the wood. We cut and sanded most of the wood. We had to stop our work as it was already closing time of the workshop.

Meeting minutes

Date: 12th June

Time: 12:00pm 5:00pm

Location: Workshop, Ground Floor, Taylors University

Objectives: To work on the restoration of the rehals and continue cleaning up the woods.

Attendance:

Naim Ahmad Mukif Mohammad Hafiz Mohammad Harris Muhammad Arif Muhammad Saufi Syed Zain Amir Hakim Arif Haiqal Ridhwan Ahmad

Activities: We gathered and divided into two groups. The first group continued cleaning up the wood while the other group worked on the restoration of the rehal. The first group manage to finish up earlier and continued on measuring the wood and cut it for the tyres frame. The wood is labelled and ready to be attach.

Meeting minutes

Date: 14th June

Time: 12:00pm 5:00pm

Location: Workshop, Ground Floor, Taylors University

Objective: To buy extra materials such as screws, bolt and nuts, and varnish.

Attendance:

Naim Ahmad Mukif Mohammad Hafiz Mohammad Harris Muhammad Arif Muhammad Saufi Syed Zain Amir Hakim Preshant Rasu Arif Haiqal Ridhwan Ahmad

Activities: Two members went out and bought screws, bolt and nuts, thinner, wheels, PVC glue, and varnish. All of us gathered outside the workshop and varnished all the wood to allow resistance to rain and humidity so not fungus would grow on the wood. Later on, some of the wood was used to make the frame of the tyres.

Meeting minutes

Date: 18th June

Time: 12:00pm 5:00pm

Location: Workshop, Ground Floor, Taylors University

Objective: To place the tyre frames on a base and start construction of the wooden rack.

Attendance:

Naim Ahmad Mukif Mohammad Hafiz Mohammad Harris Muhammad Arif Muhammad Saufi Syed Zain Amir Hakim Arif Haiqal Ridhwan Ahmad

Activities: We bought a four metres by 1.5 metres wooden board and cut it to be used as the base of the bicycle rack. We first measured the distance between each frames and labelled it. Then we drilled holes for the screws on the base and on the tyre frame. Then when that was completed, the extra wood was measured and cut for the wooden rack.

Meeting minutes

Date: 20th June

Time: 12:00pm 5:00pm

Location: Workshop, Ground Floor, Taylors University

Objective: To complete the bicycle rack and the wooden rack.

Attendance:

Naim Ahmad Mukif Mohammad Hafiz Mohammad Harris Muhammad Arif Muhammad Saufi Syed Zain Amir Hakim Arif Haiqal Ridhwan Ahmad

Activities: We screwed in the tyres to the base and strengthen the tyres by connecting each part of the tyres using ropes. Holes were drilled on the tyre and base to avoid stagnant water that could cause the breeding of mosquito. After that, we went on with the wooden rack by placing a supporting wood to make it stable.

Meeting minutes

Date: 24th June

Time: 12:00pm 5:00pm

Location: Rumah Bakti Bestari, Subang

Objective: To Finish the PVC pipes, clearing the site and to set all the furniture to the sites.

Attendance:

Naim Ahmad Mukif Mohammad Hafiz Mohammad Harris Muhammad Arif Muhammad Saufi Syed Zain Amir Hakim Preshant Rasu Arif Haiqal Ridhwan Ahmad

Activities: Most of the group gathered in the workshop to work on the shelves thats made out of PVC pipes. This work was easy and took an hour. Two members transported the bicycle rack and the wooden rack to the site. The base of the bicycle rack was varnished to complete the whole layering. We showed the owner of the orphanage our work and explained on how to utilize it.

We were entertained with the children as they came and talked with us. When waiting for the varnish to dry off, we cleared the storage area thats full of soil, bricks and dry leaves. The base of the storage area was already cemented. When the site is cleared, the other members of the group came with the completed shelf. They then cleared out the pathway to the storage area. When everything is cleared out, the wooden rack, piping shelf and the bicycle rack was carried and placed to its respective location. We later showed the completed work to the owner and children.

Week

Activity

People Assigned ALL

Comments

Site surveying

Our propose Site was rejected ( Omiey Home )

Meeting with owner

ALL

To get information / Problems To Get old tyres and wooden palet atTaman Medan Preparation of wood for the bicycle rack To work on restoration of Rehal Purchased of bolt , nuts . screws and varnish

Collection of Raw materials

ALL

Separation , sanding and cutting of wood

ALL

11

1) Restoration and and finishes for the wood 2) Purchased of extra material

ALL

12

1) To work on bicycle rack and also wooden tool rack 2) To complete wooden rack and bicycle rack

ALL

Tyres were place on to the base Wooden tool rack & Bicycle rack completed

13

1) Cleaning of the site 2) Assembling of all the furniture at the site 3) PVC pipe cutting and assembling

Cleaning Site : Zain & Arif Assembling works : All PVC work : Naim & Harris

The site was cleared and all of the furniture was assemble by all of the group members.

Sustainable/ Environmental Strategies

The world is facing many environmental problems including climate change, resource depletion, and biodiversity loss and water shortages. As an architect student we need to understand how our design will affect the environment in the future to avoid more damage. In order to minimize the damage onto the environment, we adapt sustainable strategy into our design. We want to ensure that our product is made out of recycle material and also durable to serve the

A) Wood Pallet. Wood pallet is a basically a deck board that support goods by using forklift in most warehouses.

Advantages: The advantages of using wood to build our products are its properties and characteristics such as hard, reasonably strong, durable as well as aesthetical value such as the texture and the wood grains. In terms of financial, the wood planks were taken from a small factory where those wood planks came in a form of used pallets, which is result does not cost anything. Wood is a material that is easy to work with, shaping, cutting and assembling wood can be done using readily available tools from the workshop. The most vital advantage of all is its impact towards the environment. It does not require a great amount of energy to process, on top of that it is an organic material therefore it is biodegradable. Disadvantages: Despite the great amount of advantages of wood, it does come with a number of disadvantages which are its vulnerability towards pests, mites and parasites, its dangers such as untreated woods can cause minor injury such as splinter penetrating skins. The condition of some of the wood planks is also vary due to it being used for heavy duty purposes prior to this.

Why do we decide to use this material? Wood is a type of material that can be recycled. Recycled wood is free and it can be found in factories and warehouses. Although the woods are old, it has an exquisite and unique appearance, which is rarely seen in new woods. Some recycled woods are also strong and durable despite its age and its undergone of abuse. Recycling the wood can extend the lifetime of the wood and reduce the old woods from being thrown away to the landfill. In present day, cutting down trees are more rampant than recycling them. Instead of buying new woods, which came from logging, recycling the wood would be much relevant to create new furniture and use in construction industry. By recycling, we contribute to save the environment from using new wood, which came from logging that affects the environment in the long run.

B) PVC PVC pipe or Polyvinyl Chloride pipe is a type of plastic that are widely produced plastic pipe.

Advantages: Advantages of using PVC are that it is a reasonably strong and long lasting material, easy to work with simply using basic tools that are readily available from the workshop. In terms of characteristic, it is light in weight, and it does not deoxidise or lose its strength even under constant contact with water, therefore making it durable. The market price is reasonable. Disadvantages: The weakness of this particular material is that it cannot be exposed under a great amount of UV light as it will change its strength, it will become brittle. Why we choose this material? The reason why we decide to use this material for the PVC rack is mainly because it is cheap and durable. The material characteristic suits our need which we wanted to make the PVC rack to withstand the climate because it is placed outdoor.

C) Tyres Advantages: Advantages of using recycled tyres are mainly due to its characteristics such as waterproof, durable, reasonably high enough in strength for it to say in its original shape but at the same time but not too solid, instead it is elastic which means its a good material to absorb impacts. It terms of expenditure, no money were spent on the tyres. Disadvantages: Minor disadvantages of using used tyres are as such; each and every single one of the tyres were being used for quite a long period of time, which caused it to be in a very worn down condition on top of it being dirty. In additional to that, the tyres came is generally similar but not exactly identical in size. Why we choose this material? There are many reasons why we chose to use tire. First of all we can get it for free and its a used one and there we already save the cost and at the same time we as well contributed to the environment by using recyclable material. Tires are also easy to work with. The tire is easy to work with because it did not take much of our drilling the tires and all and there we have safe the energy and time, for that we could focus on the other parts of the project. The best part is the tyres do not need finishes. Furthermore, tyres are water resistant so it can be use outdoor. By using tyres it can lower down the number scrap, because the tyres are hard to dispose. Even though it is not good looking after going through some process it looks fine and nice with our structure.

Collecting of raw material

Production of PVC

Distribution of PVC

Combination of natural gas and salt

Combination of both raw materials and processed to form a pipe

Distributed to hardware shops for selling

End of life process of PVC

Usage Phase

Landfill -thrown away as rubbish Material recovery -recycled to be something else Energy recovery -Processed to produce energy

Use for plumbing and wiring

Collecting of raw materials

Production of wood pallet

Distribution of wood pallet

Cutting down of trees and logging

Process of saw milling to form a wood pallet

Distribute to other factories

End of life process

Usage Phase

Energy recovery -used for fire place to warmth the house heat energy

Material recovery -recycled for furniture

use to carry goods to be send to warehouse

Landfill -thrown away as rubbish

Collecting of raw materials

Production of tires

Distribution of Tires

Rubber tapping latex. produces

Process from latex to tire making

Distribution tires to transportation factories

End of life process

Usage Phase

Landfill -buried under the ground Material recovery -recycled as bicycle stand Energy recovery -processed to produce energy

Tire is a ring shape that fix around wheels rim to protect it and enable better performance

Appendix Bicycle Rack (Before)

Bicycle Rack (During)

Bicycle Rack (Completion)

Rehal (Before)

Rehal (During)

Rehal (Completion)

Storage Room (Before)

Storage Room (During)

Storage Room (After)

Conclusion

In conclusion after working on this project in the last 3 months we realize how important is it to be able to reuse and recycle the materials, recycling saves energy, reduces raw materials extraction and combats climate change. The vast majority of studies have found that recycling our rubbish is better for the environment. We also have understood the importance of helping the less fortunate. In order to be able to create an awareness of the importance of creating environmentally sustainable products, designs and also services. On top of which we were made to understand the principles of being sustainable for the environment and public by exploring the current environment circumstances. After having thoroughly discussed the issue concerning responsible consumption, we have reached a conclusion that we believe is quite valuable. Although the problem of waste is one of the most worrying ones concerning environment, we do think there is a way to solve or at least to minimize the effects of rubbish in Nature. It is in our hands to assure a better future for our children, and leave the world as it was before we arrived. Last but not least we would like to express our sincere gratitude to out tutor Mr Sanjay Raman for guiding us towards the right direction, and also we would like to give our sincere appreciation towards Mr Fendi for helping out with labour intensified work which we were not use to.