Ah Yone Oo School

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Within a period of five weeks, we completed the construction of two new classrooms, a meeting room and a small gallery space. We invited groups of architecture students from Assumption University (AU) and King Monkhut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) in Bangkok, as well as students from Harrow International School to participate in earth construction workshops together with the local community.
In these workshops we demonstrated local construction techniques by using Bamboo, Eucalyptus and Adobe Bricks (BaanDin). The Adobe bricks have been produced in collaboration with local students and volunteers by using locally available soil mixed with water and rice husk as a fiber material. The bricks got sun-dried over a period of three days before they were ready to use for construction.

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Client: School Community & Help without frontiers Thailand

Construction Period: Jan/ Feb 2023

Location: Mae Sot, Thailand

Budget: 8.000$

Donors: Spinningtop NZ, Assumption University Bangkok, Harrows School Bangkok, KMITL Bangkok

Our gofundme campaign here

Volunteers: Cheyenne Flock, Oliver Giebels, Hannah Greves, Max Jakob, Vincent Mel Heinrich, Taru Schramm

Supporters: Jo Swift, Ton Baars & Borderline, John Kai, BMWEC

Photos:  Cheyenne Flock, Linlet Arkar & Simple Architecture

Graphics by Maximilian Jakob and Oliver Giebels

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