Tang Kar Jun 

Environmental Sustainable Design

 

This subject is a great subject as it helps us to always place the environment over our buildings and keep the environment unharmed. By learning this subject, we can increase awareness of current environmental issues locally and induce creativity in attempting to explore the current environmental circumstances. We were also given the opportunity to work with the community and for the community. This is to create awareness of the importance of creating and environmentally sustainable product/design/services. Thus we can understand and explain the principles of sustainability from environmental and social perspective.

 

Project 1: My community My Commitment

(Exploring the sense of environmental and community engagement as future designer)

 

This assignment requires us to identify an environmental-community related issue in our local community. The issues have to be

genuine and any solution provided by my team must have an impact to the environment and community. We will need to visit our project site more then once to collect a variety of observation before making suggestions or proposals. This includes their difficulties which we can help them with. This project is done in there (3) stages;

 

Stage 1

Proposal Submission and approval

Identify issues and proposal (refer to proposal form)

 Clear identification of issue

 Proposal

 Justification on solution-why, who, what, when and how

 Costing

 Estimation of duration (to be within the given time 8weeks)

 

Stage 2

 Upon approval of your project proposal/project

 Ensure you get the case study/client’s approval for your project

 Provide details of your project (graphics, design, layout etc depending on your issue and proposal)

 Finalize your project proposal with your tutor

 Provide schedule of work planning on site (timeline/bar chart)

 Execute work on site

 Keep records of work progress (pictures, video and written)

 Update your tutors on your project during tutorial sessions (videos, pictures and records)

 

Stage 3

 Completion of work on site

 Produce complete documentation on your project (issue, solution, process and final product)

 

My team has chosen PAWS as our site as it has been quite worn down. Initially we had a drainage system to do but then, NGO "Pedigree" came in and took over our job. This led us to do mural, repainting and planting. Below are my team's report and also the video.