MELJAC Presents Its Latest Innovation: the "Z"
MELJAC
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The orphanage consist of 3 heavy concrete volumes with office, kitchen and bathrooms on the ground floor and bedrooms on the second story. Ventilated recreational space for daytime use is located between the heavy volumes.
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Alexander Eriksson Furunes
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Looking through the function hall in the study center towards the orphanage. The function hall is also used for dancing, acting and music performances.
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The doors, when fully opened, allow ventilation and strong winds to pass through without damaging the building.
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Study Center
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Alexander Eriksson Furunes
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The doors in the orphanage living room.
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Alexander Eriksson Furunes
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Eriksson Furunes Architecture, Leandro V. Locsin Partners & Boase
Looking at the orphanage from the function hall of the study center
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Alexander Eriksson Furunes
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The study center has teachers’ offices, music room, library, kitchen and bathrooms in the heavy volumes. The building also has classrooms and areas for singing, dancing and theatre in the spaces in-between.
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Alexander Eriksson Furunes
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The office consists of three heavy volumes containing meeting rooms and janitors office. The shared work-spaces are located in the open areas in-between. The building also function as a vocational training center.
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Alexander Eriksson Furunes
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On the porch
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Looking through the living room of the orphanage towards the study center. The space can be fully opened to allow natural ventilation. During typhoons the concrete volumes act as evacuation rooms.
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Alexander Eriksson Furunes
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Eriksson Furunes Architecture, Leandro V. Locsin Partners & Boase
Clerestory windows
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Eriksson Furunes Architecture, Leandro V. Locsin Partners & Boase
To decide on the programme of the study center, the community organized themselves to identify and prioritize their needs, ambitions and resources.
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Alexander Eriksson Furunes
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Eriksson Furunes Architecture, Leandro V. Locsin Partners & Boase
Workshop with the community to translate the models into drawings.
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Alexander Eriksson Furunes
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Model making with the community - discussing doors, windows and interior layout.
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Family members drawing the plan of the study center - discussing the quality of each space, degree of openness, ventilation, proximity to other programmes and interior organization.
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Alexander Eriksson Furunes
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The fathers evaluating the prototype design of the doors they made.
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Initial bamboo prototypes of doors and windows. The community developed the design through sampling existing doors and windows from within the village. They would use these to make new designs that they tested in different materials.
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Alexander Eriksson Furunes
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Family members were employed and trained on the construction site. By the end of the project, approximately 50 parents successfully passed the government certification test and became licensed carpenters and masons.
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Alexander Eriksson Furunes
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Site-plan of office, study center, orphanage and future clinic building.
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Alexander Eriksson Furunes & Sudarshan Khadka
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