Bringing Back Bamboo: Case Kouk Khleang Youth Center
Design Like you Give a Damn Live 2013Open Mic November 8th 2013
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Komitu Architects
Kouk Khleang Community, Phnom Penh
• KKYC
Cambodian Volunteers for Society (CVS)Khmer Kampuchea Krom Human Rights and
Development Association (KKHRDA)
Participatory design workshops
Understanding preferences for materials, colors etc.
Understanding spatial relations
Understanding the community
Kouk Khleang Youth Center
300m2: classrooms, workshop, offices, dormitories
Promotion of ecological materials
Compressed earth bricks
Recycled plastic bottles and trash
Bamboo
Preserving against insects
Building the facilities
Finding information: Kevin Rowell from Natural Builders
Working with local students
Workshops on site
Workshops on site
Distributing the knowledge
July 2013
July 2013
September 2013
September 2013
September 2013
October 2013
October 2013
Sreng Ngun, Final Thesis 2012
UPDF Community Builders Training Center
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UPDF Community Builders Training Center
UPDF Community Builders Training Center
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Bringing Back Bamboo: Case Kouk Khleang Youth Center
Design Like you Give a Damn Live 2013Open Mic November 8th 2013
Inari Virkkalawww.komituarchitects.org
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