BACHELOR OF ARTS (HONS) INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE
COMMUNITY SERVICE INITIATIVE UCM60102U4
KOMPLEKS PENYAYANG BAKTI
(KEBAJIKAN MASYARAKAT MALAYSIA)
OUTDOOR GROUP
NAME : TAY YII MIN
ID NO : 0321882
LECTURER : MS. NOORSEAH AMAT
MR. MAX OSMAN
E-JOURNAL
For this Community Service course, we have the opportunity to engage in social actions and chance to help out people who needs care. It is our young generation duty to improve the needs of people who need them. Throughout the whole process, I have learned that the foremost lesson I gain from this activity is that we need to have the initiative and to really care about the people in order to design and do something for them.
Among our classmates, we are divided into four groups which includes located at two sites (PPOC and Kompleks Penyayang Bakti). For our group, we decided to work on the outdoor area part of Kompleks Penyayang Bakti.
This is the activities progress throughout our journey.
21 September 2016
Miss Noorseah brief us on outdoor session for Kompleks Penyayang Bakti. She show us some site photos and discuss on the area that we are going to work on. We are going to clean and tidy up the site and enhance the look of the outdoor gazebo. We discussed our ideas with Mr. Max and start to generate some ideas for our site. Miss Noorseah also asked Mr. Jeffrey to guide us on some skills for video editing in our activity group presentation.
19 October 2016
After researching and finding reference pictures, all group members present ideas in presentation slides form during lecture. After discussing with Miss Noorseah and Mr. Max, we decided to do an outdoor furniture seating and flower bottle pot at our site.
Figure 1. Reference picture of bottle pot online
21 October 2016
Mr. Max bring few representative from the indoor group and outdoor group (Tay Yii Min, Susanti, Soh Wei Xin) for site visit at Kompleks Penyayang Bakti. We went to the site at around 11am in the morning and reach there around 12pm. As the person in charge was not there on that day, Miss Anizah help to brief and discuss with us on our ideas. She give us some feedback on our ideas and after that we headed to our site. We went to the outdoor area first and start to take measurements and photos of the site in order to calculate the amount of materials needed and to decide on the area to place the furniture. We also followed to the interior area at Kompleks Penyayang Bakti together with the interior group to take measurements and photos of site. It took around 2 hours for the site visit and we went back to campus after that.
Pic 1. Proposal and discussion with Miss Anizah on our idea
Pic 2. Take notes and observe site condition
Pic 3. Measure site and discuss with Mr. Max and Miss Anizah
We discuss our ideas among group members and start to list down the materials that we need to source for this project. We also calculate on our budget and try to minimize the cost to buy materials and we decided to use recycle bottles for the bottle pot. Among 10 group members, we start to collect around 7 recycle bottles (1.5 litres) for each person.
Pic 4. Discussion with group members on the design and budget
Pic 5. List down of materials needed
28 October 2016
We started to go source for materials at around Kepong area from different hardware shops and bought ropes, 4 different colors of spray paints for recycle bottles, 2 pieces of joint wood to stabilize the bottle pot while hanging and nails to secure the ropes after hanging. We decided to buy soft pastel color spray paint as it brings a cheerful but soothing tone to the environment.
We asked around for hardware shops which sells ventilation blocks and manage to buy it at Lysen Hardware store. We also manage to buy sand and cement which are needed as a mixture to stick the ventilation blocks and 2 piece of wood planks for the seating for the outdoor furniture at the same hardware store.
Pic 6. Discussion on spray paint colors
Pic 7. Choosing suitable length of joint wood
Pic 8. Choosing ventilation blocks and buy wood planks
In the evening, we went to buy different types of plants to be planted in the bottle pot at a gardening store. We survey some plants which is suitable for hanging and easy to take care. The whole process of sourcing materials took around 6 hours.
Pic 9. Choosing different species of plants for plantation
29 October 2016
We start to do the bottle part in our campus. Firstly, we clean all the recycled bottles and wipe it before doing marking and drill holes for rope hanging. This is to ensure all the bottles are align when we hang it and we also mark the size of the portion to be cut off for plantation. We separate ourselves to teams to make things done faster. There are part of members who are in charge of marking and drilling and some others helps in cutting the portion and after that spray the bottles with different colors. I help marking and cutting some bottles and also helped to spray few bottles. Each bottle of spray are divided to spray 15 recycled bottle. After letting the bottles to dry, we started to tie knots at the bottles according to the color arrangement as discussed. We measure the length and estimate the rope length needed for each row and start hanging our bottles aligned on the rope.
Pic 10. Cleaning bottle before starting to mark and cut
Pic 11. Marking points for cut and drill
Pic 12. Portion to be cut off for plantation
Pic 13. Spray bottles and let it dry
Pic 14. Arrange bottles according to color
Pic 15. Discussion on the color arrangement of the hanging bottles
Pic 16. Trying to tie knots on recycled bottles
Pic 17. Hang and align bottles according to color sequence
Pic 18. Arrange bottles to 2 groups for different sides of gazebo
30 October 2016
On this day, we went to Kompleks Penyayang Bakti and start on our installation at the site. We started cleaning up the site once we reach there at around 9.30am by trimming unwanted grass at site. After arranging the bottles according to sequence, we started putting soils and plants in the bottles. We add some coffee grounds to the soil which helps in the plant growth. While some people work on filling the bottle pots, one of our group member, Susanti starts to hammer nails on the wood structure of the gazebo roof. Few group members and I did the cement and sand mixture for enable the ventilation block to stick together. We arrange the position of our furniture before placing the ventilation block in position. We also lacquer the wood planks and wood joint to protect from outdoor weather.
After filling up the bottles with soil and plants, we hang and secure the ropes on the wood joints and structure. We make sure all the ropes are tied properly and well-secured in order to prevent any unwanted injuries to happen in the future.
Pic 19. Cut and trim grass to tidy up our site before starting
Pic 20. Filling up bottles with soil and plants
Pic 21. Mix cement and sand to stack ventilation blocks
Pic 22. Hang and align bottles on roof structure of gazebo
Pic 23. Secure ropes on wood joint
Pic 24. Outdoor bench
Pic 25. Finished installation at Kompleks Penyayang Bakti
Pic 27 & 28. Group pictures with our installation
Pic 26. Work log with signature from Miss Anizah
Throughout this activity, I feel grateful that I have the chance to help the community in needs. Even though it is a short period of time, I learned that we should instill moral and ethics value in ourselves by lending our helping hands willingly and gain as much experience from this activity. I feel proud to be able to complete this installation together with group members and design something for the community.
