Photos from Manila

These are the url link for the photos I taken in Manila :)

Cabiokid: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=275496&id=808124727&l=aab314cdfa
Enchanted Farm: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=275542&id=808124727&l=902a9c3903

From Zesty

These are the Manila photos from me:  http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=273252&id=665076023

From Giggly

MUSHROOM FARM AND KAMPONG TEMASEK

selected photos from our fieldtrip yesterday! :D

http://www.gggo.ws
http://sg.linkedin.com/in/balatam
these are the 2 links which Dr Tan gave us in the email, it is the website of Mr Bala Tam, the farmer of the mushroom farm. Do take a look!

Blogger is very easy to use, could I suggest that everyone upload about 3-5 selected photos of the farm trip we had so that we can share it with those who couldn't join us for the trip. Alternatively, you can simply post the url weblink here in a new entry if you had already upload it onto another webalbum. The recommended web album is: picasa web album. Tony maybe you can upload our group shots onto here?
Thanks so much!

Regards,
Zesty

WELCOME

Presentation to Bong Recio, Frank Chiu (GK CSI), Ong Ailin (GK Hi), Guests from Tropical Environment and Grenzone

In the morning we had our studio crit as explained before, followed by another presentation session, this time to people who are already familiar with the project (except for the guests). All the way from The Philippines we flew in architect Bong and CSI head Frank Chui. During our visit to Enchanted farm and Manila we worked with both of them, so it was very nice seeing them again and discussing our progress. Ong Ailin is from GK Hope Initiative (GK Hi) and she is planning to occupy a social enterprise plot at Enchanted Farm. Our guests from Tropical Environment and Grenzone were here to give us some professional feedback in terms of landscaping and renewable solar energy .

This presentation went a bit smoother because we had the chance to improve some points from the one in the morning. We also slightly altered some parts because Bong, Frank and Aileen are familiar with Enchanted Farm. Although we did briefly explained what GK was all about to our guests from Tropical Environment and Grenzone. We were all very excited to show our new proposals in terms of program, sustainability, guidelines and infrastructure. Bong, Frank and Aileen were very happy with what we presented and complimented us for the hard work we put in the last couple of weeks. Every zone we discussed thoroughly, which sometimes resulted in changes to the masterplan.

Looking back on that day it was a very successful studio day with lots of input from ourselves and the visitors. This gave us a good push to finalize the masterplan. Hence we can continue by elaborating on all the buildings and zones individually.


Milou Curly!

Presentation to Head, Kheng Soon, Fung John Chye, Ng Wai Keen

Presentation to Head, Kheng Soon, Fung John Chye, Ng Wai Keen

Unlike our typical Thursday studio, today was actually our studio’s big day! There were two back-to-back critiques from morning till evening. The morning session was a cross-critique with our fellow NUS staff and students: Head of Architecture (Assoc Prof Wong Yunn Chii), Year 3 Tutor (Mr Fung John Chye), another tutor who is leading the landscape students (Assoc Prof Ng Wai Keen) and lastly, Adjunct Prof Tay Kheng Soon with his other vertical studio students.

As it was the first sharing session to most of the sit-in critique, a brief introduction was made to address the vision and mission of Gawad Kalinga (GK) and also CSI (Center for Social Innovation). Through the proposed serial visions of GK Enchanteed Farm that we envisioned, solutions were proposed in an ecologically sustainable way. For example, a permaculture zone would be initiated especially for the learning of the youths, where a recycle of energy takes place to form a relationship with one another; man, animals, buildings, and the infrastructure. On the other hand, the land is blessed with potential waterway channeling to water catchment areas at the lowland where we could also impose a bioswale system.

Looking at the photos of us in GK Enchanted Farm brings about the familiarity in us – the early mornings (that back in Singapore, we will probably still be in bed, or not to even mention getting to sleep) to Tita Linda’s varieties for breakfast, and also the early nights that we got. It was definitely a great flashback of memories when photos of us at GK Enchanted Farm were screened to them. It felt so yesterday...

Hehehehehe  J

Giggling off,

Amy