Mahakan VERNADOC 2016

Measuring Workshop on Vernacular Built Heritage

Mahakan VERNADOC 2016

Mahakan Fort community, BKK, Thailand,

10-25.12.2016

Draft programe, 13.09.2016 / Asst.Prof.Sudjit Sananwai

Topic:

To work using a method that has been used in Finland for documentation.  It is:

• Easy to learn and work with,
• Low-tech – no need for electricity or expensive tools,
• Precise enough for scientific work,
• Fast – by doing the necessary and nothing more,
• Cheap, because of the use of simple tools and only little work, Drawings that have been made in this process can easily make even a layman understand that the local tradition is valuable and an important part in the vernacular tradition of the whole world.

Aims:

• to learn the method by working it throughout the process
• to become acquainted with the expertise of the participants and to create international contacts for further work in the field
• to develop a method and models for international cooperation
• to produce high quality measured drawings and exhibit them in a local exhibition at the end of the camp

Object:

• Measuring and working drawing of a group of wooden houses in Mahakan Fort community, Bangkok’s vernacular built heritage.

Participants:

Max. 30 persons

• the volunteers from local & international institute (10 persons)
• the VERNADOC veterans (20 persons)
• the participants are used to making building drawing
• they know the basics of measuring work
• the participants are used to making building drawings
• they know the basics of measuring work
• all the participants have to be ready to work and live in rather harsh conditions, not yet during this camp in 2016 though, but in their future fieldwork
• everyone in the camp works in practice, no idling is accepted
• min. one member in the “institute group” is competent to teach the method in their institute

List of cooperating organizations:

• Rangsit University (RSU)
• The Association of Siamese Architects (ASA)
• ICOMOS Thailand
• Community Organizations Development Institute (Public Organization) (CODI)
• King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL)
• Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi (RMUTT)
• Architecture Conservation Club, RSU
• Mahakan Multilateral Committee

Preliminary timetable:

• 10.10.2016 deadline for camp registrations
• 5.12.2016 confirmation of the participants
• 10.12.2016 meeting together at Mahakan Community, BKK, 09:00 am

camp introduction & welcome lunch party before half day visiting Rattanakosin area (free buses are provided for all participants)

• 11-24.12.2016  the camp period in Mahakan Fort community
  • one week for the measuring and basic drawing
  • one weeks for the finishing of the drawings in ink
• 25.12.2016  present the final results at Mahakan Fort community, 05:00 pm

Daily program:

• working days are max. 8 hours long, depending on the weekday, weather, feeling …(the suitable time should be 8:00 am-12:00 am, 02:00 pm-7:00 pm)
• everyone produces her/his own measure drawing,
• in the evenings free performing programme, for example….

Accommodation and meals:

• depend on ASA, RSU & Local organizer

Language:

• the official language of the camp is Thai and vernacular English

The principles of the costs:

• the participants are in charge of the international travel costs. The ASA, RSU & Local organizer will pay the costs of accommodation and the meals at the site during the camp period.

More information:

• further questions and information; please feel free to ask, even on the practical arrangements.

Asst.Prof.Sudjit S.Sananwai

Faculty of Architecture, Rangsit University
Pathum Thani, Thailand.12000

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