Title.
MES PAVILION
Office.
PROJECTXYZ+TAYLOR'S UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Team.
AMOS TAN, GARY YEOW, ANNA NEO, PHILIA CHUA, WEI SHUEN LOH, LEE YIH, SHIKO FOO, YI YANG NG, JASON NGE, BENJAMIN CHENG, LYNETTE LAW
Type.
PAVILION - BUILT
Project year.
2017
Area.
25sqm
Location.
BANTING, SELANGOR
Photographer.
LEE YIH
MES pavilion is a small-scaled realised project in a local secondary school in Banting, Selangor - Methodist English School, MES. The idea for this project came about in early 2017, through the instigation of Gary Yeow, whose alma mater is MES and the intention of this project was to collaborate between two student community. Taylor’s University architectural student and MES school students themselves, to create a temporary pavilion that could accommodate students activities as the secondary school has a shortage of available space for students recreational activities.
Due to nature of the project, the structure were designed to be low-cost, but still remaining the fun, vibrant vibe and the flexibility of design of the pavilion. The secondary school students were engaged to involved in design and construction process, which believed to create a sense of belonging and ownership within them.
The infills of these pavilions are intentionally to be permeable, which appears to be lightweight and sits on the site without creating any obstructions (where student activities within become part of the facade). To increase the intensity of vegetations in this pavilion, the pots that carry herbs and flowers been stacked vertically into this SHS frame, allowed them to be seen as a “floating gardens”. The rainwater harvesting system was installed by collecting the water resources via the conventional funnel and store into the reservoir. By simply turning on the valve, the water will channels into the pots along the rubber hose pipe.
The timber planks on the benches were salvaged from the old laboratory timber table, and been trimmed into the right size to fit as the seating piece. MES pavilion might not be the fanciest, most well-produced pavilion out there, but it represents the work and ideas of two students bodies in the attempt to design and construct, to create something with our own bare hands, tackling existing problems and doing something about it.
