Jun Sekino was one of the nine architects that participate in Pordee Pordee School project, an initiative of charity Design for Disaster in order to recover some of the most damaged schools from the earthquake that took place in May of the last year in Thailand.

Baan Honghua school was one of those damaged and to recover it Jun Sekino proposes to replace earthquake-damaged classrooms with stilted spaces, which are resistant to possible future earthquakes and can be quickly and economically constructed. The design is based on a flexible steel structure that can absorb the movements from an earthquake and is closed by a modular system of cement wood boards, this allows users to adapt the different areas according to changing needs of the school.

Description of the project by Jun Sekino

Baan Nhongbua school is one of the affected school, damaged from the earthquake occurred on 5 May 2014 in Pahn district, Chiangrai. The unpredictable disaster caused a huge damage to the classroom buildings.

Design for Disaster team formed up an emergency team of 9 Architects in Thailand participating to design and build 9 new schools that was affected from the earthquake. The main conditions are must be easy to build, economical and earthquake resistant.

According to the main conditions, we propose to design a skeleton steel structure for flexibility. This unrigid structure can absorb the vibration when an earthquake comes. It is also easy and quick to build for local builders.

For the walling material is assembled from modular system of cement wood board which is easy to buy and easy to use. Even the left pieces of the cement wood board can be used for the built in wall shelves as well. We take as much benefit from every material as we can to decrease waste.

However, the most essential idea is to create a developable design for the real user, the children and the teachers. In the future they are able to modify their own function as they want. For an example, they can merge two classrooms into one by removing to partition between two classes or using local material such as bamboo to renovate the building skin by their own.

CREDITS. DATA SHEET.- 

Architects.- Junsekino Architect And Design.
Engineer.- Sukit Janpitukchai.
Location.- Chiang Rai, Thailand.
Area.- 215.0 sqm.
Project Year.- 2015.

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JUNSEKINO Architecture and Design was established in 2010 and was founded by Jun Sekino (Bachelor of Architecture,Rangsit University, Bangkok, 2000). From 2008 he is a lecturer at Faculty of Art & Design, Rangsit University, Program of Interior Design.  With a working style that values every detail in all elements and dimensions, it believes in unique touches and essences for individual projects and emphasizes on methodical approach of thinking process and overall proportion. It focuses on tropical-style environmental management.
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Published on: November 17, 2015
Cite: "Earthquake resistant school by Jun Sekino" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/earthquake-resistant-school-jun-sekino> ISSN 1139-6415
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