This community project proposal aims to help Ray of Hope Children's Home in Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia. A group of 8 architecture students propose building a tyre playscape, PVC clothes drying rack, and blackboard wall. The objectives are to develop the children's communication, problem solving, and leadership skills. The home currently lacks spaces for the children to explore creativity, share ideas, and has issues with drying clothes. The proposed designs aim to address these problems through low-cost and sustainable materials like recycled tyres and PVC pipes that provide interactive learning spaces.

1. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & DESIGN
Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Architecture
COMMUNITY SERVICE INITIATIVE
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Community Project Proposal
Proposal Title : A NEW HOPE
Tutor : Ms. Ann See Peng
Group Members :
Name Student ID
Adam Mohamed Pandor 322743
Carlson Ko 319564
Chong Yi Hui 324404
Cryslyn Tan Zhia Lyn 324249
Crystal Chia Fye Jzng 323964
Harwinder Singh Girn a/l Menjeet Singh 319881
Muhammad Mirza Qayyum bin Mohd Sharrif 324031
Rachel Yeo Chi Xuan 323005

2. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & DESIGN
Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Architecture
COMMUNITY SERVICE INITIATIVE
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Beneficiary : RAY OF HOPE CHILDREN’S HOME
Address : No 42, Jalan Helang Tiram 3,
Pantai Sepang Putra, 43950 Sungai Pelek,
Sepang, Selangor.
Google Map Link : https://www.google.com/maps/place/
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Objectives :
• To develop relevant communication skills for collaborative work with community to work in a
career that will make contributions to the society.
• To develop a sense of awareness of the variety of problems faced by the community (such as the
environment, poverty or poor lifestyles) that call for action; critically analyse how such problems
should be approached and how to solve them scientifically.
• Apply information management skills and strengthen their lifelong academic learning.
• Develop a strong sense of social responsibility and be able to portray leadership qualities and
being able to work effectively as a team.

3. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & DESIGN
Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Architecture
COMMUNITY SERVICE INITIATIVE
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Site Analysis
Key Plan
Site Plan
42, Jalan Helang Tiram
3, Pantai Sepang Putra,
43950 Sg. Pelak Sepang,
Selangor Darul Ehsan,
Malaysia.
Residential
Area
Residential
Area
Residential
Area
Sekolah
Kebangsaan
Pantai Sepang

4. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & DESIGN
Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Architecture
COMMUNITY SERVICE INITIATIVE
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Community Needs
• Playscape Or Playground To Enhance Children Creative Thinking
Due to children have limited activity space to explored with, We are to proposed a fun and exciting
play structure that the children can explored and play with one another as well as developed their
creative thinking skill throughout the activity.
• Blackboard On The Wall For Communication Use
Assistant Pastor have recommend us to make some changes on their wall, after our disccussion we
decided to placed a big blackboard on the wall which will help to reduced the use of paper during
discussion, And children can be freely expressed their Idea on the big blackboard without having
any limit of frame. Children learn to speak confidently in public and are more willing to share their
opinion to the others.
• Rack For Drying Wet Clothes
Based on our on site observation , we are to proposed a rack for hanging children wet clothes
outdoor. This will help to fasten the process of drying the clothes and also the clothes will not be
easily blown away by strong wind. Our intention is to lighter the burden of the guardian so that the
guardian can spend more time with the children.
• Tables
Assistant pastor have explained to us that the children education are very important but due to
insufficient of table, children could not fully concentrate on their study, as this issue has slower
down the process of children learning and developing their interest in study. We hope to create
recyclable inspiring creation to replace table for children to study. The creation will be able to
motivate children to study and understand the important of saving environment.

5. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & DESIGN
Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Architecture
COMMUNITY SERVICE INITIATIVE
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Problem Face By The Community
• Lack Of Interactive Space For Discussion And Idea Sharing
The children are facing problem of not having proper spaces and enough equipment for expressing
their ideas and opinions. This problem caused the children lack of confident when speaking out their
opinion in front of public and lack of strategic thinking when planning for their future work.
• Unorganised And Messy Arrangement For Daily Life Item
The orphanage are having problem organising children daily life item (eg , clothes, shoes) and was
storing their items all over the places. This problem happened due to not having enough cabinet and
rack to store their item and sort the item accordingly.
• Insufficient Education Facilities and Equipment.
The children does not have sufficient supply of table and stationary for doing their work or
studying, this problem slower down the learning process and brain development of children. The
children have limited access on exploring new knowledge and information for their future study due
to the insufficiency of facilities and equipment.
• Lack Of Creativity Development
Due to the lack of facilities to play around with, the children is being held back in creative thinking
development which causes an imbalance in life where they learn little about joy exploration,
innovation and discovery new interesting elements.
• Insufficient Outdoor Space For Washing Lines
Due to the limited space outdoor, guardian of the orphanage have to dry the children clothes on
fences surrounding the house, it causes the clothes got blown away at times due to windy weather
are often happening in Malaysia.

6. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & DESIGN
Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Architecture
COMMUNITY SERVICE INITIATIVE
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Site Pictures
Girl’s Dormitory

7. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & DESIGN
Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Architecture
COMMUNITY SERVICE INITIATIVE
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Boy’s Dormitory

8. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & DESIGN
Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Architecture
COMMUNITY SERVICE INITIATIVE
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Case Study / Research
• Tyre table playscape
• PVC Clothes drying rack
• Black board wall
- Old tyres are
used
- Nylon ropes are
wrapped and
glued around
tyres.
- enable children
to sit, jump, walk
etc. on them
- Old tyres are
used and piles
on top of each
other
- Colour is use to
enhance
children’s
creativity
- PVC pipes are use to make
clothes drying rack.
- Durable, light and easy to
handle
- PVC pipes can easily be
found and reused.
- Simple and easily
done.
- Enhances the
children’s learning
curve by letting them
be creative and
expressing their
ideas.
- Can be used for
teaching or events
too.

9. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & DESIGN
Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Architecture
COMMUNITY SERVICE INITIATIVE
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Spa.al Design
Girl’s Dormitory
Black Board Wall
UP
-
-
--
ENTRANCE
Wall located on
the right of the
main entrance.

10. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & DESIGN
Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Architecture
COMMUNITY SERVICE INITIATIVE
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Spa.al Design
Boy’s Dormitory
BED
KITCHENBED
BED
BED
DINING
ROOM
LIVING
ROOM
TOILET
BEDROOM1
BEDROOM2
MAIN ENTRANCE
ENTRANCETO
HOUSE
Tyre table
playscape
proposed at the
side yard of the
boy’s dormitory.
PVC Clothes
Drying Rack
proposed at the
back of the boy’s
dormitory.

11. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & DESIGN
Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Architecture
COMMUNITY SERVICE INITIATIVE
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Values
Tyre Playscape
- Providing a tyre playscape will invite the kids at the children’s home to experience something
slightly extreme and out of their usual routines at the house.
- It encourages the children to get up and be active rather than just sitting down and watch
television as they usually do so currently.
- The ability to also act as a table gives it an interactive experience in that the children will be able
to carry out their studying sessions.
PVC Clothes Drying Rack
- Improves on one of the lifestyle problems faced at the children’s home which is a lack of proper
clothes racks to hang or dry their clothes.
- Improves the overall environment of the house in that it becomes neater with the absence of
clothes hanging on the fence.
Blackboard Wall
- The blackboard offers an opportunity to be an interactive way for children to share their ideas on
various things through visuals.
- A space of creativity for the children to decorate to their heart’s content.
- A sustainable solution to the repeated use of papers in that it is easily erasable and can be drawn
on for a number of years.

12. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING & DESIGN
Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Architecture
COMMUNITY SERVICE INITIATIVE
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Creativity / Innovation
Tyre Playscape
- An unorthodox method from the standard playscape idea as it uses recyclable items such as the
tyres as the main component of the proposed playscape.
- The ability of being a hybrid of a playscape/table allows space saving from having to have them
as individual components.
PVC Clothes Drying Rack
- A solution that uses recyclable materials (PVC pipes) rather than conventional materials such as
welded steel etc.
Blackboard Wall
- An innovative way for children to express their ideas due to it involving everyone around.
- A relatively unexplored method of creativity for children.
- The fact that the drawings on the wall can be erased and drawn on multiple times allows it to
become a kind of sustainable wall and can potentially reduce the amount of papers used.