Community Services

In a group of 8, we are require to enhance foster of sense of care and concern among students for their community, environment and the world at large. This module will help develop students’ sense of personal and social responsibility. They will learn through participating in a community service experience and will have the opportunity to use their skills and knowledge in real-life situations.The series of community service are offered under 4 categories. As a student empowerment projects we are given to choose and to execute the project in the best manner.

Week 1 (Topic selection)
Module outline and briefing is given on the first day of class. A discussion is carried out to decide on the topic for this assignment. The 1 option for this assignment is create some architecture related activities to modified a better environment to animal but first of all finding an animal organisation is required. 2nd option, to modified some abandon space by using architecture knowledge make it more attractive to increase the usage of land and the spaces are decide by our own. Therefore, my group have chosen 2nd option on the topic "Street Community ".Therefore, we are require to conduct some analysis and identify the community and lastly evaluate for our final decision. 

Week 2 ( Proposal )
To attract and increase the usage from people, ideas must be attractive enough. Hence there are few ideas from group such as building a playground and wall plantation. After going through series of discussion, we decided to have wall plantation as the activities which we going to contribute for community as it is affordable.

Week 3 (Site Visit 1)
During our community discussion, we have spotted few primary school as our site and we requested for the permission to undergo our community service. Fortunately, Sekolah Kebangsan Sunway which located at PJS 7 itself is the only school that accepted our offer. The headmaster is friendly and cooperative to us towards the conversation. After we divided into few group to have site analysis from the 3 site given from the headmaster and select the most suitable site for us to have our product. 

Site 1 : This site is located beside of the school field and play ground and surrounded by school buildings and always in high density of students.

Site 2 : This site located at the entrance before the school building and always noticeable by the people.

Site 3: This is the chosen site for this project. Although it just located beside the canteen, the site is poorly occupied and lack of attraction. Hence, this is the best site for use to achieve to relive the space and to increase the usage of the space. 

Week 4 ( Item collection and  preparation)
First of all, every member have assigned to collect and gather materials for wall plantation. These material are robes, wood for floor steps, recycled water bottles, hanger, bricks, and etc. Meanwhile, I  am responsible to collect various size of water bottles. 

Week 5 (Site Visit 2)
We had a face to face meeting with Mr. Adib to show our progress. Yet, we had our second time visit to the site for data collection. Measurements and photos are taken in order to produce the model as well as presentation board. Interviews are carried out to ensure the school are satisfy on this proposal. Since our proposal of wall plantation is not shown and not readily constructed yet, the school could only respond based on our briefing. In the same time we have modeled some options from the 3D program. Based on the brainstorming section we have model out a series of model as an option to the headmaster. 

Week 6(Discussion) 
Due to rules and regulations from the school, model level intended to be build lower. In addition to accommodate primary student whose have limited height, it strengthen our concept to have certain height.

Week 7( 3D model making ) 
Based on a series of ideas of wall plantation we have construct a series of model with different design. According to our schedule we will have the headmaster select from this series of designed as the final product. 

Week 8( Presentation board/ Site Visit 3 ) 
An A0 board is required to show the idea, concept, objectives and development of this assignments. Spliting into 2 groups, 4 of us focus on the 1:1 scale prototype making while the other 3 focus on the presentation boards. Layout, composition, color codes are discussed to achieve a better visual quality. Photomontage as well as detailed diagrams are illustrated digitally to convey the idea development. At the end, all of us does not work as the arrangement. We ended working with the A0 board at first then only construct the 1: 1 model.

Week 9( Construction ) 
Based this week we are going to complete this product as we estimate. we end up adding few compartments and some flower. To make sure the product is durable enough we once again strengthen the rope and the foundation pad. Hence, we pull out a full stop for our construction and its end of our physical modeling section. 

Week 10( Video)
The contents and clips to be inserted in the video are discussed. Working as a team, some picks the photo and clips to be inserted to the video, some generate graphics in video production. Lastly, we went back to the site film so respond from the students and the interaction between the students with the product we build. 

Below is the link for our community service video: 
https://youtu.be/eQv6GUxpncQ

Final Board 

Reflection

There are several meaningful lessons that I learned from this module. First and foremost, one of the important things that I learned from this module is communication skill. I have learnt how to communicate with my course mates and also the headmaster without feeling fear and able to speak confidently. This project has helped me to improve my communication skills, it boosted up my confidence between communication with people and also in my Bahasa Melayu. 

      The first TGC that I can relate on is communication skill (TGC 4.1). Teamwork is very important during our project, because as a team, we have to learn to listen to others and try to cope with them. We also have to prevent any arguments whenever there is bifurcation among us. It is important for us to learn how to be united and have each other’s back all the times. In fact, this communication skill not only play its part in our integrated project but also important for our future when we start to work. In future, we might have chance to communicate with different kinds of people with different backgrounds, languages and cultures. With higher communication skills, only we are able to communicate and corporate with others no matter who are we dealing with boss or colleagues and I will have higher chance for getting job and accept by the boss.

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      Thus, I realized that interpersonal skill (TGC 5.1) is also very important in our daily social communication with others. This skill includes our thinking and also listening (TGC 3.0) thus making decision. We also have to learn how to solve problems under any circumstances (TGC 3.0) with much help from others. Through this project, I knew better about my course mates from the aspect of their characters, habits, attitudes, manners, and behaviors and so I have learn how to communicate with them in a better way. By knowing the way of people’s thinking and talking. We can get along with people more easily.

      As we work in the future, we might use this skill to communicate with our colleagues and customers. If we are good in these skills, a good relationship between colleagues can be produce and they could help me in my work by face any problems.

      In conclusion, this project has helped me a lot by gaining tons of precise experiences that cannot be getting through normal class section. Taylor’s Graduate Capabilities are definitely part of my life in my future.