4 UGM students were announced as one of eight winners in an international Asia Pacific competition on environmentally friendly living concept design, Young Leaders Build. The event was held by Habitat for Humanity, based in the Phillipines. The team consisted of Irvandias Sanjaya (Faculty of Psychology, Cindy Shandoval (Faculty of Cultural Sciences), Elsana Bekti Nugroho (Architecture, Faculty of Engineering) and Ayu Indah Lestari (Vocational School). The concept offered by these four students was a home design named Psy-Cul-Lar. The team was announced as one of nine winners of the competition, delegates of Nepal and Bangladesh.
Dias expressed to journalists on Monday (29/2) that they never expected that their concept of Psy-Cul-Lar would be included in the list of winners that were announced last February. The competition started in October last year. “We received a grant to execute the concept that they offered in the the project we submitted.” Dias explained.
The winners were awarded with grants consistent with the amount that they submitted. The competition was on ideas of building settlements in developing countries, thus the UGM team offeren the building of homes integrated in psychological, cultural and architectural aspects.
From the psychological aspect, Dias explains, that they offer the residential concept where the resident’s wellbeing are facilitated through education in the family. Meanwhile, from the cultural aspect, the building adopts local wisdoms. “We were inspired by houses in Bali that still uses several symbols which contain philosophical meanings.” He uttered.
Meanwhile from the architectural aspect, Dias explained, that they offered a concept of an environmentally-friendly residency with good sanitation facility. “A home is not only a place of living, but also the early foundations for people to learn about culture and also be comfortable in doing so.”
Consistent with the proposal they offered, the competition awarded around 2,5 million rupiahs that will be used to make informational videos and posters as well as a photography and essay competition. “We were planning to spread information about habitat for humanity in Jogja,” Cindy explained.
Cindy hopes that there will be a habitat for humanity community group that are interested in realizing the plans. “To execute them, it depends on whether anyone is interested.” Cindy said.
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