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MAYA UNIVERSE ACADEMY

BYAS, TANAHUN DISTRICT (NEPAL)

VOLUNTEER PROJECT RECONSTRUCTION OF NEPAL 2016

Nepal is the second poorest country outside Africa after Afganistan, especially after the  earthquakes  of  2015  that caused more than 7000 deaths and  destroyed  many  houses and temples.

 

MAYA UNIVERSE ACADEMY runs three schools in Nepal, two in Tanahun district and one in Udaipur district. These three schools  are  the  only  private  schools  that   offer   free education  for  the  students  in  Nepal.

 

How it is possible  that a private school offers free education for the students?.

 

The way they work is very simple, parents of the  children work for the school twice per month instead of paying the school fees. They can choose working in construction, agriculture or making handicrafts that will be sold in foreign countries.

 

In summer 2016, I had the opportunity of leading one of the construction teams in the school located near  Damauli  in Tanahun district, 32  Km  far  from  Gorkha,  the  epicenter  of the   earthquakes.

The school is located in one of the poorest rural regions in Nepal, so the access to dinkable water and electricity  is scarce . My task was to design some facilities for the school that were destroyed by the earthquake, considering the materials that we could get and the shortage of water and electricity.

 

Most of the electricity  in Nepal is produced by  hidropower, so during the dry season its common not to have electricity during 10 hours a day, so the challenge was how to provide drinkable water to these bathrooms  and  do  it  considering the  lack  of  electricity.

 

I went there to help  those  kids  to  have  a  better  education and to have better possibilities in  their  lifes,  but  I  think  I learnt more from them and  how   useless  are  some   things that  we  consider  essentials  nowadays.

 

I also realised that there are so many  good  things  to  do  in Nepal and in the world, we just need to get up and take an iniciative to change this, but this  time not with guns and grenades,  but  with  education,  with  books,  pens  and  students

LOCATION

1-CONNECTION OF THE SYSTEM:

 

The drinkable water that will be used comes from the waterfall that is near the school, which water is really pure.

It is far from where the bathrooms will be built, so we need to provide a water pump to transport the water and a water tank to storage it.

2-ELECTRIC GENERATOR:

 

It produces electricity for the pump when it is needed.

It uses petrol to produce electricity.

3- WATER PUMP:

To fill in the tank till it will be full. It will run with electricity normally, only if the tank is empty and there is no electricity it will run with the electric generator.

It transport water from the river to the tank, which is in a high place.

4- WATER TANK::

In this tank the water will be stored. Due to the lack of electricity all time,we need to have water when the pump is not working.

The capacity of the tank is 300 liters, and it is located in a high place.

5- SEPTIC TANK:

The dimensions of the tank are 5x1x1,5m, and the walls are covered with stones to avoid slides in the walls of the tank.

All the appliances are connected to the septic tank, because there is any sewer infrastructure in the area.

6- GARBAGE STORAGE:

The problem of not having a sewer system is what to do with the fecal water till they will be decomposed.

 

This tank is to storage them when the septic tank will be cleaned till they will be decomposed...

Floorplan of the  bathrooms

FLOORPLAN

"The best way to win a revolution is yourself becoming a lover, because when you are yourself a lover, you don´t even need a war"

Shin Chul Yoon, founder of Maya Universe Academy

INSTALLATION COMPONENTS

SECTION

3D SECTION & RENDER

CONSTRUCTION PROCESS AND GRAPHIC MATERIAL

Javier Gutierrez 

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