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| (Leopoldo Chavez of HPFPI) |
November 7, 2011 – The Technical Assistance Movement for People and Environment, Inc. (TAMPEI) a technical support group for Philippine Action for Community-led Shelter Initiatives Inc. (PACSII) initiated a whole day housing design workshop for Paknaan 6.5 ha property relocatees. A total of 209 individual excluding numbers of children attended the said workshop coming from Bantayan sa Hari, Centro, Dunhai, Maguikay, Mahayag, Mahusay, Marna, Nawanao, Orel, Rosal/Philcadan, Sapasapa, and Visayan B. Majority of which were female with a percentage of 60 while male consists only of 40 percent.
Morning Session
The event started with opening remarks from Leopoldo Chavez, HPFPI’s Regional Coordinator followed by PACSII Regional Coordinator Engr. Noel Zeta’s overview of housing design workshop.
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| (Engr. Noel Zeta of PACSII) |
The minimum standard and requirements for economic and socialized housing project stated in Batas Pambansa 220 (BP220) was also discussed by Israeli Esnardo, a 5th year BS Architecture student from USC and at the same time on-the-job trainee of PACSII. The discussion includes types of housing with its corresponding minimum area, the standard design and the minimum area of 28 square meter of a row house in which the total of 1,200 relocatees share with an equal of the same size 28 sq. meter each.
Considering the number of relocatees, a row house type with 1.5 setback has been proposed to the assembly since it is only appropriate type to accommodate such number for the 6.5 hectares.
Inputs from the City Planning
In addition to the discussion of Ms. Esnardo, Archt. Florentino Nimor of Mandaue City Planning and Development emphasizes that it would be proper to design a house to check its “purpose” first rather than the “structure”. Other considerations to design a house were added as the following:
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| (Archt. Florentino Nimor) |
· The usual setback is 2 meters wide but for the 6.5 hectares we only allocate 1.5 meters
· Open spaces’ design will be at our responsibility (city government’s discretion)
· Door height according to BP220 is 2 meters but 1.8 is considerable
· Make sure also that your house has a proper ventilation and an area for vegetation
He also assured the assembly of his help most importantly that this is initiated by HPFPI/PACSII whose housing processes already demonstrated in LTHAI and MMVHAI community.
Bubble Diagram by Aldrin Luzares (TAMPEI Young Professional)
A bubble diagram has been introduced by a power point presentation. This diagram shows which part of a house you should go first. It also indicates the functional spaces within a house. It is a good idea to create simple house bubble to design floor plan in a very loose form. This will allow us to play around with the location of rooms and how they interact with one another.
Afternoon Session
Floor Plan Design, Scale Model Making and Finalization/Approval
During this time the whole assembly was grouped into 11 communities. They were given a time to draw their individual floor plan and make a scale model according to their floor plan. After an hour, each group presented for deliberation of their scale model and after which it has been agreed by the whole assembly to use ORHAI group design as the housing design for the 6.5 hectare.
The output of the workshop
The whole group come up with the following housing design and features:
1. A two (2) storey row house with a terrace on the second floor and a 1.5 sq. meter setback 2. With 3 bedrooms at the second floor
3. A clerestory window at the second floor for ventilation
4. A Kotec Plastic Septic tank and piping’s will be placed in front of the house unit.
5. For floor plan the group come up with 2 schemes
Concluding Remarks by Corazon Tumulak (HUDO)
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| (Corazon Tumulak of HUDO) |
“The speech of Nonoy (Leopoldo Chavez) as your core person for the 6.5 hectares, you should move forward to your journey. The government officials change every now and then but you have to continue what you have started. Let us explain to those who didn’t come today what we have done for the workshop. The government will issue a passport/gate pass to those qualified family before building structures, so please coordinate with your leaders. Don’t look up to what the government can give you. Do what you can do with the help of PACSII as NGO. They are here to help us so that we can move to our relocation site accordingly. Our success is only at our
hands.”
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| (11 design from 11 communities) |
The construction commences last November 21, 2011 in Paknaan 6.5 ha Relocation Site with the LTHAI community construction workers under the supervision of Engr. Noel Zeta and Carlo Bongcac both from Philippine Action for Community-led Shelter Initiatives Inc. (PACSII). Mandaue City government provided land filing material to a portion of the area where construction materials can be loaded. Furthermore, dump trucks from different barangays were also used in hauling Interlocking Compressed Earth Block from LTHAI’s ICEB production site. 
This 6.5 hectare land area would be the relocation site for 1200 household living along Mahiga Creek in Mandaue City subject for demolition and some communities living in a private land who are under eviction threats. 
