CapAsia

Exploring Self-Built Neighborhoods, Yangon, Myamar (March 2019):

With the geography students at Yangon University, CapAsians explored the low-income Neighborhoods of Yangon. The CapAsians documented and reflected on these in the context of a cross section of the country they visited which included Bagan, Mandalay, and Naypyidaw.

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Newari Cultural Center and Museum, Kathmandu, Nepal (March 2017):

With the architecture students at Nepal Engineering College, CapAsians did preliminary studies for the project. The CapAsians got involved in the conceptualization of cultural centers and museums and investigate potential materialization of such concepts.

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Upgrading the switch factory danwei (work unit) community in Changsha, China (Mar 2015):

With the planning students students at Central South University of Forestry and Technology (CSUFT) in Changsha, China, the CapAsians studied a variety of small spaces such as vegetable gardens, chicken coops, and a pavilion and learned much about the community and made suggestions on how these can be improved. Yuyi Wang is completing a thesis based on this community.

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Upgrading Naxal, a Neighborhood in Kathmandu, Nepal (Mar 2013):
With the architecture students at Nepal Engineering College, CapAsians studied the built elements such as hitis (public waterspouts) and patis (public meeting and resting places) that make Kathmandu's space landscape and made suggestions to improve a few of them. The project was carried out in collaboration with the fourth year architecture students and faculty of Nepal Engineering College, Kathmandu.

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Upgrading the Community Square in Duwakot, Nepal (Apr 2011): 
The community square in Duwakot, in Kathmandu Valley, had been a parking lot and a thoroughfare for over a decade. When the CapAsia VI group arrived, the community leaders had built a flimsy fence around it. The students carried out a number of projects to improve and upgrade the square: They began by permanentizing the fence and upgraded the square and the chautara (the platform around the holy tree in the middle). Ideas were developed with a highly-excited community group which held daily meetings with the students. The project was carried out in collaboration with the fourth year architecture students and faculty of Nepal Engineering College, Kathmandu.

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Exploring Mumbai and Dharavi, India (Feb 2008): 
After an intensive and extensive introduction to Dharavi, the students were asked to experience the informal spaces of Mumbai. In order to learn by doing, they either observed informal practices, made a performance, or created an installation or a structure in an informal space. This CapAsia V project was carried out in collaboration with the CEPT University in Ahmedabad and the Kamla Raheja School of Architecture (KRVIA) in Mumbai.

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Post Tsunami Rebuilding Project, Kalametiya, Sri Lanka (Feb-Mar 2005): 
The CapAsia IV group was a part of a team that involved in rebuilding/relocating Kalametiya, a village of 30 houses in Sri Lanka destroyed by the tsunami of Dec 26, 2004. The team consisted of the Green Movement of Sri Lanka (the funding and managing agency), Service Civil International (an international voluntary organization), GOAL (an Irish NGO), and architect Madhura Prematilleke.

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Build-Design-Build (Design as You Build), Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (Feb-Mar 2003): 
The construction of two pavilions --review spaces for student design projects– using scavenged material. It was jointly organized between CapAsia III program and the University of Moratuwa.

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New Community Center for Sankhu, Nepal (Feb 1999):
A design project for a traditional city near Kathmandu. CapAsia I project in collaboration with Nepal Engineering College (NEC), Kathmandu.

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