INDA’s Design-Build Knowledge Hut is specifically designed to demystify the designing & building processes using hands-on, experiential learning to teach students the sense of good architectural design and the skill & understand of enduring craftsmanship as a single, integrated process. Students designed and built a small library for Ban Klong Pa-Mai School in Rayong with funding provided by Baker & McKenzie Ltd. They gain experience from working with real clients and orchestrate with builders, suppliers, public agencies, & hands-on construction. This creative process offers students unique insight info into oftentimes desperate worlds of the architect and the builder. Architects are routinely trained without any building experience that might inform their design, and builders are trained to execute without a sense of the overarching purpose or design of the project.

The Knowledge Hut’s design attracted many local interests, especially from the teachers of Ban Klong Pa-Mai who want to build their own homes based on the Knowledge Hut’s technology & design. Architecture has always been a service profession, but it has traditionally served only those who can afford it. By working for clients who do have access to architecture, INDA students are exposed to community outreach and the notion of all society as our clients. This redefinition of value meets our initial objective of community service & commitment. Lead by instructors Komthat Syamananda and Ekaluck Staporntonapat, the knowledge hut was an intensive project, constantly engaging, challenging INDA students to solve complex domestic design problems through the integration of the