Life and Architecture

Teaching is sharing and gaining. As I start doing my new experience as a lecturer, I have some personal learnings to share. Exactly, teaching is also learning process. The more I teach, the more knowledge I get. I would like to start from asking some questions that I have been concerning.  How to keep student active? How to motivate learning experience? How to give a fair score to students? How to lead the class to be an interesting one ?  ....  Below texts might not be the answer to all questions above but it is a new step to learn from. The first thing to do is to have the course online or course syllabus before teaching. It is a planning stage that helps to know about the content or what the expected outcome students can receive after each course. The expected outcome at the beginning of the class might be different from the final one. That is no surprise because you plan the lesson before you get to know your student. After processing the class, your lesson plan might...

This Hilltop Theatre is located in the southern part of Cambodia at Kep province on the foot of a mountain which is the place for young students go for their camping activities. The place is called Shalom Valley. I will tell the story of how I am able to have the great opportunity to design this chapel building.  First, I was recommended by my former director to do a freelance project for Shalom Valley (SV). The first project I did was designing a public toilet for camping students. Most of the layout was already designed by client. They just needed an architect to help making the plan right into architectural plan set of 2D and 3D view for construction. The thing is they really love my work so they start to like working with me. Months later, SV introduced me another toilet design and they ended up to like the project again. The toilet has a good natural ventilation then allows bad smell go out and fresh air come it. Another one project was a construction detail drawing of a playg...