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Progressive
construction on the stilted support structure.
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Dear Reader,
In the next few days
after gathering materials, we started constructing the prototypes.
It was 6 am and the dogs
somehow managed to dig through the mosquito net and into my sleeping space.
Waking up with flea bites I questioned, "Why me and not the other
tents!?" I was never a morning person to begin with. On the side, loud
engines cranked up and down the lake transporting people to where they need to
be (yes, I'm talking about boats with 100 horsepower engines that doesn't have
a muffler). Waking up was not the most pleasant experienced I had in the
floating village.
After an hour of
dilly-dallying, breakfast was ready. I don't remember what we ate, but it was
super tasty. It was either fried rice or noodles with veggie and sauce.
Anyways, after breakfast, we made our way to a platform in one of the floating
sheds to work on our prototype stilted support structure. After a days of hard
work and labor, the stilted support structure was a 90% success with minor
dimensional details that require adjustment.
Here are some pictures
of our work on the stilted support structure:
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Transporting
the stilted support structure to the installation site.
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| Installation Site |
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Working hard in a swamp.
Achievement unlocked: obtained many mosquito bites.
Despite
the many mosquito bites I got from working in the swamps and the intense labor
of moving the heavy structure across the lake, it was generally a productive
and joyful experience. This concluded our first fieldwork experience in the
floating villages.
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