Jun 29 2010
7 YPs Complete Summer Internship at TAO
Seven trainees finished their summer internship at TAO-Pilipinas with a culminating activity held at the Blacksoup Cafe + Artspace in Maginhawa Street, Sikatuna Village on June 8, 2010. Verna Lucia P. Sarraga, Jan Michael V. Lumbang, Deanna Veronica R. Haduca, John Anthony C. Sayson, Rowel N. Lucilo, Jose Larino S. Bengson Jr., and Razel R. Robines each presented their internship outputs to their project mentors and stakeholders. The TAO staff was joined by invited guests representing TAO’s project partners (SHEC, MASAGANA, COPE, and DAMPA) that helped with the interns’ community integration.
Sarraga presented her housing design schemes for MASAGANA; Lumbang outlined the results of his research on MRB (medium-rise building) as public housing; Haduca presented her research on settlements along Manggahan Floodway; Sayson discussed engineering principles for disaster-resilient building designs; Lucilo, Bengson and Robines presented their schematic designs of 15 structures for the SHEC Eco-Farm project.
The event also served as the interns’ graduation ceremony. TAO-Pilipinas awarded their certificates of completion and afterwards hosted a farewell dinner for the interns. One of the interns, architecture graduate Verna Sarraga, has been absorbed as TAO program staff and is now working on HSE projects.
The 2010 Summer YP Interns:
Verna Sarraga is a BS Architecture graduate from Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM) and a participant of the YP workshop held on October 2009. Her internship at TAO started in March 2010 and she was first assigned as an illustrator for the development of popular materials on housing design and construction. She prepared illustrations as well as a Tagalog translation of BP 220 (minimum design standards for socialized housing) and graphics for a community construction manual. Verna also facilitated community planning workshops in MASAGANA, Tanza, Navotas City. She is currently working on housing design schemes for MASAGANA community’s potential relocation site.
Ali Lucilo is also a BS Aarchitecture graduate from PLM and he likewise participated in the YP Workshop on Water and Sanitation last October 2009. Ali was part of the YP team that assisted a community in Bicol Area, Barangay Tanza, Navotas City to apply for a legal water connection. For his summer internship, Ali worked on the schematic architectural designs for an Ecology and Demonstration Farm (Eco-Farm) of the Rogationist Fathers.
Ynoh Bengson is also a recent graduate of BS Architecture from PLM and a participant in the YP Workshop last October 2009 where his team was assigned to facilitate a community workshop in Barangay Commonwealth, Quezon City. At the TAO office, he was initially tasked to prepare materials cost estimates for a low-cost housing project. Ynoh also assisted in the Eco-Farm Project where he prepared schematic designs and drawing layouts for the project presentations.
Sheng Robines is another BS Architecture graduate from PLM and also participated in the YP Workshop last October 2009. For her internship, she worked with Ynoh in preparing materials cost estimates for single-detached and duplex type houses. They worked together in completing the revised design schemes of the Eco-Farm Project. Sheng also assisted the TAO Research and Publications program in the conduct of a research project entitled “San Juan City Pride of Place”.
JM Lumbang is another BS Architecture graduate from PLM and was assigned in MASAGANA community during the 2009 YP Workshop. For the summer internship, he teamed up with Verna to facilitate a community planning workshop in MASAGANA and oriented the community on BP 220 housing design standards. He was also tasked with a research project reviewing a number of existing Medium Rise Building (MRB) public housing projects in Metro Manila. Apart from this research activity, JM also assisted Verna in doing the housing design schemes for MASAGANA community.
John Sayson is a senior BS Civil Engineering student at the University of the Philippines-Diliman and was also a participant in the 2009 YP Workshop. He is part of the YP team assisting a community in Quezon City to implement a water and sanitation micro-project. For the summer internship, John was assigned with a research task to integrate engineering principles validating the architectural design recommendations for disaster-resilient shelter design and construction.
Deanna Haduca is a senior student of BS Environmental Planning and Management, Major in Urban Planning and Green Architecture of Miriam College. She is taking up the summer internship at TAO-Pilipinas as part of her OJT requirement. Veron was tasked to undertake a research study on the development of settlements along the Manggahan Floodway project.
