Activating

Transformations:
The UP ISSI Technical
Training Center
Anit, Myra Elisse Morota
• “UP Diliman Futures” – UP in the next 50 years
• Alternative learning environments and nation-building
• Skill-based/vocational education

Job
Mismatch/
Lack of
jobs

UNEMPLOYMENT

Lack of
technical
training
• UP ISSI‟s SME Technopreneurship Program

• limited access to technology as another constraint to the

growth of small enterprises

• ISSI‟s core purpose: Improving knowledge, skills and

attitudes through entrepreneurship development, management
and technical training

• Proposed ISSI Technical Training Center

for Technology-based Entrepreneurship
5 Sectors viable for SME Technopreneurship
(based on TESDA’s Training Programs)

Automotive Metalworks Electronics

Food
HVAC-R
Processing
• The challenge is to be able to provide spaces for a
specialized technical training facility which houses the
necessary equipment and venues for technology-based
enterprises in a way that it is responsive and
adaptive---responsive to the needs of its users
(learning and technical expertise) and adaptive to
the emerging technologies it houses.
• Flexibility & adaptability
- Allow for expansion & accommodate changing
needs
• Equipment integration
- Technical equipment incorporated in the over-all
design
• Humanized spaces
- Effective spaces which inspire, motivate &
facilitate the learning process
• Form vs function
- Form reflecting function while function manifests
in form
• Life safety
- Ensure safety measures & employ safeguards
against fire, earthquake & man-made accidents
• Sustainability
- Employ green school design practices
STUDENTS STAFF VISITORS
Group
(companies/ Office
institutions) Attendees
(exhibits/
seminars,etc)
Individuals Trainers

Students/Staff
Acquaintances
Dormers Maintenance
 Seminar
rooms &
lecture Multi-
rooms purpose hall

Canteen
administration

Offices
Toilets

spatial needs: administration

 Equipment/
Main Area

Lecture Quality Control/

room/
Laboratory
Learning
Area
Resource
Center
workshops

Storage Toilet/
Lockers

spatial needs: workshops

 Sleeping quarters

Canteen dormitory Daycare

Toilet/
Lockers

spatial needs: dormitory

catalysts or „agents of change‟
 spaces as
catalysts

“Spaces are themselves agents for

change. Changed spaces will change
practice.” (JISC, 2006)
 Encourage
action

Inspire
motivation

Activate
transformation

CATALYSTS
 TRAFFIC FLOW

PEDESTRIAN

VEHICULAR

• Circulation and Access points

• Simplified circulation allows ease of movement
• Simplified circulation allows ease of movement
• Flexibility & adaptability
- Zoning permutations based on the
operations & processes per
workshop
PROCESS-BASED CONFIGURATIONS
• Equipment integration
- Functional systems
arrangement/configurations of
equipment based on the operations &
processes per workshop
CNC MINI
ROUTER LATHE

PC

WELDING
BOOTHS

TOOL CHESTS

CUTTERS

DRILL PRESS
P
A
R
T METROLOGY GRINDING
S
• Humanized spaces
- Ensure enhanced learning
environment (acoustics, lighting,
etc.) vis-à-vis technical/industrial
nature of spaces
• Form vs function
- Expose notable structural members
and utility lines to add character
• Form vs function
- Expose notable structural members
and utility lines to add character
• Life safety
- Point-generated circulation with place of safety as main point
• Sustainability
- Maximized use of daylight and
rainwater harvesting system
 STRUTS CONNECTED TO ROOF
ENCASES RAINWATER PIPES

.60 M
RAISED
FLOOR
SPACE
SERVES AS
CISTERN

DIAGRAM: RAINWATER HARVESTING

 WORKSHOPS

DORMITORY ADMINISTRATION

WORKSHOPS
Spaces are change agents in a way that they can
be designed to encourage movement & enhance
learning, leading to new ways experiencing &
appreciating the built environment.
Activating transformations: The UP ISSI
Technical Training Center