Endangered Wooden Architecture Programme Blog

Over the summer of 2024 five students undertook an internship with the Endangered Wooden Architecture team. Here we present the work of two of those interns. The final built model of the Burmese teak farmhouse © Matt Philips, 2024 Matt Philips, a recent graduate of the School of Architecture, was tasked with building a scale model of one of the Burmese teak houses from a recently completed EWAP project conducted by the World Monuments Fund in Myanmar ( Project archive can be found here ). He decided to use a 1:20 scale as this was a manageable size but also allowed for the internal spatial areas to be clearly defined and for embellished contextual elements. As part of the original Burmese Teak Farmhouse Project 20 houses were recorded and deposited in EWAPs Archive. From the 20 houses, Matt decided to focus on a two-story residential farmhouse in Shan Kalay Kyun Village, Mandalay Division ( EWAP1046SG-STR-004 ). The house is over 50 years old and built using woods such as teak and Sh