在尼泊尔东部建造一个“生活教室”

Author:Cornelia Dietz

Where farmers are teachers, villages are classrooms and an 8000-metere vertical gradient is the ‘vertical university’.

KTK-Belt，Inc。，是一个非营利组织，其使命是催化尼泊尔东部生物多样性保护和环境学习的新模型。它与老师，农民，青年和妇女合作，创建了“垂直大学”。这个可持续项目的想法是，以7,620米的垂直森林走廊的形式创建一个“活人教室”，从尼泊尔最大的水生鸟类保护区Koshi Tappu（67 m）延伸到Kanchenjunga（8,586 m），The Nepal最大的水生鸟类保护区（8,586 m），世界上最高的第三高峰。

“垂直大学”是教和保存的船只6,600 flowering plant species，，，，800 bird species and 180 mammalsthat are found in eastern Nepal. In a mountainous country like Nepal, where there is exceptional biological, climatic and cultural diversity from the tropical plains to the alpine Himalayas, conventional education paradigms where students sit in a stationary classroom, divorced from their surroundings, make little sense.

With a shared belief to foster asustainable planet，Leica Geosystems支持这种新的生物多样性保护和环境学习项目by donating aLeica Disto™D810触摸pro包。这个完整的专业体系for convenient aiming, precise measurements and documenting the results with pictures, includes a Leica DISTO™ D810 touch, theLeica FTA360tripod adapter and theLeica TRI70tripod packed in a rugged case.

Creating flexible multi-purpose community spaces

KTK-Belt fellows used the DISTO™ D810 touch during the construction of their first learning grounds, an outdoor learning and community space for children and villagers in Yangshila. Local labourers used DISTO™ in the construction, documentation and modification of the centre to host exhibits and other activities.

“During construction, we worked with local labour workers who have little or no formal schooling. The Leica DISTO™ tool allowed us to ensure the structures were according to the drawings that were submitted by the design and engineering team. The device was easy to understand and could be operated by our local workers. The built-in camera worked great outside also in these weather conditions,”KTK-Belt Studio的联合创始人兼联合主任Priyanka Bista说。

生态校园是由回收的运输容器，竹子，石头和泥土建造的。

使用Disto™构建的结构45 square metres，大约是一个典型村庄房屋的大小。现代结构由堆叠的可回收运输集装箱，拆除的当地谷仓的再生木材以及本地竹子，石头和泥浆都有两层折叠的门，打开周围的景观accelerate sustainable livelihood opportunities在社区。顶部容器是从八个太阳能电池板的阴影中冷却的，这些太阳能电池板提供了建筑物的全部能源需求。登山者葡萄藤，垂直花园和绿色屋顶用于显示不同的方式整合植被并被动地冷却建筑物，，，，providing ecosystem services.

“We are so happy to see that already some campus is built, and they could build up a flexible multi-purpose community space with the help of the Leica DISTO™,”Leica Disto计划主管Markus Hammerer说™Leica Geobob综合app下载systems的手持产品。

建筑商的教学工具

为了招募，训练和建立青年研究员在该项目的各个领域领导的能力，KTK-belt创建了腰带研究员计划。到目前为止，前五名青年研究员接受了建筑，设计，款待，户外教育以及保护和GIS的培训。

“Ever since I was a child, I’ve been interested in construction. Unlike my sisters, I was always attracted to building tools. I am also driving myself these days to learn how to use a measuring tape, scale, calculator and even a laser distance metre in order to draw proper architectural drawings. Seeing us in the construction site, women in the village have become encouraged to work for themselves as well,”said Pabitra Magar, KTK-Belt construction fellow.

With intuitive features and functions, such as the 4x zoom point finder, BELT fellows measured distances with the DISTO™ D810 touch even if they could not see the red laser dot on the target because it was too far away or the sun was too bright. Fellows just orientated with the cross displays to aim at the right target.

Ensuring a scalable and sustainable future with technology that is used to do its greatest good – this is at the heart of Hexagon’s approach. KTK-Belt is using technology to leverage the potential of biodiversity, indigenous knowledge, and people-plant interactions.

The living classroom in Yangshila