Every condition the client has stated, across every package. This page exists because conditions were being lost between rounds — each drawing is now checked against this list rather than against the previous drawing.
| # | Condition | Status | Where / note |
|---|---|---|---|
| PACKAGE 00 — SITE | |||
| Road and access | |||
| 1 | The plot is 5 rai 83 tarang wa = 8,332 m², drawn 90.00 × 92.58 m. | was broken · fixed | I worked to a flat 5 rai (8,010 m²) until 1 September 2026. The extra 322 m² all falls in the quiet zone. |
| 2 | The public road dead-ends 57 m into the frontage. | was broken · fixed | Stated twice; I twice decided it was a map scale bar and rebuilt the whole plan wrongly. |
| 3 | Traffic arrives from the EAST, so the dead end is at the WEST. | was broken · fixed | I first drew it mirrored. |
| 4 | The road is 6 m wide. | met | Zoning |
| 5 | Customers park on the FAR shoulder, opposite the site. | met | Zoning |
| 6 | They then pull in to turn round — beside the café or at the gate. | met | Café zone turning head |
| 7 | 3 m statutory setback from the canal, kept clear. | met | Masterplan |
| Café | |||
| 8 | The café is hard on the canal. Always. | was broken · fixed | Stated three times before it stuck. |
| 9 | Two storeys. | met | Zoning |
| 10 | It has its own entrance, direct from the road side. | met | Zoning |
| 11 | A small garden zone in front of the café. | met | Zoning |
| 12 | Its own kitchen, and a separate brewing area. | met | Masterplan — to be laid out in Package 02 |
| 13 | One toilet, on the ground floor. | met | Package 02 |
| 14 | People from inside can come out to the café. | met | Café gate in the wall |
| 15 | The café zone is self-contained and has nothing to do with the other zones. | met | Zoning — zone A |
| Café — stated 1 September 2026 | |||
| 82 | A kitchen. | open | Package 02 — about 20 m² of the 168 m² ground floor. |
| 83 | A brewing area, separate from the kitchen. | open | Package 02 — bar and counter, about 14 m². |
| 84 | One toilet, on the ground floor. | open | Package 02 — 4 m². One is enough for a café of this size; a second can go upstairs later. |
| 85 | A big communal table on the ground floor, built in concrete, with a moss garden down the centre and a waterfall. THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE CAFÉ. | met | Drawn — /cafe/table.html |
| 120 | The table is a SYMMETRICAL OVAL — the shape of a nought. Not the free-form shape in the reference photograph. | met | 6.00 × 3.00 m outer oval, 0.60 m eating surface all round, 4.80 × 1.80 m planted well in the middle, 20 seats at 0.70 m. Symmetrical on both axes, so it has no head and no foot. It also holds the dry-ice fog, which an open-ended shape would let roll off. |
| 121 | Reference photograph supplied 1 September 2026, marked NOT to be copied. | met | Shown on the sheet beside our own geometry so nobody builds the wrong one by mistake. |
| 122 | NO DRY ICE. A pump and an ultrasonic mist maker, and nothing else. | met | Settled 2 September 2026. A plate vibrating under shallow water throws off a cold mist: no carbon dioxide, nothing to deliver, nothing to store. About 288 W and 30 L of water a day, running off the same recirculating circuit as the waterfall. |
| 125 | EVERY SHEET IS A PROPOSAL, NOT A SPECIFICATION. | met | Stated 2 September 2026 and now printed at the head of every sheet on the site. The project architect may change any dimension, position or detail. What must survive is the intent — and where a figure is fixed by law or by a vehicle’s turning circle, the sheet says so explicitly. |
| 123 | LEGIONELLA is the risk to design against. | open | An ultrasonic unit turns the reservoir into a breathable aerosol two metres from people eating. Four requirements: run it off the same recirculating circuit as the waterfall so nothing stands still; a UV lamp in that circuit; a drainable reservoir reachable through the lift-out panel for weekly cleaning; softened or RO feed water, or scale crusts the moss white within a month. |
| 124 | The mist adds about 0.9 kW of latent load to the café, and cools the air over the table by about the same. | open | Tell whoever sizes the café air conditioning. Also specify a honed or textured table top, never polished — there will be damp around it. |
| 86 | Upstairs: two private rooms for groups, tatami. | open | Package 02 — two 8-mat rooms, 3.64 × 3.64 m each, in real tatami modules. |
| 87 | The partition between the two rooms slides away so they become one room. | open | Package 02 — a 3.64 m sliding screen line with a pocket to take the leaves. |
| 88 | Shoes stay on everywhere EXCEPT the private rooms, which are raised, where they come off. | open | Package 02 — a 0.35 m raised tatami platform with a step-edge to sit on and a shoe rack at the threshold. |
| Vehicles | |||
| 16 | No public parking on the site, but there must be somewhere to turn. | met | Two turning heads |
| 17 | Turning happens inside; the organisation parking is inside, past another gate. | met | Zoning — zone C |
| 18 | 4 staff cars, beside the office. | open | Currently in zone C, not beside the office — needs a decision. |
| 19 | A big gate so organisation vehicles can drive right in, not park outside. | met | Zoning — service gate |
| 20 | The turning route is a U: drive in, loop, drive out. | was broken · fixed | Drawn as a ∪ opening the wrong way, with the bend on the road side and the loop outside the wall. Flipped to a ∩. |
| 21 | The U passes the waiting point and the back of the kitchen, then out the gate. Not split. | met | One drive. The IN leg serves the drop-off for the waiting room, the OUT leg serves the kitchen door. |
| 22 | The visitors’ turning area must not mix with the dining hall. | was broken · fixed | It ran through the dining hall in one scheme. |
| 23 | The turning area is too big — calculate it properly. | was broken · fixed | 135 m² of tarmac, 15.0 × 9.0 m overall. Squeezed twice on instruction. |
| 24 | Deliveries are no larger than a van. | met | Sized on the D-Max, which is larger |
| Gates and wall | |||
| 25 | An inner wall with an access-controlled gate. | met | Zoning |
| 26 | One access gate for walking in, plus a separate large vehicle gate. | met | Zoning |
| 27 | A guard post at the front gate. | superseded | Added, then removed on instruction. Gates now run from the office. |
| Buildings | |||
| 28 | The office is INSIDE the wall. | was broken · fixed | I had it outside. |
| 29 | The office sits tight against the wall, so the inside keeps its space. | was broken · fixed | |
| 30 | The office is entered from the inside. | met | Masterplan |
| 31 | Office for 10 people. | met | 108 m² |
| 32 | The waiting room is OUTSIDE the wall, with its door on the road side. | met | Masterplan |
| 33 | A window cut through the wall between office and waiting room. | met | Masterplan |
| 34 | The waiting room is where foreign guests wait, register, pay and collect a card. | met | Masterplan |
| 35 | The kitchen and the dining hall are INSIDE the wall — they belong to the people in the project. | was broken · fixed | I had them on the public frontage. |
| 36 | Kitchen next to the dining hall. | met | They share a wall |
| 37 | Kitchen 80–100 m². | met | 100 m² — 15.4 × 6.5, sized to the corner |
| 38 | Dining hall about 150 m². | met | 154 m² — 15.4 × 10.0 |
| 39 | The kitchen is on the delivery route, because goods must be unloaded there. | met | Service door onto the drive |
| 40 | The kitchen is noisy, so it must not sit deep inside. | met | Kept at the road end of zone C |
| 41 | The buffet goes on the ground floor only. | met | One storey recommended |
| 42 | More than 50 people eating at once. | met | About 68 seats at 1.8 m² each |
| 43 | Should the dining hall be on two floors? Bar seating for the view if so. | met | One storey. The corrected land area removed the reason to stack it, and the view now goes upstairs in the café. |
| The site as a whole | |||
| 44 | Keep the quiet zone as large as possible. | met | 7,147 m² = 86% of the site |
| 45 | Use the land as efficiently as possible. | met | |
| 46 | The meditation hall’s position is not decided yet — settle the road frontage first. | met | The frontage is settled. The hall now sits in the quiet-zone programme below, for the project architect to place. |
| 47 | Diagram first, no detail, on its own page. | met | /site/masterplan.html |
| 79 | Use as little land as possible for service, to keep the inside for buildings. | met | Turning drive cut to 135 m², at the swept-path minimum. Nothing left to cut. |
| 80 | A U means: straight in, one bend, straight out. Not a roundabout to circle. | met | Drawn as a ∩ — in on the LEFT leg, one bend, out on the RIGHT. |
| 81 | Use a hammerhead — one reversing movement. | superseded | Replaced by the ∩ drive on instruction. |
| 76 | The quiet zone must be MORE THAN 7,000 m². | met | 7,147 m². It failed at 6,823 m² under the old 8,010 assumption; the corrected area clears it by 147 m². |
| 77 | At the road’s dead end there must be a GATE, so a car can drive in to the café. Nobody walks. | met | Café gate on the road axis; the car drives straight through into the café forecourt. |
| 78 | The turning must be calculated properly — a car is not air. | was broken · fixed | Drawn by eye at first. Now built on the Isuzu D-Max swept path: outer 7.39 m, inner 3.68 m, centreline 5.54 m. The script refuses to draw below it. |
| PACKAGE 03 — QUIET ZONE | |||
| What goes into the land behind the wall — stated 1 September 2026 | |||
| 89 | The quiet zone is the remaining land, and the project architect designs it. | open | 7,147 m² behind the inner wall. The items below are the programme; the layout is the architect’s. |
| 90 | A meditation hall. | open | Package 01, already drawn: 11.00 × 12.60 m = 138.6 m². |
| 91 | Hako 4.5 — 20 units. | open | Site them for privacy: at 4 m between units and 6 m front to back, twenty plots take about 1,470 m², a fifth of the quiet zone. |
| 126 | The Hako wardrobe takes a wheeled suitcase pushed straight in. | open | Proposed 1.20 w × 0.65 d × 2.10 h m = 0.78 m², under 6% of the hut floor. Two bays of 0.60 m: one hangs clothes, one takes the case. The luggage bay is FLOOR LEVEL — no plinth, no bottom rail, no lip to lift over. Put the wardrobe on the wall beside the door so the case never crosses the room. |
| 127 | One shelf folds away when the case is large. | open | A folding shelf at 0.95 m in the luggage bay. Down, it gives two levels for cabin and medium cases. Folded up, the bay is clear for the full 2.10 m — a 30-inch case stands 0.81 m, and 1.21 m with its handle extended, so it goes in without collapsing the handle. |
| 128 | CONSEQUENCE: if a case must roll into the wardrobe, it must be able to roll to the hut at all. | open | The hut threshold must be level — 20 mm upstand at most, or a 1:12 ramp — and the door 0.80 m clear so a person and a case pass together. For the path outside, see 129–131: carts change what the surface has to be, but they do not remove the requirement. |
| 129 | Off-road carts, so the paths need not all be hard-paved. | open | Four wheels, PNEUMATIC tyres of 33 cm (13 in) or more, load 150 kg, flat bed about 0.6 × 1.0 m taking two or three large cases, and a PULL handle rather than a push bar — easier on soft ground. Wheel diameter is the whole specification: a 10 cm suitcase wheel needs smooth hard surface and nothing else; 25 cm crosses compacted gravel and firm mown grass; 33 cm crosses soft grass, shallow ruts and decomposed granite. Pneumatic tyres are also silent, which matters here. |
| 130 | Even with carts, ONE spine must be hard-paved — because of the rain. | open | This is the part carts do not solve. In the monsoon a grass or earth path turns to mud, and a loaded cart on mud is worse than a suitcase on paving. So: a hard spine about 120 m × 1.5 m = 180 m² from the drop-off to the hut cluster, usable in any weather, with soft spurs of about 160 m × 1.2 m = 192 m² of compacted decomposed granite from the spine to each hut door. 372 m² of the 900 m² path budget; the rest of the garden walks can be anything. |
| 135 | Matte stone, like brick? | open | Matte is right, and brick is right about the FINISH — but the two questions are separate. On finish, wet slip resistance settles it: polished granite reads about PTV 20 and fails badly, smooth trowelled concrete about 35 is marginal, while clay brick, flamed granite and washed aggregate concrete all sit around 55–65 and pass. Thirty-six is the threshold. So: matte, always. Never polished, and never laterite on a shaded path — it looks perfectly Thai and then grows algae and drops to about PTV 25. |
| 136 | But brick brings a second thing with it: the MODULE. | open | A brick is 200 mm long, so a wheel crosses a joint every 200 mm — about 600 joints over the 120 m spine. A 600 mm slab gives 200, a 900 mm slab 133, in-situ concrete about 30. Every one of those is a small jolt for a suitcase wheel. So the proposal is to split it: LARGE-FORMAT matte stone on the spine, where the wheels run and the rain has to drain; brick or another small unit on the garden walks and terraces, where the look matters more than the rolling. Same matte family, same colour, two sizes — and nobody reads it as two materials. |
| 132 | Stone slabs laid in a run, with a small gap between them. | open | Yes — and the gap you can afford is decided entirely by which wheel crosses it. A wheel drops into a joint by R − √(R² − (g/2)²). A 50 mm suitcase wheel drops 0.5 mm into a 10 mm joint, 2.1 mm into 20 mm and 5.0 mm into 30 mm, where it starts to jolt and catch. A 330 mm pneumatic cart wheel drops 0.7 mm into 30 mm and only 1.9 mm into 50 mm. So: if guests wheel their own cases, joints must be 13 mm or less and the slabs are effectively butt-jointed. If the carts do the carrying, joints up to 50 mm pass unnoticed — and those can be planted with grass or moss, which is the look you want. Buying the carts is what buys the planted joint. |
| 133 | LIPPAGE matters more than the gap. | open | The step between one slab and the next stops a wheel harder than the joint does: 3 mm of lippage is worse than a 20 mm joint. Slabs bedded on loose sand settle unevenly and lippage grows year by year. So the spine at least must be laid on a compacted base with a bound bedding — mortar or cement-stabilised sand — not loose sand. Lippage tolerance 3 mm. |
| 134 | The finish must be slip-resistant wet, and the paving must shed water. | open | Monsoon rain, and people walking in sandals or barefoot. Flamed or bush-hammered stone, never honed or polished. Crossfall 1:60 to 1:80 so water runs off instead of standing. Gravel-filled joints wash out in heavy rain unless they are resin-bound; planted joints hold, but need trimming. |
| 131 | Three carts, not one — they have three jobs. | open | Two for guest luggage in and out; one for bedding to and from the laundry, which is a round of twenty huts; one for the waste round to the holding area. About 3 m² of covered store at the drop-off beside the waiting room. NOT an electric utility vehicle: that puts a vehicle back into the quiet zone, which is the thing the whole plan is arranged to prevent. |
| 92 | A car port for 2 cars. | open | About 6.0 × 6.0 m. Keep it near the inner wall so no vehicle needs to drive deep into the quiet zone. |
| 93 | A waste holding area. | open | About 4 × 5 m. It must be reachable by the collection vehicle without entering the quiet zone — put it against the inner wall, near the kitchen door. |
| 94 | A laundry point: 2 sets of industrial washer and dryer. | open | Industrial dryers need a flue and a heavy power supply, so fix its position before the services are set out. |
| 95 | A store room for bedding — in the same building as the washer and dryer. | open | Laundry 30 m² + bedding store 24 m² = one building of about 6 × 9 m. Bedding goes dirty → wash → dry → store in one line, so the store must open off the dry end, not the wet end. |
| Staff housing — stated 1 September 2026 | |||
| 96 | Staff housing is in TWO zones: women and men. | open | |
| 97 | The two zones hold the same accommodation — the same number of rooms. | superseded | Overridden the same day: the women’s side is now deliberately larger. See 114. The built form still follows the land — that part stands. |
| 110 | The staff zones MAY be built over two storeys. | open | Halves the footprint: 183 m² per zone on one floor becomes 91.5 m² on two, and both zones together drop from 396 m² to 237 m² — 202 m² handed back to the garden. Sleeping rooms go upstairs; the common toilets, the living room and the laundry stay on the ground floor where the drainage is and where everyone can reach them. The Hako units stay standalone on the ground — they are huts, not flats. |
| 98 | Volunteer section, each zone: 2 bunk beds = 4 sleeping places. | open | About 16 m² per zone. |
| 99 | Each zone: 2 toilets and 2 bathrooms — one with an ordinary shower, one with a bathtub. | open | About 17 m² per zone. |
| 100 | The volunteer sanitary block is COMMON — every member of staff can reach it. | open | So it sits on the path spine of its zone, not inside the volunteer dormitory. |
| 101 | Hako 4.5 — 1 to 2 units per zone, as the area allows. | open | |
| 102 | Twin rooms: 2 stepped beds + 1 bathroom + 2 wardrobes. | open | About 22 m² each. NOTE: “2 stepped beds” could mean 2 sleeping places or 4 — please confirm, it moves the site total between 24 and 36 staff. |
| 114 | The WOMEN’S zone has 4 twin rooms. The men’s zone has fewer. | open | Women 4, men 2 taken from the 2–4 range you gave. Footprints over two storeys: women 118.5 m², men 96.5 m². Beds: women 14, men 10, total 24 — or 22 / 14 / 36 if a twin room sleeps four. If the men’s side should be 3 rather than 2, say so; it adds 11 m² of footprint and 2 or 4 beds. |
| 103 | A laundry and drying area in each staff zone. | open | Separate from the main laundry at item 94, which serves the retreat. |
| 104 | A living room with a refrigerator in each staff zone. | open | About 30 m² per zone. |
| 105 | Paths connecting all of it. | open | |
| Landscape — stated 1 September 2026 | |||
| 106 | The gaps between buildings must be NAMED: which is pond, which is waterfall, which is garden — and how big each one is. | open | Land left after buildings, plots and paths: about 3,895 m², 54% of the quiet zone. Proposed split below. |
| 107 | Pond. | open | Proposed 25 × 12 = 300 m², in front of the meditation hall so the building stands in its own reflection. NOTE: ornamental pond assumed, not a swimming pool — please confirm, it changes depth, plant, filtration and safety fencing entirely. |
| 108 | Waterfall — CLOSE TO THE MEDITATION HALL, to mask outside noise. | open | 12 × 8 = 96 m² of rock and planting, feeding the pond, pump chamber built into the bank. A cascade of this size runs about 58 dB(A) at 3 m and falls 6 dB every time the distance doubles. Road noise reaching the quiet zone is 40–45 dB(A); masking wants the water about 5 dB above that at the listener. So: stand it 6–10 m from the meditation hall wall, where it reads 48–52 dB(A) — enough to bury the road. Sleeping wants 40 dB(A) or less, which the same cascade reaches at 25 m, so the nearest Hako must be 25 m away or more. The two rules do not fight: the hall and the huts are different buildings. |
| 109 | Garden. | open | About 3,499 m² — everything not built, paved or under water. |
| The audit gaps — answered by the client, 2 September 2026 | |||
| 137 | Toilets beside the meditation hall: 2 for men, 2 for women, ONE BLOCK EACH SIDE. | met | About 2.60 × 3.20 = 8.3 m² a block, 16.6 m² for the two — ten less than I had allowed. Splitting them left and right also keeps the hall quiet: nobody files down one corridor. FOR THE RECORD, not a change: two WCs serve twenty people at ten each, which a fifteen-minute break clears at seven. Comfortable on a twenty-minute break, tight on a ten. Worth knowing before the timetable is set. |
| 138 | The monks stay in the MEN’S zone. Nine do not come at once. | met | So the Hako units in the men’s zone are the monks’ rooms, not a spare. That settles item 101 for that zone at the top of its range — two, not one — because a monk needs a room of his own rather than a bed in a twin. If more than two ever come at once, say so now: it means a third Hako, and it is far cheaper to draw than to add. |
| 139 | The monks eat at a table in the dining hall, in a screened zone — SCREENED, NOT WALLED. | met | A table for five at 0.70 m each is 3.50 × 0.90 m; with the screen and room to serve, about 4.5 × 3.0 = 13.5 m² out of the 154 m² hall. Put it at the servery end so the offering reaches it without crossing the buffet queue. The screen reads as a boundary without shutting the room: a low screen at 1.2–1.5 m, or full height but open — lattice, slats, bamboo. Never solid. |
| 140 | The treatment plant is IN. | met | About 10.4 m³ a day, in a packaged plant of roughly 3.0 × 7.0 m, mostly buried, sited as far from the canal as the plan allows. STILL OPEN: whether the treated effluent irrigates the garden. If it does, the 347 m² disposal field disappears and the garden waters itself. |
| 141 | The water tanks are IN. | met | Two 15 m³ tanks, a pump set and a filter — about 24 m², two days of the 12.3 m³ daily draw. They also give the site its fire-water reserve. |
| 144 | Power, water and treatment become ONE service compound against the inner wall. | open | 60 + 24 + 21 = about 105 m². One compound, one door, one vehicle route. CORRECTION to what I wrote earlier: these vehicles DO cross the inner wall, because the compound is behind it. The thing to hold when the layout is drawn is that they should get no deeper than they must — keep the compound hard against the wall, near the gate. |
| 145 | There must be a VEHICLE GATE and a road into the quiet zone — otherwise the two-car port behind the wall cannot be reached. | met | Caught by the client 2 September 2026; the gate was missing from the drawing. Now a 3.8 m gate in the inner wall, set exactly IN LINE with the IN leg of the turning drive, so a project vehicle drives straight on through while a visitor curves right into the bend. One entry, two destinations, decided nine metres in — no extra junction, no extra gate on the road. |
| 146 | The road is drawn in, but its ROUTE is not specified — that is the architect’s. | met | Instructed 2 September 2026. The same orange road, 3.8 m, carried straight on north through the gate and simply stopping. How it then reaches the two-car port, the service compound and the huts, and where it turns round, is not drawn: it belongs with the rest of the quiet-zone layout. What this sheet fixes is only that the road gets in at all, and on which line. |
| 142 | A maintenance and garden store, about 20 m². | open | Still not confirmed. Mowers, tools, hoses, spare pumps and the three carts under cover. If it is not drawn it will appear as a lean-to against the back of the kitchen. |
| Meeting room and library — stated 2 September 2026 | |||
| 147 | A meeting room, doubling as the library. | open | Proposed 6.0 × 7.0 = 42 m². A table for twelve at 3.6 × 1.2 m needs 5.6 × 3.2 with a metre all round; shelving 16 m of wall at 0.30 m deep is 4.8 m² of floor and 96 linear metres of shelf — about 3,100 volumes; four reading seats at the window; the rest circulation. It also fills a gap nobody had named: there is currently nowhere on the site to hold a conversation. The meditation hall is for sitting, and talking in it spends the silence you built it for. |
| 148 | THE ONE HONEST OBJECTION: a meeting is speech and a library is silence. | open | The two uses do not fight for space — shelves on the walls, table in the middle, they fit each other perfectly. They fight for TIME. Start a meeting and whoever was reading gets up and leaves. On a site this small that is manageable, but only if it is managed: hold meetings while the guests are sitting in the hall, and leave the room to the readers the rest of the day. Worth deciding as a rule now rather than discovering it as a friction later. |
| 149 | Put it beside the meditation hall, not beside the office. | open | The staff meet weekly; the guests would read daily. Serve the daily user. Beside the hall it shares the same approach and the same new toilets, it sits in ground that is already meant to be silent, and it becomes the natural room for a teacher to see a practitioner one to one — which has to be near the hall anyway. The argument for putting it by the office is that staff walk less; the argument against is that everyone else walks more. |
| 150 | Books need a dehumidifier in this climate — allow for it now. | open | Paper moulds above about 65% relative humidity and Thai ambient runs 75–85%. A small unit left running, about 0.3 kW, costs roughly 1,300 kWh and 6,000 baht a year. Also: no timber shelving in contact with the ground, because of termites and silverfish, and no window throwing direct sun onto the spines. Cheap to allow for, and the reason most tropical libraries lose their collection. |
| Power — stated 1 September 2026 | |||
| 111 | A power house, for a solar installation. | open | Now about 6 × 10 = 60 m², because an all-electric site needs a larger battery and a three-phase board: battery room 28 m² fire-separated and force-ventilated, inverter and switch room 16 m², incoming supply and metering 16 m², with the PEA transformer standing outside it. Batteries are heavy, so it must be reachable by a vehicle WITHOUT entering the quiet zone — put it against the inner wall beside the waste holding area, sharing the same service door. |
| 112 | Panels go on the roofs, not on the ground. | open | About 798 m² of roof across the dining hall, kitchen, meditation hall, laundry, staff blocks and café. At 60% usable that is 479 m² of panel ≈ 126 kWp, which in Thailand yields roughly 500 kWh a day. Ground-mounting the same array would cost about 375 m² of the garden for no gain. |
| 113 | The whole site runs on electricity. No LPG anywhere. | met | Answered 1 September 2026. Dryers, kitchen and water heating are all electric. Consequences below. One clean gain: no gas store, no bottle deliveries, no separation distances, no gas safety regime. |
| 115 | Maximum demand and incoming supply. | open | Connected load 147 kW; after diversity, MAXIMUM DEMAND about 72 kW = 80 kVA at pf 0.90. That is a THREE-PHASE supply and a PEA transformer standing on site. Reserve the transformer position beside the power house, on the service side of the inner wall, where PEA can reach it without entering the quiet zone. |
| 116 | Daily energy against what the roofs can make. | open | About 659 kWh a day. The 126 kWp of roof-mounted panel yields roughly 504 kWh — 77%. The site is grid-connected with solar, NOT off-grid; the utility supply must still be sized for the full 72 kW. |
| 117 | Battery, if the night is to run on stored sun. | open | Night load — Hako air conditioning for 8 hours, some lighting, the pumps — is about 128 kWh. At 80% depth of discharge that means installing about 160 kWh. This is the single most expensive item in the electrical scope; decide whether it is worth it or whether the night simply comes off the grid. |
| 118 | Run the laundry and the kitchen prep in the middle of the day. | open | Laundry (101 kWh) and kitchen prep are the two loads whose timing we control. Moving them into the solar window costs nothing and is worth more than adding panels. |
| 119 | Hot water is CENTRAL, by heat pump with a storage tank — not instant electric heaters in each unit. | open | Twenty 4.5 kW instant shower heaters with ten running at once is 45 kW of peak demand on its own. A central heat pump does the same work at 6 kW spread over seven hours. The difference is 39 kW of maximum demand, about 43 kVA of transformer, and it decides whether the site needs an 80 kVA or a 125 kVA supply. Fix this before the electrical design starts. |
| PACKAGE 01 — MEDITATION HALL | |||
| Room | |||
| 48 | 120–150 m². | met | 138.6 m² |
| 49 | 40 practitioners. | met | 5 rows × 8 |
| 50 | A stage seating 9 monks, at least about 1.5 m deep. | met | Stage 3.40 m deep |
| 51 | A built-in ledge along the north wall, about 1 m (client’s own estimate). | met | 1.30 m, to hold the image projection |
| 52 | Two equipment cabinets at the north corners, not tall. | superseded | Deleted — they broke the field around the image. |
| 53 | An AV / control room at the south-east corner (light, sound, air). | met | 2.55 × 2.20 m |
| 54 | The south-west corner is the same size but only partitioned, not a room — cushion store, symmetrical. | met | Open access 1.00 m |
| 55 | No side doors — mosquitoes and acoustics. One way out. | met | Single 1.80 m entrance |
| Stage | |||
| 56 | Steps cut INTO the stage, not projecting out. | met | |
| 57 | Steps at the SIDE, not at the front. | was broken · fixed | I first drew them facing front. |
| 58 | Steps hard against the ledge at the north end. | was broken · fixed | |
| 59 | The stage front must be flush — a kneeling donor must not catch their knees. | was broken · fixed | The apron step was deleted. |
| 60 | A podium-like screen at the stage front, to hold a script and to keep the seated row decent. | met | Top +0.85 m |
| 61 | A height that suits receiving offerings without bending far. | met | +0.85 m |
| 62 | Storage under the stage at the back, with lift-up lids. | met | About 7 m³ |
| Image and screen | |||
| 63 | The image projects out from the wall. | met | 1.20 m assumed — to be confirmed with the supplier |
| 64 | Use the Wat Phra Dhammakaya Ibaraki drawings, and the image dimensions, on the site. | met | /meditation-hall/reference.html |
| 65 | A motorised screen that drops at the centre of the stage. | met | 2.67 × 1.50 m |
| 66 | A separate ceiling map for projector and lighting. | met | /meditation-hall/ceiling-plan.html |