The team consist of three Tarumanagara University lecturer (Nina Carina, Maria Veronica Gandha, Mekar Sari Suteja), three Tarumanagara University student (Gerard, Alicia Arleeta, Fitria Dewi) and one Parahyangan Catholic University architecture student (Ganesha Pratama Adi)

The main objective of this project is to create a partition for a classroom during the covid-19 pandemic. It allows the low-end economic student to attend school during the pandemic. The other objective is to create a fast fabrication in a short time using cheaper materials. The selected materials compound the partition with PVC pipes and transparent mica paper

The project started after SMK Triguna, Jakarta cannot apply online school learning since most of the students live in a poor condition. Only 1% of the student did not use the government subsidy school money program. Meanwhile, the rest are relying on the program. It leads the problem to the online class and test. These student and teacher are having hard times when it comes to newer and more expensive technology. The teacher finally allowed the school to reopen for the test with some protocol to be held.

The school focus is to provide student education and employment training. The online class did not provide good employment training since the training need to take place within the school. The fact if the student keeps learning online, they fear the student are not in education, employment and training (Tamesberger, 2020) and became "Lost Generation"

To help the problem, we provide a more safe component for the school. To create a safer environment, we provide partitions for five rooms. These rooms are used for the computer-based test on-site. Within the partition, we hope the students are helped with the appearance of the partition. We also hope to prevent a new covid-19 cluster. The project meant to have a good outcome on both helping the student to learn and prevent covid-19 infection to others.

We manage to designed and built 52 learning partition and five 150cm tall partition for the school. Each partition cost around Rp 120.000 ($ 8,30) each.

Everything started from the discussion with the school teacher and followed with literature and precedent study. After that, we proceed to an ergonomic study to find the perfect dimension and we find the perfect material after that. The last step before building the perfect one, we searched for an alternative.

To create one partition, we need to find the best module. We need to measure the interior and component within the room, the ergonomic of human, the covid-19 safe protocol and many other aspects. There were many test and error trial to find the best partition for this school. Before fabricating the last one, we tried to create another partition and test the partition on site. Most of the partition did not found the connection within the safety aspects and ergonomic, but the last one did.

We hope that other school with the same background will follow these project. There are many problems occur since many schools in Jakarta with the same type need to attend their student on the class. We also hope for other schools who need to attend their student on-site to follow this idea.

We receive the news that a Jakarta education official has looked inside SMK Triguna and found the partition within the class. Found out, the official was very happy and hope other schools have the same protocols.

We hope other school applied this idea also during online courses. There are cases where the school can be attended but there still cases and cluster after they reopen. We hope this project become their getaway for the problem since Covid-19 in Jakarta is still in a high number.

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