Situated in a neighbourhood of Mae Sot, New Wave is a migrant learning centre that hosts an average of 200 students from different ethnic communities each year to provide them with basic education.

While the school was equipped with basic infrastructure, it was originally lacking a library and no classrooms to teach computer skills to the students and teachers. As such, the media lab and library was built to support 14 computers and a well-stocked selection of books.

Since the school does not own the land where the school is situated our team needed to build a structure that could easily be relocated, in the event that the school was told to move. Our design met this requirement through the design of a light metal structure connected with nuts and bolts that can be completely disassembled and reassembled easily using basic tools.

The building is divided into four different blocks; the first one is a covered garden that acts as a buffer area for the library and can be used as extra seating space for reading. The next block hosts the library, consisting of a multileveled-seating area whit a built-in space for storage and a large shelve that accommodates all the books. The media lab can be found after the library and is equipped with custom-designed tables and benches that comfortably accommodate all the computers. The back of the building is a secondary buffer area that helps protect the walls from the rain and serves as a multipurpose space.