Good evening.
A pretty quiet week: completing odd jobs,making changes
to others and in-and-out of council,so nothing out of the
ordinary apart from waiting for over 2hrs at Khayalitsha
council. Not ayoba!! Filled in a couple of new submission
forms-understand them a little better. A lot of other
confusing bits still. Learnt how to retrieve site diagram
for council-quite simple. Completed a presentation drawing
for new client-so I was in my element with my crayons!!
Never heard from client though. However,another client was
happy with drawings so he's off to get quotes-what a happy
Chap. Discovered a lot of small things with his drawing.
The importance of a chimney dimension on an elevation,using
the right line weight to show depth-pretty tricky when you've
got old/new work intertwined-and a few other tiny things aswell.
So that was my chilled week. Till next week.
Happy working
Friday, May 27, 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
VOTING WEEK:16-20 MAY
Hi there.
Short week-started relaxed and ended in chaos ofcourse.
Didn't work on to many things this week. Explored a lot
and did quite a bit of designing. Did the odd phone calls
& admin work & suppose to meet a client today to discuss
final drawings but had to postpone due to an urgent
ammendment. Council wouldn't approve a few things on a
previous drawing so we fafed around for a few hrs to
satisfy councils very unimportant needs. Had to be done-
Construction was already underway. Lots of pressure & lots
of shouting this week. But its all good-i live. let's
see what next week holds.
Chow
Short week-started relaxed and ended in chaos ofcourse.
Didn't work on to many things this week. Explored a lot
and did quite a bit of designing. Did the odd phone calls
& admin work & suppose to meet a client today to discuss
final drawings but had to postpone due to an urgent
ammendment. Council wouldn't approve a few things on a
previous drawing so we fafed around for a few hrs to
satisfy councils very unimportant needs. Had to be done-
Construction was already underway. Lots of pressure & lots
of shouting this week. But its all good-i live. let's
see what next week holds.
Chow
Friday, May 13, 2011
02-13 MAY
Hello good-evening.
The past two weeks have been very interesting. Did the small odd jobs and started on a major one -so huge there's not enough memory on a cad drawing. A new school- Christel House in Ottery, which was funded and designed by Americans. A teacher approached us to add additions to the existing school. They needed store rooms, a technology room, a pavillion and sports facilities such as netball, basketball & tennis courts etc as well as a track, which i'm pretty excited about. Phase one went under-way (store & tech. room), had meetings and changed there minds. Just great. Spent all that precious time for nothing. Lesson- give proper briefs/make sure the client knows what he wants/provided as many suitable options before they waste your time. But this is how it goes so we wait for phase two.
Did my share if administrative work aswell. Went a few times to council/called them for progress- which was a drag ofcourse but there was this one particular lady whom I have'nt seen before. She gave me some insight as to why we need to pay certain fees and what forms we need for particular jobs & their purpose. Very informative and paticient but I still dont like council. Filled in a couple of complicated forms-they all the same to me. I even got to speak to the traffic engineer for an ammendent-felt so empowered. Its nice communicating with the top notches face-to-face.
Went on site to Constantia, an old client who wanted to add a boundary wall & make his driveway parallel to his house-which is currently at a slant due to the curved boundary. Seemed pretty simple untill we drew it up and realised the degree of the slope. It is Constantia after all. Did some changes to the ground-took a little & gave a little now we have a semi-floating sliding gate (need to add a rack) but at least we dont have a 30 degree sliding gate or 2300mm high walls. Small architectural problem effectively solved. Lesson-clients want certain things, to achieve them-we have to provide smart solutions that are funtional and legal. There are certain obsticals that affect design that clients are sometimes not aware of i.e. sloping sites /heights of neighbours boundary walls (depending on the nature of location/property).
Mr Bossman also ask me to design a bench for a bay window for his holiday house. A small exercise to see my idea/point of view/design skills, compared to his prefered option. He ended up combinding my idea with his and started building it today-What! Cool!
There are many aspects to architecture-from tiny benches to sloping sites-and either way the experience/possibilities are always wonderful.
Happy learning.
The past two weeks have been very interesting. Did the small odd jobs and started on a major one -so huge there's not enough memory on a cad drawing. A new school- Christel House in Ottery, which was funded and designed by Americans. A teacher approached us to add additions to the existing school. They needed store rooms, a technology room, a pavillion and sports facilities such as netball, basketball & tennis courts etc as well as a track, which i'm pretty excited about. Phase one went under-way (store & tech. room), had meetings and changed there minds. Just great. Spent all that precious time for nothing. Lesson- give proper briefs/make sure the client knows what he wants/provided as many suitable options before they waste your time. But this is how it goes so we wait for phase two.
Did my share if administrative work aswell. Went a few times to council/called them for progress- which was a drag ofcourse but there was this one particular lady whom I have'nt seen before. She gave me some insight as to why we need to pay certain fees and what forms we need for particular jobs & their purpose. Very informative and paticient but I still dont like council. Filled in a couple of complicated forms-they all the same to me. I even got to speak to the traffic engineer for an ammendent-felt so empowered. Its nice communicating with the top notches face-to-face.
Went on site to Constantia, an old client who wanted to add a boundary wall & make his driveway parallel to his house-which is currently at a slant due to the curved boundary. Seemed pretty simple untill we drew it up and realised the degree of the slope. It is Constantia after all. Did some changes to the ground-took a little & gave a little now we have a semi-floating sliding gate (need to add a rack) but at least we dont have a 30 degree sliding gate or 2300mm high walls. Small architectural problem effectively solved. Lesson-clients want certain things, to achieve them-we have to provide smart solutions that are funtional and legal. There are certain obsticals that affect design that clients are sometimes not aware of i.e. sloping sites /heights of neighbours boundary walls (depending on the nature of location/property).
Mr Bossman also ask me to design a bench for a bay window for his holiday house. A small exercise to see my idea/point of view/design skills, compared to his prefered option. He ended up combinding my idea with his and started building it today-What! Cool!
There are many aspects to architecture-from tiny benches to sloping sites-and either way the experience/possibilities are always wonderful.
Happy learning.
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