Architecture needs to be considerate, sensitive and should have moral values.
Eg. If your hotel (or other) gets a 6star green rating, make sure you make the small things green as well, not only the building. Sunlight dish washing liquid is green in colour but not g(ood)reen for the environment lol
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
pre-block 4
Before I left work today I finished off a base drawing for a new project in Fish Hoek that we measured up last week. Monday: doing bits of everything because one of the clients keep changing things back to the way they were originally, after seeing the light on site. Its easy to move a wall a few inches back on AutoCAD but doing that on site is demolishing and re-building in the correct place. So no, we can not just move the wall back a bit. Tuesday: Trip to council (SPM), Llandudno to drop plans in someones letter box and back to the office by 2:30pm. My working day ends at 4:30pm so I hardly did anything. Wednesday: finished off lighting layouts, base drawings and some admin.
*sara
*sara
Friday, July 13, 2012
Friday the 13th
this day considered to be unlucky for some... almost for me too today!
Walking plans has not been easy lately. One of the submissions - a boundary, new pool and moving a door to line up with the pedestrian access...needs "departures"? Why?, you ask, because its an old house that exceeds the 50% coverage allowed for it in the Title deeds! Yes, so now we have to get neighbours to sign (well we let the clients do that bit), but it gets delayed when clients are on holiday and then still need to get Conveyancer's certificates...simply to state that there are restrictive conditions in the title deeds but they don't see what? I'm not quite sure. Its just another way of local authority covering their tracks. Like a few years later they can say but your lawyer/conveyancer had a look at it and okay'ed it.
And on site today, "the steel-glass house is starting to take shape and you can get a better feel for the spaces" (Julie, Architect).
A slab was suppose to be cast today (FRIDAY THE 13TH), but it seams that the concrete guys were a bit superstitious, not wanting to cast it on Friday the 13th! On this particular day there was an incident with supports "giving in" and the slab above coming down with it AND the client being on site at that moment when things came tumbling down...
And why my day turned out to be not that bad...I called Ward 59's councillor and thought that I would be able to pop in after 2pm today, because he'd be in his office. When I got there, I told the receptionist that I was there to see Mr Iversen...so she calls him and there's no answer...but she says that his in the building...next thing I know a man asks me if I'm his 2 o'clock meeting..."Oh Mr Iversen" and apologise, I was under the impression that it was for anytime after 2pm and he had me down for a meeting at 2pm! And I came strolling in at 2:45PM! So we walk into a small boardroom and he starts looking at the plans and says "Oh I can;t sign this...I don't have a pen" and I immediately feel a little less nervous because I left him waiting for FORTY FIVE MINUTES! I always have a pen with me...obviously. So I hand him mine and he signs the plan. Yeah!
That was my day...and the week was pretty much the same...we're trying to finish off the little bits of work that take a lot of time so that we can concentrate on the new bigger project...First small Llandudno alteration goes to Council on Monday...and the second Llandudno project is in design phase...but its really hard designing a house for a group of people who have set ideas that don't exactly gel well together...and if you're willing to spend money on your property shouldn't you make it count so that if you decide to relocate for whatever reason that you'll get good returns on your investment?
A good architect is not only an architect...but many others things...get to that at a later stage hahaha
*saraS
Walking plans has not been easy lately. One of the submissions - a boundary, new pool and moving a door to line up with the pedestrian access...needs "departures"? Why?, you ask, because its an old house that exceeds the 50% coverage allowed for it in the Title deeds! Yes, so now we have to get neighbours to sign (well we let the clients do that bit), but it gets delayed when clients are on holiday and then still need to get Conveyancer's certificates...simply to state that there are restrictive conditions in the title deeds but they don't see what? I'm not quite sure. Its just another way of local authority covering their tracks. Like a few years later they can say but your lawyer/conveyancer had a look at it and okay'ed it.
And on site today, "the steel-glass house is starting to take shape and you can get a better feel for the spaces" (Julie, Architect).
A slab was suppose to be cast today (FRIDAY THE 13TH), but it seams that the concrete guys were a bit superstitious, not wanting to cast it on Friday the 13th! On this particular day there was an incident with supports "giving in" and the slab above coming down with it AND the client being on site at that moment when things came tumbling down...
And why my day turned out to be not that bad...I called Ward 59's councillor and thought that I would be able to pop in after 2pm today, because he'd be in his office. When I got there, I told the receptionist that I was there to see Mr Iversen...so she calls him and there's no answer...but she says that his in the building...next thing I know a man asks me if I'm his 2 o'clock meeting..."Oh Mr Iversen" and apologise, I was under the impression that it was for anytime after 2pm and he had me down for a meeting at 2pm! And I came strolling in at 2:45PM! So we walk into a small boardroom and he starts looking at the plans and says "Oh I can;t sign this...I don't have a pen" and I immediately feel a little less nervous because I left him waiting for FORTY FIVE MINUTES! I always have a pen with me...obviously. So I hand him mine and he signs the plan. Yeah!
That was my day...and the week was pretty much the same...we're trying to finish off the little bits of work that take a lot of time so that we can concentrate on the new bigger project...First small Llandudno alteration goes to Council on Monday...and the second Llandudno project is in design phase...but its really hard designing a house for a group of people who have set ideas that don't exactly gel well together...and if you're willing to spend money on your property shouldn't you make it count so that if you decide to relocate for whatever reason that you'll get good returns on your investment?
A good architect is not only an architect...but many others things...get to that at a later stage hahaha
*saraS
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