Week 16

the week started off pretty well with me attending the talk by Gawie Fagan, a famous South African Architect at our campus.. was a nice outing that involved me taking the BRT's from Table View to Cape Town, and back :) I enjoy the sight-seeing along the way. The talk was good, but seeing some old friends and familiar faces made the time taken off work, all the more better!

House Pearson was a new project for the week, which involved the enclosing of a patio of a ground floor apartment at Big Bay Beach Club in Melkbosstrand. As Enrica is one of the 'referred to' architects of the Estate, we had already had all the blocks of apartments, etc on our system, so small projects like these were simple, and in and out the office within a matter of a day or two.. this meant i just had to copy the standard dwelling of that unit type and enclose the patio to the specific requirements and guidelines of the estate. all that needed to be fitted were two alluminium sliding doors, and a fixed glass panel

During the week i had to get in contact with Gary from Trendmark, the signage company that would be responsible for the signage of Project Nebula, and find out all the relevant details and information regarding the flag-pole signs and wall mounted metal cut-outs, so that i could prepare these on plans for council.

This week i managed to finish the plans for The McIvers. One more set of plans to go into the filing cabnet until we get all the necessary forms and paperwork from the client...

House Castro is a new house that was under construction at the moment at the Estate, Water's Edge in Melkboschstrand. During the week we recieved a phone call from the builder on site saying that certain concrete beams were be aligned at different heights, and not lining up, so Enrica had to go to site and come up with a solution of how to work around this and turn it into a feature. We spent a good few hours on site walking through the house ensuring that work was going according to the plans. We then left and headed towards the Big Bay Beach Club where The Pearson's lived so that we could go measure the balcony to be enclosed and ensure that the measurements correspond to those on the original plans of the dwelling... a few measurements were out and i had to rectify this one as the plans would be used for the manufacturers of the doors and windows. Usually if it's an 'as-built' plan, we dont worry tooooo much about the measurements being 100 % accurate.

Will be keen to see what next week brings :)