Heres the link once again to my online portfolio if anyone wants to take a look at how it's coming along:
PSS Online Portfolio
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Monday, 23 July 2012
Block week :)
Yeahhhh, the time has come again for our next block and I am definately excited to see my friends and be in that student environment again.
I know that I've skipped a week or two of blogging so let me fill you in on whats been happening...
Since Maitland handover, Lisa has been keeping me and collegue Kyle Williams busy with a project in Bo Kaap. It's quite interesting as we once again are touching on Heritage and that in itself comes with its own constraints.
Whats been happening is that the City will finally be handing the houses over to the residents who have been residing and looking after these houses out of their own pockets for so many years. We will be fixing what needs fixing and then price the houses at very low costs for the residents to buy and own.
A total of 14 houses has to go through this process so we started with the initial measuring up of two houses so that base plans can be established. I have since completed the existing plans of two houses together with my collegue. Heritage Western Cape has sent their requirements as far as what we need to include in the plans that has relevance to the time period that the houses were built and we then ammended them accordingly.
I made a mental note of the state that these houses were in and was quite shocked at the current lack of toilet and bath facilities as well as the apalling state that the houses are in....very sad!!
On our site visits we also became familiar with the families that occupied these houses so Im glad that we are able to fix their current living affairs.
I continue to go to site meetings on my other project every second week that follows up with plans that need to be ammended or extra things that need specifying now that we are going through the building process.
Anyways, looking forward to class and yes, even that test we'll be writing, ciao till next week!
I know that I've skipped a week or two of blogging so let me fill you in on whats been happening...
Since Maitland handover, Lisa has been keeping me and collegue Kyle Williams busy with a project in Bo Kaap. It's quite interesting as we once again are touching on Heritage and that in itself comes with its own constraints.
Whats been happening is that the City will finally be handing the houses over to the residents who have been residing and looking after these houses out of their own pockets for so many years. We will be fixing what needs fixing and then price the houses at very low costs for the residents to buy and own.
A total of 14 houses has to go through this process so we started with the initial measuring up of two houses so that base plans can be established. I have since completed the existing plans of two houses together with my collegue. Heritage Western Cape has sent their requirements as far as what we need to include in the plans that has relevance to the time period that the houses were built and we then ammended them accordingly.
I made a mental note of the state that these houses were in and was quite shocked at the current lack of toilet and bath facilities as well as the apalling state that the houses are in....very sad!!
On our site visits we also became familiar with the families that occupied these houses so Im glad that we are able to fix their current living affairs.
I continue to go to site meetings on my other project every second week that follows up with plans that need to be ammended or extra things that need specifying now that we are going through the building process.
Anyways, looking forward to class and yes, even that test we'll be writing, ciao till next week!
Monday, 2 July 2012
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