Weeks Flying!

So its Friday again, i nearly forgot, wasn't it Monday just yesterday? When We had a quick meeting and i was onto the barn to finish off the Specs for all the materials and fix up the details after we had to move the Barn again for the third time. But hopefully now the client has made up their minds and it wont be moved again. So yes i was mostly doing that whole week, finishing working drawings, specs and details. Yesterday I was back at Oceana, (next to Tech) For another desnagging of works completion lists, and Monday should hopefully be the last one. The building and office spaces are looking good though and i think they are working well, just a few minor things here and there that i picked up that the contractors still have to rectify.

Today I'm still on the barn, but getting things ready for construction, and now i am getting a drawing done with levels so that they can start excavating the land and preparing the platforms. So that's about all i can say for this week, they are just flying past like crazy lately, i don't even remember the week...

till next time
sleezy, cheesy , blogger.
MIMISA

Working at it...

Working hard and quick and getting things done according to deadlines is the name of the game in architecture, but when you have to redo your work all the time because things change is not cool at all. Not to mention all the tech school work that needs to be done on top of that.

After Monday morning meeting which covered the weeks schedule, i was back on the barn to hopefully be finishing off the working drawings and then get onto the main Farmhouse. But things never go as planned and the barn is moving again so all my work goes down the toilet yet again. So we decided to leave any work on the barn until the position is finalised, and i move onto the main house. Most of the week i was going through the eng. drawings and making sure they correspond with ours and changing ours to reflect the eng. construction drawings and cleaning up the details. I then moved on to the electrical plans which were very cool and intense, where i learned new ways of doing electrical layouts and door schedules. I think these new methods are quite effective and work well, and improves the overall drawing.

Anyway so today is Friday and i was back at Oceana site de-snagging once again on my own, but i was only there from 8-ish til past lunch time today, and then i went back to the office to revise a drawing of a boundary wall in camps bay which is still causing problems. That Concluded my week and it was off to the week end were my school/tech work awaits.

till next time
sleesy, cheezy, blogger
MIMISA

Going to Site? Getting Drawings done?...

This week started and ended with long and tirering site visits. The Oceana building that we were working on is now coming to an end and we have been going to site continuously to try and sign the building off and complete the building completions list as soon as possible. We have to work through each floor all the time and check that everything is done and up to scratch. While back at the office lots of work is waiting for me to get back and finish them off. So how do you manage to get office work done when you have to go to site all the time. How do you balance it off? Where do you find time to do both, and pull them off seamlessly?

I was hard at work this week on the Winery proposal and barn drawings for the site in Hermanus, Called Hemelzight. The winery complex we are desighning is the second phase of the complex but when thay are all complete, our complex should resemble a quaint winery village. The Barn is the first phase of the complex and is quite interesting. It is a steel frame construction with tertairy walling with quite interesitng detailing and we are trying to pull it off with all low cost materials and goood architecture....

till next time
sleezy, cheesy, blogger
MIMISA

Barn and Proposed Winery and Resturant Relocation...

Moving a brick out of a solid wall, and then trying to put it back again, That is what this feels like. The Client and the landscape architect decide to move the barn to a differant location on the site so all of our drawings need to change and we need to move the model in Revit to that side of the site to have correct contours and site sections.

Its is almost impossible to do, like moving an already build house, all in Revit. But we are getting it right slowly, there is just alot of recon to do, and fixing of drawings, but i am learning alot on revit through trial and error, in doing the most strangest things. The New development causing this big change is the incorporation of the winery and tasting venue over-looking the vineyards. The designing of this is really interesting and i am helping in the design process and doing some research on other good examples in the WC. It is a very interesting project and we hope to get it published once we are done.... :-)...

till next time
sleezy, cheesy, blogger
MIMISA