Weekly Update

This week I worked extensively on completing the Wesley Road council submissions.

The pressure is on. 4 days to complete everything. Our architect had to purchase the new NBS documents at an insane cost of R2400, to ensure that the timber frame structure's specification met the new council requirements.
This being done, the new first floor structure and staircase could be drawn up accurately with no guess work involved. And so after completely resolving the plans and sections, there was one day left before the client came to sign, and I managed to draw up all of the elevations, roof structure plan, site plan, notes, legends and annotations all in the few hours left before signing. "Looking good," was the comment I recieved. No tweaks, no adjustments, a job well done. I am very happy.

All was left to do after signing was coloring, and that didn't take too long. The weekend is a more than welcome reward after this busy week.

Gaul regatta results

We achieved an overall result of 2nd place in the regatta, and 1st in our division - so we have won provincial championships for this class.

Our great performance has earned us silver and gold medals, as well as a spot on board for national championships in September.

Now all that awaits a long week of work and studies.

Weekly Update & Gaul regatta

This week started off with Wesley Road's council submission. That beig said, the week is also ending short for me due to the public holiday and sailing regatta being held from then to the weekend. Racing starts tomorrow in the cold and wet, and my crew and I have to finish in 1st place of 35. Wish us luck.

Weekly Update

This week I continued with drawing up the existing building on the Wesley Road site, but even though we took accurate measurements the party wall which is theoretically on the boundary does not fall on it. Another shrot site visit would fix that. I proceeded with sketch plans which were presented to the client and immediately after that meeting we were heading in the right direction. The client is pressing on this project and wants to see more developed plans with proper construction, roof and layouts by this morining, so our architect has taken the project into his hands, giving us some time to prepare our submissions for the 10th June. Hence I am still awake fighting with my PDF creator on my new 2nd hand pc, which insists to create only .MDI files and not .PDF's, and Issuu which is taking hours to render my publications after upoading them. I may have to convert and upload upon arriving at work in the morning.

Weekly Update

The moment we all dread. All of Princess Road's drawings need to be re-tweaked. The Engineer's plans had to be abided by to the millimeter. This included drawing his upstand beams in the sections and the narrowly spaced columns. The developers asked for the staircase to come back by several steps to accomodate for Bobcrete's panels, looks fine on plan, but in section the headroom is half that of regulations and the roof could not be raised as we were already at the height restriction. The staircase had to remain as it was and the engineer would have to tend to the first floor, cantilevered walkway and basement layout.

Weekly Update

After avoiding/neglecting Princess Road's drawings due to lack of communication and impossible demands from the developers, it was time for the pressure to be on with Princess Road. Firstly, the corrected grid lines were imported and the adjustments were made to every drawing thereafter, a week long process.

Weekly Update

On Monday, Miller Road's tender drawing got printed and I got assigned to do some concept drawings for a new project. This was really difficult, I am not a big fan of concept drawings... After much trying, our architect introduced me to the art of simple, yet exremely effective concept sketches. He sketched his ideas in 3D and that opened my eyes to the real world, breaking away from the 2D screen I had been working on.

Weekly Update

This week the crunch continues as the pressure is on for Miller Road. The Patio braai had to be redesigned and after a short site visit we found that the boundary wall was on the wrong side of the boundary line and a 200mm reduction had to be made to all of the drawings. After tweaking every single related drawing (all), we had some time to color up Kenridge's council printouts and did some tweaks to Princess Road's basement and site plan.
Friday the 13th! And its my best friend's birthday, time to give him his birthday present from my hard worked wages.

Weekly Update

After the long much needed break, we are all back at work with great enthusiasm. The workload had caught up to us during our time off and we have tackled it head on. With Miller Road's tender deadline only two weeks away, they needed to be tweaked to perfection as for the builder's to give accurate quotations. No mistakes can be left on the drawings and nothing can be left out.

Weekly Update, Western Cape Sailing Championships

After competing in the South African Sailing Westren Cape Provincial Championships in Saldanha Bay, I have come down with pneumonia and bronchitis accompanied by returning asthma. The doctor has put me off for a full week. I am barely strong enough to sit at my desk but, Duty Calls. Mostly I am confined to reading in bed,

This week we worked extensively on completing Miller Road's drawings. 1:10 detail drawings of the sections were required to correctly show the correct desired construction methods and technology/materials to be used. The roof detail also required ammendments as the specification of the roof had changed from tiles to sheeting and a specification had to be added to the legend to clarify the drawings.

Weekly Update

Miller Road tender drawings and documentation: complete. From monday to thursday this was our biggest task.
Thursday's online skype crit was brilliant, just discussing a problem cleared up all of the questions I had about the hub without even having to ask them.
Friday involved Princess Road again, with the Structural Engineer's drawings we could continue using correct grid lines and dimensions. All of the units were to be made exactly the same to the millimeter and the plans were to be ready for presentation on Sunday. Kenridge is now complete and the drawings have been colored up for council submission.

Form, Space and Order: F. Ching

Architecture

Hub submission 08.04.2011

Community hub interim submission 3: http://issuu.com/yusufsampson/docs/hub_08042011

NB: submission time -  10:45am

Regards,

Yusuf

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Weekly Update

This week started off with work on Princess road as a new sketch was recieved from the client, wanting new staircase and attic layouts. After a paintball tournament on the weekend, I was extremely tired and needed a few days to recover. I also made revisions to Duckitt Avenue, a small misunderstanding fused two phases, so I had to seperate the drawing into two phases again to show the client what they are currently paying for and the extra that they are asking for.

Then I got taught the essence of concept drawing. Our architect stressed that every tech student wants to be too technical in the beginning, and thereafter taught me concept drawing. An invaluable lesson learned that I will use in my present projects and for the rest of my life. I then produced a set of concept drawings for 2nd Avenue.


The structural engineer sent a drawing for Princess Road: it lacked information and it lacked a section so without wasting large amounts of time deciphering his empty looking drawing we contacted him for a more detailed set of drawings. And our current rider plans for princess road must be adjusted to meet the engineer's specifications once the new drawings are recieved.

PSS submission 04.04.2011

PSS interim submission 1: http://issuu.com/YusufSampson/docs/pss_submission_1

NB: submission time - 7:15pm


Comments: could not submit at work and submitted upon arriving home.

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Regards,

Yusuf

Weekly Update

This week I was faced with new tasks involving making changes to the first floor layout of a 9 unit set of apartments on Princess Road in Claremont. Each unit consisted of a: ground floor, first floor, and an attic.
I was also given the task of designing a new layout for another new block of apartments, in 2nd Ave Claremont, and sketches upon sketches on various pages of tracing paper left no conclusion but many ideas. This I worked on in between the more pressing jobs like revisions to Duckitt Ave's plans and roof plan and Princess Road's layouts.
I also started answering the phone this week and took important messages from clients for our architect.

Weekly Update

This week I concluded the schedules for Miller Road, and thereafter our Architect had picked out and tweaked one of my five sketch layouts for Duckitt Avenue.
The selected layout kept the linear kitchen but made the laundry/scullery and utility room more workable with plenty of storage, circulation and access to outside. It also moved the wine cellar away from the external wall, providing a cooler environment. The domestic workers room became larger but the bathroom smaller as a shower would be used rather than a bath.
So my layouts were good, the only things that were tweaked were the positions of shelves and the like. I added the applicable drainage to the plan and ammended the roof plan to correspond with the extended entrance hall.
All in all a good week at work.

Weekly Update

This week I produced schedules for Miller Road. window, door, and finishing schedules as well as a handrail detail. After that I assisted in designing a very linear area which needed many rooms (kitchen/scullery/utility/wine cellar/maids room/bathroom/wc) for Lincoln Road.

Hub submission 18.03.2011

Community hub interim submission 2: http://issuu.com/yusufsampson/docs/hub_18032011

NB: submission time - 11:49am

Regards,

Yusuf

Open publication - Free publishing - More design