Up! Up! And away…

March 9th at 9pm I will fly out and the mission will begin. As a case study for finishing my diploma at FAUP (Porto Architectural School), I've decided to volunteer and join A4A (Architects for Aid) in one of their humanitarian architecture projects. The projected on which I've been assigned is the construction of the LCCU (Lesotho Children Counseling Unit) centre in Lesotho. The building has been halted and an assessment, survey and new proposal and program will be drawn up in order that the building might finish to be built. Once this is completed a second trip will be organized and I'll be overseeing the building on site. The objective of this blog is to keep record of the work that is being done, both for the benefit of the members of A4A in London, FAUP to whom I'll also be reporting, my own record as well as friends and family that might want to know what I'm up to. Please comment on any post that you have an opinion, as this will undoubtedly help me in the completion of my thesis. Disclaimer: The information displayed on this site has not been previously edited or checked by any A4A staff and I'm the sole responsible for it's contents. A4A or any of the other involved organizations are not to be hold responsible on any account for what is published on this blog.

Thursday 19 April 2007

water?

No luck today!

We spent all our day fishing for water but with no luck!

After hours of work with stones, sticks and other metals parts, Baba and I were forced to give up and decide that it wouldn’t be today that we would find out how deep our borehole is! We’ll try again tomorrow!

After that I met the 4 students that will be helping me out in the design of Lydia’s new house. I wrote helping me out but I should have written, that I’ll be helping out! They all looked eager to do it and on Saturday we’ll be visiting the site all together so that they star to have a feeling for it.

Then probably next Thursday we will start the design phase… The Architectural students are busy until then. I’ll try and go and sit through their final crit session on that same Thursday!
Not only will it be interesting but instructing!

Tomorrow is the all important meeting with the bank! Let’s see how it goes! If all happened as hoped, Monday we’ll be on site!
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