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.

Wednesday 9 May 2007

Maybe?

“Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t! Maybe you’ll have children maybe you won’t!” Maybe will save the building maybe we won’t!

The fact that the bricks bellow the DPC are actually concrete might give us the option that by building a retaining, “L” shaped, wall (using the existing as lost shuttering) will save what has been done up to now… It would mean big costs and time savings.

I’m going to discuss this with the engineer (Unfortunately his only available on Sunday) and see what can be done…

But in the mean time, maybe “We’ll build a playground, maybe we won’t!”

The Sketch design for the QEII playground has been drafted and tomorrow I’ll show it to the Clinton Foundation but also to the QEII Superintendent! So if he is a man of his word, soon we might be putting this playground up!

Keep your fingers cross for both these projects!
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