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.

Monday 18 June 2007

The saga continues…

Not much of an improvement last night with the curfew… a Peace Corp car was in the wrong place at the wrong time and got hi-jacked! But the police was near and managed to reclaim the car shortly after but not before being greeted with a free round of bullets! (maybe from the guns that were stolen from the military before)

But the saga I was referring to was Lydia’s house, I went there today with Baba and Molope to finalize the “needs” brief! It is now done and Molope will work on it and I will supervise it. In the end when we arrived all she wanted us to do was to mirror the plan… Sometimes I don’t know!

When we were there they were making an inventory of the contents of the container, but it seems that once they got it all out, not everything would “fit back inside”.

I had news from the site and the 2 slabs that I had promised for today will only be cast tomorrow as we run into a little shortage of crushed stone, which has already been dealt with, but which caused the concrete pouring to stop earlier today.

Tomorrow Linakane will take my details to the roof specialists and hopefully I will have some feedback!

I also visited today the school for the blind, an interesting building, to see if there was anything that could be done to help out with their football pitch… It is in appalling condition, a real death trap. I’ll will try and contact the FA in the UK and the IBSA for some help on designing one, so that in August when Suzie and her friends arrive they can start work on it.
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