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.

Tuesday 18 September 2007

Frames and session3

Session3 which was meant to be held yesterday had to be rescheduled for today, as my car had to be serviced and the clay was inside…

Yesterday was nevertheless important as we finally managed to meet the contractor and get a go ahead with the plans to organize for the move in. Let’s just hope that he keeps his part of the deal!

Today I visited the site early on and the poles for the roof where all up, and all we need now is to brace them properly! The frames Tau was making around the windows look good, and I can only wait until he does them in the courtyard.

The panels’ session went really well, today we used forks to make the patterns, the result was much better than the others. We now have close to 100 panels and we still have a few more bags of clay…

Tomorrow I will go back to help the children to make more, but I still need to finish to organize for the weeks I will be away.
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