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.

Friday, 3 August 2007

The mystery of the rotating house

A note on another project, but something that I feel that I should not go without mentioning… Work at Lydia’s new site has started, in the end the contractor that was not awarded the job got this new one (I’m really happy that we choose the one we did). But although the workmanship is not great I still cannot understand why her house has rotated 90 degrees and is now nowhere near the site!

It upset me because not only I had made my best to make the house as rationale as possible but I had all the time the constraint of keeping the curved walls as a memory of the old house, but now that it is facing south/west I cannot see what is the point of having done so. Good luck to them but a house can not just be rotated and sat on any old site…
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