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.
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It will get better
The roof guy showed up early this morning and the structure has now been changed to what it should have been from the start.
Later in the day I returned to the site to meet Ntate Linakane and I noticed that there was a problem with the screed between the girls’ bedroom and the toilet. If I had been here to control the screeding of the floors they would have been screed at different heights to avoid water going from the bathroom to the room, but this didn’t happen and it seems we will have to cut a gully to avoid this from happening.
Not the end of the world but yet another (small) problem.
The setting out of the steps went well and they should be cast during the weekend. Thatcher moving fast and that is what we need.
The roof guy showed up early this morning and the structure has now been changed to what it should have been from the start.
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