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.

Thursday, 17 January 2008

Glass, gates and poles

Trying to coordinate the little bits that are still missing you sometimes realize that you still need to redesign a few things…

After meeting with the electricians yesterday, today was dedicated to the steelworks and the lightning conductors. All went well, but I realized that with all the amendments that this building has had, the security gates that I was going to ask them to make were actually bigger than the openings! Ops… So back to the drawing board, and now it’s all sorted out again!

With the lightning conductors all has been agreed and in the next week we should actually start to install them.

The rain kept away until this evening and that is clearly good news as the roof is almost done now! And with the Glass being fitted already it is really starting to look good.
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