My 26th week at Stauch & Partners Architects

In my 26th week, (6-10 August) I just went on with the bathroom layouts which were changed constantly and turns out that it took quite some time to draw up properly: which was not very exciting. :-P
I had a site visit on monday (to the site on which's drawings I'm currently working on).  We had a short site talk/ meeting. They had huge excavations going on there to lay the (reinforced concrete) stormwater pipes intended for that area. They are beneath the units and 1200mm in diameter = massive!

My 25th week at Stauch and Partners Architects

The 25th week which was from 30 July to 3 August I just cam back again from our blog date (workshop) in Cape Town. I had to draw up a sliding/folding door detail aswell as a boundary wall detail for the units I've been assisting on the previous few weeks.
I started with bathroom layouts for all five units.

My 24th week at tauch & Partners Architects

In my 24th week (23&24 July) there was not much going on, for me only being in office for Monday and Tuesday. I just went on with drawing detailed sections.

My 23rd week at Stauch & Partners Architects

In my 23rd week (16-20 July) I finished off the first section on Tuesday. I went on a site visit to the units I'm busy working on, on Wednesday. It's all still very slow on site due to the massive earth leveling, which is a 'schlepp' because of all the Maika Stone making it difficult to dig.
The first house was allready as far as slabs being layed and more interestingly the ablution and drainage pipes which I have drawn on the drainage plans, were being layed.
I finished off three detailed sections that week.
On friday we had a cleaning afternoon where we had to clean up and sort out plans and documents in our office.
I also prepared myself for the up comming workshop (blog date).

My 22nd week at Stauch & Partners Architects

In my 22nd week (9-13 July) I finished drawing the Electrical Layouts and printed it out. I got to start with some detailed sections of the same units.

My 21st week at Stauch and Partners Architects

The week was from 2-6 July. In this week I printed out the Drainage plans and one of the drainage plans (Unit 5) was issued to site, which I had to deliver to site.
I started Electrical Layouts for the same units, indicating only sockets, exterior lights, alarm, intercom, internet, telephone line, etc. (basically everything that is installed through the floor or walls)

My 20th week at Stauch and Partners Architects

In my 20th week which was from 25-29th June, I went on working on the Drainage Layouts for the five units. I drew up the drainage sections of the units and indicated the proper sloping/falling of the pipes and manholes. We also had an introduction of the new version of Archicad , "Archicad 16" at the Nice restaurant in Windhoek. It was very interesting to see what they added to the new version and how far they already are. The 3D modeling improved a lot and they also added a new tool called 'morph' tool. But the best part was the introduction was where they added the option of green building settings and the possibilities of the calculations that have to be made when making use of 'green building'. Technology just never really stops, does it? :-)