ESSAY - 21 September

19 September

Since my last post, things in the office has been busy as usual.  I took over on a small design that my boss made for Landbou school, for new locker rooms that they wanted next to their rugby fields. It contains 2 locker rooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 showers and a room with urinals as well as a steel staircase on the side and a steel roof that covers an area above the locker rooms on the first floor for spectators to watch rugby.  Louis, the other boss also went to Onrus on during a weekend to measure up an existing building which a client has recently bought.  The house isn't in the best of shape and was hard to draw out the base drawings for a building you haven't been to, other than seeing photos of it.  When I finished with the base drawings, one of the senior architects in the office took over to complete the council drawings.  In the mean time 2 of my plans that I drew up for council submission has been approved without having to be re-submitted, I was pleased to hear that.  We also went to go measure up in a factory area just outside Cape Town, where they want to make changes to the facade of the building, and went to another 3 sites in Paarl to go measure up.  I had the responsibility of drawing out the plan by hand quickly to write the measurements on.  My latest project is an office layout for UDEC offices in Van Der Sluys properties, the plans are currently with the clients to discuss weather they are happy with the plans or if they want to make small changes.  This project helped me understand more about ceilings, since there are a couple of bulkheads and recesses in the ceiling for downlighters etc.  Life in the office is going good though, haven't had any problems so far.  Just starting to learn that the grown up life style of getting up early every morning to work till 5, isn't as easy as it sounds 0_o but I'll survive :)