Wednesday, July 25, 2012

THE YEAR 2012 @ JAKUPA

the more I get work is the more I get a proper understanding and the meaning of my profession, being given more responsibilities gives more strength and it motivates me and I thank the Jakupa Architects and Urban Designers for taking good care of me and trusting me.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

14 - 18 november 2011

did amendments from athlone & swellendam councils for two houses that i am busy doing which is house naran - athlone and house abdullah - swellendam . updated the jakupa database and the registration including the photoshop training for the jakupa bragwall of the completed projects in the company's boardroom.

6-11 november 2011

started from where i stopped before the block going to council for council submissions @ athlone & cape town media city and site visits and on the 10 november it was my birthday bought cake for the office they sang and it was a celebration an dfriday had fripro that was presented by one of my collegues.

31 october - 04 november 2011

- monday attended revision class for the abs final exams.
- tuesday with top stairs group doing the base of the decking, digging and compact filling the wholes.
- wednesday continuing with the top stairs footings and compact fill the last footings of the whole decking.
- thursday finishing up the decking using the palettes timbers for top of the decking and the stairs leading to the main structure (pergola) and did the whole process of the garden with the landscaper did the first lasagne bed showing the teachers of the school the whole process and planted the half of the first bed of the vegetables and half done the middle bed as the school was going to be finishing off the whole process.
- friday - cleaned up the gardening area -collecting everything that was untidy around the garden alone. preparing for the handing over of the site , the most maraculous moment of the handing over was when the children where hand printing the wall.

friday the 28 th and the saturday the 29th

- friday attended abs class/revision for the exams.
-saturday it was the continuation of the site work while were busy finishing of the painting of the beams

24-28 OCTOBER 2011

- manday & tuesday the whole class was @ thomas pattullo everything started a bit chilling & slowly and for the first day we were briefly told what was the whole block all about & on the 2nd day wrote two tests (stw&ctd)
-wednesday paid a visit to the greenpoint park did some sketches of the structures, joints connection and shown everything has now changed from wayback were by domes were built with bamboo and joined with animal skin straps and covered with animal skins /canvases and now in nowadays they are built with steel columns,beamsand joined with bolts and steel plates and supported with concrete footing instead of rocks and big stones and some of the spaces have suspended roofs as symbol of walkways & and seating areas.the hub with performance stage, steel bracing.
-thursday went to site for the first time after the january site visit and we were shown what we needed to do firstly we painted the timber beams as a team with one of my group members we prepared sandwiches for the lunch time and after that we continued with some more work while others were busy with the columns concrete footings on the site and knocked of @ 15h30.