26/02/2012

First trip to council (",)

So this week my boss tells me to take his car and submit some plans at council... JUST LIKE THAT! haha I had to tell him that I do not have my drivers license yet, but he was kind enough to take me there and not tell me what to do at all! I was so nervous my 1st council visit took place at the Athlone branch, and I had to submit house renovations. I didn't even work on so they were asking me questions about the design and i had no idea how to answer! It was quite embarrassing but this one guy,Phillip, helped me out, his in charge of quoting the plans and giving you the scrutiny fee, the renovations came to over 3000 i could not believe it poor clients. He also showed me all the tricks on how to lower your scrutiny costs which I found sweet.

Back at the office my boss got my sort of supervisor, Ashley Baker to teach me how to do 3D's on sketch up and one of the guys working for him Clement is helping me with Revit, so things are going well still they like teaching me things, we fight a lot though I've had a lot of death threats i'm trying to ignore those

Mishaal and I visited Greenpoint park again yesterday it was really fun, so

I'll be starting up my final drawing now for submission on Friday wish me luck!

17/02/2012

This is my first date titled blog

By now I managed to finish my first week of permanent internship (if you could consider internship permanent). This week we started an apartment building , Grotto Mews which my boss gave to me as a little challenge as I would love to design apartments one day, I have also completed two house renovations which is now ready to go in to council, who I still need to familiarize myself with...

Worst part of my week has got to be Wednesday, when it took me almost two hours trying to find out progress on a BOUNDARY WALL so annoying!

Best part of the week was my boss being really impressed with my organizing skills, his glad I could help out with the admin. as well. Another interesting thing was my first site visit, we are busy designing a school for underprivileged children I'm excited about that! My co-worker, and previous B-tech student, Ashleigh Baker is busy with the design at the moment, as well as doing his own building job, he doesn't  want to draw anymore I wonder why?    

Anyway that's basically my life at the moment hope everyone enjoys their weekend, I'm planning to!

New Beginnings...

Today  I found out that I officially got the job!

I am now working for Barry Abrahams, BMA Architects in Crawford my boss and co-workers are really so friendly and inspiring. They also encourage me to do my own private work which is great! They helping me all the way. Not to mention the fact that we are loaded with work at the moment, so things are really tough but I'm giving it my best, today I finished my first project, and it is currently with the client, so I'm kind of nervous, hope he signs it off!

About the party it was really something! hahahaha it was a lot of fun except I was sooo nervous, anyway here is a pic of my dress if anyone wants to see:) I'm really actually looking forward to some tech work though!

My First Blog Post.. Ever!

So I was thinking about things to say since this blogging thing is completely new to me...

I thought about uploading a picture of our first project which is to design and model an origami garment. I would say that my design idea is to exaggerate women's natural curves, and play around with heights and widths seeing that the aim of the project is to explore your own bodies anthropometrics and then change your body shape while still remaining comfortable. But I didn't consider the fact that the garments main function is to have some sort of movement, so I'm currently busy finalising my new design, so watch this space...

Another thing I could mention is that besides all the drama about the Saturday class, our Community Hub Project was quite fun and we received some useful insight about our group project. I hope that the individual part goes well too.

I have found a job but unfortunately my potential employer cannot tell me when I will be able to start, as he is currently moving his office so I have been advised to look elsewhere which I am currently doing, so wish me luck!

What I can say is that our first academic block was quite a success, and that I have successfully set up an online portfolio its very basic at the moment still has some of the default settings but its on its way! the site is guylainedavids.yolasite.com, I have also linked it to my blog profile if you prefer the shortcut!