House Koopman 13/03: Layout and Elevations

2012-04-22

"The Chronicles of Office War" has come to an end....

So after the big fall out on Monday, I decided that I will just have to prove to my boss that I am working hard. So Wednesday and Thursday I really pushed hard with work in order to show him that I am working. I called council to check progress on all his drawings which had not yet been approved, I checked where they are through the process of it being approved, I organised all his meetings for him, set out all his submissions did the printing, coloured council submissions set out the forms for him to fill out finished all my work and did more than required. I got all his SG diagrams in advance, and backed up all the work for the week and did not mess up one message for him And sent off emails to clients he did not have time to do. I also drew up a drawing requirements list for me and Ashley so we don't forget any fundamental parts of the drawing. Thursday I the stamp of approval and he said he was really proud that I put in such a lot of effort to catch up with the work. That was the good part of my week....

"The Downfall"

On my way to tech Friday, all ready for my crit, the car broke down, it was a big problem and I was stuck for awhile without a lift to tech. I feel really bad because of the turnout of students who came and I feel I let the lecturers down as well because I informed them that I would be there and I did not pitch. So now I have some more making up to do so I have to make sure my hand-in for Thursday is more than required,

In the mean time I updated my PSS portfolio, my dropbox account and password is in my PSS page on my blog so feel free to please check it out and leave some comments I'm still busy working on my images so that you dont have to go through to my dropbox account. will have that done soon!

2012-04-17

Today I took off sick, it has nothing to do with my horrible day yesterday, my boss was really disappointed in me because... wait for it....... while he was out he asked me to draw up an existing house and design the new extension, naturally I drew up two concepts and he did not like them because it was not what he would have done. So because of that he sees me as a failure I suppose, oh well, I cant read minds, I told him if he want me to draw up his exact work he should brief me correctly before hand so while his out of office as usual I know what to do. I'm starting to call it "The Chronicles of Office War".... part 1... although I cannot deny the fact that I am learning so much so when his in office and in a mood I whip out my earphones to keep the piece and annoy him abit.. payback! hahaha

I should comment on the work I have been doing so far, most of all I'm doing all extensions to houses, which is alot! all by myself my boss checks it, new or complicated drawings he does plans for and I do the sections and elevations, I know how to send off emails to get SG diagrams and how to calculate cape feet, degrees, minutes and seconds, inches and feet (I have to admit I did not know how to do this previously) and most drainage layouts. There was one drainage layout that I could not do which as a double storey house with a second drainage run. I think that disappointed my boss abit as well, and the fact that he says I still forget some things on my drawings, but for me I find it hard to understand for example: a factory that I have no plans for and no images, but he expects me to be rotating and mirroring machines I have no idea what they even are used for or how they look in real life. Theses things get really confusing and he doesn't understand that I need to learn still I'm nowhere near his level, obviously, anyway I guess I'm at fault. One thing he is right about is that I am still taking too slow to finish a drawing, I'll take about two days to draw up municipal and working drawings for a house extension from plan when I should be doing it in one day. I am working on it though, and to properly analyse his drawings so I don't forget anything anymore.

I'm updating my pss page today and going to try and update some more pages so please feel free to have a look and drop some comments...

I'll be at tech friday hope I see some of our class mates.

2012-04-02

Since I've last blogged work has been going okay, boss is always out of office, so I'm doing most of the work then he just checks it, people at council are asking why I'm not bringing in the plans anymore, at the moment I am covering most aspects of a project, but the work is spread out between projects, for example: I could start up one plan then I'll have to leave it and do drainage on a different drawing because there is so much different projects to get out, and we have to finish whatever is more important at the time.So I have to do a lot of jumping around between work, which is really tiring and a bit annoying because one minute I am adding a garage to one plan then i jump to an elevation on another plan and add a garage when the client really needed a bedroom hahaha! but its really forcing me to look at drawings and fully understand them which is a good thing for me, I've also started editing notes myself and have to do research on latest products which my boss finds interesting.

I've finished my first proposal for a private job, I had to design an additional front foyer/front pergola to a church in lotus river, they wanted me to design a very complicated roof structure which i drew up for them, along with my own idea for the church which would be more cost effective and required less skillful labour, and the clients choose to use my design instead, which was really cool.

I'm busy at the moment designing a shelter in retreat, it was difficult at first because I could not get the proper site area as the plot is subdivided, into three plots and not one angle is 90 degrees so I'm teaching myself minute seconds and hours on plans at the moment 

But, yes, thats whats happening in office at the moment i'll try and upload some images soon.