Thursday, September 29, 2011

September ending.

This year is just flying past. It almost seems that its speeding up as Christmas is approaching. The FIRM is starting to receive phone calls from prospective 2nd year students and one finds it difficult to believe that practical year is slipping into history.
I had the excellent opportunity to study sustainable designs this week and am excited about implementing those ideas into my own design processes and constructions.
Doing this MIP reasearch project is a watershed moment in my education and I am humbled by the widening of my intelectual horizons.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Exquisite bathrooms & kitchens, or not...

This week at work i had to adjust my mentality to the fact that a stove can cost R127 000.00. No, there are not too many zeros in that figure. It is correct. Insane but, correct.
It is a Lecanche Sully stove and imported from France.
Suppose it must be the Ferrari of Stoves.
Will most likely not see too many of those in the Freedom Park Housing Projects. One of those stoves could fund 4.37 sandbag houses and house up to 30 people. Is it just me?