Submission Progress Mark 1

Please send mail with link to your portfolio to voulgarelish@cput.ac.za Make the title of the mail YOUR NAME PM1. Will accept until 10:00 tomorrow. Good luck!

Willie Bester!

What a wonderful presentation today! Thanks everybody for really taking part and making it a special meeting.

Sub Tropical

See new info under project 2 page.

Sub Tropical Site

There is also a link that you can click for better views, please let me know if you still have trouble seeing the contours, note that the DARK contours are at 5m intervals and the LIGHT GREY ones at 1m intervals. http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AdLgd_VXfCf-ZGdiNDdtZjdfM2czem1yeGZ0&hl=en

and this one shows the whole site: http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B9Lgd_VXfCf-YTc0MTE0ZDUtMjExMy00NGUzLWFkOTktZGFjMzhjNTdjYTNm&hl=en

Pages 3

Ok, so I found out that the pages are only for STATIC info, so please keep on reading the Home page for latest info. Will add other info to the pages, project brief etc. Keep watching.

Pages follow up

It seems that I can only add one post to each page, but will keep on experimenting, see test under project 2

Pages

Ok, clearly I have discovered how to add pages, but have no idea how to add new posts to each page! Please help if you have the answer!

Nina Martitz

For the Desert Dwellers - read this Nina Maritz article
www.buildnet.co.za/akani/2004/nov/pdfs/SB042.pdf

For Monday

Build a site model on which you place your first idea model - this will be very helpful, since both sites have considerable slopes on them.

new pages added

Please see the new links at the top of the page. To organise our info better, all info will be added per project. So see under Project 2 new posts.

Mark weightings for 2010

Please note how the marks work for 2010

Progress 1: 5%

Progress 2: 15%

Progress 3: 35%

Progress 4: 45%

Plascon info

No link to the movie clip - it is just too big and mostly an ad. Here however are two booklets in PDF that might be useful which they also gave to us.

http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B9Lgd_VXfCf-ZDkxZGQzOTAtOGYxYi00ODM1LThjNzYtMjQwNDI2NzMxN2E1&hl=en

http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B9Lgd_VXfCf-ZmNmZjk3MjItNGU5OS00ZThkLTlmMWQtNGQxNWQ2NjAxYzlm&hl=en

Google earth co-ords for Windhoek site

22°26'45.09"S
17° 4'53.10"E

Approximate size erf - scale on AutoCAD from the 35

More info Sub Tropical

Sup Tropical
1. Building lines
Street = 5500
Sides = 2000
Water edge = 2000

2. Boardwalks are allowed on the waters edge as well as something like a “jetty”
3. Coverage = 60%
4. Bulk = 2
5. Sewerage – only septic tanks, no municipal connection
6. Electricity – Eskom available but renewable energy preferred

The google earth co-ordinates are 28*39’44.72”S en 31*56’18.36”E - the star is the degrees.

More Windhoek Info

Desert
1. Building lines
Street = 5000
Sides = 1500

North is up on the drawing you got, the erf number is 80 and the other number on the drawing is the size of the erf. Contours are in 1m intervals, rising from the road side - in other words getting higher to the south.

Sub Tropical

Please note this development has not yet been released to the public and information regarding it is for academic purposes only.

Site diagram Windhoek

http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B9Lgd_VXfCf-Y2E3N2UwNmItOWM1ZS00YThjLWExOTgtMmNmN2VjYzBmYTYz&hl=en

Sub Tropical Info

See photos and site diagram - whole development plus reference to specific erf at http://picasaweb.google.com/principlesofad/SubTropical?feat=directlink

Info on Desert Climate

See photos of the Windhoek site at http://picasaweb.google.com/principlesofad/DesertClimate?feat=directlink

Online portfolio site

As discussed today, find a link to the CARBONMADE website where you can build you own portfolio.

http://www.carbonmade.com/

Hand in yesterday

What a wonderful hand in yesterday! The quality of the presentations was exeptional! Congratulations to those of you that got "outcomes achieved". For those that did not get "outcomes achieved" it could mostly be contributed to incompleteness. We hope that you could see the value in building so many models and how it helped the process.

Work for Monday 8 March

In groups of two you must prepare a PowerPoint presentation. It must have a maximum of 20 slides. You must print out the presentation in black and white and bring it also on a flash disk or cd. Make sure it works! Meet in at 10:00 in room 2c on Monday 8 March.

Climatic study
(Basic information available at Carleen in the printing room, you must also find your own.)

Use diagrams, pictures and words to compare the following two climatic regions: The sub-tropical area of St Lucia in Kwazulu Natal and the desert area of Windhoek in Namibia. Your must look at least at the following:
• Characteristics of the climate, for example rainfall, sun exposure, winter, summer, temperature etc.
• How it influences the form of a building for optimal sustainable design.
• Find suitable architectural precedent. The precedent must have been built after 1990, published in an architectural magazine and not a vernacular building.

Functional study
The book, Great Spaces: Flexible Homes is available at Bongiwe at reception for use for half an hour per group. You may scan images at the scanner at reception.

Compare your current living situation/s with an example from the book. With diagrams, pictures and words, describe similarities and/or differences by looking at least at:
• Space for sleeping
• Space for cooking/eating
• Space for bathing/ablution
• Space for working/studio

Enjoy!