Working with pencil on a drawing board the old school way is a very
exciting task, because the amount of freedom it offers is limitless. But there
are times when a pencils, or even the sophisticated 3D programmes we used fail
to solve design problems.
The Muizeburg project we are currently busy with on site has hit a
construction problem (or should I say challenge?), that has forced us to stop
our endless clicking and put our pencils aside in order to get down and dirty
in model building. What is the problem? Well, the opposing pitched roofs
require more care than we foresaw. Since the new structure has two blocks of
rooms that sit parallel to each other, with one sitting slightly lower than the
other and the taller one sitting lower than the existing structure, we were
forced to treat the walls on which the roofs go against as parapets.
That meant that we had to physically mock up a construction method
that will leave the clients, the builder and the architect happy. Here is the
model showing the roof relationshop….
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