My experience during week four at Synchronicity Land + Architecture. Weekly hours : 16 | Total hours: 48

 Monday. 9.14.20

• Continued working on Mungo Homes – Merrill Gardens Construction Documents and DRB and reformatting drawings sets. Changed dimensions, fixed floor plan layouts to match configuration of other drawing sets.
• Sewer maintenance along our street resulted in unpleasant sewer gas trickling into out bathroom. Turns out we have the lowest fixture on the street and as a result the re-pressurizing of the sewer main causes smells to trickle out. Not a fantastic way to start the work week but it was quickly resolved, aired out the office, and helped kickstart a plan to address that issue for the future.

1.75 hrs – General Office – Weekly Meeting, Build Office furniture, Random Office happenings – AXP: Practice Management

2.25  hrs – Mungo Homes | Merrill Gardens –  Construction Documents and DRB | Add. Service 2 – AXP Project Development & Documentation

4 AXP hrs total

Tuesday, 9.15.20

• Continued working on Hunter Quinn Noisette Towns and producing rendered views for the client marketing purposes. Fixed the site plan, updated the building locations in the sketchup model, added ground textures and sky to the views. Packaged as a .pdf for another review.
• Continued working on redlines for Mungo Homes and working to maintain consistency between drawing sets.

.75 hrs – General Office – AXP: Practice Management

2.5 hrs – Hunter Quinn | Noisette Towns –  Graphic Design, rendered views – AXP Project Development & Documentation

.75 hrs – Mungo Homes | Merrill Gardens –  Construction Documents and DRB | Add. Service 2 – AXP Project Development & Documentation

4 AXP hrs total

Wednesday, 9.16.20

• Resumed work on Mungo Homes Redlines!
• Modeled in sketchup some site context and neighboring residence for the Wattroo point residential project. Learned Syncrhonicity modeling styles.
• More minor edits to Noisette Towns model for client’s marketing views.

.25 hrs – General Office – AXP: Practice Management

.75 hrs – Mungo Homes | Merrill Gardens –  Construction Documents and DRB | Add. Service 2 – AXP Project Development & Documentation

1.75 hrs – Hunter Quinn | Noisette Towns –  Graphic Design, rendered views – AXP Project Development & Documentation

1.25 hrs – 44 Watroo Point| V. Residence –  Site Modeling for rendered views – AXP Project Development & Documentation

4 AXP hrs total

 

Thursday, 9.17.20

• Continued working on Merrill Gardens plan changes. Focused on dimensions and keeping up with Ayla and Maddie as they marked up sheets.
• Changed outlines of roof plans, and roof ridges to reflect other buildings. This took quite some some time to check all of the roof plans.

.5  hrs – General Office –  AXP: Practice Management

2.5 hrs – Mungo Homes | Merrill Gardens –  Construction Documents and DRB | Add. Service 2 – AXP Project Development & Documentation

1 hrs – Hunter Quinn | Noisette Towns –  Graphic Design, rendered views – AXP Project Development & Documentation

4 AXP hrs total

 

Friday, 9.18.20

• No work today. Friday’s are flex days for me if I need to make up hours or shift schedule.

 

Reflection:

I think this week has given me the experience of working on projects that have a lot of indecision from clients, or have unforeseen alterations to be made. It isn’t very pleasant spending the time altering all of the construction documents and constantly checking for consistency when the sets were already mostly complete. The projects are important and the work needs doing, and I would be naive to think I would ever have complete control over every project to ensure I am enjoying every aspect of it. At the very least I am sure that there will always be some aspects of projects that just aren’t enjoyable to do, but that’s okay. The end product is worth the time.