11/8/21-11/12/21 AXP Hours: 16 hours Time Worked: 16 hours Tasks Performed:  window and door schedule    Lessons Learned:  This was my last week of work so I spent most of my time coordinating with Alicia about where I was and how to transition drawings back over to her. My last day of work was cool […]

11/1/21-11/5/21 AXP Hours: 16 hours Time Worked: 16 hours Tasks Performed:  elevations     Lessons Learned:  I am working on the window schedule this week. I have never done one before so I’ve learned a lot in a very short period of time. We are trying to get the windows ordered as soon as possible because […]

10/25/21-10/29/21 AXP Hours: 16 hours Time Worked: 16 hours Tasks Performed:  elevations     Lessons Learned:  I spent most of the week getting the elevations ready for the DRB. I had to go back and fix the floor heights. Initially, I was nervous about this task. I thought it would involve redoing most of the work […]

10/18/2021-10/22/2021 AXP Hours: 16 hours Time Worked: 16 hours Tasks Performed: working on Godley elevations for the Sullivan’s Island DRB, rendering a new classroom pavilion for the the Center for Birds of Prey     Lessons Learned:  I spent this week tweaking elevations before we send a drawing set to the DRB. I had the […]

10/11/2021-10/15/2021 AXP Hours: 16 hours Time Worked: 16 hours Tasks Performed: working on side elevations for the Sullivan’s island DRB, as-built drawings laying out piers on the ground floor, model for Birds of Prey renderings    Lessons Learned:  This week we made headway finishing drawings to move along the permit process. Demo on the house […]

10/4/2021-10/8/2021 AXP Hours: 16 hours Time Worked: 16 hours Tasks Performed: moving the stairs to the side of the house instead of the back; starting a rendering for the Birds of Prey center   Lessons Learned:  I continued work on the stairs of the Godley renovation for most of the week. I still have to tweak […]

9/27/21-10/01/21 AXP Hours: 16 hours Time Worked: 16 hours Tasks Performed: further developing plans and elevations  Lessons Learned:  I continued work on accommodating the clients desire for a side stair entry on the back porch. The stairs are taking forever but I am finally getting faster at making sure they can work in a given […]

9/20/21-9/24/21   AXP Hours: 16 hours Time Worked: 16 hours Tasks Performed: make changes to exterior finishes on the elevations, figured out back porch staircase, added notes to elevations  Lessons Learned: This week I continued working on the Sullivan’s Island residence renovation. I started to set up sheets and edit the window and door schedule. […]

AXP Hours: 16 hours Time Worked: 16 hours Tasks Performed: worked on setting up PowerCADD on separate computers; Godley side elevations Lessons Learned: Our office uses PowerCADD for all of our drawings. As many in the architecture community already know, the drafting software PowerCADD is no longer being updated to accommodate the latest Mac operating […]

Alicia and I discussed how budget influences architectural praxis. The topics we covered led to three ethical questions/circumstances:  How do you develop a budget with a client that considers what the client wants to spend money on and the realistic costs of building? There are circumstances where a client prioritizes certain aspects of the project […]