BORN

BORN

13 April 2006, 8:46 am
Filed under: architecture, comics, construction, Mouche, RC walls, site diary

'Hit the ground running', I've been advised. So let's plonk you right into the middle of it. Relax. You've read this kind of tale before. The backstory will unfold in a quirky non-linear way to tease and (hopefully) delight. So let's start with today. Today is the first day of the rest of this blog.

All the walls of the ground floor will be made of Reinforced Concrete. They'll be 3.3m tall and poured into wooden forms. The planks making up the formwork will leave a wood-grained imprint on the finished walls. The tricky part is that we have to lay all the electrical conduits in the formwork already, as it obviously won't be an option to hack these walls later to put in switches and powerpoints. We had to do a lot of planning (and imagining) of what appliances and gadgets we would like to plug in where! The electrical plan ended up being this beautiful thing with multi-coloured lines like the London Tube Map… I'd post an image if only I knew how…

All through the site visit, Mouche (our 16 month old Labrador Retriever) sniffed around the bent nails and broken boards strewn all over the place, ending her inspection with a dive into the very-incomplete fishpond. Hmm, shouldn't post this. I've probably broken some building by-law or exposed myself to action from the SPCA now. The dog wasn't hurt, okay? She had FUN!

(If you haven't guessed, I'm a lawyer.)

Speaking of which, work calls. More shall be revealed soon. There's a method to this madness, I assure you. Alternatively, I might just keep writing along this vein.

“It’s a strange world.”
“Let’s it keep it that way.”

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