04-Jan 18

woke up at 7am, had a breakfast of cereal with milk and headed to office. The bus came a little later than usual today. The day passed fast with the morning focusing on BB. regarding placement of the community garden, the current proposed location near the HDB wouldn't work as it was not going to be accessible to majority of the users. Very clever design of the hill, in which the main accessway is 1:0.8 at 100m which is the allowable 1m rise per 12m run, while the other side access is 1:1.6 at approx 50m height. Also for the electrical substation, the portal structure as it was non-structural the direction was for the engineer to structuralise it, so as to make it intergral for its existance, as compared to something totally superficial. n a quicktime lunch discussion on someone coming to check the greenmark. For a construction permit to proceed, either one ST or AR drawings has to be in place. and correspondingly only ST elements (eg: columns, beam) are allowed to commence, wheras AR elements ( like walls) should or should not be allowed to. In Mies, Barcelona pavilion, it was mentioned that walls are to divide a space, and columns to support. And at the end, sometimes it seems to be finding different ways to arrive at the same conclusion. End product is always needs to be Cost- effective, efficient, dual purpose.