Rehoboth Family and Community Centre

SITE VISIT

19 OCTOBER 2014

Today we had a progress presentation with the church family. George and I had a quick visit on site where we explained briefly how far we are in the group design progress for their new building.

When we arrived we saw that there was a bit of progress on site of their own regarding the buildings, a few things changed. The caravans was moved to form a courtyard effect to the day care, in a way to create a more private space for the children, secondly they fixed window frames to the wall structure surrounding their class rooms.

Caravans formed in a courtyard shape around the daycare

The window frames installed on the wall

George needed help with the fixing and construction of the gum poles, so he had set up a interactive workshop where the people had a chance to show us their various skills regarding the construction of gum poles. There was small sticks represented as the gum poles, and pieces of string and wire with which they could fix the sticks.

George preparing for his workshop

The presentation and workshop set up on the table for the people to have a look

The presentation of the groups design progress

Nkhensani helped to translate

We suggest gum poles for the main structure of the church, and the main focus of the site visit was for us to see how they would connect the gum poles together if they were given the chance. We learned a few very interesting techniques that George can adapt into his construction design. Interestingly enough, it was the weaving techniques of two girls (Nomasonto and Kgothatso) that caught George's attention and instantly found inspiration for his next iteration.