PROJECT: Ecole la Dignite, Cayes Jacmel,
PROJECT NUMBER: 1013A
FIELD REPORT NUMBER: [5]
DATE: june 13-16
PRESENT: Architect, Contractor, Owner
WEATHER: [hot]
EST % COMPLETION: [38%]
SCHEDULE [+/- days]: -35 ( 35 days behind projected schedule)
WORK IN PROGRESS:
- Filling and Compacting classrooms floor slab
PRESENT AT SITE:
- Masons
- day workers
- Field Engineer
- Vladimir Lacrete BECEI owner
DELIVERIES TO SITE:
- 200 bags of cement
- 1 ton of 12mm rebar
- 2 trucks of sand of 2.5 m^3
- 5 trucks of gravel of 2.5 m^3
- 17 trucks of fill gravel of 2.5 m^3
...I could go on, but wouldn't want to give it all away. While Dignité is under construction, Architecture for Humanity's Haiti Rebuilding Center sends members of its Construction Outreach team to check and report back on construction progress. This is especially useful for Dignité as it's not near the office (it's about a 3 1/2 hour drive from Port-au-Prince). The Outreach team consists of young Haitians trained as construciton managers and getting into the newly-international nature of their trade. Folks like Jacques Nixon, Stanley Joseph and Elizabeth Marie Nicolas spend half their time on-site and half in our office coordinating with architects and builders simultaneously.
Typcally the team also brings a construction manager, in this case Carl (pictured at center, above). He and the Outreach folks submit their report and images to the Open Architecture Network where we're compiling the whole process of building schools like Dignité. He submits photographs like the one below of a project's current status. Dignité waits the compacting of the earth between its foundation walls before reinforcement is laid and concrete is poured for the floor slab:
Gerry, from the design team, recently submitted new renderings of how the stone façade, or front wall, is goning to look. This is a simple packet of 3D views of the walls to help direct the builders in Jacmel. You can see they've already reached the height of the floor with their stones and will build up the façade as well as the waist-hight walkway wall, against which the girl in yellow is sitting, not currently the trench you can see in the foreground. At the end of the project, however, that wall will serve as a backdrop for an outdoor learning space–a little 40-student arena–the dreams of a school coming together stone by stone.
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