Monday, February 16, 2009
Shophouse Drawings . 8:50 AM
At the start of this school term, we were told to measure shophouse in teams. My team had to look for a shophouse with a forecourt and two airwells. It was not easy. Initially we tried calling URA to find out the locations of these shophouses and after a few calls, we got the locations.
We tried going to a street near Heeren but managed to find one or two that fit the criteria. However one of them was an office and the other a private residence. After ringing the doorbell for the office, no one opened the door for us. The door of the private residence was opened however the owner was not at home and thus we could not go in and measure the shophouse so with almost half the day spent there, we headed to Heeren to take a break. At Hereen, we decided to head to Chinatown to see if we could find any shophouse with a forecourt and two airwells there and so we did.
We took a bus there and when we arrived, the team split up in search for the shophouse with a forecourt and two airwells. Finally the shophouse with one forecourt and two airwells was found! It was also turned into an office. We were given the floor plans and told to make an appointment another day to measure the elevation but we did not manage to do so in the end as they were busy.
Before we knew that we couldnt measure the elevation, the workload were divided amongst ourselves to and the drawing of the floorplans commenced. Due to unforseen circumstances, we had to estimate the height of the shophouse to draw the shophouse and thanks to efficient management by our team i/cs and co-orperation on everyones' part, we could have quite a few sections, elevations and even an onthorgraphic projection on top of the basic requirements!