Architectural Proposals 5505411 Final Exam: Sample Answers Q. 1 Email Subject: Landscaping project in Soi Samsen Suchida The client is very pleased with your work. He thinks the garden is ‘fantastic’ and my supervisor says the lighting bollards ‘look great’. So, well done! As always there are a few problems to rectify. So could you deal with the following:     5 of the gardenias along the drive have died and need replacing as soon as possible The mulch for the gardens has not come and Ms Pramote, my supervisor, wonders if you could let us know when it will arrive. The power to the lighting bollards was supposed to be connected last week. Have you got a revised date for that? 2 of the sandstone pavers leading to the eastern entrance have been cracked and need to be replaced by the week’s end. As you know the house-warming party is on the evening of the 12th of next month and we are keen to have everything right by then. Let me review what has to happen before it:    Wednesday 7th: 3 mature palm trees are being delivered. We have booked the crane to position them only from 10am to 12. Have one of your experienced workers there to supervise. You know how expensive those trees are. Friday 9th: the hedge outside the front fence has to be planted. Monday 12th: the turf lawn needs to be laid by lunchtime. I know you will work with your usual skill and efficiency and everything will be on time. Don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns. Wit The Human Resources Dept Designed Park Co. Ltd. 274 Soi 17 Pattanakarn 50 Suanluang, Bangkok, 10250 November 28, 2011 Dear Sir/Madam I write in response to your advertisement for a Junior Architect which I saw on your website posted on the 18th of this month. I believe I have the qualifications, creativity and skills that make me a suitable candidate for your consideration. I graduated this year from the INDA program at Chulalongkorn University with a Bachelor of Science in Design and Architecture. As a student I regularly worked with the software programs you specify: 3ds Max, AutoCad, Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketchup as well as other standard software. I believe I have the creativity and design skills that you require and would ask you to consider the portfolio of work I have sent with this application as evidence of that. I think you will also see from that portfolio that I am very concerned with details and achieving results. You also require a team player with people management skills. You will notice on my resume that I was involved with projects in Chiang Mai and Kyoto. On both those projects I had to work in a team and demonstrate management skills and have included in my portfolio the positive assessment of my performance in these areas given by my supervisors. I want very much to work with your firm and look forward to an interview where I can demonstrate my enthusiasm for working with you. You can contact me anytime by email or mobile. Yours sincerely Napat Neampinji 438/72 Lumpini Gardens Suan Plu Soi 6, Sathorn 10120. Enclosure: Portfolio and Resume Q 3. Glasgow: Wooden house with sea view Brief: Two professional musicians, Tony and Jo Moffat bought an elevated lot overlooking the Clyde River not far from Glasgow. They had bought the land primarily for the view and wanted their architects to design a house that made that spectacular view the main feature of the house which they wanted designed for their family of three. It was clear that they wanted a dramatic house that matched their careers in the arts and the architects feared that if the design was not a dramatic piece of architecture that it would not be satisfactory. The clients also expressed a preference for a house with a traditional wooden frame. Their budget was a very limited one as would be expected from their professions. Design Concept: The house was designed to belong to its surroundings and to create a fusion between tradition and modernity. So the architects proposed a traditional bare oak cruck frame that belonged to medieval history set in a modern home of masonry, glass and steel. The base of the house was to be a standard foundation in concrete and steel and that would provide the stage on which the cruck frame would stand looking out to sea. Moreover, the shape of the house would echo the shape of the Nordic long boats that long ago had sailed the seas around that coast. The crowning feature of the house would be a large picture window that would allow the occupants to be like patrons in a theater looking out over the life of the River and Rosneath Peninsula. The architectural tour de force would be the combination of two systems of construction – one of today and one used over 500 years ago. (280)