Architectural Proposals 5505411 Final Exam: Sample Answers

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:
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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:
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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)