AraiGordai in Thailand

pano goes to work

Since i'm still on the 7 days testing the replacement e1, i took the camera to the work site and did more panorama shooting, as if i haven't done enough already. I've taken over 90 panoramas in samet.. i've gone panoramically mad. hey, why not when you can shoot tons of shots in a burst - at no cost. so here are more of them.


above: this one was taken at the BTS prakanong station. A short walk from here would get me to the construction site. i've always liked the bts's roof design, it is way cool.. and i do like the effect of the glowy effect of the afternoon sun behind it.

below: and here's the condo site, yup, ficuslane, 5 months delay, and still not done. it is coming along though.


and finally here's one of the four units i'm working on. you can't imagine the amount of dust and stuff that flys around in the air at these site. won't be too surprise if lung cancer is creeping in. so why do i bothered with this construction monitoring thing when i could end it at design stage. because i couldn't 'end' it there. i mean even though the design is done, there's always some new issues that comes up during construction, maybe some problems that requires design modifications. No doubt the challenges and the fun of problem solving on the spot is there, but only in short moment, the rest is dealing with the noise, dust and nose jamming smell. having to eal with some bitchy worker can definately spoiled any of the remaining creative mood.


The real reason for doing it is that i do feel responsible for the design work. i mean there's a lot of effort from both me and the client along the design process, and we all would like to see it come out nice. not to mentioned the cost involved. one of these unit cost 14 million, for just the bare shell! so for this kind of investment, these clients would like to make sure things does goes the way it was intended. for that kind of money i would build a house. although for single foreigners like these clients, they don't have that choice. in a lot of ways, the luxury and there's all the benefits and conveniency of living in a fancy condominium. let's just hope it is that fancy when everything is done.

after this, i should retire. wait, i still have to do mom/dad's house.. then quit this space design/construction stuff. don't ge me wrong, i do love the design, its the stress of dealing with unreliable constructors that turns me off. sometimes it seems like it is out of your control. so for the past months, i've been declining new project offers and trying to finish this condo. although i feel it is the right thing to do but not sure about the financial side of it all. but unless i declined, i'll never get to seriously do my folk's housing project.

mom has been so nice and patience, saying, oh.. her house can wait. i know she's been waiting too long for her house. dad also have been complaining that he needs a place of his own that he can stay and relax. this should be my piority. the giusto winebar project already put her house one year behind, and now these condos. not that i haven't done the design, i did over 14 houses. the more time i had, the houses just multiplies!

one and a half more month let's survive this. i just took my lungs for a clean up at samet... so c'mon lungs. puff puff.

posted by AraiGordai @ 6:57 PM