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I went to builders warehouse today and got the details of the workers that I am hoping to employ in the future.
I explained to them that I was indeed struggling - which is evidenced by the fact that I have R6 to my name at the moment. LOL
it's true - I really suck at making money or getting people to pay me.

Rent is due in a couple days and I have no hope of getting it paid for on time.

gosh - Something's gonna give.

I went and had a meeting with Tim who has inspired me to be bolder on the architectural front. He has an office space that he is renting for 1K a month and he is able to pay rent and such.


I am going to retire this emblem and instead adopt a more tailored look. I was encouraged by the fact that I got some replies from the adverts in the classifieds.

I should really get going with really separating my 3 entities. 3 diff company registrations - diff bank accounts and websites.

That is paramount - but I think we'll start off with the construction company 'coz that seams to me more valuable in the sense that it's a tangible service - it helps a lot more people and is not as self serving as architectural design is to me.

Well - I shall have to choose one of these as the new pic that I use for this blog. I have a bunch of things that I should do - but spent it interneting looking at cool images that are provided to me via my reader. I love it - wish I had more time to go through it more - there is just waaaaay too much information out there. A lot of voices creating a cocophony of creative voices that each deserve a little time to be enjoyed.

This beautiful building belongs to someone - click on it - I can't remember - but the point I want to make is we can't do shit like this and that pisses me off.

I wanted to find out who could make the roof for a church that I had designed and looked high and low and no one in the country knows how to make it work. We simply do not have the technology to make beautiful buildings of the Zaha Hadid flavour.

Organic shapes and slightly warped roofs and facia's are a thing yet to be enjoyed in Africa. This has to be true unless I have not cast my informational net out as far as I think I have. And I'm talking about industrial process derived curves - not vernacular architecture through mud and such. Which rawk - but yeah... that needs to be fixed.
Now if I was as clever as I wish I was - I would position myself to fill this gap - but I'm not ready to do that. Perhaps to my own detriment - but I don't see it giving me satisfaction.
Ok - last couple hours have been inadvertently been devoted to Barefoot university research and I made a 1st page and some notes and then decided to research...

http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/Rural/Traditional1.htm#kuis

it's wonderful that Cuba and India are at what I consider an advanced stage of resource management than we are - but I think for Africa to do well in the future we need to take what examples we can of the successes of resource management from those who are lightyears ahead.

Once again - way too much information to digest in one sitting. But the author from Polis makes a really good point. Many countries around the world are too dependant on monoculture which require harmful ferterlizers, and pesticides and it would be prudent for countries hoping to increase their food security to adopt small-size, urban-based organic food production...
The numbers don't lie - 'coz Jordi Sanchez-Cuenca (Polis) cites that '70% of the Cuba's food is derived from urban agriculture'

and to illustrate that people can transform to the point where it's now normal for people to tend urban plots a pic from the authors site.
And before I got my head space into the breakdown of how Barefoot university is going to work I made this for a t-shirt I hope to one day print. One thing I have noticed is that there are few designs I do that I like very much after I've done them. I suppose I suck and the few things that I like are sentimental in vague - I've ackomplished something or milestone kinda way. hehe!
But I like it at the present moment - mostly 'coz it was easy to do & it's perty*

And this is one other example of something I am sure I am going to change as the project evolves. I have started in an odd place with this project - 'coz I do not posess all the information I require to design this university intrisically. I have decided that I should build it organically by doing it in presentation form.That translate to working on it like I am building a presentation. Which I hope will work out - but since I found out that I could do it in Adobe Illustrator I think it should be doable - despite my phobia for the platform. It must be some sort of mental block - but I've been getting better lately.
I have 100 artboards open and I should now get the justification for the project and then build an illustrative argument to how it is going to accomplish it's monumental goals being nothing short or social transformation in Zimbabwe and eventually Afrika by reversing rural to urban migration amoung other things. YAY for me.
One of the biggest challenges was figuring out all the forms of alternative energies that human beings have made. I have a rough idea how most of the technologies work - but there are plenty that we have today that are just too technical to apply to a real life rural setup. I thought perhaps it wasn't going to be too difficult to devolve some of the technologies and build them in their most basic forms - but it just doesn't work out in quite the same fashion.

What needs to happen in short with Barefoot University is to have it super green and off the grid completely. This done by employing solar - wind - water - geothermal energy generating technologies and permaculture design practices.
Barefoot University is going to generate it's electricity and possibly storing it - then water harvesting and recycling, etc, - appropriate housing or structural technology, which I suppose should be the first thing - and then creating food security and manufacturing of high end products that are environmentally sustainable.

I divert to thoughts on one day hemp farming in Zim - but those old fuddy duddies are not likely to be open minded enough to see the benefits of hemp as that, to me would catapult rural industry, but I suppose if I work diligently it can be accomplished, and I can then use my company Hemperors to guide my people on how to reap benefits from industrial hemp.

I am gonna figure out the slope of the roof and the get the titlebock for circulation and then be done with the coolrunnings 4ways site development plan. I'm so happy. It turns out that trusses are doable if you know what you are doing. It's all about families and I just had to figure out that a structural element is supposed to load structural things. I do not yet know how to model as efficiently as I would like - but I'm practicing. so I can make some really awesome drawings of things like this... by modeling in place or creating whole Guidi-esque spaces from spoons & door handles & furniture that way - which might be necessary for the Barefoot project to give it that extra bit of attention so as to have everything there well thought out. I love Tyo Ito! He kicks ass - I was trying to find another example of his columns but this one being just as awesome will suffice as what I want to do.