I am all done my first week at my new summer job at P3 Architecture in Regina, and here are my initial impressions:
- AutoCad can be set up so differently from place to place, that after eight months of learning it, I feel like a novice still.
-I really enjoy the office space. It's above a restaurarnt in downtown Regina, overlooking Victoria park. It's on open-concept office with no dividers anywhere. It's been completley renovated from it's previous tenants, save it's creaky hard-wood, which adds loads of character.
-I know very little when it comes to commercial building design, which means my learning curve will be steep this summer. I hope, however, that this will prepare me better for next fall at school, when we begin to learn commercial design.
-I still can't decide whether I want to be in the design end or the building end of the industry.
-Fridays at our office are great. In the mornings, we have an extended coffee break (did I mention our coffee area has leather furniture) to eat baked goods, and then we take another break in the afternoon to have a couple of frosty beers.
3 comments:
An idea was tossed out that you should get into environmental house/office design and building. You could open your own business in the province and be at the forefront because apparently there is next to no one offering this service here.
You know, I have definitely been thinking of doing something along those lines. The firm I am working for has a LEED certified architect, which is a measure of a buildings "green-ness," so I hope to learn from that.
But I think you are right, in that there is very little in the design-build industry right now to do with environmental building. A lot of it is still new technology that has yet to be tested over time.
Who "tossed" that idea out that you were talking to?
oh . . . someone . . .
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