Real life project... Joy.

We just handed in our first project and like clock work another one greets us the next day on our desk. This on however, is different than any project before. This is a real project with a real client. Our first day we met with the client to hear about what his plans were for this building. After seeing the pictures and ideas I have come to the conclusion that it is going to be one heck of a project. The client wants to renovate this old rundown building... and I am talking a complete makeover. We went on our first job site. It was a little intimidating. When they first got the building there was so much rundown stuff in there. They said when we got there it would be about 80% cleaned... if that was 80% then there was a lot, and I mean a lot, of stuff in there. I was assigned to take pictures during the job site so that allowed me to look at the details in the building. It was not entirely bad. For example, this building had some beautiful tin ceiling panels still intact.

We are breaking this project into two parts. There are two different sides of this building. One a fast food restaurant and the other a bistro/bar. One of the hardest things in this project is interpreting what the client actually wants. He threw out a couple of inspirational words but then he would talk about something completely opposite from what he just said. This just leaves you frustrated and clueless. For this first part of the project we are all working as individuals to provide the client with and many ideas as possible. Our presentation will be to the client and from there he will pick a couple of designs that he like and would like to see continued. From there we will break up into teams and design the rest of the building.

Just explaining this makes me realize what a daunting task this truly is. In the end one of our designs or bits and pieces of our designs will actually be used in a real life project.