Bakery Project

Here are some pictures of the bakery we are designing. The computer rendered images were made a few weeks ago. The 2-d drawings are more recent. We are now working on the realization of this design. We will hand over our work already next week to two other dutch architecture students. Robert and Dieuwer we really hope you like our plans, you can post your reactions on this blog, but only when the reaction is positive!
Tomorrow we move to the building site in Baddegama, where we will start the work according to the astrological data as I told here: niekkramer.blogspot.com/2007/04/astrology.html

Untill so far we have been working in Unawatuna, on the balcony of our guesthouse surfcity. We can see monkeys and the sea from that spot. If you want to know more about the project and the idea behind it you can visit www.dutchconnect.org

Introduction of Ward

Ward is also a really nice guy. He only has one problem, but I managed to hide it from the viewers.

Jungle-, golf-, market-, bus- and beachboy

Introduction of Sjoerd

I work together with Ward and Sjoerd (Stuart). I forgot to give them a proper introduction on my blog! I will start with Sjoerd. He is a nice guy, sometimes. The pictures will tell the rest, although he is not from Germany but from the Netherlands.

Important, hippie, backpacker, player, bbq, ophir, fisherman, cricketsupporter

wife and children part of Sjoerd:

Astrology?

Never heard of that? Me neither, haha! That’s crazy! is my first opinion. Maybe I shouldn’t write it out too loud, because some Sri Lankan might be reading this strange story. In Sri Lanka astrology(with stars etc) is considered to be a really important part of life. A lot of different types of astrology exist, and one of them is WASTU. That’s the astrology about building. Ward Sjoerd and I all thought this to be something funny, but still we thought it would be nice to consult a good astrologist about our building plan.
Basically, the plan sucked badly.
The biggest mistake to be made in a building is to put a column in the exact middle of the plan, and we did that. We are now looking how much we believe in this wastu, and if we can adjust our plans to make a nice wastu-building for the same price. At least we will start levelling the ground on the correct astrology wastu starry date: next Monday the 23rd of April at 6.49am.
We will start digging for the foundation next Friday the 27th of April at 6.36 am,
And we will put the first stone the 27th of April at 7.38 am!
I will now tell a nice story to convince everybody that astrology makes sense. A few years ago, a couple lived really happily in their new house. They had really good jobs, the man
was a docter and his wife a teacher. Their children got a very good education. BUT, after they moved into their new house, the parents lost their jobs and the children couldn't find a partner nor a job.

What to do?

The wastu master we talked to, came to the rescue. He noticed that a construction beam rested above the main entrance door. After the people followed his advice, and put the door somewhere else, they got their jobs back and found really nice partners to marry with.

grandson of the wastu master the wastu master
(from left to right) Sjoerd, Nimal, Wastu Master, Ward

explanation of some basic guidelines