Block 2: 11 June.


UNION CASTLE BUILDING No.1 (below)

 The latest project I have been asked to work on is the Union Castle Building located in the V&A Waterfront.
The Building has currently has four Tenants. Two of these Tenants are Banks. One is a Book store while the last of the tenants is the Exploratorium, located at the second floor of the building.

My task was to go to Union Castle Building and measure up the entire ground floor, as no drawings of the internal existing layout existed. Measuring up and plotting out the current floor plan of the building took two full days. Once all the dimensions where taken down, I had to draw up the building from scratch, starting with the grid or columns of the building as this gave me a starting point to now draw the internal layout of the existing building.

Green: All the areas that have a green line around them indicate common areas used by the public. The Exploratorium is also seen as a common area.

Orange: Indicates ABSA located on the bottom East side of the building.

Purple: Indicates the total floor area of the book store located on the West side of the building. The book store has the largest floor area out of the four Tenants. There is also a locked room that is inaccessible due to lost keys; this is indicated by the orange hatch area on the plan.

Blue: Indicated NEDBANK. NEDBANK is the smallest of all the tenants located on the North East side of the building.

Once the plan was drawn up I was asked to do multiple sections through the building to show parts of the building that aren’t easily identifiable by look at the existing plan.

The section are A, B, C, D and E.

UCB ELEVATIONS No.1 (below)

The elevation where next to be drawn, The V&A Waterfront where very pleased with the detailed elevation I had done. The Union Castle Building is over 60 years old and falls in to the Cape Town heritage department so any alteration will have to be accepted by them.