Nueva Oficina

The past week was a whirlwind of sawdust, paint chips, cement and gravel. Over the course of 9 days, including a marathon workday on Sunday til 12:30am, we (the workers and various volunteers) managed to transform a rundown, hornet infested and filthy classroom into a pristine new office and conference room. We even completed a full kitchenette and bathroom along with all new grates over the windows and doors (welded into the reinforced concrete structure) and all new furniture. The Desks in particular were an interesting challenge. After starting with the conference tables and discovering that it's impossible to buy dry wood here, I had to completely re-design every component to be made entirely out of plywood. Hence, the desks were each designed to use exactly one 4'x 8' sheet of plywood without any wasted cuts. In addition, they were designed to be transportable and therefore come apart into 2 pieces. Anyway, this is all a much longer story, but I'm way behind on everything else, so I'll let a few pictures speak for themselves. Enjoy!

Here's what it looked like before we got started:






And here's where we're at today: