Planning without time schedule. No S.M.A.R.T. quality planning and goal setting but quality building as a meditation.

For our building project and ideas, we do not work S.M.A.R.T. at all.

During my former work I had to deal with this management tool (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant/Realistic and Timely).

In my opinion it always was, and for me still is, a source in creating stress, restrain creativity, offering less real attention and soul engagement to quality, a tremendous workload with flowcharts, etc., and giving all kind of abilities for everybody to complain and criticize. So… all negative energy I do now want to deal with anymore.

Our goal is the journey of the process. And maybe you cannot call it a project anymore in a ‘management setting’ because possibly it will be endless. An ongoing process of improvement and engagement as we hope.

And yes, there are ‘critical’ factors in that. Like health, cooperation, weather, grant factors, let’s face it also our moods, and not to forget money.

We only start every time with a part of the project if the money to finish it is available at the start. A safe way of planning. And yes, be sure we made (and will even more make) a calculation for every part of the project and administrate our expenses in Excel.

So, building without time schedule and I see it as a meditation. And I am sure we will need meditation during the process because not everything will be smart (in another way as S.M.A.R.T.) as we have in mind now.

So, although there is no, and will never be, a flowchart there is a kind of follow up row in things that need to be done.

# Step 1:

Some landscaping (around pond) and building preparation on the land (positioning).

To create some shade and storage space we start with the 2 cars carport.

Actually, an easy thing to build because it is only flat concrete with a steel roving on a metal frame.

Also, we need a small flat concrete plateau for the 1.500 L water storage tank, the water pressure pump and the temporary building electricity outlet.

At the same time we will poor the concrete for the ‘Petite Chartres’ labyrinth. 8.5 meters in diameter. Possibly together with the foundation for the Spirit house (facing North-West) and the Buddha at the east side of the labyrinth (facing East).

During this phase of the project also the electricity line needs to be made and after that the drilling for water.

# Step 2:

Install waste water treatment system.
Building Guest pyramid room A. This is the guest room that is the nearest to the main house. The intention is to build this as our temporary place to stay during the building process of the main house. It saves us costs of a hotel or rental we need during step 1. Maybe we will find a way to use the finished carport as a temporary shelter.  

Land scaping around Guest pyramid room A.

# Step 3:

Building the main house.  

Landscaping around the main house.

# Step 4:

Make partly the road on the land before the main house and guest pyramid room.

# Step 5:

Building Guest pyramid room B between the carport and room A.

Landscaping around Guest room B and finish the road on the land.  

So, as you can imagine… it will all take some time.

It is finished when it is finished. 


Frans Captijn

e-mail: pyramidhousethailand@gmail.com