March 2010 Archives

Laying out work takes a ridiculous amount of time.  Some additional work has been done as shown below - I've identified exactly which members undergo buckling and how much buckling.  With this information, I'm going to remodel the component frame with engineered timber in mind so that the segments that have undergone the most buckling with have thicker timber parts to them.  I've also had a tutorial with both Wolf and Javier who agreed with pushing ahead with this!  The project is finally gaining momentum at the 11th hour! A bit tight for TS though...!

 

I'm in the middle of laying out a number of pages that covers further testing of the geometry of my structure for TS.  As recommended, this time the structure was made from spaghetti! I've now managed to get the geometry so that it is stable under loads which is good news.  However, I'm not entirely happy with it aesthetically now, so I'm hoping that the nest stage of looking at material will bring back some of the aesthetics I've lost.  Below is a picture of the test model and part of a drawing that lists all the results I've taken.

A weekend of work work work! I've been testing the geometry of my model through thin sticks and glue and spending much time consolidating my work so far so there's a clear direction to where I've got to.  It's made me realise that, even though I've been jumping around enormously, there's elements of most of the work done to date that has been brought forward.  I'll print out all the new layouts for tomorrow in addition to latest new work, but below are a few snap-shots...

With two TS tutorials today I've been working getting the geometry of the structure sorted out a bit more. Wolf suggested doing a number of structural studies with simple cocktail sticks or even spaghetti and going through iterations to get the best result that also ensures light and circulation still works...  I'll keep modeling and drawing tonight, so I have a clearer indication of what do test physically.

Have spent much of the weekend looking at geometry and how I link together the forums on different floors.  But of course this isn't answering 'what is the forum'. The general size and relation to each I know, but I don't yet know exactly what they are. Saturday and Sunday was spent looking at a geometry for the infill and not the forums. Images are below of this. I began to link the voids together that in turn defines the forum.  However I should be working in reverse. The geometry should be designed for the forums themselves.  I'm therefore beginning with the infill grid and punctuating it with a forum at each level in the location I've already specified.  So long as the connections between the different levels occur between the different forums, then it'll work. I'll keep drawing this up so it'll become much more clear for tomorrow...