Its been a enjoyable and successful week! I am very pleased with our final model/Design and how we all worked well as a team to complete all the objectives in time.
On first receiving the brief, it was clear it was going to be a challenging week. Due to team work and dedication we overcame all the challenges we faced and ended up with a good design that I believe could work with a couple of improvements.
The first challenge we faced was to work out the layout of the hospital and the flow of staff and patients within the site. We worked on a few different floor plans and decided a octagon shape allowed us to locate rooms in the appropriate places to make it the safest environment possible for the occupants within the structure.
We spent a lot of time and thought into how the structure would be erected once on site, the model was almost complete before we came up with a good solution to this problem: a mechanism that is similar to a umbrellas. which allows the structure to be easily be assembled using a winch.
Overall, I think our design was effective and meet the briefs requirements. It was also interesting to see what other groups came up with and every ones designs were so different from each over but all seemed to work and were creative.
