Monthly Archives: November 2014

After a long time planning and deciding our lay out, today, we start our model. Although people were concerned, everything was under control (perhaps hahaha).

We divided our work. While Aswin and Adnan were working cutting the roof structure, James and I were organizing the material cut and gluing.

It was made a template to each model truss in paper. Those templates were essential to enable us to construct the model.

After that, it was easier. We just had to cut the walls and glue them and the trusses on the board.

Pictures of the progress of the assemble

Finally, happiness

Having finalised our layout after encountering complications, we were now in a better position as we only had to make a couple of extra single and double panels for the extra rooms. This involved; drawing, cutting and sticking, which didn’t take up too much time. We were then left with enough time to come up with a structure for the canvas roof idea.

Our initial idea consisted of using the container ends with a folding mechanism, which would give us the height we needed to run wiring over each corner of the compound and peg down into the surrounding grounds. After testing this idea, we found it was not possible to do this and we needed to re-evaluate.  The Reason being it was structurally unbalanced and the run off we needed for the water was not appropriate, meaning if there was a heavy down pour of rain it would collapse the roof within minutes.

Looking at how other buildings had placed a canvas roof on, we used inspiration from an Ian Ritchie roof design. This particular concept had one high raised mast with wiring running into the ground. We were particularly influenced by this, however, decided to alter it slightly by using two masts instead of one. This was due to the surface area we had to cover, it was vital that we created the perfect angle for the water run off of the canvas.

As we were so organised when planning for the building, we thought we knew exactly where the single and double panel walls were going. Therefore, we assumed it was just a process of making a production line for drawing, cutting and sticking the walls to bring our design to life.

However, later on in the day we did have to make amendments to our design. This was due to the issue which was raised that pathogens could be spreading easily because infected sections hadn’t been cut off from the non-infected areas.  To overcome this dilemma we re-designed the layout, moving all the non infected areas to the front of the building and sectioning them off with the infected areas reassigned to the rear. We also added more decontamination areas for where staff and public can shower, to clean off any pathogens they may have picked up whilst in the medical centre.

After this, it was then decided that our aim for day 4 was to achieve a structural design for the roof using a canvas idea, with inspiration taken from a tent design.

Discussing and researching ideas on the first day enabled us to get straight to work on the modelling and development of potential design proposals for our medical centre. In keeping with our desired simplistic nature to the design, we started modelling single panel walls which we felt was a beneficial concept.

However, we found that maintaining simplicity when connecting the walls was harder than anticipated. Problems crept up, such as the fact we needed an additional slot cut into the wall to connect walls coming into the compound. Obstacles like this left us head scratching for a while, in spite of these complications, through a trial and error method we managed to create grid which displayed where certain panels would be placed.

The best solution we found to overcoming the problem of connecting the walls was instead of having all single walls there would now be some double panel walls. this would allow us to connect the interior walls of our proposed design. 

With the model complete I was able to sit down and piece together some information which could be useful for the presentation. Below shows some of my findings including some information on how the structure will be taken in and out of the container, as well as some other key points.

Maximum weight to lift safely for a man is 25kg

Maximum weight to lift safely for a woman 16kg

http://www.workplacesafetyadvice.co.uk/guide-manual-handling-lifting-techniques.html

Steel Beams – 80mm thickness = 177.57kg

        177.57kg/ 25 Kg = 7 Men to lift taller upright beams

http://www.rosmetalloprokat.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58&Itemid=56

Roof Umbrella – sits on a trolley system within the container then compact crane used to lift and spread to insert supporting outer beams

11 Meter Compact Crane

http://www.varollarfotovideo.com/U1374,199,proaim-kite-33-titan-package-33ft-11-metreoctagonal-video-camera-crane-with-heavy-duty-tripod-standhd-std-3-axis-dutch-roll-pan-tilt-head-floor-dolly-e-focuskite-33-titan-33-ft-jimy-jip-cine-vff-kite-33-titan.htm

The day went by fast! With so much do to the team barely had any breaks and started the day already focused and producing so the model could be done by the end of the day!

We set up a production line and diveded tasks to each team member so things could be done more efficiently. By the end of the day the model was almost done, tomorrow it will just need the finishing touches!

We also started working on our poster, making diagrams and sketches to enrich the content of it. Hope tomorrow will be a productive day and everything will be ready for the presentation!

Today was a good day, the team have work together well all this weekand have been a real pleasure to work with(‘someone has to be steering the ship’!)Now we can see some results. Our design seems to have ticked most boxes and the layout and structure seem to be realistic.The layout earlier this week was tricky to get our heads around, but with lots of little adjustments here and there,it seems to have worked out very well. The wall system has been a neat design, whereby any adjustments were not to difficult to carry out, a real flexible system. The completion of the roof covering has brought the design alive,and it does somewhat to resemble a field medical unit( maybe a bit like MASH!) Looking forward to seeing all the other designs completed, it has been a nice environment all week.