After a lot of planning construction starts!
Monthly Archives: November 2014
Today we started to bring our project to life cutting our model pieces!
Developing Infrastructure Plans
Meriam & Noushad developing ideas for our infrastructure plan!
Case of Study: Moving School
Architects: Amadeo Bennetta and Dan LaRossa
Location: Southeast Asia
Thinking about flat packed buildings this project is a great and succeed idea, which consist in the same thought the Fry team is following to design a flexible structure. These schools are located in the borders of Thailand and Burma, in the southeast Asia. They result of a competition for non-profit charity Building Trust to give immigrant and refugee communities in those areas a kind of self-assembly educational facility.
The main proposal is to offer them the possibility to dismantle the structure and reassemble it over and over again on other sites, in a way it becomes adaptable to any place, due to the problem with land rights they face. Moreover, it should practice not only the function of educational space, but also symbolize the community space.
The structure in itself shows to be quite simple. Bennetta and LaRossa choose to use prefabricated steel frame and local crafted bamboo panels, making the cost of construction lower, since they did not need to spend so much money transporting the bamboo. The bamboo panels allow sun light to go inside the building, providing natural illumination. The roof compound of two roofs, where a gap between the first and the second receives natural ventilation.
The Building Trust is a international body that basically aims to give people’s welfare promoting quality and creative design works to solve problems. In this context, they have developed projects in many countries, such as Cambodia, Honduras, Brazil, Bangladesh and England.
As our design proposal lays emphasis on the need of using flat packed buildings it is too important to know more how it works and for who it is used for. This structure system offers flexibility, practicality, adaptability, functionality and reversibity all together!
References:
Dezeen, 2013. Moving school by Amadeo Bennetta and Dan LaRossa for Building Trust. [Online] Available at: <http://www.dezeen.com/2013/10/30/flat-pack-moving-school-by-amadeo-bennetta-and-dan-larossa-building-trust/> [ Accessed 11 November 2014]. 
Building Trust, 2010. Moving Schools, Mae Sot, Thai-Burmese border. [Online] Available at: <http://www.buildingtrustinternational.org/project200.html> [Accessed 11 November 2014].
Gabriela Oliveira, Fleming Group, Monday 10th and Tuesday 11th
On Monday, firstly, we were introduced yo the program that we had do and also a meeting with the client.
The client was a little confuse about how to explain what he wanted, but even with the confusion information, we started to do a client brief.
At the begining, the expected was to be use a building with 1000 sqm in total.
Tuesday
On Tuesday, we started the morning trying to define our areas and how we would connect everything .
Robb and I started with different ideas. Firstly, I started to draw and join the spaces inside of an exagon, for being a shape closer to a circle and that way we would not have to use corridors.
Then, we decided to do one hexagon to which group of activities in the hospital that we divided before. 
Each group needs a size, and was decided that we would do different sizes for each area.
Thus, calculations were needed to start making the model.
FRY GROUP DAY 2
Surprisingly, this is my first every venture into
that big unknown, Social media! Who knows it could be fun, may even switch off my fax machine!
Day 2:
The layout of the compound space took a little time to sort out, but we now seem to all have agreed on a plan.
The main design concept is all going amazingly smoothly. We overcame a few little design hurdles and now, team Fry are ready to start on our model. (I’m a little worried about the combination of School kids, Stanley knifes and student all in the same room……………)
Monday 10th + Tuesday 11th
Monday 10th:
We started the day being introduced to the proposal of the health clinic, and got divided in groups. We spent the morning and part of the afternoon brainstorming ideas and researching precedent studies and possilble solutions for our design to fit the criteria of the brief.
In the afternoon we had a lecture with Emmanuel about what were the spaces needed in a health clinic and what were these spaces relation, what had to be next to each other and which flow the ambiences had to follow. We then started sketching layout ideas that would attend all the needs of the health clininc, so that in the next day we could finish our final layout and start our test models.
Tuesday 11th
Today the work was developed in the modeling room, in the morning we took the sketches of the layout from the day before and scaled them to a final layout for the clinic. We also worked on a model for our folding box concept.
We then started to work on test structures for the tents we will be using in the health clininc, we built 3 different concepts to find a solution that is functional and structuraly stable.
Tomorrow we will start working in our final model!!
Rob Smith, Fleming Group, Monday 10th and Tuesday 11th
Monday 10th: 9am: We are introduced to our brief, which is to create a flat pack field clinic that can fit inside a standard 40 foot shipping container. I have decided to nickname the project the Ikea building. We have also been put into groups constisting of five people, three of them are Architectural Technology students and the other two are students from Hazelwick sixth form school.
The members of my team are: from left to right Josh,Khadijah The blue bit poking out of Josh’s head (DJ), Tom, Gabby.
Once we introduced ourselves we started to decide what type of structure the building would be, what information to research to aid us in our design and what homework to assign to the college students. (I opted for the idea to allow them to do the whole project for us, unfortunately they did not agree).
By the end of the day we ended up with a huge amount of scribbles and a vague idea of what our building would look like.
Tuesday 11th: 9am in the modeling studio.
Only eight of the class were in at 9. we were given a brief health and safety speech by Noel Painting (head lecture) about NOT drinking in the modeling studio. 
I started the day alone as my team mates were late due to a number of different problems.
When Gabby arrived I showed her the scaled drawing that I had started and we discussed the pros and cons of the purposed design.A little while later Poorang spoke to us and basically said that our design is interesting but an engineering nightmare so we decided to rethink the design which took most of the rest of the day.
When Josh arrived we had come up with a more viable design idea but it still had to be refined. Eventually we all agreed on a series of inflatable hexagons that are separate areas that each play host to one of the key areas. 
Now that we had a good design to hand we then set out information gathering, the information that we needed was: minimum floor spaces needed in the main areas in a portable clinic, materials that are used for inflatable structures, key items found in clinics and the list goes on.
MATHS!!!!!!!! We had found a chart which gives floor areas for the key areas of the clinic, we then had to work out what each length the walls of the hexagons had to be to give that floor area. After much deliberation, uming and erring we agreed on the calculation supplied by Gabby.
Great now we can model this building, this is where my tendency to be a bit of a perfectionist comes in.
Yes I am using tweezers to position a small sheet of tracing paper onto the frame of the building, Kemi said that I looked rather surgical.
Tuesday afternoon
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