Author Archives: George Harvey-Hendley

We spent day 4 trying to complete the the final model at a scale of 1:50. The structure was very time consuming due to the different angles. We also had some trouble getting the right heights which we only discovered once we had constructed both the floor plans and rooms.

We used foam board for the wall construction balsa wood, foam board, bubble wrap, and white plastic bags to resemble the structure. We ended up having to raise the external structure on the model so that it fitted over the rooms.

On day three we met up with the students from Hazelwick School again, caught up and shared what each of us had been doing the day before. The day mostly consisted of going over and over our floor plans after the lecturers kept finding faults. Eventually we found an idea which worked and got the seal of approval from Dr Poorang Piroozfar.

We also came up with a final design for the external structure which was focused on the inflatable tent structure we had thought up the day before.

The picture above shows an attempt on modelling an inflatable structure which sort of worked but ended up being too time consuming especially if we used the idea for the final 1:50 scale model.

Instead we have decided to use balsa wood, bubble wrap and plastic to replicate the finish of the building as shown i the pictures below showing the model in the early stages.

Modelling ideas to see what works. This is a idea taken from circus tents using a centre mast with cabling. A circus tent can be put up within a day using little or no machinery making it a good concept for a temporary structure.