Author Archives: Josh Whiting

The model is almost finished as we approach lunch time on the forth day of our design week!

Gabby has been hard at work all day creating layouts for our poster, she has also been changing little errors that were in the designs.

Myself and Rob having been construction the model for the majority of the day, ensuring that everything we were sticking down was going into the right place and was all the right size.

By the end of the day we hope to have fully completed the model and to have a good start on the poster.

Tomorrow is going to be a busy morning, but so far all is on track!

We started off our day by getting straight back into the modelling studio and deciding if there was any improvements we could think of with regards to the design of our model.

The first thing we decided would improve the layout of our structure would be to add more rooms so that the clinic will be functional. The new design creates more space for both the staff and the patients that will be the facility. 

The Hazelwick students were given the task of producing a format for the A1 poster, including deciding which font sizes would be used, how the poster will be laid out, the colours and the theme that will be used, etc.

As the design of our clinic is set out my multiple different sized hexagonal shapes, it proved hard to design by hand as the shape sizes were not coming out exactly as they should have been, so instead of drawing by hand we too the drawings onto Autocad where the designs will be more precise and will help us to work out how much space with have within our building.

The image above shows how the roofs of the structure will appear. The structure is completely inflatable so should have no trouble when being erected.

The plan for Thursday is to complete the model and start to get the poster complete too!

Today we started off by heading to the modelling studio to start making models of how we think that the final design show look.

Once we had started to design our models, we decided that our initial rectangular designs for the clinic were not providing us with the spaces that we wanted to create within the building. We then thought about having multiple different inflatable pods that can then divide the spaces up and separate the different areas.

We came up with the idea of having multiple hexagonal inflatable rooms which can be delivered to site in the container and erected and easily and cheaply.

By the end of the day we plan to have the majority of the modelling started and the floor plans drawn out as a provisional design.

Team members: Josh Whiting, Rob Smith, Gabriela Oliveira, Matt Lendon, Khadijah Ahmed

Background information on Alexander Fleming:

Born: 6 August 1881

Location of birth: Lochfield, Ayrshire, Scotland

Died: 11 March 1955 ages 73 London, England

Fields: Bacteriology, immunology

28th September 1928 discovered penicillin by accident.

He qualified with distinction in 1906 and began research at St Mary’sHospital Medical School at the University of London under Sir Almroth Wright, a pioneer in vaccine therapy. In World War One Fleming served in the Army Medical Corps and was mentioned in dispatches. After the war, he returned to St Mary’s.