Category Archives: Curie

 After a week of being at uni from 9 to five every day, going home to do more uni work,several cups of hot chocolate every day, 1 cup of coffee (even though i dont like coffee), few hours of sleep, no social life and glue on everything I own we are finally on the last day.

 It might seem like a struggle but this week have been a good experience for me, both when it comes to the social and academical aspect of things. I have been able to talk to and gotten to know people in my class that i haven’t talked to before. Since i’m new in the class this was a great way for me to get to know people. Being tierd, frustrated and working together is actually a great way to bond friendships. I have also learned a lot this week, when it comes to team work, how to build a health clinic, and how to make a model. And I this is an experience I definitely will take with me!

The Curie group have worked very well together, we have had good communication and great team work. We had a lot of good ideas that ended up with a structure that everyone liked.

All in all this week have been better then i imagined it to be!

Thank you guys for a great week!

 After an early morning with everyone running around half asleep trying to finish the last pieces of the posters, models and printing out, it was finally time to have the presentation!

All the groups presented their work, until last it was our group the present our work. We had divided the presentation into different topics that different people in out group would talk about. I talked about the precedence studies, about ebola and the development of the layout.

There were several people there to evaluate the presentation and the work we had done. Emmanuel our client was there as well to evaluate and see what we had been working on, ha was especially focusing on the security aspect of the design, when it comes to not spreading the disease.

The day started by making some last few alterations on the model. Adding sand, trees and people to make the model look more real. We were all very pleased with how the model ended up looking like, and we were all proud of the work we have done over the past week. 

By placing the tent cover on only half of the structure we were able to show of the layout we had chosen for our health clinic. And also show the walls that we had chosen as the internal wall structures.

It was a day of stress, nerves and last minute adjustments as the final presentation loomed
All teams raced towards the 12 o’clock deadline, but all managed to finish and present amazing designs and models. With some brilliant techniques being used from each group. It was at some point surprising that all these models could fit into such a small container.

In the end after a stressful tiring week, everyone could be proud of the effort and outcome.

The internal walls that will divide the different rooms inside the tent will be collapsible walls. Which are walls made with a diamond structure and can be stretched out to the desired length.

Linden and myself found a type of these walls in Cockroft, a wall that can be stretched out to cover the whole entrance or be pulled back to allow people to walk to the staircase.

The students from Hazelwick school made a prototype of the wall in a 1:20 scale to show how the wall would work. On the final model there will be 1:50 walls, but these walls will be firm, only to show how the walls will look like.

– Ine Ringlund

Next step in making the final model was to work out the grid that the poles needed to be placed in. Both to make sure that the tent is structural stable, but also to prevent that the poles are places in a room in a way that will prevent movement though the structure.

The wooden boxes seen in the picture, is the curie boxes and the container.

Linden then covered half of the tent structure with fabric. We left half of the structure open so that you can see the room layout and the internal walls

– Ine Ringlund

The morning started with mass production of different components needed for the final model. Making the poles and the fences were a time consuming process, but is needed to make the final structure.

For the tent we used the method we had tried out on Wednesday, which was wooden pieces with pins on top. And by wrapping thread around the pins and stretching the thread from pole to pole, it created enough tension for the structure to stand up. 

For the walls we made firm structures, that is easy to make, but will not function as it will on a bigger scale. So the walls are just to show how it will look like. (We have a bigger model that is on a 1:20 scale which works as the wall would work in real life.)

After numb and sore fingers from cutting with a scalpel and glue over most of our clothes we constructed most of the fences needed in the model.

– Ine Ringlund

The layout of the health clinic have been one of the main aspect that we have worked on this week. How to get all the different components and areas to the right place, by placing them right when it comes to security and safety for both patients and staff. After many sketches, scaled drawings and different types of layouts we finally were able to find a layout that will function well. Both with our design and for the purpose of being a health clinic. 

One of the steps with making the layout was to separate the staff and the patients in the safest way possible. By creating risk zones and non risk zones.  Between these zones, a person have to go trough a decontamination area, to make sure that the no risk zone, keeps being virus free. This will both happen to the staff when leaving a risk zone, but also if a patient lives through the virus and are able to go to convalescence. Convalescence is viewed as a no risk zone and the patients need to be decontaminated before entering this area. 

As well as a decontamination area between no risk and risk area, there needs to be a foot bath in the layout. A foot bath is a place where the feet and hands are washed to prevent spreading the virus. since Ebola is spread through body fluids this is one of the most efficient and simplest ways to prevent spreading the virus.  We wanted to place the foot bath in a way that a person would have to go through a the foot bath no matter where the person is going inside the risk zone. And also, since a foot bath is a very expensive component to have in a health clinic, we wanted to have as few numbers of them as possible. After many different layout, we finally found a layout that makes sure a person have to go through a foot bath and also only having one foot bath for the whole health clinic.

To find out how big the different spaces needed to be and which types of rooms were needed I was researching books and the internet, to be able to make the layout as accurate as possible.
– Ine Ringlund

Thursday 13th, with only this day to complete the final model.
It was all hands on deck today with all team members cutting, glueing, sticking, and frustratingly trying to find ways for all pieces to stay intact.
A 1:50 scale layout plan was designed and printed to make construction easier

A production line of structural posts and fences made the process quicker, so that the model could be constructed with little time wasting.

Whilst the model was being made an A1 poster was being designed for the final presentation.
As the day drew to a close the yawns grew wider and the eye started to shut but all the team could be proud of what was produced in such little amount of time