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Thursday 14th: today is the day where over-tiredness starts to rear its ugly head in the form of sloppy workmanship (from me) and irritation. The day started off as it intended to continue SLOWLY. Myself and Josh carried on making the model and Gabby started to format the information we had gathered into a clear concise A1 poster.

After lunch the model was pretty much finished so we busied ourselves writing up information that we may use on our poster, information gathering and more model making.

Th day slowly plodded on until 6am when we decided to call it quits. However we had decided to info gather when we got home.

Friday 15th: Today started off OK. The kids were in nice and early to help us clean up the mess which was substantial. The main priorities for the morning were to finish the site boundary fence as well as finalizing the internal layout drawings.

(I don’t know why I look so worried)

CRIT TIME

We set up in the adjoining room, the model, small sketches and the poster. Looking very professional.

The lectures were very kind (compared with a crit in the Architecture department) which was a relief. The size of the purposed buildig was a bit of an issue with Noel and Kemi but as we stated early on in the speech the design is modular so there is allowance for far more ground to be covered. However we were commended on our design of movement through the spaces.

Overall I have enjoyed this project and hope to do something similar to this in the future.

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!

Wednesday 12th: day three and it’s certainly getting harder to wake up in the mornings: 6am starts are not nice, anyway I digress. Today we started off slowly not with any real structure of work, however once DJ and Matt arrived we got going.

Firstly I gave (the kids) a quick lesson in using scale rules in order for them to start making the 1:50 models. secondly me Josh and Gabby started to assign jobs to ourselves, for example Josh drafted up a simple CAD drawing of the layout of the inflatables while Gabby started movement diagrams and artistic impressions of the final design.

As the morning slowly rolled on I soon realised that the kids didn’t really understand what they were doing, for example we ended up with a seven sided hexagon, four meter tall buildings that were supposed to be three etc. Not to worry though as we decided to task the kids with designing the A1 page : all of the information that would be required on the sheet and the way that it would be set out on the page.

After a short lunch I finished making the skeletons of the remaking models, then Josh built the roofs for each of the eight models. Once he finished that we worked together to fabricate the tracing paper triangles that sit in between the straws.

Gabby had a few problems of her own: the main one being the movement diagrams which were far more difficult to design than first thought.

Homework: again we were asked to allocate the kids some homework to complete on Thursday. At first we couldn’t think of anything to give them but that very quickly as it became very appear not that we would need to know what Materials inflatable structures are made of, how large the fans would need to be, what horsepower would be required, what PSI change there would be, the cubic litres required to inflate a bouncy castle of similar size etc.

By the end of the day all of the models had been completed, the movement diagrams had been refined and the layout for the A1 page had been finished. Tomorrow will hopefully be a task of collating all of the information and arranging it on the A1 sheet.

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!

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.

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. 

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.