We arrived nice and early to apply the finishing touches to what is now  the end  of an enjoyable but tiring week. We went straight down to print our poster that was completed the evening before. Feeling calm and collected for the presentation we prepared some notes and discussed between us how we would present our final model. I was very impressed with a lot of the Hazelwick students as getting up and presenting in front of a group of people can be pretty difficult. and for their experience they did very well.

Countdown was on and several groups were in panic mode trying to finalise their models , to which fortunately everyone managed. Me and Tom got to work setting up the presentation by hanging our poster and placing our model ( VERY VERY CAREFULLY).

As you can see, Tom just couldn’t wait to present our model, look at that smile.

Presentations got swiftly underway and the morale within the room was great, it was clear everyone was pleased to have completed a successful week. Questions were fired and answers..well I think everyone did their best.

Some projects were very impressive and I feel that we all learnt something from each one. In general I feel that the week has exceeded my expectations. The relaxed environment, friendly atmosphere and final designs was all great, also I really feel that design week has bought everyone on the course a lot closer, a great thing for the year of studies that we have ahead of us.

Thanks to all the lecturers and Hazelwick teachers and everyone else involved, I had a great week.

Many lesson to learn from how to present a design. Some of the question do catch you out BUT they do teach you what details you need to concentrate on. So next time Noel and Kemi, we will be ready for you!!!! Great week, good team, good experience. I enjoyed my first taste of social media and my many followers(Jason), but sadly it’s back to the fax!!!!!

After a long time planning and deciding our lay out, today, we start our model. Although people were concerned, everything was under control (perhaps hahaha).

We divided our work. While Aswin and Adnan were working cutting the roof structure, James and I were organizing the material cut and gluing.

It was made a template to each model truss in paper. Those templates were essential to enable us to construct the model.

After that, it was easier. We just had to cut the walls and glue them and the trusses on the board.

Pictures of the progress of the assemble

Finally, happiness

Having finalised our layout after encountering complications, we were now in a better position as we only had to make a couple of extra single and double panels for the extra rooms. This involved; drawing, cutting and sticking, which didn’t take up too much time. We were then left with enough time to come up with a structure for the canvas roof idea.

Our initial idea consisted of using the container ends with a folding mechanism, which would give us the height we needed to run wiring over each corner of the compound and peg down into the surrounding grounds. After testing this idea, we found it was not possible to do this and we needed to re-evaluate.  The Reason being it was structurally unbalanced and the run off we needed for the water was not appropriate, meaning if there was a heavy down pour of rain it would collapse the roof within minutes.

Looking at how other buildings had placed a canvas roof on, we used inspiration from an Ian Ritchie roof design. This particular concept had one high raised mast with wiring running into the ground. We were particularly influenced by this, however, decided to alter it slightly by using two masts instead of one. This was due to the surface area we had to cover, it was vital that we created the perfect angle for the water run off of the canvas.

As we were so organised when planning for the building, we thought we knew exactly where the single and double panel walls were going. Therefore, we assumed it was just a process of making a production line for drawing, cutting and sticking the walls to bring our design to life.

However, later on in the day we did have to make amendments to our design. This was due to the issue which was raised that pathogens could be spreading easily because infected sections hadn’t been cut off from the non-infected areas.  To overcome this dilemma we re-designed the layout, moving all the non infected areas to the front of the building and sectioning them off with the infected areas reassigned to the rear. We also added more decontamination areas for where staff and public can shower, to clean off any pathogens they may have picked up whilst in the medical centre.

After this, it was then decided that our aim for day 4 was to achieve a structural design for the roof using a canvas idea, with inspiration taken from a tent design.