Week8: Laser cutting prototype

Some laser cutting connections prototypes had been made by the other group members. The fundamental purpose is to reinforce the design. After that, I searched on the Internet to find out more connection details.

Some more connections:

Group Presentation: Intellectual Property (IP)

The Last Suprematist group shows the different types of IP such as Copyright and Patents. The video information relates their project to IP well. However, some of the text on the video is hard to read as it goes too fast. 

The Gothic Architecture group did well in both video and presentation. The video was informative explaining what we should do to protect our ideas. The presentation went into details on explaining what kind of IP applies to the project it should be. The group was focusing on the materials that could relate intellectual property issue. The major resource is the things we took from the Internet. The video used a cartoon animation to explain the IPs which is very interesting.

Week 6 : DETAIL 3- ROOF DETAIL: TOP VIEW OF END OF CANOPY

The detail shows the top view of the roof design. This detail design is from Hank. It is the same thing from the Detail 1 but a top view of the ends.

There are two options which are given by Hank. These are two different kinds of connection methods. The scale is 1:1.

This is the full view of the design. The top twos are option 1 and the bottom threes are option 2.

Group Presentation: Communication

Gothic Architecture group presented the forms of communication and how they effect to each other. The video shows different communication types such as Facebook and meet face to face. It also shows the positives and negatives of each communication and misunderstandings that could be happened as well as how to avoid the misunderstanding. The spoken presentation part was good by using the prezi to present. The overall presentation was quite informative. However, there were too much text to read it and the audience won't have enough time to read it.

The Last Suprematist group provided pretty good information although the text on the video were too long to read it. The video explained creatively by the use of cartoons to illustrate the miscommunications that could happen in a group and the solutions.

The Bus Stop of the Future group use of different techniques in communication including Facebook, Dropbox and Texting. Group on Facebook was a good way for the group to communicate and for members to discuss the processes they need to do. Constant communication is important with client to make sure anything goes on track without any delays and overcome deadlines. The video shows some very good renders and montages of the bus stop concept.

Week 5

According to last week's discussion, I think the most important idea is to to keep the bus stop portable. To achieve that, we should keep the connection simple and easy to move.

For the roof connection , I have got some ideas. In order to keep the whole bus stop stable, I want to separate the middle part with the roof part.

The idea there is to extrude the top of the middle bar and insert into the roof bar. Then, we will use screws to connect them in order to firm the connection.

option 1: sticking the screws on the side part of the roof pannel

option 2: sticking the screws on the inner part

option 3: sticking the screws on the external part

Group Presentation: Planning

The Aerial Ropeway group was impressive. They started with showing Gantt chart for basic time management tool. This provides a quick and clear understanding of the group's work and could use this as a reminder to clarify each member's role and their work process through the project.

The video presented by them was quite interesting on their trip to Blue Mountains which was also identified all their individual tasks.

Week 4

As we have received the full Sketchup file, we need to redesign the connection ideas based on the previous one. Literally, the primary changes are on the height of the seat as well as the shape of the end parts of the seat. At this moment, the whole shape of the seat loos like a snake and the previous design could be not stable enough to hold it up.

The full file

The original file

After discussion with our group, we have made some improvement which is slotting another panel on the base. We may use the same slotting way from my design last week which is called Biasing.

The new design sketch

Group members came up of the idea of using metal plates for reinforcing. There will be three sets of metal plates connecting the base and the panels.

Detailed design

Considering the design before could connect the seating area vertically. So, I came up with the idea to strength the connection horizontally. As a result, I designed a horizontal panel to connect the vertical one smoothly by the method called Corner ("L") Joints.

Corner ("L") Joints

The final design view of the connection for bottom part. The horizontal extrusion is designed to connect both ending part together as the vertical connection can not reach that. So, that is a very important part.

Final design view

Bus Stop Detailed Design

Some Detailed designs in Sketchup referenced to Ruoqi Gan's research.

The way of slotting bottom panel with the sitting area which is called Biasing.

To connect the sitting area with the bottom panel solidly, I decide to join the first seat slice and the last seat slice with the bottom panel in this way which is called Tee ("T") Joints.

Final design of the bottom connection.

Targeted CV

Link to download PDF format: CV Kangyi Tang ARCH1392