week 11

During this week, I have updated my roof detail again after discussion with Hank. There will be four options totally.

-  minitec 30x30 and connection option 1 (knock in two nails on the each bar diectly)

-  minitec 30x30 and connection option 2 (knock in one nail on the steel plate)

-  minitec 30x60 and connection option 1

-  minitec 30x60 and connection option 2

Group Presentation: Remuneration

The first group defined remuneration as any benefits you got from work. The choose of the job will be based on experience, business size, industry standards, stable income, ability to change positions etc. Some competition between working in freelancer and company. Basically, as the group presented, they think company would be a better choose. After that, they put remuneration in their own project which is The Last Suporematist. The expense they assumed in the project are calculated very accurate and well prepared. The Architecture & Construction Wages chart gives direct visual effect in terms of showing the average, minimum and max wages. But, the horizontal axis is not very clear to read.

Week 10

After Hank's correction, some faults have been corrected.

Updated Detail 3


Group Presentation: Conflict 

The Aerial Ropeway group shows some kinds of differences in group cooperation such as different gender, backgrounds and personalities. There was a lot of text in some of the slides but the rest was good and easy to understand the most important points. The video provides some performing conflicts which are quite funny. Moreover, it not only provides the conflicts but also gave the solutions of these conflicts.

The Last Suporematist group had informative slides and presented with some actual conflicts they had in their group. The video was interesting which contains each member's attitude towards the conflicts.

Individual Major Milestone

Project Introduction

The project I selected is the Bus Stop From the Future. As a group member, I think I did my work very well. I uploaded my ideas and work on both Facebook and Blogger weekly. In the studio on Wednesday, I always participate in the group discussion in order to improve the bus stop design.

Till now, although I had done many detail designs, Hank seems like not very satisfy with our work. I think the project changed a lot during the mid-term break after the discussion with Hank. I uploaded the work I did weekly on Blogger, although it may be not so useful in the further design. As a group member, my major work is on connections and joints.

Individual Milestone

Bus stop research.

These are from Bus Infrastructure Guidelines -Issue 2

Gantt Chart.

The Gantt Chart was discussed in studio and created by Jason Lo

Planning Presentation.

ARCH1392 Bus Stop of the Future Planning Presentation

Laser cutting prototype.

Working with the other group members, we made a prototype to test the connection of the roof parts.

Weekly meeting.

Here are some notes written by Hank during the mid-term break. The connection details had been changed a lot from my original understanding.

Connection.

All the Skechup files below were created by myself. Some of those were designed after discussion and I made the Sketchup file after.

Connection Research.

Detail Drawings.

I was assigned to work on the third detail drawings after the meeting with Hank.

The detail 3 is ROOF DETAIL: TOP VIEW OF END OF CANOPY.

Facebook.

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.