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Week  1~3  Lecture  Knowledge  Map  

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Week  1  E-­‐Learning  &  Studio  Knowledge  Map  

 

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Week  1  Studio  Session:  Building  Tower  with  Wooden  Blocks  

 We  started  with  planning  and  testing.  The  hint  given  is  the  more  angles  of  the  buildings,  the  more  stable  of  its  structure.  Hence,  circle  might  be  the  most  stable  structure  for  us  to  start  with.    

       

     

         

       

   

 

In  order  to  make  the  tower  more  stable  and  steady  for  a  certain  height,  we  decided  to  lay  down  the  wood  bricks  to  maximize  the  contact  are  between  the  base  of  the  tower  and  the  table.    

We  chose  the  most  secured  way  to  construct  the  tower.  We  divided  it  into  three  different  section,  with  the  decreasing  contact  area  with  the  underneath  level,  but  increasing  height  by  adjusting  the  orientation  of  the  bricks.  We  have  two  options  of  the  hollowed  doors  on  

the  tower  (as  shown  in  the  drawings).  The  first  one  is  just  simply  extend  the  bricks,  but  with  a  brick  standing  up  to  help  holding  the  bricks,  in  order  to  prevent  the  bricks  at  the  top  will  fall.  The  second  one  is  started  with  a  certain  height  stronger  foundation,  and  extends  it  carefully  with  more  bricks  holding  up.  It  use  the  idea  of  stagger  to  increase  the  friction  and  hope  can  better  support  the  extended  bricks.    

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Due  to  the  limitation  of  time,  the  tower  is  not  actually  completed  (toward  a  fragile  status).  However,  I  still  build  a  section  to  indicate  the  three  different  section  of  the  tower,  based  on  the  changing  orientation  of  the  bricks.  However,  a  significant  changes  is  also  made  with  a  careful  consideration  of  out  tutor`s  advice  –  the  intersection  of  the  second  and  third  lever,  I  added  an  layer  of  lay-­‐downed  bricks  in  order  to  increase  the  contact  areas  of  the  third  level  of  the  bricks.  This  is  detailed  shown  in  a  close-­‐shot  diagram.    

Finally,  we  made  both  designed  of  the  doors,  and  they  both  succeed.  (But  the  second  one  didn`t  been  recorded  in  a  picture)  It  is  important  for  me  to  notice  that  you  cannot  build  the  door  at  once,  but  need  to  build  it  level  by  level  in  a  circle.  During  this  process,  we  will  also  adjust  the  bricks  to  better  fully  fit  the  gaps  between  the  bricks.  

Finally,  we  were  starting  to  extract  some  blocks  from  the  tower.  As  shown  in  the  picture,  a  huge  gap  (as  big  as  the  door)  has  been  hollowed  without  the  tower  falling  down!  This  phenomenon  was  explained  in  the  drawing,  as  the  pressure  from  the  upper  bricks  acts  on  the  lower  ones,  and  keep  them  fixed  and  stable,  which  also  explained  the  succeed  of  the  hollowed  doors  before.  

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Week  2  E-­‐Learning  &  Studio  Knowledge  Map  

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Week  2  Studio  Session:  Building  Tower  with  balsa  wood  strips  

Before   the   studio,  we  have   to   cut   the  balsa  wood   into  20~40   long  pieces.  However,   the  more  we   cut,   the  weaker   the   strips.  Hence,   it   is   a  difficult  task  for  us  to  build  a  tower  using  these  brittle  wood  strips.    

       

In  order  to  make  the  strips  stronger  and  be  able  to  bear  the  weight,  we  decided  to  make  the  foundation  and  the  basic  level  of  the  tower  with  two  strips  connecting  together.  With  the  substructure,  there  is  a  gap  at  each  point  of  the  combination  strip.  Therefore,  when  two  if  them  crossover,  a  square  will  be  hollowed  in  between,  then  the  long  strip  will  put  into  it  as  the  first  level.  This  increases  the  contact  area  of  the  column  with  the  base,  which  might  make  it  stronger  and  less  possibility  to  fall  down.  

As  drew  in  the  diagram,  this  is  what  the  tower  might  look  like  after  construction.  The  dotted  line  indicate  the  diagonal  bracing  which  might  or  might  not  be  necessary  it  the  base  is  strong  enough.  The  connecting  point  of  each  level  is  similar  to  what  we  have  done  at  the  foundation,  which  should  be  able  to  hold  the  structure  of  the  tower.  

As  we  haven’t  built  the  tower  yet,  we  can  only  predict  the  finish  of  it.  I  recon  the  ways  of  constructing  do  work  and  can  be  able  to  build  up  a  tower.  However,  it  might  not  able  to  reach  a  significant  height,  as  the  foundation  might  be  a  little  bit  too  small  for  such  a  high  tower.  In  addition,  without  the  diagonal  bracing,  the  tower  might  be  quite  fragile,  hence  bracing  might  be  important  to  fixed  the  colomns.  


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