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WEEK 1 – TUTORIAL 2/08 In the first week tutorial our tutor Lisa has made an introduction to the subject. This introduction intended to give students an overview of the year and, highlighted the different assessment of the semester. As it was the first tutorial of the subject the tutor asked us to “break the ice” with other students by introducing ourselves one to another. Afterwards, Lisa split the initial groups of students so that everyone got to know each other and she formed new groups for the activity. As the studio was based on the principle of “compression” , each groups had to built the higher tower possible by using blocks of wood shaped in rectangular forms. Each group were using the different techniques of compression to build their tower, with different templates for the foundation of their structure. Which lead to different types/shapes of structures. The three types of compression learned in the tutorial were as follow:
In order to build the tower, my group and I had chosen a square shaped structure as the foundation. We've started building the tower by the same technique shown above in Figure 1.1. After 6 layers of wooden blocks we decided to change the template of the compression structure and opted for columns (Figure 1.3). That was not a good idea... As we were getting higher, 18 layers, we came to the assumption that we have changed the template of our structure too early. This has affected our tower in terms of stability (Figure 1.6). We also realised that our square used as the foundation of the tower was too big and it would take a long time before it becomes a high tower. The group has accepted that it was a failure in terms of height, but we still tried to provide a cross-‐shaped foundation inside the square (Figure 1.5). This could have helped by adding load bearing walls for a possible roof. Saddly time caught us and the tutorial had come to an end.
Figure 1.1 Figure 1.2 Figure 1.3
Figure 1.4 Building the tower.
Figure 1.5 New “X” shaped foundation inside tower.
Figure 1.6 Tower is at a collapsing point
Roof is collapsing