RAG 132 BUILT ENVIRONMENT: 2008

Friday, September 12, 2008

Geodesic Dome (10-09-2008)

Intension

Idea:
- To experience a real construction.
- To enable a practical learning space for actors to learn the actual construction.
- To be holistic, analyzing the whole system of believes.
- Learn to consider all factors before construction.
- To be simulative, reproduce features of something exist.

Decision Made:
- Rules given
- Site given
- Actors selected
- Product detail given

Group formed: 5 people with at least one different in major

Product to be established: A Geodesic Dome

Rules: Zero cost, Packaged, Prefabricated, Accommodate 5, Carry able by 3, Assembled in 30min.

Site: Inside of campus, starting from school of HBP.

Actor5members of the group work together to build up the dome.

Group leader:Chuah San Yu

Group members : Frederick Tan Wooi Hean

Chen YiQian

Loo Ruey Chih

Wang Zhong Hao

ProductGeodesic Dome
Selected: 2V
Size of radius: 1 meter.
Wall constructs with 5 pentagons and 1 roof (pentagon also)
Pentagon: Formed by 5 sticks with 0.55 meters at the center and at the endsticks is connected with another sticks with 0.62 meters.The pentagon is actually formed by 5 isosecles triangles.6 pentagons will merge with each other at each edge to form a geodesic dome.After merging the pentagon’s wall, many equilateral triangles with 0.62 meters will be formed at each side of the triangles.

Rules
Source Collected: Zero cost.
Material is gathered and cleaned. Ropes are collected at dock where fisherman used to tie boat knot. Smelly and is cleaned with fresh water. Kayu Mertam is collected from hearse and coffin shop where Chinese used them to construct sculpture to burn for dead people. The wood is being shaped into the size we want. Material is recyclable. Coconut ropes can be connected by using machine into long-chain coconut fiber ropes. The Kayu Mertam is a natural and biodegradable material; light and not heavy, merging into one piece by factory to form a wood platform. It’s packaged and formed by 6 pieces of pentagon wall. Can accommodate 5peoples and carry able by 3peoples. No steel material has been used, no rusting condition occur.

It’s prefabricated. The lifespan of the dome should be more than one year. The entire dome fulfills all the requirements listed.

Kayu Mertam

coconut rope

SiteActual

Site: On the Domes Day, our actual site is located at number3.

Report on Project Schedule

1st Meeting: Planning and Material Determination

Date: 27 August 2008

Data: Gather opinions from each member. Material selection has been made. Opinion analysis has been made and choice of selection is made.

Conclusion: Choose for wood material but not too heavy to enable transportation system. We search for wood in forest but failed. We sketch and calculate the size of the dome. We found out that 2V dome is suitable for us and we decided to use the appropriate scale that we have calculated for our dome.

2nd Meeting: Practical Building 1

Date: 3 September 2008

Data: Material gathered. Practice on merging the product and design the structure.

Conclusion: Finally one of our members passed a coffin shop and she sees lights. We decided to use the wood that those material that has been used by that shop. The shopkeeper agreed to provide us excessive wood material. After gathered up all the material, we started to build our foundation for the dome. We accomplished the dome foundation within 4 hours.

the knot tied by Chuah San Yu

it open like umberalla

we try to arrange it in a pentagon shape

we tied the bamboo with fisherman knot

3rd Meeting: Practical Building

Date: 5 September 2008
Data: Structure confirmation has been made.
Conclusion: We started to make our roof and finally combined them together to form a dome. Sugar bags are collected and sealed them up into one piece. We are trying to form a large piece of shelter for the dome. We succeed.

the pentagon shape of bamboo were completed.

How many hands are there ?

4th Meeting: 30 Minutes Training

Date: 9 September 2008
Data: Trial on overall project. Prefabricated pieces are formed into one in time

Conclusion: We practice on how we build the dome in time. We separate the job evenly. Final practice has been made.

San Yu was tried to repair the knot .

We five person get into the dome .

This is the dome that we completed at the site no.3 .

PRODUCT (03-09-2008)

Product is in a form of

~size

~scale

~shape

~proportion

~colour

~pattern

~etc............

It may be also an illusion

SITE: scale to built environmental (27-08-2008)

SCALE
Scale is a measurement that estimating the magnitude of some attribute of an object which relative to some standard .

NEW WORLD ORDER
For the conspiracy theory see, New World Order (conspiracy), for other uses see New World Order.
“ Plans for far-reaching changes in the character of international society are an intellectual by-product of all great wars. —Nicholas J. Spykman, America's Strategy in World Politics ”

The term "new world order" has been used to refer to a new period of history evidencing a dramatic change in world political thought and the balance of power. The first usages of the term surrounded Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points and call for a League of Nations following the devastation of World War I. The phrase was used sparingly at the end of the Second World War when describing the plans for the United Nations and Bretton Woods system, in part because of the negative association to the failed League of Nations the phrase would bring. In retrospect however, many commentators have applied the term retroactively to the order put in place by the WWII victors as a "new world order."

WORLD GOVERMENT= the general concept of global political governance
World government is the concept of a political body that would make, interpret and enforce international law. Inherent to the concept of a world government is the idea that nations would be required to pool or surrender (depending on point of view) sovereignty over some areas. In effect, a world government would add another level of administration above the existing national governments or provide coordination over areas national governments are not capable of adequately addressing as independent polities. The authority granted this level and how it relates to national governments and/or citizens is debated by both adherents and opponents to world government.

Some people see international institutions (such as the International Criminal Court, United Nations and International Monetary Fund) and various supranational and continental unions (such as Organization of American States, European Union, African Union, Union of South American Nations and Asian Union) as the beginning elements of a world government system. An organization comprising legislators from various nations known as Parliamentarians for Global Action have promoted ideas of democratic global governance, though such promotion has varied in its scope and intensity during the organization's history.

IATROGENIC
The term "iatrogenocide is derived from the combination of words "iatrogenesis, meaning physician induced illness, and "genocide, defined as the mass killing and/or enslaving of people for economics, politics, and/or ideology.

PRODUCTION MODEL(13-08-08)

The built environment is built, produced. We therefore need a way to look at its production, perhaps generally first, the model of production. Production must consist :

1.INTENTION

2.ACT

3.PRODUCT

4. ACTOR

5.RULE

6.SITE

INTENTION=having KNOWLEDGE including listen , see and differentiating .
No right + No wrong =alturism
All wrong =Relativism
Some right , some wrong = criticism

ACT=DOING involve perceiving, designing etc

PRODUCT = our built-environment

ACTOR= the source of ism which underlies our intention

RULE=determine what is right and what is wrong to do (act on)

SITE= on our planet earth , paper , table ..........