Day 3 was spent putting the finishing touches to timber frame elements columns, 355 finishing touches to be precise, frequently raising the question amongst the team; if the structure were to be recycled again, would it be classified as wood or metal? A neat ‘forest’ of nails is used to reinforce the beams to the [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Day 3: Plane-sailing
Posted in Uncategorized on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In a fortnights time…
Posted in Uncategorized on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What we expect to stand prowd on Tudor Square
Construction begins! – Day 1
Posted in Uncategorized on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The first day of construction involves construction our building components in a Womans construction college, north Sheffield.
Rapid progress was made on day one having made 8 columns and 1 1/2 beams
Despite England’s defeat in the Rugby World Cup final, Pete still finds something to cheer about as team Space of Waste arrive at the workshop.
Jeff [...]
Film of Waste
Posted in Uncategorized on October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
United plastics scrap
Gordon’s spends a day on the tiles!
Posted in Uncategorized on October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Gordon makes a mockup of the carpet tile roof, pretty groovy!
timber anyone?
Posted in Uncategorized on October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
architects and engineer in showdown shocker 18.10.07
Posted in Uncategorized on October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Geoff, our timber frame man, helped us make a prototype column-beam connection, which we hoped would convince our more skeptical structural engineer from Arup. We solved a few details in the design that had been keeping us awake at night, and FINALLY agreed on a timber structure that satisfied (albeit only just) our Arup man.
Design session on the M1
Posted in Uncategorized on October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
James, Peter and Sarah make time for a quick one on the M1, in the traffic on the way back from Dan’s office in Bradford. You just can’t stop us..
pretty good plywood
Posted in Uncategorized on October 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Pulled fresh from the deepest darkest skips of industrial suburban sheffield…. i give you our facades.
Meeting with Dian
Posted in Uncategorized on October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We then went to Dian Coleman at Arups to discuss the structural design of the scheme. Dian told us that we needed to pin down the building better, due to the possibility of the columns splaying out, or the builing being picked up by the wind. We need to reduce the number of joints that [...]
