AR
Project 1 - A Shelter For One
This project required students to build a structure consist of skeletal, solid and surface which enable a person of 60kg to sit in. The platform which the person sits on have to be at least 5 inches above ground, the materials used was adviced to be recycleble and able to resist weather. The joints used in connecting the members was also in the marking criteria of this project, appropriate joints such as bolts and nuts ot nails should be use in connecting the members in the structure. After that, students are required to produced an A3 bounded report to show the details and the process of the structure.
I was group with Ronn Chua, Hon Yi Hang, Lee Yi Na, Prisca Kwan and Yew Jie En in this project. At first, we designed a rocking shelter which enable the occupants to lay in, but the final product during the presentation day was questioned by the lecturers as it was a chair or a shelter, and the structure did not meet the requirement of being a shelter and there was not extinct diferrence of solid and surface. But fortunately, Ar Chin gave us another chance to rebuild the structure and he even guild us throughout the process to build an appropriate structure that shows solid, as the column to support the platform, the skeletal that support the whole structure including the roof structure and also the roofing system to make it weather resistant.
The link to the report can be access by clicking the last photo on the slideshow above
Reflective
Although we didn't perform well in the first submission, but fortunetely under the quidance by Ar Chin and Ar Sateerah and also the support from the groupmates, we are able to complete the task at last. I've learned the basic supporting members in a building and also the importance in joining the members together so that the structure can support the dead loads which were the platform, the roofing system and the live load which was the occupants in the shelter in it.