Team Name: 5 together
Intention:
>> Trust us! We can do it! (which is our motto^^v)
>> To show that all girls team are able to produce a geodesic dome coming with a team report too.
Rules ( Given ):
- Zero cost
- Packaged
- Prefabricated
- Accommodate by 5 people
- Carryable by 3 people
- Assembled in 30 minutes
- Life Span: 1 month
- Recyclable
Actor:
[at least ONE from a different major]
- Our group leader, Shosan a/p Sunton (Architecture)
- Me, Tan Meigi (Architecture)
- Member, Ow Yang Seok Tin (Architecture)
- Member , Thor Ai Pheng ( Quantity Survey)
- Member, Phneh Zhing Horng ( Quantity Survey)
Site:
- No. 21 on The Dome Number located near to HBP
Action:
- Produce 6 pentagons and connect them successfully on Domes Day!
- Type out the team report.
Product:
Here is the dome that we build~
The story...
To build a 2V dome with the radius 1.22m, we need a total of 49 struts(35 Struts 0.75 meters each and 30 Struts 0.67 meters each ).
At first, we decided to use newspaper as the struts by rolling few pages together and use steel wire to connect the struts together. After preparing for few days, we trying to build the dome. However, we failed due to the weight of the newspaper strut. We used too many pages of newspaper for a strut, making the strut too heavy to support or being supported.
Our newspaper dome collapsed.
But this will not stop us from trying. We did not give up! We trying to build a dome with bamboo, which is kindly sponsored by Mr. Ah Hock from Hock Chinese Paper Art Making Shop at Macalister Road, Penang [ Zero Cost ]. Mr. Ah Hock also teaches us the techniques in combining the bamboo struts by using masking tape.
Combining the bamboo struts with masking tape into a pentagon.
It’s quite easy. We can produce a pentagon shape within 5mins. The 6 pentagons is prepared for the prefabrication.
We trying to combine the 6 pentagons with steel wire see whether it can accommodate 5 people or not. Yes^^ it can~
I'm doing the covers for my pentagon.
Covering the pentagons with 5 different colours to show our identity. I choose yellow colour for myself, which represent optimistic, sunny, joyful and young at heart! Also, yellow is the concentration and attention getter.
We finished the coverings at about 8pm, Monday.
Our colourful dome...
I'm sitting inside the dome.
After that, we complete our team report, illustrating all the rules including the lifespan of the proposed dome and what the materials can be recycled into.
We predict that our dome should be last for 1 month.
On 10 Sept 2008, Wednesday, which is our domes day, we carry the 6 pentagons easily to the site no.21 at the Minden Valley Dome Spine near to the HBP after we hand in the team report and registered ourselves for the photo registration.
We set up our dome successfully within 30mins.
Posing with our dome..
Our colourful dome and i..
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