Week 3 : Arrival of bamboo

and so, the bamboos arrived.

There are 16 of them each measuring around 1.6m
Unfortunately some of the bamboo has got holes.
Good thing that we bought quite a number of them.

This is Sue Anne.

This is Sze Jie.

Photos by Stephanie. These are the bamboo in half.

Job well done in less than 2 hours :)

Next week: Construction of the floor/base of the floating dome.

Week 2 : Final plan for materials and model

Hello again,

here is our group name:

3S

&

name of our floating dome is

DOMESAURUS

We visited a shop today to survey on the materials for Domesaurus.

For economical and environmental reasons, we decided to use

recyclable materials to build Domesaurus.

Finalized materials:

Bamboo for base

Plastic bottles to build up the hemisphere (Dome)

Raffia string for joints

Bolt & nut for top joint of dome

Measurement for bamboo base:

150cm X 150cm

(previously was 120cm X 120cm)

We changed the measurements because the bamboo 

we tend to buy comes in a length of 300cm.

Measurements for the dome:

Diameter of base - 130cm

Height - 100cm

Next, we finalized the model using Google SketchUp.

Next week: Purchase and collection of materials.

Week 1 : Discussion

9 August 2010

We were having our first discussion at Anjung Budi while having our lunch.

Rough sketches on idea of our floating dome.

Measurement of the base of the floating dome:

1.2m X 1.2m

Next week: Check out materials for floating dome.