Design Futures

Today in class the teacher was away so we had time to start working on our 5 minute oral presentation we have to present next term with our partner. The presentaioin has to have a form of multimedia which we decided to do on a powerpoint. We have to talk about the uniqueness of our resort and the sustainable designs involved. We will talk about the materials used in the making of our resort and the way in which ours is special. Our presentaion will have pictures and we will stand up and speak as the powerpoint plays. We have got a plan on what we are going to talk about and we have started the powerpoint. We will need to take photos of the finished project when we complete it and write the speech. We are happy with the way ours is coming along but may have to sacrifice some of our designs on the project as we wmay run out of time. Originally we decided to do a fence as the entrance to the resort but as we have made the building and put the roof on there will be no room. Also the docks and bridges on each building, we may not have time to make both or even one as the making of the 3 buildings has taken us much longer than we expected.

Last class we handed in Task 2 of our assignment which was the time schedule and the written part of the assignment. This class we were in the workshop. ours is coming along really well. We have now covered all of the buildings and have used chicken wire to back the roof so we can bend the cardboard into the right shape so it looks japanese. On the roofs we have decuded to use 1cm strips of the corrogated cardboard, red for main building and silver for the two little one. and we are double folding them and glueing them onto the roof coming out to the edges. this will emphasise the japanese style. Next lesson we will continue to finish then start on the layout and water in ours.

Today in class we had time to take pictures and catch up on our blog. So far with our project we have made the hill on one side of the board, cut out and constructed the building and covered then in red cardboard. We are doing well so far and know what we are doing. We still need to do the roof of the buildings and finish the main one then the buildings will be done. Below are some pictures of our project so far.

This is our board with the hill. To make this we first had to make the wooden boarder around that part of the board. Too make the actual hill we put newspaper then covered it in chicken wire to get the shape. We then covered this in plaster.

This is the 3 buildings on the board. this picture shows the size scale of the hill with the 3 buildings. the buildings aren't  finished and need the traditional Japanese style roofs but this is what the layout with eventually look like.

This is the main building. Here you can see how we made it. we cut the certain size strips with a stanley knife out of cardboard then folded them and reinforced the corners with tape. We then with this will cover it in a red cardboard instead of painting as it will be quicker and look better.

This is one of the 2 small buildings that has been covered in cardboard. The red corrugated cardboard is what we are using for the roof, red here and gold for the main building. The roof here is not attached and just a draft idea for the size and shape we want the roof to be. To curve the corners up we may have to use a wire or other materials to shape the cardboard.

These are the two small buildings. both now need a roof. to stabilise the layers we had to cut the cardboard and fit a peice inside the squares for the next layer to rest on.

This is another picture of the board with the hill. Form this angle you can see the chicken wire that has beed used and the wooden boarder. The plaster will be painted in a green then we will use little trees of soem sort to create the japanese style theme.

Task twow hich is the written work on a famous architect and sustainability is due in one week. We have nearly done question 1 on the archtiect but still need to finish before it is due. I am happy with the project so far we are on time and doing well.

Yesterday in class we went into the workshop to work on our hotel. Ours is coming along really weel. Last lessoni was away but Petra and Chase made the hill on one side of the board and covered it. This lesson we made the base and first layer of our japanese style hotels. they are a good size and will look good when finished. After we finish the hotels we will fill the board with the water.