Day 5: Now Stop! It's Hammer time!!

Even before having our coffee we queued for the workshop to get the electric drill and thus the day started early in the morning with great excitement about getting our hands on the used timber and actually doing something to get the process of building our project started.

Waiting outside the workshop at 9.00 am

Unfortunately most of the screws already in our pieces of wood were a bit slanted which made our work even harder. Four drill bits were completely destroyed in the process and most of the grooves in the screws were gone. After removing what seemed like a thousand screws we hammered down the pieces to extract the nails that were still binding them together.

Most of the screws are a bit slanted and rusty

Getting the screws out of the timber posts

Hammering down the timber in order to expose the nails

Screws, screws everywhere

While this was going on at the university, the rest of the group was getting ready to meet Alex at Bank station to discuss our ideas and get some feedback on the models and concepts. We met on the third floor of St Mary Woolnoth church in a small studio space at 1.30 pm. Who would even think that there would be a studio inside the church!!

The group outside St. Mary Woolnoth Church

After the discussion with Alex we held an informal meeting at Pret a Manger at King William Str. to exchange ideas about our progress and organize ourselves for the weekend to come.

Pret a Manger meeting in the afternoon

A brilliant idea is in the process

Discussing about changes and realignments

Over the weekend we will redesign braces, frame and structural points as well as a base. We don't want to get stuck in the design process that much since we already know that it didn't work out well for last year's group and led to an incomplete project. We are positive though that we will start building by the start of next week.