Day 4: Models and Stockpile

Today we had a meeting with Catherine who showed us some pieces of her work early in the morning relevant to our project to help improve our design in the context of thinking about the community we address our building to.

Presentation of Catherine in the morning

We talked about the concept we had already thought of through physical models and started thinking about the materials we will eventually use in order for the actual building to match our concept models.

Models and concept exchange

We started stockpiling all our materials in one place to get a sense of what we can actually build from all the ideas we have and get a bit more realistic about it. In the context of having our feet on the ground, we all gathered in the archive room once again to make some 1:10 models with real measurements from the timber in our stockpile.

The quality of the timber in our disposal (or at least the majority of it)

Stockpiling all the timber behind AVA

Modelmaking in 1:10 

While most of us were busy with the models and brainstorming new ideas, Jas was down at the workshop trying to create a prototype of the junction used for the timber frame.

Creating the prototype of the junction

Mistakes and recalculations

At this point we have a lap junction with pegs for support

Now for tomorrow we need to get up early and queue to be the first outside the workshop in order to get the electric drill and dismantle all the trusses as well as removing all the screws from the timber in our stockpile so we can use it properly. A meeting is also booked for 1.30 pm with Alex in central London to get some extra feedback for our progress.