Day 10: The Twin Towers

Having all the pieces already cut yesterday made our lives much easier today. We started early by assembling the pieces together and the first frame was pretty much easy to lift and make it stand on its own balance.

Assembling the post by interlocking the panels with dowels

Lifting up our fully operational module for the first time

A free - standing frame

One problem we encountered while having it stand on its own weight proved out to be the wind speed. The location that we use as construction space is very much exposed to the high speed eastern winds and as a result our module started moving on one axis due to aerodynamics. It made us think however that a base is way more important than we thought it would be and we started coming up with different kind of designs to strengthen the base and reduce the tilting of the frame due to the wind.

High speed wind: A major problem at the moment

First concept for the base with interlocking pieces

We thought of a base which consists of 2 pieces that interlock with each other in a manner that they can only be taken apart vertically. (which is not possible due to the weight of the post) Apart from taking much time to mark and make the 2 pieces interlock perfectly, it seems that we didn't think of the pressure forced on the interlock and eventually ended up with a scrap wood and a failed idea.

By dividing the load of work to all group members we made great progress and managed to lift another frame in the same day. A huge drawback to our time schedule was the various cars, trolleys and tracks that kept coming through our construction site and forcing us to dismantle everything and put it aside.

Dividing in smaller groups but working on the same thing proved to be very efficient

Criss - Crossing the two frames

Constantly having to dismantle everything due to tracks and cars

Only thing that remains now is to have willing people to come over the weekend and work on the last beam and final assembly.