Date : 10th September 2008
In our earlier lectures, we were given guidance by CikWan on our assignment, the DOME. Our Intention is to form a group of five and build a geodesic dome. We have decided to build a 1V dome after considering our resources. We went to CikWan for more advices and we are grateful that CikWan is willing to spend some time with us, giving us ideas and suggestions.
My team, which is the Actor, carries the name PRAIRIE and my group members include La Yanbo, Ng Phei Li, Ong Rae Lynn and Wong Chung Fong. All five of us worked together from the beginning till our Domes Day cooperatively. I am very happy to have them in my group as all of us had very memorable moments together, including the time when we challenged Yanbo to assemble the dome all by himself in 15 minutes.
The Rules set by CikWan include zero cost, packaged, prefabricated, the dome should be able to accomodate five besides being able to be carried by three people, to assemble the dome in 30 minutes by only team members and the dome should carry team's identity.
Our dome is made up of mop sticks, screws and butterfly nuts which I had asked from my juniors as we, girl guides, use a lot of mop sticks and the mop sticks will then be stored a room until the incoming office bearers clear them up at the end of the year. We had made use of several boxes as our package so it would be convenient to be carried around. The boxes will be recycled while the mop sticks, screws and butterfly nuts will be re-used for other purposes. One of our members wished to take the dome home to be HIS clothes-line. ~.~ Well, it is therefore, recyclable, creatively.
We estimated the lifespan of the dome to be around 30 days, taking into account of the weather and the topography. Our site is on a slope which would be of disadvantage should it rain heavily as we did not have a proper foundation to withstand the rain water flowing from the top.
There are 39 groups on that day which are arranged as a Dome Spine and our Site is situated at Site Number 33.
We started our Act by having discussion at Roti Bakar and after deciding on our materials and other details, we started building the dome with rafia. After a short talk with CikWan, we decided to change our plan. We decided to connect the domes using screws instead.
The following are the pictures of the production of our dome.
Actor : PrairieIntention : To build a geodesic dome
Act : Check out the dome calculator website
Rule : It must be a geodesic dome
Site : Yanbo's place
Product : Measurement of each struts based on the radius
Actor : PrairieIntention : To minimize or avoid mistakes totally
Act : Check other websites and see examples of geodesic dome
Rule : Geodesic dome
Site : Internet
Product : Confirmation of measurements
Actor : Ng Phei LiIntention : To measure the struts
Act : Mark on the mop sticks for Yanbo to saw
Rule : Struts of the same length
Site : Yanbo's place
Product : Twenty four 1.1m long struts
Actor : La YanboIntention : To saw the mopsticks as measured
Act : Saw the mop sticks
Rule : To follow the marking
Site : Balcony
Product : Twenty four 1.1m long struts
Actor: Wong Chung Fong
Intention : To cut the rafia
Act : Measure one-arm length and cut the rafia
Rule : Not to waste resources
Site : Yanbo's place
Product : Bunches of rafia which were not used in the end due to change of plans
Actor : Tan Li Ling
Intention : To connect the struts
Act : Trial and error with rafia
Rule : To be built as a geodesic dome
Site : Yanbo's place
Product : Connected struts
Intention : To prepare the report
Act : Take pictures, type and sketch the dome
Rule : The paper must be of 210 mm x 210 mm in size
Site : 210 mm x 210 mm papers
Product : Report
Actor : Prairie
Intention : To make the dome look presentable
Act : Paint the struts
Rule : Zero cost
Site : Yanbo's place
Product : Prairie's baby ---> the dome
More pictures - the weekend before Domes Day
Actor: Rae Lynn and Yanbo
Intention : Create a package with recycled boxes
Act : Cut and connect the boxes with tapes to make a package
Rule : Zero cost and recyclable
Site : Yanbo's place
Product : Package for the dome
Actors : La Yanbo, Karen Wong Chung Fong, Ng Phei Li, Tan Li Ling,
Ong Rae Lynn (holding the camera)
Intention : To assemble the dome in 30 minutes.
Act : Work together cooperatively and time ourselves.
Rule : To complete in 30 minutes
Site : Yanbo's place
Product : Assembled the dome in 15 minutes
Tadaa...
Product : Dome.
Actors : Prairie
Intention : To come out with a report describing our dome
Act : Take pictures, type the report and draw sketches of our dome
Rule: Use 210mm x 210 mm papers
Site : 210 mm x 210 mm papers. Phew...
Product : Report as shown above
Actor : Prairie
Intention : To carry the dome down to the car
Act : Dismantle the dome and put it in the box
Rule : To be carried by three people
Site : Yanbo's apartment compound
Product : Carried the dome by only one person
On the Domes Day, all of us gathered in E48A for a briefing by CikWan before proceeding to the Temple to hand in our report, take a group picture and for the Carryability Test Path. Our site is at number 33, which is situated rather far away from HBP. We were pretty exhausted by the time we arrived at our site but we went on assembling the dome without delaying any further. Even though our site is far, it is shaded thus we do not feel the warmness as bad as the first few groups whereby their sites are not shaded by trees.
Below are the pictures during the Domes Day.
Pictures above and below are from http://www.hbp.usm.my/1b/RAG132/2008/domeregist.htm
Prairie's baby... On site ---> SITE NO. 33 (at the valley)
ACTORS
From left : Karen, Yanbo, Rae Lynn, Li Ling, Phei Li
Visiting other group's domes. This looks good...
This looks adorable
Made of cardboards. That's a lot of work.
PRAIRIE
When there's a will, there's always a way
No comments:
Post a Comment