Construction environment week 2 Tension force
Cutting strips into very fine, less than 1 inch width
The aim of this task is we need to build a tower simply joining the strip by super glue, our aim is to build the tower as tall as we can.
During the task, we realise we cannot cut the strip into too fine, it just break easily by light pressure. The weak strips are very unlikely manage to hold the building structure. We were able to cut around 24 strips from the wooden board.
The tower was able to touch the ceiling, almost, but Join the fine strips simply by super glue
We created a cross joins bewteen strips in order to create a building structure in order to support the tower
We were able to build it tall, however ...
We actually used tape to support the tower. which consider CHEATING. The structure was unable to strand after the removal of the tapes, but it was a WEAK structure.
SITE VISIT : OVAL PAVILION - REDEVELOPMENT
The CONE shape building of the old OVAL PAVILION plan. The CONE shape structure appears like steel with some green paint, it appears some oxide reaction already occur on the metal surface. Oxidation might due to the ageing of the buidling
ORMOND COLLEGE: major material of the build : Sandstone
This is the picture we took when we were standing on the South West side of the old building. OVAL PAVILION is going to be re-developed in the nearly future. We visited the site in week 2. We first were standing on the North West (NW) cornor of the redevelopment site. We saw there was a ORMOND COLLEGE located just behind the re-development site.
The actual body structure of the old OVAL PAVILION are made of timber with green paint. The windows frame believe to be made by wood and glass.
The map of the OVAL PAVILION
We took this picture when we were standing on the south from the OVAL PAVILION.
Behind the OVAL PAVILION site, on the North East cornor, it is the McCaughey Court, which major building material are concrete and steel.