Studio journal06

Constructing Environment Studio Journal Week 6

581758 Wanzhen Ma

Activity One: ‘WORKSHOP EXERCISE’

We were asked to make a beam with 2 different type wood materials. One of them is a thin plywood board and the other is pine.

Constructing process

Crack easily

Not easy to crack

We top-nailed the plywood board using square-headed cut nails

Constructing Process

We fixed short pine in the above plywood board

When our beam was under force‌‌.

The first crack appeared on the top pine wood.

Then the sheets and the bottom timber cracked as well.The cracks on the sheets are different to shoes on pine wood, because of the internal shear forces.

It was interesting that the bottom timber wasn’t cracked in the middle were force applied,instead it cracked along the wood knot

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Activity Two: ‘1:50 Building Model’

"I" bean in the building