07_Wenjie Cai

Constructing Environments

Week 7 Journal

By Wenjie Cai 634077

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2 (red square pools 2013) This steel structure is used for spraying concrete on it through a pressure hose, which is called gunite. It is the same method as building swimming pools.

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The structure of the bed is designed for better movement of the person on the bed.

This grey plastic is not only for making the mattress fixed so that it does not move left and right when the person on the bed is moving. It also designed to be more comfortable as the plastic is flexible that the person sleeps on the bed feel softer.

This ‘white board’ is used for protecting the wall while constructing 2

This glass box is designed as a memory boxes for the elderly that cannon remember things well. The memory box is attached to the wood board and then fixed on the wall

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The purpose of this track is for helping the people that have difficulties to move from the bed to the bathroom

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This is the structural frame of the kitchen. The pipe on the floor is the pipe for gas

Concrete is mix of several materials. Materials used cause the color variation of the concrete.

The photo below shows the color variation of the in situ concrete.

Grey

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Yellow 10

Dark

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These 3 photos show the structure of the windows. The window is supported by several little pieces of materials before the construction of the plaster surfaces of the wall has been completed.

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13 The metal in the wall is used for shaping a perfect ridge for the wall and also used for protecting the wall so that its ridge would not be easily damaged. When the builders paint the wall, people cannot see this metal as the painting covers them.

The holes are deigned so that the surface of the ridge will not be separated from the main structural of the wall, so it will not fall off after the painting is dried.

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The exhaust pipe in the building

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Wall batts for insulation