Saturday, August 22, 2009

Reply to Joints team and others

I dont understand why drilling holes in the end of say steel coping is insufficient? In all the structures we have seen they are done like this or they have eyelets screwed into the ends of the compression elements, similar to what i was trying to do the other day. The major concern i think is the tensile material... what kind of rubber? can we get a clear rubber? how does the rubber attach to the compression element ie if we have eyelets how do we tie them off? we could use small steel clamps for example. I think in general tensegrity looks a little precarious but as we have seen in numerous examples its structural integrity is very impressive. Have more faith in the structure Felicity :)
Regarding goals, i will put up a list tomorrow afternoon. I will check with student admin or something to see if they studios are free on tuesday at 2pm. Everyone i strongly suggest that you bring other work with you to do in case we finish before we meet Phil at 6pm. For those of you who work no worries however the 2pm meeting is important, basically we need a structural solution for tuesday!
I expect those in the program team to have numerous forms ready!!

Regarding the lights as compression element in itself, it won't work because we are still unsure on the lighting source and set-up, it all depends on cost and availability of some sort of investment.

Eleanor: I think that could be a good idea because if it turns out people cannot enter the pavillion then we were going to have images printed onto mirror behind the lighting so it could work however our aim is to request a shaded spot if we win.

Christen.

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