SDT 1-6

Today, Mr Ward showed us how to build the mountain using chicken fence(?), newspapers, plasters, water. He stapled chicken fence on the MDF board and put the news paper underneath it and created the feature of the mountain, than he sealed it with the stapler again. Then he cover them with the plaster and water mix until we couldn't see the fence under it and using the clothes to smooth the shape of it. For the rest of the lesson, Doris and I have discussed about our design again and finally we made our decision! As we determined to think about the design and draw some of our ideas last lesson, I have draw some designs myself and brought them in to the lesson but Doris couldn't do the ideation because of the assignments we given in recent days. I understand it because it is her first year in St Hilda's and year 10 work could been harsh for her as it is to me, but in some way, I was bit disappointed about that because we are bit behind compared to everyone else. Anyway, the one we searched on the google approached to us the best. So we have decided to go with it. Related to the building design above, we will have the round thing on the top as a solar panels, and will have some wind turbine in the woods on the back. Also 2 water in the middle will be made to a pool (maybe heated? from the power generated by the solar thermal) and buildings on the side will used as a parking lots. the big building on the back will be the resort and the smaller one in the front is a leisure building. Where it has entertaining faculties inside such as sports complex, sauna or whatsoever.

The photo above is my personal best design... the resort is located in front of the beach where it has the boats docks and also some parts are also can be used for people. The ocean will be wavy and there will be wave power facilities under the ocean which are called 'bioWave'. This generates energy from the wave. On the top of the building it will have the solar power and wind turbines at the back in the woods. This seemed to be quite sustainable because it uses 3 different environmental energy sources but because it is group work, so Doris didn't think that we need the ocean and the beach. Moreover, we prefer to make an architectural building than creating whole lot of environmental stuffs with the small buildings.  

They are the image of the big wave the one I chosen to use for the wave power. More information and informative video http://www.biopowersystems.com

image of solar thermal

SDT 1-5

Today our group has to start the ideation from the beginning because we can never find the middle ground of our discussion about design. Therefore I asked Doris to start the ideation and let us just draw any concepts of sustainable design by next lesson. I believe then we can mediate our ideas and opinions. Anyway, today Mr Ward showed us how to create the lake, pond or whatever the water form in our resort. He mixed PVA glue (Poly Vinyl Acetates) with some blue paint and pour into the hole that bored with the new machine he showed us the other day. Then he told us that the colour will get darker when it is dry. I am very worried about these assessment but I believe, and hope we get through this difficulties soon! Additionally, Mr Ward said he can take 4 more students for QUT excursion. I wish to take apart in that excursion because I haven't decided my path yet. Whether I am going to do the engineering next year or not, I would like to have this opportunity!

SDT 1-4

Mr Ward was absent today so I worked on task 2. The architect I chose is Luis Barragan. I found difficult on this assignment than last year's.

sustainable designing and technology 1-3

Today Mr Ward showed us a machine that can be used to hollow the surface of the MDF board to fit them for the lake or a pond. It was a dusty experience as we needed even a mask to prevent from inhaling in the extreme dust. After he showed us the operation of that machine. We have got in to our ideation. Our group's resort is village styled. We are going to have gables, lake stream, mountains, windmill with the botanical garden in front, farm and maybe a water mill. We could not finish our ideation we were lack of the time but I think we can finish that up next lesson and after that I am looking forward to working on task 2 as well as the practical task. 

Task 1. a computer generated time management plan

*click photo to magnify

Project 1-2

Today, Doris and I have finished with the base and started to planning about our architecture. Before we started our work, he saw us some video of a women architect telling about smart designing and etc. I am going watch some of other video clips to get some ideas about our resort designing and will may write a review of the video afterwards. Anyway, Doris and I have decided to put a wind mill, water mill, gables, lakes and some entertainments for our customers. Mills are there to generate power that we uses on our resorts and which puts our resort more close to our topic;sustainable designing. 

Design Technology 1-1

This is third DT lesson we have in this year. For the last two lessons, we have gone through about our assessment and team arrangement. I am paired up with Doris and we already have finished the task 1. On today's lesson, Mr Ward showed us how to built up a base for our resort. Me and Doris haven't discussed about how our resort going to be but I had an idea related to a particular korean traditional architectures with a wind mill or a water wheel next to it. However, because this is a group project, I think this will be unfair to Doris so we will discuss about our resort someday, very soon. By the way, the wood product we use as the base of our resort is called MDF which stands for Medium Density Fibre board. I am very excited about it as well worried about how to carry on with this.