SDT 12

Yesterday, we finally finished our task 4 which was the oral presentation. Doris did all the speaking and I just showed our resort in front of the class. I found that bit weird because every one spoke. I have listened to every others, and it made me tensed because their presentation seemed really good. Much better than what I wrote for us. They talked about the grey water and FSC wood which I didn't included parts about inside and wall because I thought I can't say something that is invisible. Because when Mr Ward showed us example with the harry porter resort, he told us about things that you can actually observe. (You can't see what the walls are made of or what systems are inside) That was the reason why I only wrote about the window and designs. I really did watch all the videos in the blackboard, but I didn't used it. Everyone had their own smart ideas of designs and sustainability of the building. I especially liked the grey water and Lauren and Silvana's solar panel that treks sun. I took a photos of our finished resort, but somehow my email doesn't work and the battery is flat bu I promise to post that someday this week. 

SDT11

Today we started to work on designing our buildings. I will try to upload the photo on the next post but today I have no photos. For the oral, I'll do the write up and Doris's going to do the presentation. I don't know whether she will make the powerpoint or not. I recommended her to do that way. Because if we mix each others speech I guess, will massed up. And because I got better mark for task 2, I just decided to write the whole thing by myself and let Doris do the speaking because sometimes people don't understand my pronunciation. I wrote it during the weekend and Doris will make the powerpoint. I think I would be finished if I worked by myself because there were some conflicts in our ideas. I know this is the hard thing about the group work. Anyway, because I thought we don't have much time to waste, I just thought of the name, 'The Sun' (resort) because the main thing of our resort is that big arc shaped solar panel (Although it seemed bit random and ugly...) We wanted to colour our resort in green, but because we couldn't find any green papers or buy them during the weekend, (I tried but I couldn't buy anything) I related the colour of the building to its name so I decided to do it in a red, orange and yellow papers. What I think is that the colour is not the main thing in our work.

T2 SDT 10

This is my first post of the term. I had 2 lessons before it and we have another lesson today. I haven't take any photos this term. We made some changes recently that was not on our plan. We found a great material to construct the forest but we used sand to do our background. I didn't quite get the idea why Doris wants to it with the sand and the benefits but so many people wanted to use it, Mr Ward said sand will be better and Doris want to use the sand, so I just go with it. It looked okay, and I'm happy with it. But I'm guessing we won't be having wind turbines. But I think it is okay still without the wind turbines. But I wonder what's the benefit to have the cemented ground for our resort. But I think this will be okay for there are still a lot more to talk about uniqueness of our building. We are planing to buy some figures of fountain and people. we might do some shopping during the weekend. 

SDT 1-9

I assume that this is the first post in this week. I have finally took photos last lesson and is now able to post them in to my blog. Unfortunately, many progresses are missed... Until now, Doris and I finished the garden, as mentioned. Last lesson, I worked on our building (big one). Our building is a curved form so it is more aesthetically pleasing, and give some differences out of the original building. The sides are finished, and I now have to build the top. Doris painted our triangular car park with grey paint and now we have to draw black lines and some colourful little cars maybe? we have our last lesson for term one on friday and I will sort out the building, than move on to paint the lines of the car park and colour in some cars inside them perhaps. I am enjoying this work but I am not sure if we can finish this in 2 weeks, in 6 hours of lesson :/ I will try though. hope we can get a great result out of our resort at the end of this :) Also about the photos, I think I will take some of our car park on next DT lesson.

SDT 1-8

Today, we have done our cute little garden and I put the flowers on whilst Doris was working on the sculpture between the garden and the building. Because I didn't brought my phone in to the class, I couldn't manage to take a photo. Tomorrow, Mr Ward and about 7 or 8 girls are leaving for an excursion to QUT. I really wanted to go to that excursion but unfortunately missed it. I just admitted the fact that I missed the chance, and no i'm hoping for next chance to come up. Wish if mr ward can manage our next excursion at the end of the year... So in the next lesson on friday, Mr Ward and girls who are going on the excursion will be in the class tomorrow. So I think I can take the photo tomorrow and also prepare for my oral in term 2.

SDT 1-7

It's been a long time since last posted. Now Doris and I are carrying our project very well. I think the hard thing about the group working is to corroborate mutual idea because, in majority of cases, they are different. But we are giving up some to accept others. This helps progress in our work. I am quite satisfied with what we have done until now. Doris has done the water (or pool) in a very nice colour and the big square building that meant to be on our resort. But we changed our plan to make a curved building so that can be fit into a circular solar panel that is located above the building. Also this can give some differences from the original building in China. Until now, we have our water fountain, outdoor pool, green base for the garden. we haven't done much yet that's the reason for we to be hurry... This lesson we worked on the garden but we didn't get enough time to finish it. I hope we get to finish that by tomorrow's lesson. That is actually the most fun part since this process. After we finish the garden, I think I have to build the rest part of the curved building and Doris may be keeps working on the car part under the solar panel, on both side of the resort. I find hard during this project but also interesting. I think I have a good chance to learn many things about sustainable design and technology while I'm doing the task 2 for the assignment. Next time, I might try to put up some photos on my blog.

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