Dear Mr Bishop
All the best for your voyage to WCI. Even though you won't be here.
It's been a pretty cool semester, with all your crazy stories and ideas.
Anyways, seeya.
Jake
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Monday, June 16, 2008
Day 17
It is Monday today. I made and printed my mini-me. I also put together a sample board, if you can call it that. My model is pretty much done, just some final things. Otherwise all of the aspects of my project have been put into a hard copy portfolio.
Friday, June 13, 2008
Day 16?
I am going to make sure my whole physical portfolio is done by Monday.
I have already handed in some sketches (I plan to do more) and I have the blog done, but I am going to get everything collected.
So the PLANS (ie what would have happened) is all in this blog. My hopes and dreams and the like.
I am going to make a compartment to hold the elevator and counterweight. It'll be 28 cm high, and-if the elevator is 3.6 cm- about 8 cm across. That'll make for 15ish shafts.
The original plan.
aww yee.
There will be the elevator peopleholder and a counterweight (would be 40% of the weight). At the top of the shaft in the centre, there will be a platform sticking out that holds the gears and such.
I also, if time allows, try one that uses a screw pillar.
I have already handed in some sketches (I plan to do more) and I have the blog done, but I am going to get everything collected.
So the PLANS (ie what would have happened) is all in this blog. My hopes and dreams and the like.
I am going to make a compartment to hold the elevator and counterweight. It'll be 28 cm high, and-if the elevator is 3.6 cm- about 8 cm across. That'll make for 15ish shafts.
The original plan.
aww yee.
There will be the elevator peopleholder and a counterweight (would be 40% of the weight). At the top of the shaft in the centre, there will be a platform sticking out that holds the gears and such.
I also, if time allows, try one that uses a screw pillar.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Day 15
I printed off the marking sheet to make sure that I can have everthing ready over the weekend for Monday.
Hopefully to do the ramp today.
Hopefully to do the ramp today.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Day 14
LAST POST.
Do dooooooooooooo.
do dooooooooooooo.
do do dundun do do dooo do do do.
da dun do dandundo dandundo dandundodo dandundo dandandundundandando.
Well... today I want to figure out how i would cut out the shape for the ramp so that it doesn't tilt. The final shape will be a circle with the correct chunk taken out.
I don't know if i'll have to compensate the tilt by making a different shape.
Wow, how helpful.
SEACREST OUT.
Do dooooooooooooo.
do dooooooooooooo.
do do dundun do do dooo do do do.
da dun do dandundo dandundo dandundodo dandundo dandandundundandando.
Well... today I want to figure out how i would cut out the shape for the ramp so that it doesn't tilt. The final shape will be a circle with the correct chunk taken out.
I don't know if i'll have to compensate the tilt by making a different shape.
Wow, how helpful.
SEACREST OUT.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Day 13
Today we are going to the Tech room.
I will try to begin the ramps in this time, drawing/mathing/building.
They will be made out of the sheet stuff that you, Mr Bishop, have provided.
I think.
By starting across from the finish (this is regarding the ramp), I believe that the incline will be managable for the general population.
There will be, as before, 1 ramp from floor to 2nd, and 1 ramp from 2nd to 3rd. Hopefully, they will start and end beside each other on the 2nd level, for convenience's sake.
I'm not sure if that's how you spell that saying.
SO that is my goal for today. Ramps.
If a person is 1/2 m wide (accounting for a small personal bubble), the ramp should be able to fit 10 people walking beside each other.
So, a 5 m width. Or 5 cm.
Then there's also the angular roof, and some short railings for liability reasons.
5 m also compensates for any movement of large items.
I think that I want the ramps to be a semicircle. For the general looks.
From the top, it'll look like kinda an... O. Like an O.
I built up to that because for some reason I thought it would be a cool, obscure shape.
Ah well.
I'm outta here.
I will try to begin the ramps in this time, drawing/mathing/building.
They will be made out of the sheet stuff that you, Mr Bishop, have provided.
I think.
By starting across from the finish (this is regarding the ramp), I believe that the incline will be managable for the general population.
There will be, as before, 1 ramp from floor to 2nd, and 1 ramp from 2nd to 3rd. Hopefully, they will start and end beside each other on the 2nd level, for convenience's sake.
I'm not sure if that's how you spell that saying.
SO that is my goal for today. Ramps.
If a person is 1/2 m wide (accounting for a small personal bubble), the ramp should be able to fit 10 people walking beside each other.
So, a 5 m width. Or 5 cm.
Then there's also the angular roof, and some short railings for liability reasons.
5 m also compensates for any movement of large items.
I think that I want the ramps to be a semicircle. For the general looks.
From the top, it'll look like kinda an... O. Like an O.
I built up to that because for some reason I thought it would be a cool, obscure shape.
Ah well.
I'm outta here.
Monday, June 9, 2008
More Day 12
Ok so Eric just broke the fan.
NOT A GOOD LEARNING ENVIRONMENT.
Ha. Learning environment.
Ummmmmmmmmmmm yeah.
So my contribution thus far has been 95% cerebral, 3% crappy drawings, 4% other stuff.
I realize I do not know how to build things.
Hmmmmmm.
This post is mainly the result of heat.
The elevators seem to be the bane of my tech existance. They are necessary, but so devilishly difficult.
Well, maybe they aren't, but I don't know what would work, so I try to keep it 'simple' while balancing some kind of wannabe art.
The sphere could be a good idea.
peace again.
NOT A GOOD LEARNING ENVIRONMENT.
Ha. Learning environment.
Ummmmmmmmmmmm yeah.
So my contribution thus far has been 95% cerebral, 3% crappy drawings, 4% other stuff.
I realize I do not know how to build things.
Hmmmmmm.
This post is mainly the result of heat.
The elevators seem to be the bane of my tech existance. They are necessary, but so devilishly difficult.
Well, maybe they aren't, but I don't know what would work, so I try to keep it 'simple' while balancing some kind of wannabe art.
The sphere could be a good idea.
peace again.
Day 12
Today was a thinking day. I tried to visualize what the city should look like. I still believe that for this project, I will need the physical model.
I added more to the drawings I did on Friday. I also tried to think about how exactly the elevators will go up the pillar, what the incline of the ramps will be, how to support the ramps, and the rising challenge I had neglected: the actual roadways of the levels. Based on the drawings, it looks as though the streets will be relatively boring and straight, so they will reach everywhere. In every set of 4 plots, there will be roadways etween them, and something like a roundabout in the centre. This is also necessary so that space is not taken up in other people's plans.
It would be great, I would guess, if the roads could be supported...like in the air...
Than again, it would also be great if we had hovercars that propelled soley on the magnetism of the Earth's core.
So I digress.
The actual ramp would have to be made of something light enough to be supported. It would be great if I could use cobblestones, and mortar it and all...but I don't know if it would work.
I still want a roof that WOULD be solar panels. For the model...it'll probably be paper.
It would be awesome if PHS wasn't so welfare.
And if the Tech Dept wasn't considered the fallback area.
And we had the people, time and resources to actually make a city.
Out of actual stuff.
Hey, there's a ranty field assignment.
...Not. No it's just jokes.
peace.
I added more to the drawings I did on Friday. I also tried to think about how exactly the elevators will go up the pillar, what the incline of the ramps will be, how to support the ramps, and the rising challenge I had neglected: the actual roadways of the levels. Based on the drawings, it looks as though the streets will be relatively boring and straight, so they will reach everywhere. In every set of 4 plots, there will be roadways etween them, and something like a roundabout in the centre. This is also necessary so that space is not taken up in other people's plans.
It would be great, I would guess, if the roads could be supported...like in the air...
Than again, it would also be great if we had hovercars that propelled soley on the magnetism of the Earth's core.
So I digress.
The actual ramp would have to be made of something light enough to be supported. It would be great if I could use cobblestones, and mortar it and all...but I don't know if it would work.
I still want a roof that WOULD be solar panels. For the model...it'll probably be paper.
It would be awesome if PHS wasn't so welfare.
And if the Tech Dept wasn't considered the fallback area.
And we had the people, time and resources to actually make a city.
Out of actual stuff.
Hey, there's a ranty field assignment.
...Not. No it's just jokes.
peace.
Friday, June 6, 2008
Day 11
I drew pictures today.
Because it is too hot.
They were of elevators, some scale, some just pictures.
Because it is too hot.
They were of elevators, some scale, some just pictures.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Day 10
I tried to use Softplan.
I couldn't, so I moved on to Autocad.
Which didn't work out, so I tried Illustrator.
Which can't give me a 3D elevator.
So my drawing will have to be a drawing, and my model will be my trial.
I am fairly confident in my ability to make a ramp once the model comes into being.
The 'entrance' to the model I think will be pillars, keeping with the new theme.
They will also provide support for the ramp.
The interior of the elevator will be seating, around the interior circumference. The floor of the sphere will be flattened, for the basic idea that you can't stand in a sphere.
The sphere will be mostly glass, as well as ...metal. Nice, materialy seating, and bus-like feeling, because it really is replacing public transport.
If the floor was flattened, the height would still have to be about 2 m.
I don't think industrial elevators are needed (unless there's a central one) due to the shortness of the ramps.
I couldn't, so I moved on to Autocad.
Which didn't work out, so I tried Illustrator.
Which can't give me a 3D elevator.
So my drawing will have to be a drawing, and my model will be my trial.
I am fairly confident in my ability to make a ramp once the model comes into being.
The 'entrance' to the model I think will be pillars, keeping with the new theme.
They will also provide support for the ramp.
The interior of the elevator will be seating, around the interior circumference. The floor of the sphere will be flattened, for the basic idea that you can't stand in a sphere.
The sphere will be mostly glass, as well as ...metal. Nice, materialy seating, and bus-like feeling, because it really is replacing public transport.
If the floor was flattened, the height would still have to be about 2 m.
I don't think industrial elevators are needed (unless there's a central one) due to the shortness of the ramps.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Day 8-9
I wrote a post,
but it got deleted.
The elevators are going to be spheres.
Diameter of 3.5 m, with 15 cm walls, so an interior space of 3.2 m.
I am also contemplating something in the centre of the pillar.
Like a huge elevator.
Massive.
Daunting.
With multiple entrances.
And exits.
The circumference of the interior is 10 m.
Average person is (insert width), so the thing could hold anywhere from 10-18 people?
That would make the counterweight... 1600 lbs-ish.
40% of max weight, is person is 200 lbs and there are 20 people capacity.
There would be anywhere from 15-20 elevators.
That gives a possibilty for ... 400 people to move at once.
Max, it'll end up being less.
Glass up and down the path, glass ball, so you can see.
Cables, I discussed other methods with peers, such as a corkscrew option, but to no practical avail.
but it got deleted.
The elevators are going to be spheres.
Diameter of 3.5 m, with 15 cm walls, so an interior space of 3.2 m.
I am also contemplating something in the centre of the pillar.
Like a huge elevator.
Massive.
Daunting.
With multiple entrances.
And exits.
The circumference of the interior is 10 m.
Average person is (insert width), so the thing could hold anywhere from 10-18 people?
That would make the counterweight... 1600 lbs-ish.
40% of max weight, is person is 200 lbs and there are 20 people capacity.
There would be anywhere from 15-20 elevators.
That gives a possibilty for ... 400 people to move at once.
Max, it'll end up being less.
Glass up and down the path, glass ball, so you can see.
Cables, I discussed other methods with peers, such as a corkscrew option, but to no practical avail.
Monday, June 2, 2008
Day 6-7
I didn't do a post on the Friday, cause I tried to draw stuff.
There's a central 'trunk', I learned Friday.
The elevators are inside the trunk. Along with other stuff. Pipes'n'junk.
Uhhh... I'm trying to think of some artsy, symbolic way to make the elevators, and nothing is coming.
I want glass fo sho.
So if the elevators were outside the trunk, the box would be glass.
If they were in the trunk, the path along the elevator route would be glass so you can see as you travel.
Ok, we have elevators in the trunk.
I don't really want a box, I want something generally interesting.
Half of a cylinder?
Talked about having some freaky, vertical ski lift.
I think it's cool, but not gonna happen.
So I think I'll use some cylinder type car, regular cable elevators, inside the trunk, unsure about glass on the trunk so you can see as you ride, and there will be multiple.
What will go in the big middle space?
The ramps are pretty much settled as they are, looping out from one point to another end of the chord.
Uh, I guess that's it. It's hard to find out what these elevators would look like.
There's a central 'trunk', I learned Friday.
The elevators are inside the trunk. Along with other stuff. Pipes'n'junk.
Uhhh... I'm trying to think of some artsy, symbolic way to make the elevators, and nothing is coming.
I want glass fo sho.
So if the elevators were outside the trunk, the box would be glass.
If they were in the trunk, the path along the elevator route would be glass so you can see as you travel.
Ok, we have elevators in the trunk.
I don't really want a box, I want something generally interesting.
Half of a cylinder?
Talked about having some freaky, vertical ski lift.
I think it's cool, but not gonna happen.
So I think I'll use some cylinder type car, regular cable elevators, inside the trunk, unsure about glass on the trunk so you can see as you ride, and there will be multiple.
What will go in the big middle space?
The ramps are pretty much settled as they are, looping out from one point to another end of the chord.
Uh, I guess that's it. It's hard to find out what these elevators would look like.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Day 5
Things are getting dark. I've nearly run out of water, and the snakes are getting to me; the fright is drilling into my mind. The days are too hot, and the nights chill me to the bone. I've been in this haze of confusion, where I believe that I'm planning a mini city in some technological design class... I've only woken to reality...momentarily...if I can break...the...VISION!
Woah.
That was strange.
Anyways, I didn't do any sketches. Sry.
I still feel as though I need a physical SOMETHING, or to know exactly what walkways are needed (ie Who has already incorporated some into their design?).
WAIT. Talked to Mr Bishop.
There shall be a central column. In the column, there are elevators.
They will be cable, and I'm not sure of the design.
Rock climbing on unused tower space?
It's hard to find out exactly how to design the elevators, aescthetic(sp?)-wise. They will have to be INSIDE the column, although I want glass up the path so you can see.
Woah.
That was strange.
Anyways, I didn't do any sketches. Sry.
I still feel as though I need a physical SOMETHING, or to know exactly what walkways are needed (ie Who has already incorporated some into their design?).
WAIT. Talked to Mr Bishop.
There shall be a central column. In the column, there are elevators.
They will be cable, and I'm not sure of the design.
Rock climbing on unused tower space?
It's hard to find out exactly how to design the elevators, aescthetic(sp?)-wise. They will have to be INSIDE the column, although I want glass up the path so you can see.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Day 4
I have started choosing the LEED criteria that I will design around.
SS 6.2- Stormwater Design: Quality Control
SS 5.1- Protect or Restore Habitat
EA 2- On Site Renewable Energy
EA 6: Green Power
ID Credit 1–1.4: Innovation in Design
For stormwater, I plan for the ramp roofs to have a concave shape, so rainwater collects and drains to... where ever it's needed. The park probably, seeing how it's on the bottom and would need the water. It could provide for Eric's irrigation system.
To protect or restore habitat, ... it's kind of incorporated into the whole thing. By building ramps going out, and things in the air, and walkways made of... cork or something, then you keep green space.
On site renewable energy and green power, I plan to have solar panels everywhere. Every single roof that isn't already green. The entire roofing of the ramps will be solar.
And... the design shall be innovative.
Though-
could the firepoles be wind turbines???
SS 6.2- Stormwater Design: Quality Control
SS 5.1- Protect or Restore Habitat
EA 2- On Site Renewable Energy
EA 6: Green Power
ID Credit 1–1.4: Innovation in Design
For stormwater, I plan for the ramp roofs to have a concave shape, so rainwater collects and drains to... where ever it's needed. The park probably, seeing how it's on the bottom and would need the water. It could provide for Eric's irrigation system.
To protect or restore habitat, ... it's kind of incorporated into the whole thing. By building ramps going out, and things in the air, and walkways made of... cork or something, then you keep green space.
On site renewable energy and green power, I plan to have solar panels everywhere. Every single roof that isn't already green. The entire roofing of the ramps will be solar.
And... the design shall be innovative.
Though-
could the firepoles be wind turbines???
Day 3
Yesterday, the 27, I could not get on the blog.
Because designing walkways needs a model to be completely worthwhile, I didn't do much.
I did have the idea of 2 macho major ramps looping outside of the 'circles'.
They would start on one end of the circle, rise and spin around the circle and connect on the oposite side, so the entrance and exit would be on the same 'chord' of the 'circle', just on different levels. The length a person would end up walking to get to the next level would be about 160 m, based on my math.
Go Pythagoras.
There would be 2 to connect level 1 and 2, one on each 'side' of the circle level, and 2 for 2 and 3, offset slightly so that as you walk up from 1, the entrance to level 3 is right there one you reach 2.
...It makes sense to me.
That was day 3.
Because designing walkways needs a model to be completely worthwhile, I didn't do much.
I did have the idea of 2 macho major ramps looping outside of the 'circles'.
They would start on one end of the circle, rise and spin around the circle and connect on the oposite side, so the entrance and exit would be on the same 'chord' of the 'circle', just on different levels. The length a person would end up walking to get to the next level would be about 160 m, based on my math.
Go Pythagoras.
There would be 2 to connect level 1 and 2, one on each 'side' of the circle level, and 2 for 2 and 3, offset slightly so that as you walk up from 1, the entrance to level 3 is right there one you reach 2.
...It makes sense to me.
That was day 3.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Day 2
I am leaning more towards not stairs, but entirely ramps.
Big, wide ramps. This would (unfortunately, though necessary[?] for car transportation between levels. There would be overhangs/roofs on these ramps, made of solar panels, and gates so people don't fall out, but there would be space between the railings and roof, for a view. The roof would also have a 'V' shape, so rain would collect and flow to ... something.
Elevators would be fit in as many places as possible, even from a store on level 2 to an area on level 3. They could be powered by electricity, or we could go really old school and have it pedal powered, using mutliple people. It would have a safety lock so that it couldn't go down if the pedalling stopped; but we'd have to have multiple elevators.
Ziplines would be on platform on the same level. It could be a fairly intricate dealeo.
Firepoles would be simple, green, and ubiquitous.
My plan for the ramps would be: there would be a bunch of them. They would link all levels. There would be 'off ramps' to the second level. It would sort of have the basis of a bridge, with side areas for walkers (they would be wider than most), and with the centre reserved for bikes, mopeds, cars, and segways.
Fin.
Big, wide ramps. This would (unfortunately, though necessary[?] for car transportation between levels. There would be overhangs/roofs on these ramps, made of solar panels, and gates so people don't fall out, but there would be space between the railings and roof, for a view. The roof would also have a 'V' shape, so rain would collect and flow to ... something.
Elevators would be fit in as many places as possible, even from a store on level 2 to an area on level 3. They could be powered by electricity, or we could go really old school and have it pedal powered, using mutliple people. It would have a safety lock so that it couldn't go down if the pedalling stopped; but we'd have to have multiple elevators.
Ziplines would be on platform on the same level. It could be a fairly intricate dealeo.
Firepoles would be simple, green, and ubiquitous.
My plan for the ramps would be: there would be a bunch of them. They would link all levels. There would be 'off ramps' to the second level. It would sort of have the basis of a bridge, with side areas for walkers (they would be wider than most), and with the centre reserved for bikes, mopeds, cars, and segways.
Fin.
Friday, May 23, 2008
Day 1
Today I decided to take on the idea of the walkways and public access routes.
I also saw the general plan of the tiered city. It cool.
As a general brainstorm, there must be multiple methods to gain entry to other levels.
Stairs, elevators, fire poles, ziplines, ramps would be the basis of the connectors.
The stairs would loop outside of the 1 x 1 m square. The ziplines would probably link places on the same level. Elevators would go up and down the centre hole. Ramps would also go outside the boundary. Fire poles... would be everywhere.
I also saw the general plan of the tiered city. It cool.
As a general brainstorm, there must be multiple methods to gain entry to other levels.
Stairs, elevators, fire poles, ziplines, ramps would be the basis of the connectors.
The stairs would loop outside of the 1 x 1 m square. The ziplines would probably link places on the same level. Elevators would go up and down the centre hole. Ramps would also go outside the boundary. Fire poles... would be everywhere.
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