Health project

Representation of the project: Brief summary of the project

The project was to design and build an earthquake resistant building that could withstand an earthquake simulator (shake table), be more than 60 cm tall with at most a 25cm by 25cm base, and only use a budget of 60$ for the whole thing. We were able to make multiple prototypes and test them, giving us time to make adjustments and change elements to suit our designs and make them better. 

Overview of the engineering process:

The engineering process included designing the building first, making sure that the design first stayed within the guidelines that we were given and that it was achievable. Has the elements and structural integrity to survive an earthquake . The designing was simple, just ideas, until the actually building part. While we were building the first prototype, we realised that the guidelines of the design were not suited for this task, so we changes some things. Making the layers slightly smaller and changing lengths or pasta as we went along to keep the thing standing and strong. The first prototype took the longest to build, because we kept having to restart when things weren’t working, or things snapped when trying to put them together. When we finally did get it up though, it was good and strong, and the second prototype took a lot less time than the first because we already knew what to do, and what wouldn’t work. The only changes I would make to the process would be to give us more time, or a more flexible budget because we were worrying about it a lot at the start, and couldn’t do much for fear that we would go over it. 

Collaboration

Kaiya was responsible for the project manager and the reporter. And I think that this fit her well, because she did keep us on track when I got a bit side tracked or out of focus, also making sure that we got things done by the deadline and not late. I was the equipment manager and speaker, and I didn’t really have to do much, since we were already pretty good in those areas. The strengths that Kaiya bought helped because she’s good at staying focused and on task, while I’m good at the building aspects and other things, and we worked well together to get the whole thing done in a friendly and effective way. ‘

Evaluate your skills in drawing your self portrait. This should be a detailed response – what were you good at, what did you struggle with? Do you think your work is successful? Why?

In regards to my drawing skills, I think that my details are not quite there. The amount of detail I put into the face and hair is practically not existent and they mostly consist of values and contrast. I think that I could definitely improve on the details of the drawing, But I got bored and the details were really hard to draw so I left them out. I struggles with the details and also the amount of time it takes to do the hair. I think I messed up the whole portrait, because I went in with too dark of a colour when the original drawing I made was probably the best and most accurate, but I changed it and then it wound up looking less and less realistic, but I kept trying to fix it so I wound up here.

What has been the most helpful or interesting technique you have learning during the traditional drawing?

I think the most helpful technique was to go in really light first and layer up the layers to get darker and darker. Another was to use the side of a pencil to get a less streaky look to the strokes, and I think that helped a lot in the shading of the shirt.

Write about the process in detail, from taking the photo, to transferring your drawing to the board to finish you drawing. What choices did you make?

It took me like 2 weeks to get a suitable photo that was at the right angle and had enough contrast too. After taking the photo, I practices drawing parts on the same special paper our final portraits would be on, and then after that tried my hand at transferring. Transferring is just scribbling pencil on the back of a photo, then laying it down and tracing the features of the face, and because of the pencil graphite on the back, what you drew gets drawn into the paper underneath. It was a very effective practice that helped for my drawing to be more accurate, but after I kept erasing everything kind of got a bit lost in the values.

uring this semester o ceramics, we have been building cups and teapots from porcelain clay and improving our sis along the way. This post is about the changes and challenges I had to overcome to complete my project and to my standards

• Did you meet targets throughout the project?

I made the pot that I ha aspire to make, Within a reasonable time frame with minimal difficulties in the construction and execution o my teapot. Every few lessons I was making changes to my pot, slowly improving on the original lump of clay I had started with, and transforming it into a working, functional teapot

• How did you develop your design/s? What were your influences?

I found a bunch of cool animal-based teapot designs that had a flowy feel about them that I liked and wanted to incorporate into my teapot. and all the parts were incorporated smoothly into the design.

• What worked? What didn’t? How did you resolve issues with materials?

At first, I tried using the darts method that Fleur Schell showed us, but it was a lot harder than it actually looked, so I had to use the coil method, but in the end, I think that that was actually the better option because it allowed me the wall thickness to carve the grooves into the clay, and manipulate it into a better. The floor caved in at one point during the process, which I thought I would have to redo, but I just patched it up and waited for it to harden up before beginning again. Another issue I had with the clay was that I could never get the size o the parts right so it I got it wrong I would have to redo it again an again just to get it right.

• The success of the final work

I think that the success of my final work was actually very good, and I added a few things in the end that weren’t in the original sketch, but added to the overall design like the eye stalks.

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