Digitally Fabricated Curved Pavilion… here we come!!!
Today is going to be a long, long, physically demanding day… We will be assembling our curved pavilion… Today is sunny and nice day to be out…
Another lovely day in Cambridge.. Oh, and it’s Mother’s Day…
Before heading to the Woodshop, I head down Mass Ave. to the Economy Hardware Store to pick up some items…
After I got back to the Woodshop, I met Mik, David, Ki, and Chris going to get lunch… I figured I would grab lunch too.. We went to the Mexican place that Tom and I went to yesterday.. This time, I had the above… Lotta pepper! (or spicy as Americans say)…
Mik had the same…
Chris had this…
Mik and I
Our pile of parts…waiting for us… waiting for their moment of glory… (we hope)
Assembly is coming along nicely… We talk about our procedure and how we will assemble and erect this thing…
Labeling of our parts were key… it was assembling a life-sized puzzle…
I had to leave for a bit… My professor (Winston) and I had a meeting today.. He called and said he was in his office… so I rode across quickly to Stata to catch him…
Meeting complete.. back to Woodshop!
We are progressing nicely…
We erect our first section! Man it looks great! We feel a great sense of accomplishment…
Oh yeah.. we were tired alright! We beat the hell out of those boards..
Taking a 2 minute break…
Back at it!..
Quick photo! Say cheese!
We were having some problems here… turns out we had two incorrect pieces..
Nice!
Pounding away!
We now have to bring these two parts together…
Bit by bit we get there…
Lovely!
We’ve got them together… well almost…
It’s now almost 8pm… and we still have a way to go…
We pound and try to get our connecting pieces snug and holding our ribs securely together…
Had some floor issues, so we were checking our parts to see what was possibly the problem..
Okay… we’re almost there… main structure up for the most part… Time for interiors…
My partner Linlin and I are assisted by Mik on installing our interiors…
Almost done… Did a little dance of happiness… Mik caught me unawares… we laughed about it!
Tada!! Our ruled surface interior installed…
If given the opportunity to do this again, I would use colored rods for the ruled surface… made of a sturdier material.. wood, or steel, or plastic of some sort.. It looks great! but the main guides could have been better done… learning lesson for sure! Next time…
Almost finished… at this time we are REALLY, REALLY tired… Just wanna go home, shower, eat, and sleep! I have class before we present this at 2pm… The exteriors team still need to install their exterior skin, and we need to place it on its foundations..
I really like it!
After cleaning up….
Voila!!
Bye Bye little one.. see you later…
Stay tuned for the finished project (Monday 14th May 2012)…
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