hooray for bruises!!!

i came 4th in the PanPAcific Brazilian Jiujitsu Championships.

it was on last saturday.
i was nervous all week
and almost fell asleep from adrenelin just before my first match.
after the first bout my stomach ached!
after the second i wanted to go again!

I may have been beaten by a victorian and a queenslander, but i acheived what i wanted to acheive.

and i'm still admring the bruise i got on my chest from my opponents fist.

marks for PODHIVE

well got a D for the assignment, so i'm chuffed.:):)

bearing in mind that we could have shown more, and they were considered, just not put in the video.
there was a comment about it being "good to see some bamboo in the design terri"

i'm wondering why its good for me? am i now the resident bamboophile, bamboo expert, or something?

While i ran off with the 1:1 and tried bamboo for 2 years with furniture design, and i like it still. i dont like being pigeonholed so early.

arrrrgh!!

Never thought work and computer graphics would make me so tired.

i seem to have lost track of my mp3 player.

i'm hoping i left it at work, otherwise......

i lost it on the tram. or someone stole it.

and it had all my data files on it too. For Uni.

i think i'll have to start multiple saving. a copy in transit, a copy at uni, a copy at home, a copy at work.... just in case.

from its reputation you wouldnt expect geelong to be safer, but...there you go...Melbourne, for all that i like it...sucks!!
or at least some people do.

Masterplanning

Dallas and myself met up for a masterplanning session. No idea where the other 2 got to. anyway, we powered through the plan, i think we tend to think along same lines, so we dont really argue over different ideas or clash. We debate, and bounce off each other, which is what you want in a group. Which is good:)

Looking at how the 10-12 area would fit in with the whole school, we developed a general idea of linking it to the 7-9 building and providing what the 7-9 building didn't have, while hijacking some of the existing services. This way we can maintain a better environmental balance, by not doubling up on services.

We noted that some subject and services are needed in high school, and some arnt needed all the way to year 12, so we tried to provide a bleeding of needs between the 7-9 building and the senior school. These we identified as a dedicated high school library, art, science and technology dedicated spaces. The seniors can hijack the existing sports areas, and as Home Ec. is more a VET subject, hijack the 7-9 cafe as a catering project, possibly incorporating a kitchen garden using water from the roofs, and cared for by the junior students as part of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program.

As for Cafe services, we thought the seniors would be better served with a kitchenette in their year level common rooms(rec rooms)

As the art, technology and science rooms require venting, sound and lighting controls, they remain rather artificial compared to the exterior environment, we didnt see them as adequately provided for in the 7-9 building. We also included the Hall/Gathering Area/Performance Space, as it fits in with the needs of the other spaces.

we decided to keep the existing admin building and, gut(internal partitions), re-clad (to match the rest of the new buildings) and extend it, to create the Admin and Library block, as we saw the needs of those areas blending well.

General classrooms, small tutorial spaces and the common rooms, toilet blocks, changerooms, PE workout rooms, and outdoor learning spaces, we decided to set out as communal area pods. As if the needs of the School change they can grow or disappear as needed, and the perminant buildings can become a community recreation centre.

looking at the video. i think we could have put in more detail. while we looked into all the environmental aspects, they weren't explained too well in the video. The arrows for the passive cooling and heating cant be seen, and the plan wasn't included for some reason, tho it was detailed heavily in CAD.

all good to watch for next time.

video-assignment one

well the video was put up, and upon looking at it, the details didnt show up too well, so i've decided to post the images here in the hopes it shows more.

capabilities of triangles.

after making the frames, i've tried to come up with different layouts of the pods, based on the hexagram, and honeycomb.

in our group meeting we decided on the third one, with an interstitial space in the middle of two pods that are each classrooms.
i like the first one with a few added pods. it allows for the frame work to be smaller, and easier for one or two people to manouver and build, rather than whole pod as classroom. to get the right size for that, the triangles have to be 1.2m on each side.








Other plans we came up with involved, having a secondary floor, where the top one- the pieces can be lifted up and you can sit with your legs hanging into the secondary floor. this allows for the space to be flexible in use, no chairs, and the children sit on cushions, the tables can be stacked in a corner and floor closed up at game time, story time, or activity time. the other advantage is for a removable cladding around the outside of that pace and the passive ventilation that can be user controlled. the air is pulled out through an openable window in the roof.


Rainwater is collected in gutters at he base of the building, in which sit potplants. These can be class projects, experiments or school landscaping. it also provides a filter against dust coming into the class and hot winds. Water is then fed through the gutters to nearby plant beds. this provides a windbreak against the structure.