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Showing posts with label construction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label construction. Show all posts
Monday, 19 May 2008
Sunday, 20 April 2008
Sunday, 9 March 2008
Saturday, 8 March 2008
Construction Day 27
Some recent images from Alkis on site. The span connecting the two sides has been completed in many places with the only the very front and rear remaining. The overall structure gets stiffer with every piece that goes in. Only four days left to go....
view from front
view from rear square side
fitting the profiles
Abhishek inserting some gaskets
Joao and Nicholas in front
view from front
view from rear square side
fitting the profiles
Abhishek inserting some gaskets
Joao and Nicholas in front
Thursday, 6 March 2008
Construction Day 26
Wednesday, 5 March 2008
Friday, 29 February 2008
Wednesday, 27 February 2008
Tuesday, 26 February 2008
Monday, 25 February 2008
Sunday, 24 February 2008
"Live" Exhibitionism...
So the DRL TEN exhibition opened this Friday, with the DRL10 seminar following on Saturday. The exhibition showcases 10 years of projects at the Design Research Laboratory at the AA, but maybe even more interestingly showcases some of the built work of the 350+ alumnus of the experimental graduate program. Visitors to the seminar on Saturday got to see a "live" exhibition, as the primary steel structure was delivered, craned into place, and assembled. It was quite a site, as the steel members are HUGE and definitely drew an audience.
The steel arrived in 3 pre-fabricated assemblies consisting of 2 "nose" pieces assembled from 15mm sheets of structural steel, and a "bridge" piece which completed the arch spanning between them. Each assembly was hoisted by a 25 ton crane and slotted into the concrete ground cross members assembled over the last week with painstaking precision through a combined effort from the sheet fabricators, crane operators, Rieder team, surveying team, and DRL team to coordinate the positioning and notch locations accurately. As each component was placed, 3D coordinates located at pre-defined points on the structure were measured with a Total Station by our surveying team and cross-checked with our 3D model and set out drawings to ensure accuracy.
After final positioning and adjusting, the third and final assembly was dropped into place with startling accuracy (to be honest, I still can't believe how easy this one was), and then bolted and spliced to the other two to complete the assembly of the primary structure.
The steel arrived in 3 pre-fabricated assemblies consisting of 2 "nose" pieces assembled from 15mm sheets of structural steel, and a "bridge" piece which completed the arch spanning between them. Each assembly was hoisted by a 25 ton crane and slotted into the concrete ground cross members assembled over the last week with painstaking precision through a combined effort from the sheet fabricators, crane operators, Rieder team, surveying team, and DRL team to coordinate the positioning and notch locations accurately. As each component was placed, 3D coordinates located at pre-defined points on the structure were measured with a Total Station by our surveying team and cross-checked with our 3D model and set out drawings to ensure accuracy.
After final positioning and adjusting, the third and final assembly was dropped into place with startling accuracy (to be honest, I still can't believe how easy this one was), and then bolted and spliced to the other two to complete the assembly of the primary structure.
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
Steelwork fabrication
Here's an image taken by Yusuke of the steel work being assembled in Nottingham yesterday. The partial frame is required to give the Fibre-C shell some additional lateral stiffness under windloading conditions. The frame will be painted and then delivered to site before the end of this week.
Tuesday, 19 February 2008
laminations...
The second shipment of panels from Rieder has arrived. this means we will soon start to see the pavilion "noses" taking shape.
The "noses" are also where the structure is under the greatest stresses....in order for the material to take these stresses where the vertical load of the roof is being transferred to the horizontal deck, the ribs in these locations are triple laminated by bolting three sheets of 13mm Fibre-C sheets together.
The resulting slot is where the next profile will slide in and complete the laminated splice joint.
The "noses" are also where the structure is under the greatest stresses....in order for the material to take these stresses where the vertical load of the roof is being transferred to the horizontal deck, the ribs in these locations are triple laminated by bolting three sheets of 13mm Fibre-C sheets together.
The resulting slot is where the next profile will slide in and complete the laminated splice joint.
Monday, 18 February 2008
Friday, 15 February 2008
random site photos...
construction site/real-time exhibition space...the site gets a lot of attention from passers by...
special thanks to our sponsors...
dr. evil (under construction) and mini-me.
construction team schedule
a broken tooth...
the lasercut model has proven far more useful than the drawings...
post-it notes indicate profile numbers...
locations and positional reference are easy to identify...
view through the void of the bench...
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