The community-based services in CSI module for SABD are to expose students to the real community living in the real-life situation. We are to cooperate as a group for structural, culture, and environmental improving activities in the communities of various of different socio-economic status and social groups. The series of community services are offered as student strengthening project, we are given the flexibility to pick and to execute the task in the most ideal way, within the budget and time limitation given. As architecture student, we were then required to propose and execute design answers to handle the analyzed issues.
Construction of shelter (with timber and poly-carbonate roof)
PROJECT 1 :
This project is a group assignment with 5-6 members which allows us to understand skeletal structure and its joints and apply it through designing a temporary bus shelter. The shelter is to be made with recyclable materials and reflects the actual material. A 1:5 model of the bus shelter is to be built and tested to determine its strength and the success or failure of the skeletal joint designs.
Other than that, an A3-sized report is also required to record all the design process and relevant studies made while designing the temporary bus shelter.
Concrete base
Steel base done with the help of Kutub Alam Sdn Bhd (overseen by our group members).
Skeletal construction (Temporary Bus Shelter)
PROJECT 2 :
Understanding Forces in Building Construction
This project is another group project which focuses on the concept of gridshell and tensile structures. In a team of 3, we were required to choose a building to conduct a case study on its gridshell or tensile components and to make models and 2 A2 boards to present our study. Detailed models of each part can be made as well to deepen our understanding towards the structure.
The structure that we chose to focus on was TENSILE structure which is "SCHLUMBERGER GOULD RESEARCH CENTER".
MODELLING PROCESS
