Assignment 2

Real Construction ( Real Dome )

Week 2

Went to buy lorry tyres tiub on Friday afternoon. Its located somewhere near USM too. Its took us about 10 min walking time. We bought 2 tyres tiub , 1 bigger and another smaller. It costs us RM30

On Saturday , we went to Penang Times Square for our Rus 101 assignment. Meanwhile , we walked to area around Prangin Mall to find the paper for our balloon box for the Youth Jam 10 project. We went to 1 shop that make paper dolls for the Buddhist. And we accidently found some useful bamboo at there which can be easily bend into shape. Hence we decide to go bac that shop to buy the bamboo tis coming week. Sadly we forgot to take any pics of that hence cant upload here.

Assignment 2
Real Construction ( Bamboo Dome )

Week 1

We sketched out our idea of making the dome.

yim quan's idea

grace's idea

my idea

First we thought of the base will be made of either 3 or 4 tyres depending on the size of the tyres and how big we will to make the dome is. We choose to use tyres because one of our friend , Keong suggested that tyres would float better than bottles.

Then on top of the tyres , we will tie it with the bamboo. Either all in horizontal or we will do it in horizontal and vertical like the " tikar ". We cant decide it yet because we wanted to test which structure is more stable and stronger.

The dome we having some problem in connecting it. Till now we still cant manage to find the way that can connect the bamboo strongly and firmly. However we still get some idea like tie it with string , screw it , use wire to shape the structure.

Assignment 2

Product: Basis of Forms of the Built Environment.

Date : 28 July 2010
Guided by : Mr. Wan Burhanuddin Wan Abidin

Intention : To build geodesic model

Act : Build a geadesic model using bamboo satay sticks. The model can be build in 2V or above

Sticking 2 bamboo stick together so that it is more stable


the bamboo sticks are sticked to form 6 pentagon

The pentagon are joined to form a geodesic model

Actors : Shuying (me)

Rule : build using bamboo satay sticks and the model must be at least 2V. Double bamboo sticks is used so that the model is more stable

Place : In my room

Product :