GC Dome

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.