Vincent Yang

Tuesday 12 June 2018

ASSIGNMENT 3: Reflection

Reflection:

For the reflection component of this course, I would choose assignment of fuel tank to reflect my thinking.

When we were doing this assignment, we were doing our architectural assignment as well. So, time is a bit rushed to do this assignment.

I think the most difficult point of this assignment is that this assignment is unlike with the assignment. For the assignment 1, tutor will tell you much of skills to create the model. And there are some tutorial videos to teach us how to make the model. We can watch the video and step by step to make the model easily.

However, for this assignment, we need to build up the rhino model and laser cutting model, and according to the laser cutting model to use skills that we learnt from the assignment 1 to build this metal model.

The use of English wheel in this assignment.

I have to say the English wheel is my favorite tool to build the shape of model and smooth the metal.

To just look the laser cutting model to do our model is hard to know if the shape of our model is fit with the laser cutting model. So, we used the Tape to make an “shield” for the laser cutting model. Therefore, we can just use built shape on the laser cutting model.

There also is one thing we weren’t do for this assignment

We didn’t have time to polish our project, it is make our project didn’t look that good.

APPLICATION WITHIN MY DISCIPLINE:

Through the learning of the course, which inspired me to translate what I learnt from this course to my discipline.

To talk about the architectural material, we would firstly think about the timber, brick and concrete. The metal is always ignored by us. The metal is flexible and solid material, it is a really good material to create the organic and beautiful architecture. And the metal also is used be material of a lots of beautiful architecture. I will try to use the metal be the material for architectural design in my further studies.

DISNEY CONCERT HALL, LOS ANGLES

AQUATICS CENTRE, LONDON

I really enjoyed this course, and I am luck I was doing the group work with such great team.

Wednesday 23 May 2018

BEIL0014 Digital Making - Assignment 2: 1:1 Scale Fuel Tank

Introduction:

The project 2 is required to create an 1：1 scale motorcycle fuel tank. In this project, I cooperated with other 9 students to used to 3D software, and laser cutting machines to make the laser cutting template.And We 10 students were separated to 2 groups to do make the model.

1:1 real fuel tank

Group member:

FEIMO SONG

YIKAI CHANG

TIANSHUO LIU

GENGCHEN YANG

JICHAO GUO

Our group photo

STEP 1:

We download the model file from the Moodle

After we put the file into the Slicer, The template of laser cutting file will be created by this softer ware.

We assembles and glue all of the templates together after laser cutting

The laser cutting templates

Process of assembling the laser cutting model

The finished laser cutting model

STEP 2:

At this step, we assigned task to each of person to make the model.

kai will do the left part of model

feimo will do the right part of model

Tianshuo and Jichao will do the top part

I will improve each parts of model

The pictures below is the process of making the model

At the first part of making model. we used the paper to cut the form of each part of model we need to make, and use use pen to mark the aluminium pieces, which will be better for us to cut it.

At second part, we start to use the english wheel and pinching the meta to rough the shape of model .

Step 3:

This step mainly focus on polishing the model and put it together to measure if each parts are coincided with the laser cutting template. And do further improvement to make it same shape with the laser cutting model.