Week 4

Goal of week 4: Complete half of the 3D rendering utilizing SketchUp and begin the construction of the physical model of the CN Tower

Group Members Jobs:

      - Renee Pisano            - Wrote the blog 

      - Cody Johnson           - Began 3D rendering on SketchUp

      - Paulina Iniewicz       -  Obtained materials for the physical model and began construction

      - Carly Alessandro      - Worked on the visual analysis homework, tracked ProjectLibre

Challenges: 

     The challenges we faced this week was affectively creating a 3D rendering of the CN tower using the program Revit. After Cody explored and examined how that program worked we decided as a team to use the program SketchUp for the rendering portion of the project instead.

Outcome of this week:

     Through Cody's trial and examination of Revit we understood that SketchUp would be a better program for the 3D rendering of the CN tower. As a result Cody began the rendering using SketchUp. Alongside with that Paulina retrieved clay and wire and began the physical model starting with the pod and progressively making the rest of the pieces. Carly observed and tried to discover the problem within the visual analysis homework for week 4, kept track of project libre and photographed the progress of the project. Renee worked on and gathered who did what for the blog. 

SketchUp CN Tower 3D Rendering by Cody 

 

                                            Paulina working on physical model of CN Tower

Sources we used:

http://www.planetware.com/toronto/cn-tower-cdn-on-ontcn.htm

Project Libre: Week 4 progress

Project Libre: Week 4 percent complete

Week 3

Goal of week 2:  Further research the tower, get a definite answer of what we want materials we want to use to build the 3D model, research how to work Revit


Group members and jobs:
    -Renee Pisano         -Worked on timeline Project Libre and still researching
    -Cody Johnson        -Researched a 3D model in Google SketchUp and Revit
    -Paulina Iniewicz    -Researched and wrote blog
    -Carly Alessandro   -Worked on timeline Project Libre and still researching


Challenges
  Some challenges that we faced were figuring out Google SketchUp and Revit. Also Carly and Renee were still trying to figure out how to work Project Libre.

Outcome of this week:
  We figured out how Project Libre works as well as Google SketchUp. Carly and Renee worked on completely finalizing each task that needs to be done on the timeline. Cody found a 3D model of the CN Tower on SketchUp; however, they were not very useful because they did not have enough detail and the scale was way off. Paulina worked on the blog as well as researching what materials we could use to build the 3D structure out of. We decided to sculpt the tower out of clay. The clay will not be strong enough to hold it so we will also have to use wire as the foundation and supports.

Carly and Renee working on the timeline in Project Libre

Sources we used:

http://www.ieee.ca/millennium/cntower/CN_Tower.pdf

http://www.cbsforum.com/cgi-bin/articles/partners/cbs/search.cgi?template=display&dbname=cbsarticles&key2=cntower&action=searchdbdisplay

Project Libre: Week 3 progress

Project Libre: Week 3 percent complete 

Week 2

Goal of week 2:  Research the CN tower and figure out what we Rendering Software that we want simulate it in as well as what materials we want to build it out of.

• Find what materials it was made out of
• Find when/by whom it was made
• Cost of this tower
• Purpose of this tower
• Dimensions of this tower

Group members and jobs:
    -Renee Pisano         -research and powerpoint creator
    -Cody Johnson        -research and powerpoint editor
    -Paulina Iniewicz    -research and powerpoint editor
    -Carly Alessandro   -research and powerpoint editor


Challenges
  Some challenges that we faced were figuring out what Rendering Software we want to use as well as what physical materials that we want to build the 3D structure out of.

Outcome of this week:

• What is CN Tower - Designed by John Andrews in 1972
• Purpose - To enhance radio and TV signals that were blocked from the surrounding buildings
• Materials - Concrete, Steel (Tensioned, Reinforcing, and Structural)
• Cost - $63 billion
• Dimensions - 553.33 m tall. 
• For now, we decided to build at least part of the 3D model from a 3D printer; however, that will be extremely time consuming and non efficient 

Sources we used: 

Powerpoint: http://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rk71izBMVsyxHSIBUyIcNPVb2LHr80XA32D1Uh2aHP4/edit#slide=id.p

Project Libre: Week 2 progress

Project Libre: Week 2 percent complete

Week 1

Goal of week 1: Form a group, chose our structure, and plan out a 10 week schedule of completion.

Freshman Design Project Topic: Investigate, Model and Analyze Magnificent Structures

"Forming Groups of 4 or 5, students will perform research on an existing constructed system that has achieved the status of a historic monument while still serving its intended functions. They will understand and report on basic characteristics and the reasons for successful performance of the structure, especially the critical loads, how it is carrying its loads and how/if the structure is being adequately preserved."

 

Group Members:

      - Renee Pisano         -(email: rp543@drexel.edu)

      - Cody Johnson        -(email: cjj45@drexel.edu)

      - Paulina Iniewicz     -(email: psi26@drexel.edu)

      - Carly Alessandro    -(email: cfa25@drexel.edu)

Objectives of the Project:

     This blog will track the weekly progress of our group as we complete our Freshman Design Project.  When the project is complete, we will have a 3D rendering and a physical model of a chosen structure (in our case the CN Tower in Toronto, ON). Structural Analysis will then be performed on the 3D rendering, depicting how the structure handles dominant loads.

Outcome of this week:

     This week we formed our group of four, chose our structure, and started planning out how we were going to manage our time for the next 10 weeks. We started researching the history of the CN tower for our presentation in Week 2. We created a 10 week schedule in Project Libre (shown below), that shows the deadlines we have created for ourselves. We have decided to meet up later this weekend to finish our PowerPoint (which we will link to next week's blog entry).

Project Libre: Week 4 progress

Project Libre: Week 4 percent complete