Structure Based Truss: Hearst Tower

Four week ago, me and my partners had a project of structure and form lecture. The project was to find a building that has a structure based truss. The other project was to find a building that has a structure based bulk or mass. In a big group, there are 18 people, we divided into two small groups, 'truss' and 'mass'. My group was in 'truss'. First week, we met our mentor. On that day, we're just divided as I said. Second week, we looked to three buildings, especially high rise building. And then one of those three alternatives, we took one to be seen by the mentor. After that, we decided to think what the materials for this model building. The building which I means in this title post is Hearst Tower in New York.

Third week, we decided to use balsa wood material for the main structure of tower and the old building and mica-look-like-ice for the windows. The mentor gave us an offer to try 3D print for this model. But after saw the printer, we, not only my group but also the other group that offered too, had a problem from the first use. It crashed for a while, even aborted. And it was really take a long long long time to create one millimeter, if I'm not wrong, it took about two hours. The other group who first to use had a ten centimeter high model to print, for just a module, so I always checked them to see the result and I asked them that they had to wait almost six hours to build their 3D model. wow...

Before the presentation day came, we decided not to use these 3D printer for our model. So, we took an initiative to follow the previous group just make a module. In the last night before the day, we had to wait about two hours to build a half centimeter model. For the building model, first, we made an elevation in CAD. This CAD was used for laser cutting the balsa wood, I had to make two elevation for this model. After that all, we bought two mica, but we used only one. To show floor plate in every stories of this building, I showed it with drawing pen and made some lines for every floor. So, we had four elevations structures, four sides window, four sides of the old building, and three elevation of core. The core was put in this model to show for comparison with the building.

Fourth week, it's time to show our model. We described a lot of things about it. We also described how to make this model and what obstacles that we past. The tools that we used, was cutter, drawing pen, ruler, scissor, and glue. The materials was balsa wood and mica-look-like-ice. It's simple then.
A little review about Hearst Tower building. It has 182 m high from bottom to top include the old building. The structure is a diagrid or it came from diagonal and grid. In one triangle that can we see is four stories high. This below is our model 3d of module and the building.

kkaeb song~~~

hwaaaaa I am so sad that EXO SHOWTIME has ended their first variety show, I hope there will be season 2. I want to watch baekhyun and suho become MC in inkigayo. I hope I'll remember EXO forever too. kyaaa~ so...The title from this post now is kkaeb song yow kkaeb song~ This word came from uri baekhyun. I was agreed with chen, I really want this sound "kkaeb song~" for my alarm. I just know it from the last episode. He said that it was trending in 8th and 10th episode. I was hear that sound too but not really interest. And then luhan said it was trending and many people are curious about what 'kkaeb song' is. So, uri baekhyun said it came from 'a-kkap-da' (means regretful) and then became in annoying way 'ae-kkaep-da' and when he said that faster 'kkaep kkaep kkaep kkaeb song~'. so, I really love this I use to tweet to update status in many account. hooo let's make it one alarm ringtone for us! "kkaebsong ireona (wake up) kkaebsong~" start the day with this kkaebsong alarm!

student of Architecture's dream...

I and all my friends in Architecture 2011 (I hope so) will travelling or exactly field-course to Singapore in the end of this May. It is our dream to excursion together as a whole 2011. We will learn about many things that we had in our lecture. Why we chose Singapore? After we discussed in a long time about a lot of city such as Hongkong, Tokyo, and also some in Europe (wow! not really, it's just a dream) and some in Indonesia. Because Singapore is almost similar to Indonesia like the tropical climate, and more feasible to do, so we chose Singapore. There were some friend disagree with this decision, but also some friend agree, like me.

I just expected why some my friend didn't want to go to Singapore, because they had it! so did I, but you may have to know, we are going to there together with our friends as a student of Architecture, you have to be proud of it! I know there was some of my friends had to Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, even Europe, Japan, Korea, and Turkey and also many more. I thought there will be a different feeling when we are together with our friends. So, we have to try this out.

Do we just travelling? Of course no! We learn about Singapore, the city, about the buildings, open space, green space, type of housing, type of buildings, building functions, and the urban architecture and many more about architectural things. Beside that, we will make an exhibition for this excursion and also I heard that we will make an excursion book for our documentation. We will present it proudly and trying to be good and better from the others.

Now and later, there is a problem, it's just one, money. We need a lot of money to send 113 students to Singapore from Bandung. We had a lot of work fund raising such as sell snacks, fruits, donuts, mineral waters, tea, brownies, cakes, fried food, and also a lot of kind foods and beverages. We had form a committee. There are chairman, secretary, treasurer, field coordinator, fund raising, exhibition division, permission division, and some division that I forget. Our lecturer had already agree with this excursion, even one or some of them want to go with us together, being a guide for us in Singapore.

We have a proposal. We need sponsors, as many as we can. We will make sure the sponsors to let us go and bring the advantages to both of us. So, if you want to sponsor us, you can call me, or if you just read this, you can give me some recommendation to collect money as many as we can do. I'm sure we can make our dreams come true. We are Balavirya, we are friends that always inspired and encouraged each other. So, that's all my thought about our dreams from a student of Architecture's life. I hope there will someone at least one reader. Thank you for your attention.

what is baek?

I don't know why I really love this guy, more than the others, and my friends around me. I can't handle myself when I saw his handsome photos, his beautiful face. I made this picture by myself and I use it for wallpaper home screen on my phone and home screen for LINE. He's too cute for a boy. I like his voice, his humorous thing, I love everything about him, even when his predebut, he's just awesome. He didn't show any special skills that seems to be cool, but he just a funny person. When I watched EXO SHOWTIME, he didn't show his coolness, but he showed how he attracted viewers so their show has its funny and make us happy and laugh of lot. Next week is last story about their first variety show on episode 12th. I was so sad but then I thought I had another variety show from the other idol and this week is their first launch. Whoooo... I also want to fangirling with some people who know EXO more rather than me, because I'm not really update about them. I wonder what the last episode would be attract us. Wish they will success again in 2014. Let's enjoy EXO SHOWTIME!