Timber is categorised as either ‘softwood’ or ‘hardwood’. Softwood is obtained from coniferous trees and hardwood comes from broad-leaved trees. Softwood and hardwood are botanical terms and do not necessarily refer to the density or hardness of the wood. For example Balsa, which is known to be soft and used for building lightweight models, is a hardwood whereas Douglas Fir is a softwood with good durability and high strength properties.
The benefits of using timber to for the stall is the durability, with good maintenance the structure can last a lifetime. Also a large timber structure is fire resistant References
http://www.cti-timber.org/sites/default/files/STA_Timber_as_structural_material.pdf http://www.scottishwood.co.uk/hardwoods.htm
After thinking it through, I thought that the Victoria Square would be the best place for the doughnut shelter, as there would be less competition there and would be more noticeable. Most of the people walking around this area would be the business people who work in the nearby offices and also many adults and young adults.
Our mission is to touch and enhance lives through the joy that is Krispy Kreme. Krispy Kreme Doughnuts creates delicious, melt-in-your-mouth pieces of donut joy from the original glazed to the assorted dozen and wedding doughnut towers.
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https://www.krispykreme.com https://www.krispykreme.com/about/Our-Story Who is the client?
My chosen client will be selling doughnuts from a stall/shelter. My client can be either a man or woman, they are passionate about making and selling doughnuts, and are hoping to travel to different cities, building up their business. The doughnut shelter is large enough for them to sit and sleep in over night, as well as space for them to sell the doughnuts, but small enough that the shelter can be transported to other place. The shelter will have two openings to it so customers will have easy access. What am I selling? Selling daily made fresh doughnuts for ideal a grab and go food. Having a linear style to the stall and a factory style experience process to the food display. Although thought the factory process of making the doughnuts, there will be different toppings available for the customers to choose from. This stall will mostly be targeted towards the working people around Victoria Square. This doughnut stall will be place where they can easily grab a quick snack/dessert on a break. Over the holidays we were asked to collect a series of items: 4 broom stick, christmas wrapping paper, string and gaffe tape. Meeting at Glenn Howells Architects building we found out exactly what we were using these materials for. In groups we had to create a shelter using our folding task designs for inspiration, for a specific client and pitch our shelter at the end of the day. Within this activity we investigates flexible spaces, form making and the relationship to our chosen site. The end result of our shelter had good natural lighting inside, but didn't have good ventilation when sitting inside. The structure was sturdy and lightweight so it could be easily transported but could not be disassembled.
Overall we had a small design adventure of creating a shelter for a client and can now gather these experiences of construction and spending time in the shelter to gain an understanding of the scale and the interior atmosphere within our simple structure to help us with our pop up and sell project. Following our starter task we also had to experiment creating simple figures and our models in the Rhino software.
Our first task for Project 4 was to choose a selection of materials, ranging in different thicknesses. With the materials we had to fold them to make spaces. I then drew out simple line and tonal drawings from these models.
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