Depths/heights

Floor to ceiling 2700

Tension cable 400

Beam 300

Card (no extra depth)

Bondeck 54

Flooring 12

Just a thought

for the cardboard beam is there a reason we are using corrugated card? why not use solid card eg. strawboard, it would require more card but it would increase the strength.(??)

see you tomorrow

Question

Hey Girls,

been looking at roofing, and different sizing for componets, particular the parapet roof. And i was thinking we could have a smaller parapet if our roof is shaped like /\ rather than \/....and it wouldmeanthe overall height wouldn't be as big, but instead of a box gutter running through the middle of the roof it woul run aroun the edge. I am not sure if we are allowed to do this, cause wouldn't be exactly a box gutter, but would make joining the wall structure and the roof much more simple. Rulla, your looking at the box gutter thing, what do you think... or should we just stick with \/ shape???

flooring

well i've been looking at the different types of bamboo flooring we can have
- like normal hardwood timber floors, planks of laminated bamboo
- square sheets of laminated bamboo, ends up looking like normal
- woven bamboo in sheets, more like a woven bamboo mat in looks
- small bamboo saplings/cane, so lots of them lined up along floor, doesn't produce such as flat smooth finish as the rest.

i'm in favour of the saplings as it carries our circles/tubes onto the floor, or the woven bamboo as more authentic however in terms of practicality one of the first two would be better.
thoughts and opinions

this stuff is prob out of date now... but anyway

first image: tube arrangement in particular the minimum structural ones, the more dense ones (slightly thicker pen weight- sorry no colour)

2nd image: just possible wall configurations- some of the issue i've raised need some clarification.

hey all
i was thinking that for our columns, they don't actually need to be 300, we could just have 150, but maybe for the interior columns we go up to 300, just to be extra sure it will work. also on the ground floor we may need to have two rows of tubes on the exterior walls, one row to support the floor above and the next row to go all the way up, cos otherwise we will see every now and then a tube stoping, supporting a beam or lintel and starting again. which could look messy, or interesting depending on how we treat it. let me know thoughts on this... as in the mean time i'll work on both.
elise tyres sound good

Roof Material

Hey Girls,

sorry something else i forgot t add, i have been looking at roofing materials. I have discovered a Corugated Bituminous Roofing (made from recycled tyres). They are reasonalbly light weight and i think would do the job quite nicely. If anyone had any problems with this selction please let me know. If you what to check it out the web site is www.arielplastics.com