Trying to re-live architecture...

17/11 Tuesday Figured out the issue of the triangles. Apparently the original Rhino details had multiple lines, even though the Illustrator file showed only one. This is the only explanation that I could think of. So I popped back onto the laser-cutter to cut the last of the triangles after re-copying the data. By this point, all things to be laser cut/engraved have been completed. Hooray. ALSO, the best and only way to not blow your brains out watching and waiting for the laser cutter is to play solitaire. Or spider solitaire.

18/11 Wednesday Didn’t come in. Spent the day in bed staring at the walls.

24/11 Tuesday Came in late. Started to sand triangles. Pestered about the studio, checked up on Lucy and Rebecca who were working on the base. Took 2/3 of my triangles home to sand.

25/11 Wednesday Came in with triangles and sore hands. For the first time in my life I made a couple of simple jigs that were used to aide in the dichlo-ing of the triangles. Ada helped me figure out how to make the angles properly because I am horrible at maths. I then got what I thought was acrylic and started to plan out the interior walls.

1/12 Tuesday Continued to go along with my walls as Lucy and Rebecca worked on putting together the exterior. Paul then asked why I was using ABS. Will then showed me the difference between ABS and acrylic and explained how to more efficiently cut the walls. Wrote down all the measurements, then cut them on the circular saw. I decided to frost the walls since the floor plates were also going to frosted. I asked Rebecca how to go about it because our initial plans were to maybe use the sand-blaster. She told me to spray them but had no idea the way to go about that. I asked a few others and got no straight answers or answers that were the same. So I decided to hand frost the walls with sand paper.

2/12 Wednesday I finished off the frosting, and learned from Hugo how to spray to get the frosted effect. With this knowledge I went to the spray room and spray frosted the floor plates and pier flooring. I then dichlo-d the walls to the floor plates and was doing SO WELL until I freaking spilled my entire dichlo pot on the floor plates and desk.

8/12 Tuesday Came in and fixed the disaster, which was really just cutting some new walls, and sanding back obvious dichlo-spill edges.

9/12 Wednesday My memory is terrible. I don’t know what I did today.

10/12 Thursday I came in super late and took over the spraying for Rebecca. I sprayed the pier flooring white over the frosted paint because it looked silly against the white base. Also sprayed the dowel rods used for the decks supports.

11/12 Friday Crazy hand in day. I sprayed. I sanded. I glued. I yelled. I wanted to kill. We got it done and I never want to think of this day again for as long as I live.