Hi! I’m an architect and a professor in an architecture program here in São Paulo, Brazil. The course is called Innovation in Design and Construction Site Practice, and I’m planning to work on the WikiHouse (Skylark 150) throughout the whole semester: design, prototype and building a 1:1 section.
I’m comfortable with GitHub — I’ve already forked the repo and I’m putting a few things together that I hope to submit as a PR soon, but before that I’d like to clear up some questions.
I’m using the current blocks to build a Design Kit (Rhino) for Skylark 150, to make things a bit easier for my students. However, I don’t fully understand some of the gable walls. For example:
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Small Span: G-S-1, G-S-2 and G-S-3 look fine, but G-S-4 and G-S-5 look like copies of 1 and 2 rather than their continuation.
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Medium Span: G-M-1 to G-M-4 look fine, but I also can’t find the blocks for the other half of the gable for the medium span.
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Large Span: the block naming doesn’t seem to follow the same logic. The first one is G-M-7, then G-M-8 and G-M-9. Shouldn’t they be G-L-1, G-L-2 and G-L-3 to keep the same criterion?
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Still on the Large Span, the next block is G-L-5 (which is actually the 4th) and then G-L-6 (which should be the 5th).
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I couldn’t find any use for G-L-10, since it seems to be a copy of G-L-5.
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I understand that for the 3D model you can mirror the blocks from one half of the gable to build the other half, but when mirroring we should give them new names and new fabrication files for each one, right?
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There is a small clash between G-S-2 and G-S-3 (see pics);
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There is a minor misalignement between: G-M-1 and G-M-2, G-M-3 and G-M-4, G-M-7 and G-M-8;
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A bigger clash between G-M-9 and G-L-5.
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Another small clash/misalignement between G-L-5 and G-L-6.
I hope to post the results of the semester here for you all soon!
Thanks!