We’ve made tremendous progress this past week. Thanks to Abby, we finally found a way to get our blocks to release smoothly from the mold by lining them with a thin layer of plexiglass. While this works really well, we decided to break down and buy premade concrete blocks so that we’d have more time to work on the more important stuff. However, we made a new custom mold with the plexiglass lining to make the smaller uniquely sized blocks we need for around the door and the window.
Our premade concrete blocks arrived last Monday, and already we are laying the final course of our structure. All of our smaller custom blocks have been cast and should be dry enough to use tomorrow. With the walls almost complete, all we really need to do is decide on how we want to attach our roof before we can start taking observations and measurements to compare to future models.
At this point, we hope that each person will be able to develop their own idea that they can take the lead on in implementing into our existing structure or future structures, whether this be a new variation on the standard block or some other innovative component to incorporate into the walls, roof, window, or door. This is where all our early research will really help. We are having our weekly faculty dinner tonight to discuss our progress and where we would like to go next.
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