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A quick video of our project during the exhibition.

Exhibition night

Had an awesome evening with many memorable skyrises.

Modulit would like to take some time here to thank firstly our tutors- Mike Davies and Sou Muy. You guys are always here encouraging us and pushing us forward through the ups and downs. Also, thank you to all our sponsors for your kind sponsorship and encouragement.

mass production.

Saturday + Sunday. Fabrication begins.

Placed valcros on a few pallets of bottles, and finally we were able to get our structure up to two metres. To our surprise, the structure was much more stable than we thought due to the the fact that there was support with each wall through the corner detail.

Gary @ work.

Eric @ work.

Sean @ work.

white rubber bands + laser cut

Our testing white rubber bands have arrived from Wellington!! It looks much more elegant and appealing than our original brown ones. Also, we have decided to cut circular pieces to slot on the lid to hide the connection and the make the whole structure more uniform and elegant.

the laser cut rings glow under UV lighting

UV light + white valcro

The white valcro creates an interesting pattern under UV light... as though they are floating dots in the air.

Styrene vs. Rubber bands

After testing the different connection, and after weighing the pros and cons for each connection, we have decided to go with Rubberbands. By photoshopping the rubberbands, we realised that the white rubberbands will be much more effective than our current brown one.

Cross Connection \\ Styrene

First prototype connection made from styrene

stack + connection

Today, we focused much more on the fabrication and the connection between each module, hence, we built a 1.6metre tall section to test out some possible connection points and ways.

possible connection technique

rubber band testing

rubber band connection

General products

A BIG thank you to 'Generalproducts' for sponsoring our project with 150metres long valcro!!!

150metres long valcro

the device to stick valcro all at the same position

moving in and starting

MOVED TO TAMAKI!

Finally we have gotten all our bottles into the Tamaki gym, and IT ALL FITTED in our bay. Stay tuned. 1 more month till exhibition... it's going to get BUSY around here!

Unloading bottles

ALL fitted into our bay

Pattern testing

Bottle production

Wednesday and Thursday. One aim- to "make" 1200 bottles.

Thanks to the kind sponsorship from Tony from 'Pure Dew', we were fortunate enough to be part of the production of the main material for our skyrise- water tank (bottles). It was a great experience to know how our bottles were created and the research was valuable.

Raw material- PET

Testing mould. The form before air is blown into it to form the bottle

Here comes our bottle! :)

Part of the gigantic machine used to create the bottles

STACK.

Interesting effect

All packed and ready to be delivered!