1 week to go

We have approximately one week til the completion of the sitooterie on site. Progress so far has been very nice. We got our materials and the building and design group are very busy to get the plywood sheets ready to be cut. This is the recent progress for the groups:

Design

-Cutting list is ready
-Marking of the plywood sheets is in progress

Building

-Angles for cutting have been worked out

Sponsorship

-Glowing sticks sale, another cake sale and open mic night were successful
-Everything is ready for the Poker Night on Tuesday
-Materials have been recieved
-approximately £300 has been donated by various companies in return for advertisement on the site

Documentation

-1st and 2nd book are halfway finished
-1st movie is finished, visible at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmPCNbx_bf8
-2nd movie is in progress

Poker Night on the 3rd of November

Click on the picture to view the poster!

Process - 27th of October

We have returned from our trip to Netherlands and have been working on the project since. There's just 10 days left to go so we're putting all our effort into completing our sitooterie on time! The clock is ticking.

Design:
-All autocad drawings are completed.
-Site has been marked for the sitooterie

Building:
-A mockup model of the seating angle has been tested out.

Fundraising:
-Monday - Raffle tickets
-Tuesday - Glowstick sale at the Union
-Wednesday - Open Mic Night
-Various donations from companies recieved
-Poker Night at The Balcony organized

Documentation:
-Poster for the Poker Night
-Layouts for the booklet pages
-Sketches scanned from the design group
-First book close to being completed

The Open Mic Night at Drouthy's

We're organising a fundraiser with another sitooterie group at Drouthy's on the 28th of October. We're selling raffle tickets which includes many interesting prizes! Everybody's invited to sing, play a guitar or even practice their stand-up act.

Process so far

We have been pretty successful for now. The design and building do have a couple of issues they need to resolve but documentation and fundraising groups are pretty much on track! Here are some of the details of how far different groups have progressed:

Design:

-Final design is finished
-Sketchup model is ready
-An initial model on 1:10 has been completed

Building:

-Measurements and construction details are in progress
-Issues with setting up the heavy frames
-Construction for chairs has been tested out

Fundraising:

-A cakesale gained a profit of over 60 pounds
-A fundraising Open Mic Night has been organised on the 28th of October at Drouthy's with the Tower building sitooterie group
-Some scrap materials have been brought in from building sites
-Various donations have been collected
-A poker night at Tonic is being organised

Documentation:

-A name and a logo has been created for the sitooterie
-A brochure and a poster have been made to promote the Focus Sitooterie and the Open Mic Night
-Booklet designs and contents are nearly finalized
-This blog was created for the sitooterie
-Various photographs have been made of the progress

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Most of the group is now off to Holland for a week for a study trip. We'll be back by the 24th of October to continue our hard work!

Information to the Focus sitooterie project

For the past couple of years The Dundee School of Architecture has organised sitooterie projects where students get the oppurtinity to build their designs on 1:1 scale. Students are given approximately 1 month to come up with a design for a specific site. Of over 60 different works only a few are chosen which get teams assigned to them.
Our team is building a sitooterie next to Perth road between the Tower and accountancy building. We have been working as a team since the 5th of October when the winning designs were chosen and our deadline is on the 6th of November.
During that time we need to organize our group, finalize the design, solve the building issues, do mockup models of the construction, produce appropriate booklets, do fundraisers, collect materials, build the sitooterie on the site and record the whole process.
This is a very fun but also a stressful project as we have to meet our deadline. The cost of materials and printing is not cheap and we need all the help we can get to build a sitooterie for all of the community to enjoy :)

Groups working on the Focus sitooterie

There are 22 people in our Focus sitooterie group. This is how we have divided ourselves:

Coordinator:
John McSeveney
Design Coordinator:
Cameron Wilkie
Design Team:
Dimitra Karampatsou
Jenny MacDonald
Alex Oliver
Ray Magee
Making Coordinator:
Lovisa Arvidsson-Kvissberg
Making Team:
Dan Struthers
Ricky Wong
Scott Harrison
Alistair Hudson
Ben Chadwick
Sponsorship Coordinator:
Sophie Roberts
Sponsorship Team:
Louise Smith
Danielle Mullane
Lisa Bronsztejn
Louise Patterson
Documentation Coordinator:
Sigrid Aasma
Documentation Team:
Rory Brogan
Greig Williams
Cara Brunton
Emma McGuigan

In process

This webpage is still in process. Look forward to more updates very soon.