Hagia Sophia has the second largest dome in the world and pendentives to support the dome. hell ya we're making the model of this building and these 2 were the largest challenge for us.
the 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation of semi dome. we felt excited whenever there was improvement, especially the 3rd one, it looks almost perfect.
after few days of sleepless night, we calculated the radius, circumference and almost everything, doing lot of experiments and finally came out with this, the 4th generation semi dome with pendentives. but all these were just the study models, we need to submit our model in balsa wood. and we realized all the calculations were useless.
class at 8, woke at 7.45. went to college, xxx-ed by lecturer. all because of these. the pendentives, dome and BOTH in balsa.
final tutorial on monday, so happy that the lecturer was satisfied with our works and we got the highest mark for the draft report.
late night at 12am, we're watching transformer while finalizing our model. can't not to mention huey hoong's sound system damn good with 22 inch LCD TV as monitor. around 3.30am, everything has done, planned to go yamcha but end up with fainted on bed.
we're satisfied with the model because it really looks good. all the hardworks and sleepless nights are worth.
