Final Posters

These are the final posters

for submission.

The left poster includes the 3D model and a section of the detail. It also talk about the influences and materials used.

The right page includes the floor plan, site plan (with roof) and inspiration. I had alot of trouble fitting everything on so i had to limit to only 2 drawings. The floor plan had to be 1:200 and the site is 1:500. Just clear enough to see what is going on.

Floor plan

Here the the final plan that will feature in the poster.

*BUT* i am missing coloumns in the showroom for the suspended slab, its not going to stay up on its own. They will put in the final posters.

The shape of the building follows closely to some of Louis Kahn's most recognised buildings, including the Salk Institute and the National Assembly building in Bangladesh.

Here is potentially what the exterior of my facotry will look like.
I have unfortunately lost the 3D model file and will only be able to use this image for the posters.

It is clear enought to show the offices and showrooms on the left and factory entrance on the right. Water surrounds the edges of the building. This feature is evident in some of Louis Kahns designs.

Okay after realising that the showrooms and offices are 2 story, i had to make some changes.

Now i have just wacked another level on and used a suspended concrete slab for the first floor level. Also i have used another suspended ceiling underneath the slab. Nice and easy.

Detail Render

This is pretty much what the construction detail will look like, few more changes need to be made but pretty much thats it.

Rendered Model Stage 2

A more detail rendered model showing the suspended ceiling with insulation. Ground sand, reo, and plastic under slab

Site Visit - Suspended slabs and Suspended Ceilings

These images show how the formwork for the suspended concrete slab.
It is laid onto either metal deck sheeting or timber boards which are all held up by acro props from underneath. The props are removed once the concrete is dry and the formwork is left in position.

These are some photos from the same site showing the installation of the suspended ceiling. The plasterboard is simple attatched to the railes and the insulation sits on top. In my design I will hopefully be able to just attatch the suspended ceiling to the purlins, opposed to this case where its a suspended slab.

These are some working drawings details I did last year that reflect what is happening in my design. The slab, footing with the spider plate and concrete panel. Then the roof sheeting and the UB rafters with the box gutter that I am also using

Rendered Model - Stage 1

A basic look at the rendered form that the detail will take on, showing the exposed concrete panesl, slab, and steel roofing members.

The design was influence from Louis Kahns Salk Institute.

These are some wireframe renders of what my final design detail could look like. It only shows the form and relation of structural members, not very clearly though.

Site Visit - Concrete Panel Installation

These demonstrate how precast concrete panels are installed. Being precast they are poured off site and brought in on trucks. This may be an option for my design depending the sites conditions.

Concrete slab and panel construction

Here are some photos that I have previously taken on a building site in Lynbrook. It shows how the pre cast concrete panels are installed onto the pins in the footing and then await attatchement from above, by either roof or concrete suspended slab.

These photos show the construction of the concrete slab using waffle blocks. This reduces the the amount of concrete and provideds adequate strength to the slab.

Strip fooring runs around the outer edge where the slab is partly poured over it. The concrete panels will then be installed onto the footings.

Tilt-up Construction: A General Contractor's Approach to Innovative Commercial Building Construction

Have you ever driven past a construction site and seen massive cranes lifting huge panels of concrete in the air? Have you watched with amazement as a new commercial building seems to spring into place, almost overnight? What you have witnessed is tilt-up construction, an innovative method for building office buildings, retail centers, warehouses, distribution centers, call centers, manufacturing facilities and other commercial / industrial structures with amazing speed, safety, and cost benefits.

So what is the difference between tilt-up and other types of construction?

In traditional forms of wall construction, the walls can be built with CMU blocks or blocks faced with brick. For some types of buildings, the exterior wall is made up of structural steel columns with heavy gauge metal studs covered with gyp sheathing, which is then faced with brick or stucco. Regardless which traditional approach is used, building the exterior walls is a time-consuming, multi-stepped process. A tiltwall building's walls are created horizontally in large slabs of concrete called panels. The panels are then lifted, or tilted up, into position around the building's slab. This means the tilt-up structure's exterior wall is virtually finished when it is tilted into place.

Tilt-up construction (also called tiltwall or tilt wall construction) has a long history, but its widespread use is a relatively new phenomenon. In spite of this, tiltwall construction is fast becoming the method of choice for constructing modern warehouses, call centers, distribution centers, retail stores, office and storage buildings and other types of industrial and commercial facilities.

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Architect Louis Kahn

For the major project I will use Louis Kahn's works to influence the constructible nature of my design. Kahn was an American architect who used several techniques using concrete to effectively design his buildings. I will try to adapt some of these simple yet effective techniques.

The simplistic forms that Kahn creates with the basic material of concrete. A material that is easy to use yet can be used effectively.

Louis Kahn's Designs

A portrait of Louis Kahn.

An example of some of Louis Kahn's work involing precast concrete with exposed joints within in the face of the panels.

Also the Bangladesh National Assembly Building featuring horizontal concrete panels with exposed joints

Construction tutorial 2 excercise.

Turorial 2 exercise

Box Gutter detail axo's

An old working drawings assignment I did of an axonometric of a portal frame double skin concrete block factory, with sheet roofing box gutter, parapet walls, and concrete slab floor construction.

Axonometric of a portal frame double skin concrete block factory, with sheet roofing and concrete slab floor construction.

Site Visit - John Wardle, Dock 5

Dock 5 Apartments , Located docklands, designed by John Wardle Architects.
Project nearing completion. August 2006

Base of apartment building. Includes commercial retail use.

2 floors of apartment space suspended out of the building.

John Wardle Architects - DOCK 5

Detail of steel beam junction that suspends the room out of the building.

Exterior of factory. No. 20, located in Port Melbourne

Welded connection knee joint between UB coloumn and rafter beam.

Portal Frame commercial construction. Oxley Nets Factory.

The use of UB steel beams. Concrete block work exterior and metal sheet cladding.

test worked