Tuesday, May 29, 2007

My Final Poster for Construction. Shows all the major details of my section as well as overall views



Oh yeah. 5x5 section is done whoo hoo!

This is my section. Hopefully will turn out well once rendered. Think I might go with all sorts of different colours on it to clearly define each construction element.

My first poster showing my inspiration from Zaha Hadid and my design.

After much stuffing around, finally got this floor plan, you don't reckon those angled poles were hard to do!
I have angled out the rooms to echo the exterior walls.
My final design for the warehouse.


Final Plans and elevations for my design.
http://www.onesteel.com

http://www.bluesteel.com.au

These sites were great for finding detail on specific measurements of different steel members.


My framework layout. There will be columns and rafters at 5000mm centres and then girts and purlins crossing them
A sketchy idea of what my warehouse will roughly look like.

This is my final form idea. Great, great, great.

Im thinking that the walls will be an overlapping of concrete panels, similar to that of one of Zaha Hadids designs
This is my initial design. I have taken Zaha's idea of having an overhang to wlecome visitors into the building.

Thursday, May 3, 2007

My Architect: Zaha Hadid





I have decided to study and use a similar design approach as Zaha Hadid fo my assignment. I chose her due to her strong knowledge with concrete and composite construction. Check out more of her work at:

www.zaha-hadid.com

Monday, March 26, 2007

Wednesday, March 21, 2007


Section 2 of a portal frame. This shows the connection of a portal frame to the side of the building, with a universal beams and girts, there is also further fly bracing for added support. The roof is connected in a similar way with the universal beam attaching to the roof with a universal beam as the rafter, and though not seen in this section, purlins attach the roof to the rafter. Sarking is also shown on the roof and wall, the waterproof membrane to make the structure weatherproof. Kliplok roofing has been used and has been cut through for this section.

Sunday, March 11, 2007


PORTAL FRAME DIAGRAM

Monday, March 5, 2007

This detail I found fascinating. This is inside the building near the centre of the shed, at the point of the roof. The I-Beams running parallel with the roof panels widen as they approach the centre and then thin out towards the edges. The roof is attached to the I-Beams in the same way as the walls, with fly bracing attached to the universal beam to spread the influence of the beam. There is also a bolt connection at the intersection of the two universal beams.

This shows how the external skin attach's to the framing. The skin attach's to horizontal steel bars and these are attached to the main framing, the I-Beams. There is fly bracing attached to the universal beams to give the wall extra support and strength. Also in this image it shows that the drain pipes are hidden away. As opposed to having them on the exterior, they run on the inside and run directly parallel with the I-Beam so they are not overly noticed.

Bunnings Warehouse, Waurn Ponds. Architect is unknown, however the design for each of these Bunnings stores remains the same. Typical shed style, with most of the internal framing exposed.