The Conception of Idea & Creation
Project 1: Skeletal Construction (Temporary Bus Shelter)
Experiencing and understanding skeletal construction is important as it is one of the most widely used structures for building support. As a designer, we should know how skeletal structure works. In a group of 5, we were to construct a temporary bus shelter that accommodates 5-6 people on a scale of 1:5. The bus shelter should consist of all building components such as roof, columns, walls, and floor to demonstrate the knowledge of skeletal frames and its joints.
Project 2: Understanding the Forces in Building Construction
A building normally comprises of several different types of constructional systems, either due to its function or building code requirements. As designers, it is very important that you understand when and where each of the different types of constructional system is used. Today, tensile and grid shell construction methods are becoming widely used structures for building support. It provides the required load-bearing resistance and aesthetics required by designers. Today, technological advancement is creating the path for innovations in building construction through the exploration of materials, construction techniques and information technologies to produce more effective design approaches and features that will suit the designers’ preferences, environment needs and etc.
In this project, we were to form a group of 3 and to propose a building (tensile / membrane construction or grid shell construction) and identify the structural systems used in the construction of the building. We were then to produce a construction model showing the structural systems used in the above building.
