More Mies

The New National Gallery in Berlin, The Illinois Institute of Technology Library, Crown Hall frame and a model of the Mannheim Theatre project.

Tutorial exercises and my schematic design

This is a gutter detail with a precast concrete wall panel.
Here is a gutter detail between two portal frames.

And this is a section through a portal framed warehouse and an attached office.

Here are some images of my initial design for the major project. The warehouse is in the style of the Crown Hall and the Mannheim Theatre project, featuring a steel frame with attached I beams on the outside of the facade and the roof suspended from external trusses. The sides of the facade incorporate masonry in the first two metres of their elevation, as Mies used in the Illinois Institute of Technology Library. The attached office space will be modelled on the New National Gallery in Berlin. The overall plan is reminiscent of the classic Mies layout of staggered rectangles, as seen in the Farnsworth House. I was also thinking of placing both on small podiums, as Mies would have wanted.

Major project research

I have decided to design the warehouse for the major project in the style of Mies van der Rohe. Here are some pictures I've found of buildings he designed. He believed that the structure of buildings should be clearly expressed, as shown in these pictures of Crown Hall and the Farnsworth house, which feature the steel structural framing on the outside of their facades.