Wednesday, April 25, 2007

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.


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