Major Assignment Poster

Major Assignment Sketches

In the spirit of Norman Foster i'm using angled glass panels on the exterior. Extruded about 1 metre from the actual warehouse, they are both a design feature and used to diffuse light.


Here you can see the relationship between the interior warehouse and the exterior glas cladding. Also there si a section showing roughly the scale.

Week 5 Tute Details

Redo of Tutorial 4 - Portal Frame # 2

This is my redo of the second view of the Portal Frame. My first effort had a redundant box gutter and some rafters in the wrong spot. This one should be closer to being right.

Hyspan LVL

This article writes about the new school hall built at Whakarongo in New Zealand. Timber Portal Frames were employed and the specific choice of material was 'Hyspan LVL'. This was a cost effective otion to what the school could afford.

http://www.infolink.com.au/articles/5F/0C01C85F.aspx

Hot/Humid Architecture

Bringing an aspect of Architecture 2A across to Construction here is an article on architecture in a hot/humid climate. The group i was in for Domus chose this climate and so i thought i'd post an article up here showng what its all about.

http://www.architectureweek.com/topics/humid-01.html

World's tallest road bridge opens

As i chose to do my Major Assignment on Norman Foster, i figure it worth posting here a milestone that he had back in 2004. As the title says, the world's tallest road bridge was opened, designed obviouly by the great man himself.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1373426,00.html