Final Project

Grounding Project

Design2 - Augmenting Architectural Reality 4

Construction Detail-Beam to Column Connection

Beam to column connections are very common and a variety of details can be used.
Connections between beams and columns are perhaps the most common structural connection type. A wide range of different types are used, and these include fin plates, end plates, web or flange cleats, and haunched connections.
The fin plate connection is simple and allows easy site installation.
Fin plate connections are based on a single plate welded to the column. Beams are normally attached using two or more bolts through the web. Where necessary adjustment can be provided using slotted holes (for instance horizontally slotted holes in the web of the section attached to the fin plate).
Fin plate connections are suitable for connecting open section beams to any steel column including tubular sections where a simple, principally shear type, connection is required.
End plate connections are simple and neat.
End plate connections have a single plate welded to the end of the beam. This is bolted to the column flange or web using two or more bolts arranged in pairs. Where necessary, adjustment can be provided by slotted holes and shim plates between the end plate and the column.
When the connections are made to hollow section columns it is not possible to install conventional nuts onto the ends of the bolts inside the section. Specially threaded holes or proprietary bolts which incorporate an expanding sleeve should therefore be used.
End plate connections may be partial, flush or extended. Partial depth end plates transmit the minimum bending effect into the column; flush end plates provide a neat detail and allow a greater number of bolts; extended plates enable significant transfer of bending between beam and column, but are not frequently used.

My Model

 

Design2 - Augmenting Architectural Reality 3

Design Works
Taking photos from site and using Photoshop to revise.

The escalators enclosed in transparent tubes along the facade made the ride up and down an integral part of experiencing the architecture, the building, and the city. People from inside and outside of the building can visit the studio easily. The studio is a glazed building that is able to overcome the antithesis between interior and exterior. It desires to achieve the maximum level of interior lightning. The tubes are twining around the studio,visually link the interior and exterior together and thus for a better "sharing" concept.

To create a fun interior landscape

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Facades
Facades on longer have to form part of the structure as loadbearing walls, but are a skin that wraps the building and gives it personality through the materials, textures, colors and compositions.
As external elements that are visible from outside the building, facades have reflected the cultural and aesthetic changes and the evolution of the customs of their users. One of the aspects that has marked the evolution of facades has been the discovery of new building materials such as concrete, which in the 20th century led to a definitive change towards specialization and autonomy of the facade. Facades are also to a certain extent the letter of introduction to the architectural work, the first thing we see. They may seduce us or make us despair, and through their reading one can imagine the nature of what is hidden behind them.
At present, though facades still in many cases show new, valid and attractive ideas, one of the main problems of contemporary architecture is the absence of an authentic system of industrialized facades that solves the functional requirements whilst conserving lightness and modernity.
Though there is an increasing number of specialists in walls and the production of mass-produced an tailor-made facades is increasing, there are still many technical aspects that must be resolved a posterior. These aspects, often undervalued, are those that give validity to the design by walls that make up a building, providing protection from the weather and the external environment. Therefore, this part of the building must meet requirements of habitability, stability and durability such as:
- Protection against the wind
- Expansion joints
- Respect for structural joints
- Acoustic insulation
- Thermal insulation
- Protection against moisture, including rain, snow and condensation.

Glass facade is my favorite.It is able to overcome the antithesis between interior and exterior.
One of the most spectacular buildings in Federation Square in Melbourne, Australia, is the Atrio, located between the National Gallery of Victoria and the Australian Center for the Moving Image. Its remarkable glass, steel and zinc structure in the form of geometric shapes lets onlookers see inside from the square outside.

Pompidou Center

The great escalators enclosed in transparent tubes along the facade made the ride up and down an integral part of experiencing the architecture, the building, and the city, thus blurring the line between content, container, and surroundings as never before.

Design2 - Augmenting Architectural Reality 1

Gifting Architecture
Facebook - Digital Carnivals


http://www.heatherwick.com/
http://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_heatherwick.html

2010 Shanghai Expo - United Kingdom Pavilion

Building on the Past, Shaping Our Future


Heatherwick Studio's initial design strategy for the UK Pavilion established three aims to meet the FCO's key expectation that the pavilion should become one of the five most popular attractions at the Expo. The first aim was to design a pavilion whose architecture was a direct manifestation of what it was exhibiting. The second idea was to ensure a significant area of open public space around it so visitors could relax and choose either to enter the pavilion building, or see it clearly from a calm, non-queuing vantage point. And thirdly, it would be unique among the hundreds of other competing pavilions, events and programmes.

Green City, Open City and Living City


"Belief in the significance of architecture is premised on the notion that we are, for better or for worse, different people in different places—and on the conviction that it is architecture’s task to render vivid to us who we might ideally be." "Architecture gifting" is all about "sharing". The building has provided not only physical but also psychological sanctuary. It shares the space, function and some kind of spirited sense. The United Kingdom Pavilion is a great example of 'sharing '.


Site

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Beside the TE TAOU RES, on the Te Taou Cres Street