Week 1 E-learning and Reading

Enclosure System:

• Roof

• Exterior walls

• Doors

• Windows

Structural System:

• Vertical extension of a building above the foundation

• Columns, beams, and loadbearing walls support floor and roof structures

• The substructure is the underlying structure forming the foundation of a building

Service System

Service system is consists of elements which service to users of constructions.

• Light

Week 1 Theatre Sessions

• Mass construction:

Mass construction relies on the compressive strength of the material properties.

• Substructure:Substructure is the vertical

structure of the building above the foundations.

Week 1 Studio Activities

Play with bricks

This is the way we build the tower by bricks. So that each level can support each other and play a connection role.

Week 1 Studio Activities

Play with bricks

We tried many time to build a beam by using the rubber band but failed, because we can’t make it stable.

Then we decided to make the basement smaller so that it increasingly become sharp on the top. Then we can build the sharp for 2 bricks each level and went up quickly.

Week 1 Studio Activities

Play with bricks

During the weight capacity test I thought this tower would be broke but it didn’t. Finally they hit it by bricks from the side then it appears some holes on it.

Week 1 Glossary

• Truss: A truss is a structural frame based on the geometric rigidity of the triangle and composed of linear members subject only to axial tension or compression.

• Structural span: The span capability of horizontal elements determines the spacing of their vertical supports. This fundamental relationship between the span and spacing of structural elements influences the dimensions and scale of the spaces defined by the structural system of a building.

• Structural joints:

Roller joints: Pin joints: Fixed joinst:

• Week 2 E-learning and Reading

Fixed vertical direction Fixed both vertical and horizontal direction.

• Structural system:

Solid system: working with stones or bricks

Surface system

Skeletal system

membrane system :cheap

Week 2 Theatre Sessions

Week 2 Studio Activities

Play with balsa wood

The idea of the main body of the tower is from thefamous Eiffel tower and Chin (2008) descriptionabout the weight of structure decreasing thoughthe increasing of the height therefore the swing ofthe structure can be controlled and the foundationcan carry more loads. At the same time thestructure of trusses is considered to strengthen thebottom part of the tower. The relating informationwill be exposed in further discussion.

In this week’s studio we arerequired to build a tower as tall as we can. Considering what we learned before, a draft of the tower structure was agreed by all members.

Week 2 Studio Activities

Play with balsa wood

We all thought build a triangle as the basement because it is the most stable shape.

This structure is built for avoiding bucking of columns (Chin, 2008):

Because of the slenderness ratio, longer and slimmer the column is, easier it will bend hence buck.

Material• 40 strips• As long as

we can

Week 2 Studio Activities

Play with balsa wood

The green timbers can avoiding shifting between columns and braces, also transmit loads between columns.

This is the final tower, because we cut the strips as really long ones so that we used plenty of strips to support and made it stable but it still reached the roof.

• Footing system:

Week 2 Glossary

Different bearing capacity should build different kind of footing system.

e.g. Low capacity

piles