Monday, April 30, 2007

First Unitary Church


I used the First Unitary Church as inspiration, I found the flow of brick facade very intriguing. Hollowing out certain sections for windows, yet the facade is still united, giving it a feeling of movement as the protruding collumns link together almost like a maze. If I could incorporate a system like this into my portal frame it would be an interesting feature of the structure. I am think I will make this an enveloped system, possibly making every protruding brick 'collumn' wear the load bearing collumns are merely for a suggestive role of wear the loads are travelli
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Bunnings Warehouse

Bunnings Warehouse
Bunnings warehouse is a perfect example of a large spanning building.

Main View

Main View
This interior view of Bunnings warehouse gives an idea of the long spans required for the structure using minimal supports. Collumns run along each wall and down the centre of the structure only, allowing maximum space for storage.

Lateral Support

Lateral Support
This gives an idea of the repetition of supports (cross bracing) along the roof, and the connection to longer spanning beams.

Collumn and Roof Spanning beam. Corner connection

Collumn and Roof Spanning beam. Corner connection
This detail shows a close up for the 'I' beams used in the structure and the connection system used.