What is the relationship of your ground floor level to surrounding grade?
Ground floor sits on the exposed structural frames on the left side of the building and sits on the same level of the surrounding grade on the right side.
What are your exterior materials?
Glass windows with metal frames, white stucco exterior and PVC membrane roof. Terrace is and patio is wood and walkway on the site is made of bluestone pavers.
Window and door openings:
Windows are inside the wall pushed towards the outside and made out of glass. There are 7 windows;
- Window in the bedroom facing front (9′ high x 4′ wide)
- Window in the bedroom facing side (9′ high x 6′ wide)
- High window in the bathroom (1’6″ high x 8′ 1.5″ wide)
- High window in the entrance (1’6″ high x 7′ wide)
- High window in the kitchen (1′ high x 8′ 1.5″ wide)
- Window facing the terrace in the entrance (8′ high x 6’wide)
- Window in the living room facing outside (8′ high x 9’6″wide)
There is a sliding glass door (8′ high x 6’wide), and two wood doors: outside door (6’6″high x 3’6″ wide), bathroom door ( 6’6″high x 2’8″ wide )
What is the feel of your interior?
Interior walls are made of plexwood because of the materials flexibility and adaptability to curved surfaces. It creates a warm look while adding verticality to it.
The floors are all made of white stained plywood except the bathroom, which is marble tiling.
Back-splash in the kitchen connects with the wall cabinets that are also plexwood. Back-splash and bathroom walls are covered with white tiles.
Are you using (exposed) structure as a design element?
Yes I am but only in the second floor. Structural frames are not exposed but bigger frames that expand to the outside and create the second floor are exposed.
How well do walls and other elements align? What is the slope of your roof?
All of my walls align with the structural and exposed frames. My units intersect and the roof expands to create a space that is a shared balcony with two other unites at the top and a bike storage for the cluster of these three units underneath it.
My roof has the minimum slope (flat roof) with 1/4″ vertical rise per 12″ horizontal run.
Side wall of the bedroom is an unfolding door that open upwards to allow entrance to the shared balcony.
What is your unique drawing?
I wanted to show how two types of frames (structural and exposed) cross each other. So, with my unique drawing, I showed how the structure comes together in stages. Materials are also going to be added with renderings.
Wall section:
Hathaway Section - Spring 2020 
Hi Damla,
Your wall assemblies make sense and seem complete. I know we’ve talked about it a fair amount but I’d like to come back one last time to make sure I’m understanding the non-exposed structural frames.
I like the idea of your unique drawing as frames- but it may not show enough of your overall construction on its own. I think the flexibility to do that as your unique drawing is dependent on your showing your sections at a large enough scale and with some detail beyond just the frames. One thing that comes to mind is your foundation, maybe also something suggestive about how your roof and shared roof deck work.
There are ways to address the frames you have at the ground level, but I do want to talk about how to try to show it along with the foundation design issues raised in the Structure post.
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