STRUCTURAL SKETCHES

BLOG POST DUE: 6:00pm Fri. 4/10 (see below)

This is the assignment discussed in class on Monday 4/6. Your sketchbook post is is due on the day you have your desk crit this week. Ideally you’d all have them done and posted by Wednesday but we won’t discuss until your desk crit so if you have a Wednesday crit please complete by studio and same for Friday. UPDATE: ALL DUE ON FRIDAY

The intent of this assignment is that you pick an interesting precedent and learn a couple things from it through the process of close looking and sketching.

ASSIGNMENT

A. REVIEW PROJECTS IN THE MASS TIMBER PRECEDENTS GOOGLE DOC. CHOOSE A COUPLE THAT RELATE TO YOUR PROJECT / INTERESTS. DISCUSS WITH PROFESSOR TO FINALIZE ONE PRECEDENT FOR SKETCHING BY PUTTING YOUR NAME NEXT TO IT IN THE GOOGLE DOC. UP TO TWO PEOPLE ON A PRECEDENT IS OK. YOU CAN WORK TOGETHER BUT NEED TO EACH MAKE YOUR OWN SKETCHES IN YOUR SKETCHBOOK.

B. BONUS: ESTIMATE THE SIZE OF THE VISIBLE WOOD FRAMING MEMBERS AND THE BEAM SPANS TO COMPARE TO WHAT WE’RE USING FOR OUR FRAMING. (EXTRA CREDIT)

C. CREATE 4 SPREADS IN YOUR SKETCHBOOK: LEFT PAGE DIAGRAM THE PRECEDENT, RIGHT PAGE APPLY THE SAME TECHNIQUE TO YOUR PROJECT AS A DIAGRAM.

  • PARTI / CONCEPT
  • UPPER LEVEL (TYPICAL) FLOOR PLAN DIAGRAM
  • GROUND FLOOR ENTRY / PUBLIC SPACE DIAGRAM
  • FACADE DIAGRAM

D. CREATE 2 OF THE FOLLOWING 4 SPREADS IN YOUR SKETCHBOOK:

  • LEFT: LOWER FLOOR STRUCTURAL PLAN, RIGHT: UPPER FLOOR STRUCTURAL PLAN
  • LEFT: SECTION DETAIL AT FACADE, RIGHT: CORRESPONDING FACADE ELEVATION
  • LEFT: UNIQUE SPACE IN SECTION, R: CORRESP. STRUCTURAL DIAGRAM
  • LEFT: SPECIAL STRUCTURAL DETAIL, RIGHT: AREA OF DETAIL IN CONTEXT

BLOG POST FORMAT

TITLE: PROJECT NAME, ARCHITECT

HEADING: STRUCTURAL PRECEDENT

CATEGORIES: PRECEDENTS

TAGS: SPRING 202, ARCH 202, STRUCTURE, YOUR NAME

Start with a slideshow of the relevant pictures and drawings of the precedent. Edit to 6-8 of the best photos. If there’s an animation or other structural drawings keep separate as an image. Follow with individual images of your spreads (ok to photo with your phone if that’s easiest, just try to get a decent focus and exposure.) No need for text in the blog post other than captions for images. You can use text in your sketches.

EXAMPLE

As promised, I will make a couple sketches based on the example from yesterday. I’ll try to get them posted as soon as I can this afternoon. I’m going to try to spend no more than an hour on my work for this, you should have a similar limit to force yourself to think and sketch quickly.

Here’s the images we looked at earlier in class:

Art House, Portland, Lever Architects

For reasons of space I’m combining my sketches into slideshows. First my regular sketches:

  • first try at a parti diagram
  • 2nd try at a parti diagram
  • upper level floor plan (drawing was available)
  • ground floor plan (deduced as best as possible from upper floor plan and photos)
  • facade diagram: shifting windows

I didn’t finish my structural sketches, but got a start on a partial wall section and corresponding partial elevation at the ground floor. I spent way too much time trying to draw the perspective parti diagram (and it didn’t work so well as a diagram) I’ll finish and update… UPDATED SKETCHES BELOW

  • This wasn’t really in my building, but as an example…a large wood and steel truss and a connection detail
  • Again from a different building, but a common use of exposed wood structure with exterior glazing and a conventional wall outside the structure

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