#section drawing

VALERIO OLGIATI, OFFICE BUILDING, BASEL/SWITZERLAND

“House-shaped columns carry horizontal slabs and form an earthy stone shelf, made of concrete. The center of the building is illuminated by an atrium. Four massive pillars form the building's foundation in it. All parts of the building form an indivisible structure. On the ground floor there is a foyer surrounded by walls. It is not visible from the outside. Here one enters the building from the street, the light comes from above and the atmosphere is calm. Above the foyer, as opposed to this, are extrovert open office spaces with horizontal references to the other floors and the surrounding area. Everything here can be experienced in its entirety and one works together on open and bright balconies over street level.” (Valerio Olgiati)

S E C T I O N   +   E L E V A T I O N   D R A W I N G S

P. Saucedo (section + elevation in context: images 1-2), C. Hakes (elevation drawing inset into site photo collage: image 3)

MASTERPLAN PROPOSAL - CATALYST BUILDING, TORONTO / CANADA - student work KDonovan, TSA F-19

note the section drawing - it shows the catalyst building WITHIN ITS URBAN SPACE (section is cut through adjacent buildings which form the boundary for the space, the site for the catalyst).

images from GRAFTON lecture:

top: building section - elements in elevation have a tone to distinguish them from the void spaces

bottom: building porosity to connect to context

BAUMSCHLAGER EBERLE - ETH SCIENCE LAB, Zurich

The building’s underlying concept features a use-neutral space around the outer facade and a ring-shaped interior core that provides a light and spacious inner zone complete with central hall, seminar rooms, auditoria and cafeteria. Its structure allows a large degree of freedom in the use of space, making it possible to create an individual microclimate in even the smallest room.

The facade combines a glass enclosure with a stone brise-soleil, and this complexity prevents the prism from being perceived as a massive sculptural object. The volume therefore works out a balance between transparencies and solids through the systematic rhythm of windows and the rigor of the details. The edges of the vertical elements stick out slightly with respect to those of the horizontal ones, emphasizing their material presence and three-dimensionality. The corners, in turn, are carefully designed to alternate, level by level, the distance between louvers, producing a dynamic effect that manages to blur the arrises. Aside from determining the building’s physiognomy, the facade is a factor in the building’s thermal performance, and offers a series of balconies connected by a continuous gallery from which users can step out to enjoy the landscape.

SECTIONAL DRAWINGS

The section reveals simultaneously its interior and exterior profiles, the interior space and the material, membrane or wall that separates interior from exterior, providing a view of the object that is not usually seen. This representational technique takes various forms and graphic conceits, each developed to illustrate different forms of architectural knowledge, from building sections that use solid fill or poche to emphasize the profile of the form to construction details that depict materials through lines and graphic conventions.

section show vertical connections of space - space continuity through the building.

1.  section perspective - fantastic offense:  https://www.fantasticoffense.com/images/spcs-corner-section-perspective

2.  section perspective

3.  section drawing

4.  section perspective, Diller Scofidio