#structure model

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TIMBER STRUCTURE : detail wall - floor connection, K.Nguyen, TSA 2015.

SANAA, NEW MUSEUM, NEW YORK - steel structure, model

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SANAA, NEW MUSEUM, NEW YORK - steel structure, model

http://www.edbertcheng.com/new-museum.html

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image top: Michael Maltzan: Moody Center, Rice University

images middle: Casa da Musica….study

image bottom: Anonymous, Structural models in the studio of Robert Le Ricolais, University of Pennsylvania (1970)

University Sidney structure assignment: “We presented our first advanced architectural construction assignment last week. The task was to identify the structural systems of a precedent building, modify the system until crisis point, then resolve a new structural system to address the changes. Our precedent was OMA’s Casa Da Musica in Porto, Portugal. Through research and reading of engineering drawings we identified two main structural walls, 1000mm in thickness, are responsible for supporting the theatre suspended in space above the ground. Our modification was to double the capacity of the theatre without increasing the ground area taken by the buildings foot print. The result was an increasing in the buildings cantilever in two directions. The crisis point was reached when one of the walls was to pierce through the external skin – which would ruin the impact of the solid form.

Our solution was to leave the structural wall within the concrete shell envelope, to then add a latitudinal cantilever and to replace part of the concrete wall with a steel truss system, and stretch the concrete surface to enclose the theatre.

Of course our solution isn’t fully resolved, but this project provided us a great insight into re-designing architectural and engineering solutions as a result of programmatic change. It was also a great opportunity to create some stripped back and sexy models.”

http://benpeake.com/blog/tag/casa-da-musica/

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OMA - JUSSIEU - two libraries, France, Paris

http://www.oma.eu/projects/1992/jussieu-two-libraries

http://arch-vydav.blogspot.com/2011/05/jussieu-libraries-1992-93-8-1950-2000.html

the idea of the plane, the continuous surface….studied in a series of 33 DESIGN MODELS contained in a wooden box. 1992.

the models were made to develop the Jussieu library plan and to study the design idea that various floor could be linked together like a “boulevard”. all models were made at a sale of 1:500.

thinking about structure is integrated into the model building.

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image top: Michael Maltzan: Moody Center, Rice University

images middle: Casa da Musica….study

image bottom: Anonymous, Structural models in the studio of Robert Le Ricolais, University of Pennsylvania (1970)

University Sidney structure assignment: “We presented our first advanced architectural construction assignment last week. The task was to identify the structural systems of a precedent building, modify the system until crisis point, then resolve a new structural system to address the changes. Our precedent was OMA’s Casa Da Musica in Porto, Portugal. Through research and reading of engineering drawings we identified two main structural walls, 1000mm in thickness, are responsible for supporting the theatre suspended in space above the ground. Our modification was to double the capacity of the theatre without increasing the ground area taken by the buildings foot print. The result was an increasing in the buildings cantilever in two directions. The crisis point was reached when one of the walls was to pierce through the external skin – which would ruin the impact of the solid form.

Our solution was to leave the structural wall within the concrete shell envelope, to then add a latitudinal cantilever and to replace part of the concrete wall with a steel truss system, and stretch the concrete surface to enclose the theatre.

Of course our solution isn’t fully resolved, but this project provided us a great insight into re-designing architectural and engineering solutions as a result of programmatic change. It was also a great opportunity to create some stripped back and sexy models.”

http://benpeake.com/blog/tag/casa-da-musica/

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HYBRID: STEEL STRUCTURE WITH CONCRETE ELEMENTS (CENTRAL SPACE = THEATER + STAIRCASES) : 1/16 scale structure model, D.Mendez TSA 2015

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CONCRETE STRUCTURE : 1/8 scale section model; R.Contreras, TSA 2015.