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Module 3 - Points to Ponder
Please share your comments on 3 of the following Points to Ponder questions. (Choose 3 of the questions below.)
Why is it important to accurately model the land features of your project site with a toposurface?
- What aspects of a building design are most affected by the terrain features?
When designing a project...
- Should the building adapt to the terrain?
- Or, should you adapt the terrain to the building?
I think the building should adapt to the terrain to help preserve the area as much as possible. It is important when designing and constructing buildings that we keep the environment and terrain in mind.
What considerations affect a project team's decision-making when deciding the floor-to-floor height to use in a multi-story building?
- From a real estate developer's perspective?
- From a designer's perspective?
- From an engineer's perspective?
- From a builder's perspective?
From a builder’s perspective the floor to floor heigh is going to change how they layout the foundation and how they are going to have to manage the weight of the floor. As a bigger floor to floor height means they have to account for more weight.
- From an owner's perspective?
From an owner’s perspective they want to make the floor-to-floor height as comfortable as possible and that can be hard to do when you aren’t able to see the build in person yet.
What are the advantages of stacking the levels of a multi-story building vertically?
- Can you share an interesting example of a building that doesn’t vertically stack (where the floor plates change their shaped radically between the floor levels)?
- What were the advantages or reasons for non-vertical stacking?
Why do stairs follow specific proportions with a set relationship between the tread length and riser height?
- How can building modeling help prevent the mistakes that often occur when designing and installing stairs?