Glenn KatzYour Design Journal entries this week should highlight your design thinking that influenced your decisions about:
Strategy:
I decided to go with an exoskeleton system that ties to hollow steel columns that run on the outside of the building and the two cores. The structural slab is a waffle slab using hollow steel beams. I chose hollow beams because they can easily be filled with ducts and wiring in prefabrication. The Cores themselves are concrete.
The only challenge I’m for seeing is how will the heating and cooling work. I have improved the daylighting system by extending the structural slab outside the envelope, but I wonder how I can heat and cool the large open spaces.
Your Design Journal entries this week should highlight your design thinking about:
- the sizes of the three critical beam test case framing elements
- any special structural challenges
- how you expect the computed beam sizes will affect the space available for your HVAC design elements in the next module
