Glenn KatzYour Design Journal entries this week should highlight your design thinking that influenced your decisions about:
- your overall strategy and the features of the structural system
- the material and framing system selected
- the locations of structural columns and major framing elements
- any special structural challenges
Grid
The name of each grid line is a reminder for myself in terms of the layout of each floor. Since the layout of each of my floors are not very consistent, I had to find a way to accommodate the columns for all the floors. Also, I added additional smaller size columns (9x9) to support around the atrium and big space between main columns (12x12).
Material
W8x10 is used for the beam system.
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Level 5
Structure Wall & Floor & Foundation
Walls and floors are the same with the architectural design.
(will adjust the window location)
Challenge
Laying the columns was a challenge task for me since the layout of each level is not very consistent. Very often after I placed the columns on the first floor and found them conflicts with my layout in upper floors. So I’ve back and forth altering the architecture design and the column layout. In stead to fit every intersection with a column, I accommodate my design with cantilevers and trapezoid beam system. I also need to adjust some windows and doors to fit the structure design. The design showed above was the best I can think of for now but maybe still has conflicts I haven’t seem.