Design Journal Entry - Module 8

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Pu, Sirui

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Module 8 - Structural Framing Systems

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Jan 6, 2025 12:33 AM

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Jan 6, 2025 12:33 AM

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Glenn Katz

Your 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

Strategies:

I tried to align the grids and main columns behind the walls, so these structures can be covered later, and would not be very noticeable for building users.

In this building, every level has a different floor plan, and thus created overhangs in structure. Since these overhangs’ length would not cause a serious stability problem. No beams or columns were implemented for the overhangs. The purpose is to avoid exposing the structure outside.

For shafts like elevator well and staircases, no beams were placed above them.

Material:

Almost the entire system used steel and W-shaped columns and beams. This is due to the complicated structure of this building, and considering the building is located in a slanted area. Steel beams can provide more strength for the building.

Structural Challenges:

1. Since every level has a different floor plan, every level needed a different set of gridlines. The building has in total 9 levels, and the gridlines for upper levels then became very complicated.

2. Due to the different floor plan, it is very difficult to align the columns on different levels to a straight line.