Monday, November 5, 2012

Structure

Cantilever Truss
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantilever_bridge

http://www.dragonplate.com/ecart/categories.asp?cID=88

http://www.livingsteel.ru/case-studies/cantilever-house-2

http://www.homeidea4u.com/comfortable-a-contemporary-villa-poolside/lovely-hover-architectural-competition-floating-structure/

http://archrecord.construction.com/tech/techBriefs/0712dignews-1.asp

For the corporate offices of the Lamar Construction Company, located outside of Grand Rapids, Integrated Architecture designed a 52-foot-wide and 100-foot-long cantilever for the building’s second floor.The interior of the primary cantilever is defined by the two 16-foot-deep trusses, each of which arrived on-site in three pieces. The trusses, spaced 26 feet apart, were also painted orange. A secondary cantilever extends outward to the edge of the box, perpendicular to the trusses.The trusses tie into a secondary steel structure contained within a poured-in-place concrete shaft that includes an elevator and a staircase. That steel structure is anchored in a 6-foot-deep subgrade concrete footing, 62 feet wide and 90 feet long. The length of the footing, which extends underground along the horizontal axis of the cantilever, counteracts the tendency of the cantilever to want to pull the building over. All cantilevers, from simple to complex, have to be designed to resist the moment of this force.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Inspiration

Names: Sunken Spine-Black BRICK-

Word Association: Fractal-transparent/translucent-kaleidoscopic-riding on beams of light-malformed-deformed-

Incubation-combination of SPA and RPC. Kahn Salk. what does it mean to incubate? Public vs. Private.

Layers of visual penetration

Blur-multiple readings of form. Scale. Attention to detail. Joints. Materiality. Programatic Registration.

Float House

-carries a modular polystyrene foam blocks encased by glass-fiber-reinforced concrete.

Bridge Structure

Furniture

1 Thread Furn

Soft Brick


Materiality

Transparent Brick

Solar Bricks

Polli-Bricks

Polli Brick 2

Gabion Wall

Carbon Fiber

Glass Fiber

Nanocellulose

Traslucent Concrete



Glass Tile Brick

Stage Backdrops