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A R C H I T E C T U R A L T E C H N O L O G Y | s e c o n d y e a r p o r f o l i o
Following designing the student accommodation, the technology of the design was investigated to further resolve the design. Eventually producing a technological axonometric, section and physical model.
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D E T A I L S E C T I O N
A part section focused on the buildings surrounding envelope and the relationship of the outer layers to the building structure.
1. PRE-CAST COPING BLOCK 2. ALUMINIUM FLASHING
3. DAMP PROOF MEMBRANE (DPM) 4. CONCRETE SCREED 5. BRICK PAVING
6. VAPOUR BARRIER 7. BREATHER MEMBRANE 8. RIGID INSULATION
9. TRIPLE GLAZED WINDOW 10. WINDOW FRAME 11. SLOPED WINDOW SILL BRICK
12.CAVITY CLOSER 13. BRICK WIRE TIES 14. RIGID INSULATION
15. CONCRETE SCREED 16. BRICK PAVING 17. IN-SITU CONCRETE
18. PLASTIC ARCH 19. BARREL VAULTED BRICK ARCH 20. CAVITY
21. WEEP HOLE 22. EXTERNAL LEAF BRICK CLADDING
23. INTERNAL LEAD BRICK STRUCTURE
24. INFILL CONCRETE 25. DAMP PROOF COURSE (DPC)
26. CONCRETE SLAB
P A R T I A L E X P L O D E D A X O N O M E T R I C
1. OUTER LEAF OF CAVITY WALL - CLAY BRICK CLADDING
2. INNER LEAF OF CAVITY WALL - CLAY BRICK STRUCTURE
3. BRICK GROIN VAULT STRUCTURE (EXTERIOR AREA)
4. BRICK WIRE TIES
5. BREATHER MEMBRANE
6. RIGID INSULATION
7. VAPOUR BARRIER
8. INSITU CONCRETE FLOOR STRUCTURE
9. BARREL VAULTED ARCH STRUCTURE (IN CELL)
“You say to a brick, ‘What do you want, brick?’ And brick says to you, ‘I like an arch.’ And you say to brick, ‘Look, I want one too, but arches are expensive and i can use a concrete lintel,’ And then you say: ‘What do you think of that, brick?’ Brick says: ‘I like an arch.”
L o u i s K a h n
Proportions were the main drive for the design which focused upon intertwined social spaces and the inter-relation of these with more intimate private spaces such as the students individual cells. The design structured around a grid of columns, the proportions of each space in the student accommodation were based upon that of each students individual cell. The private flat communal space is to a proportion of 2:1 and the communal space separating individual flats is worth 3:1. This proportional system imitates the social and structural hierarchy. It seemed only fitting this modular design be created from a modular material - the brick. Following this, section and plan evolved to fit this new proportional dictator, an individual cell now being equivalent to 20 stretcher laid bricks wide, 35 frog laid bricks in height and 19 stretcher laid bricks long. These new proportions then had a domino effect upon the surrounding communal spaces in the design . These proportions allowed the minimum amount of bricks to be cut, a design now dictated by brick.
