Constructing Environments Journal
Weeks 4 and 5 – Working Drawings Nina Novikova - 643695
Working drawings – visual components A revision cloud is used to indicate that parts of the working drawings have been reconsidered, and where a change has been implemented. They are placed directly on the working drawing, going over the top of an elevation/section/plan/detail.
Some technological features are included, drawn on in surprising detail just outside the drawings that indicate their loction – such as the automatic door slider on pg. 21. These are important because their location needs to be considered in the constructing and designing processes.
Also some visual drawings take place. They are detailed, shaded and serve the purpose of translating aesthetic appeal and overall visual qualities of a proposed building. The facade of the MSLE building is presented in a set of one point perspective drawings, which show the building receding in a 3D space towards one point on the line of sight, displayed on the front page.
Lineweights are quite important for working drawings – they indicate the priority and importance of a particular element, its proposed thickness or the order in which the elements proceed in.
Through evelations, materials and textures are not indicated unless focusing on a certain material. Concrete is represented by a specific shading (below), tile and brick rendering is shaded and the separate pieces are drawn out.
Sometimes, basic shading for materials and textures is indictaed – this usually happens in sections or details on a smaller scale and thus more detailed – for example, the concrete and tiling below. The legend for those materials is not indicated in the MSLE working drawings. Some types of shading are included in the general notes.
Doors and windows are marked on all working drawings that include said openings, except site plans. Below is an example of how they are shown on the floor plan of the MSLE. Below right is a sample of windows (same goes for doors) displayed on an elevation. The frame is clearly indicated. Rather than providing the height and width of the opening and frame, each window is referred to a door and window scheldual, which indicates parametres and lintels required.
Working drawings – group contribution
General conventions provide the essential informtion to being able to read a set of working drawings.
The economic concerns are crucial to consideration and planning of a project, as discussed in one of the earlier lectures. It is important that a building, once complete, provides a certain amount of income. Factors to consider are the fluctuations within the market, the passing time period and the always existing risk to not have the value paid off. Sustainability is important to analyse to create a space that will not leave a great negative impact on the environment and to find the optimal sustainable solution.
Construction elements – various aspects that relate to the construction structures which hold the building up. These are important to be included on the working drawings as the essencial basics of a building. The original sheet for these has been misplaced, unfortunately, but the group workings and my own contributions reflect the basis of it.
Indications of how various joint elements are indicated on working drawings
The second sheet – some of the extracts. We looked at primary stictures – parts of the framework of a building that actually support its weight and keep it together/upright, and secondary structures, the ones that support everything else. The structured needed to be identified, as well as materials and the foundations/footings, which could be found in the section through the building.
Box gutter Somewhere here
Stud wall
Non-load bearing wall
Stud wall
Retaining wall
Pad/Column Footings – compression – uneven depth of the building in relation to the ground. It is a bit unclear if the building is actally elevated slightly above ground on the footings or not. Slightly larger footings/possibly strip footings? To reinforce the outer load-bearing wall as well as the secondary wall lined up further to the right.
There is a possibility that all of those are wrong, but I tried
Iron cladding Glass door
Steel frame and vast glass sheets
model making of the MSLE connection
Materials – cardboard, balsa sticks, masking tape, glue, mountboard, uhu superglue. Cardboard used to represent compression, balsa wood – tension – beams and so on. No footings are shown on the model as per group decision.
The information is measured out,and the walls are cut out of the card. The walls are all stuck together in so that they hold the right posotion when standing up. The beams and ceilling sections within the interior are stuck on. The construction is then folded together, and the free edges of the beams glued to the opposite cardboard wall.
The irregularly shaped stairwell is being put into place, being glued tightly to the existing walls.
The ceiling from the inside, as follows. The intersecting beams and studs used to trnasfer tensile loads between the two primary walls, and the slightly skillioted roof above.
The floors and the interior (poorly stuck together) rafters. Here one can see which floor is which, and the gradual recede of how/where the ceilings are located in the space. We made a thing, no matter how flimsy it looks.
A label of whether parts of the structures are secondary or primary, and how the load is transferred
Here, the two lengths of a future bridge have been measured out and cut out of pine. Connecting beams have been put in place at varying spacings to counter the tension of the load and to add stability to the span of the bridge.
This I believe was an experiment to see how much pressure can the structure withold as a dead weight, without any motion. At a certain point, it is the original frame and the rendering that seem to give way and snap, as opposed to the inner beams.
An additional face had been given to the bridge, made out of a lighter sort of wood. Could serve both as rendering to hide interior, and for extra stability/even weight distribution.