Constructing Environments LogBook (Wk 1)

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WK1 – Studio Report This weeks exercise required us to construct a tower using small rectangular bricks. The Pirst sketches and ideas my group had for our towers design focused on structures with circular bases with covered tops. The diagrams on the left show how we took inspiration from a cone, which had the top tip cut off to create a Plat surface. Above: Preliminary sketches of tower. Below: Load path through proposed wall.

We decided to layer our bricks so that every second layer lined up, the most common layout for a brick wall (masonry). The diagram on the left shows the load path through this sort of layout. We can see here that the load is evenly distributed from the top of the wall to the base of the wall, with the weight being spread out. Spreading the load across a greater area will allow the structure to be much more grounded and therefore, stable. ENVS10003 Constructing Environments

A fault in the the design can be seen in the photograph below, in the uneven spacing of the blocks when creating the structure. Because of this, some parts of the structure were less stable than other’s, causing the load path to be distributed unevenly in this sections.


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