Week 10 Journal

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Oval Pavilion This week we presented our “Detailing Volume” drawings as well as visited the Oval Pavilion once again. The presentations were to go for approximately 3 minutes each and were to describe various aspects of our structural component.

We then went on to visit the oval pavilion once again. The site supervisor spent an hour talking to us about the various aspects of the building and their reasoning. We were also able to see the progress that had been made.

Materiality The oval pavilion employs a range of materials in it’s construction, including steel, timber, concrete and glass. The frame of the new section is made of both steel and timber, comprising of steel columns and beams which enclose timber studs to make up the frame.

These are braced with steel cabled diagonally from each corner.

The steel components enclose the timber studs to create the frame, which is braced horizontal loads with steel cables.

Some sections have plywood bracing instead of steel (perhaps economic decision)

Functionality The pavilion’s primary function is a sports and recreation club house with seating and a social room. It will serve as a place to hold social events such as awards nights, presentations, and celebratory evenings for particular sporting achievements on the field.

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Architectural Elements The Oval Pavilion aims to unify modern and heritage styles of architecture, and blend them into an architecturally and structurally sounds building.

One of the focal points of the structure is the social room. The social room is a heritage listed part of the pavilion, so it can only be restored as it has been standing since the 1800’s. This was said to be difficult as many of the social room’s materials and elements were hand-made, which created issues with restoring them. Although, as stated by the site manager, they can be seen as ‘art’ as it showed such craftsmanship.

The room is round, with a turret roof which stands out from the rest of the building as it is an unusual design according to modern time, although it fits in with the greater structure quite well. The turret roof remains to give height to the room and hints that the structure was built in the 1800’s as this is very typical of that era.

The turret roof is shown on the drawing here.

This tiled roof is to be replaced but the structure of this section is to remain. Also mentioned in architectural drawings

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Structural Elements As previously mentioned, the structure of the heritage section remains as before, just with some restorations. The modern sections is comprised of both steel and timber frame parts along with steel cable and plywood bracing.

Retaining walls are installed around the site to help stabilize concrete elements as well as soil.

As is shown, they are all waterproofed and installed in a way which allows water to escape without tampering in construction processes i.e. downhill

The roof structure was interesting as it was very unconventional.

They had made it about 50mm higher than it is supposed to be as they had created the timber floor and top head batten sitting on the purlins. This held the insulation which was then finally covered by the roof. I didn’t quite hear why they did it as the group was large and I was at the back