Building Technology 1

PROJECT 1 : INDUSTRALIZED BUILDING SYSTEM (IBS)

This is a group assignment which predominantly relates to the topics of Industrialised Building System (IBS) as well as the materials’ embodied energy. Before embarking on this project students will be exposed with different types and methods of the IBS system and the calculation of embodied energy of different building materials in the classroom. First, the group has to design a 3-storey apartment block using mainly IBS components. Then, the group has to construct a physical model of the building to imitate the actual IBS construction process and to record all the process in a video.

1. Form a group of 5 or 6 students.
2. Perform a study on a building preferably an apartment, which was constructed fully or partially using IBS method and identify all the IBS components used including appropriate sizes, etc.
3. Design one or two types of apartment units which size should not exceed 100 square meters and consists of a living hall, a dining area, three bedrooms and two toilets. The design should incorporate mainly IBS components such as precast wall, hollow core slab, precast staircase, toilet pod, prefabricated timber roof truss, etc. with appropriate sizes.
4. The units should be arranged as follows and made into three levels. However, for the model one side of the building can be cut into half to show the cross section.
5. Construct the IBS components of the model individually then joint all of them together in the actual way that an IBS building is constructed. All the process including fabrication of components and sequence of construction in the production of the model should be included in the video. A number of blow-up connection details of different parts of the model should also be produced.
6. Also provide in the video some descriptions about the building and construction system concerning energy efficiency and ecological impact as well as the embodied energy calculations

above is the final video submission

REFLECTION
This project is very interesting and effective to the knowledge of IBS system, which is one of the most efficient building system being used worldwide. This project also requires a very good teamwork to conduct and i have definitely learned a lot from my group mates. I really explored a lot about IBS system because we built the 3d model and also laser cutting the components to get the perfect dimension and then sticking the building one component by component. Hopefully IBS system can become one of the world famous building system in the future.

PROJECT 2 : CONSTRUCTION SOLUTION

This assignment is aligned with the Studio Design Project (semester 4 and 5) and aims to facilitate students in the technical studies and development of their design. It deals with the analysis and establishment of the structural and the envelope systems of the student’s design to ensure that the design has logical and workable construction systems.

 It also encourages students to think about construction as integral part of the design and not just an afterthought. Most of the times amateur designers tend to design their spaces without thinking about the construction aspects and later on have to change and redesign their schemes due to the designs were unbuildable. This assignment was design with the intention to tackle this issue and to increase the technical competency of students.

Task 1: Alternative Design Schemes (20%)

1. Conduct some precedent studies of recent, complex or unique construction systems that could be applied in the design. They should include the following:
  A) The roof system (reinforced concrete flat roof, green roof and the common roof trusses are prohibited)
  B) TWO (2) facade systems (the common glass curtain wall systems are prohibited)

  C) The structural system including the floor system (the common reinforced concrete post-and-beam system is prohibited)

2. Next, conduct a thorough study on all the systems to answer the following questions:
  i) What is the type of construction system used?
  ii) What is/are the material(s) used in the system?
  iii) How is the system constructed? (i.e. detailing)
  iv) What is/are the advantage(s) of the system?
  v) What is/are the disadvantage(s) of the system?
  vi) Why did you choose the system considering the advantages and disadvantages of it?

Your answers to the questions should be in the form of writing and sketches and accompanied by images from the precedent studies.

3. Then, using the similar systems as the ones in the case studies, produce TWO (2) alternatives of façade design schemes for the current studio design project. Each design scheme should include only the front and the rear façades (in scale 1:100) together with the neighbouring buildings. The drawings can be created based on the students’ current progress in the studio.

Task 2: Sectional Perspectives (20%)

Task 2 on the other hand is intended to facilitate students to develop practical construction solutions and detailing for their own design through the production of sectional perspective drawings of spaces. Students are required to produce detail sectional perspective drawing of TWO interesting spaces (as shown in Figure 1) in their design; which consists of a room on the ground floor and a room on the top floor.

The sectional perspective of the room on the ground floor should show the connections between the foundations, ground floor slab, façade, structures and the upper floor slab. On the top floor the sectional perspective should highlight the connections between the floor slab, structures, façade, and the roof. The drawings should be produced in appropriate scale (between 1:50 to 1:30), clearly annotated and accompanied by dimensions.​

SLIDE SHARE LINK TO REPORT

http://www.slideshare.net/jasonjuen/btech-final-a3

REFLECTION

This final project allows us to actually make our building design workable and also enhancing our knowledge of detail in our building. This strengthens and helped me in my studio presentation as well because my design is organice while I have constrcution knowledege and detail to support my design. This is a very important subject to us because a design has to be able to be built, no matter how nice the building could look.