Week 3 journal: site visit

Location 1: Oval pavilion-redevelopment

Figure 1 shows the material of wall structure of the

building is mainly timber and during the

construction, unfinished structure needs to be

supported before it turns stable.

The top part of foundation which wasn’t able to be

photograph and the pipes underground are also

recognized.

Figure 1

This figure shows the steel reinforcement for

concrete blocks or walls. The yellow ‘hat’ on the

reinforcement can protect people from full down on

the reinforcement.

Figure 2

Figure 3 shows the isolated layer for the basement

As it can protect the basement from permeation of water and

Other reactant in the ground. Figure 3

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From this figure we can see some long steel bars which seems

to be the reinforcement of the celling that helped fixing the

slabs on it.

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Location 2: ORMOND THEOLOGY CENTRE RECEPTION

Figure 5:

The main materials of this building is concreat, glasses and steel. The structure system includes

concrete and steel columns, long steel beams and concrect slabs. It’s rain water collecting

component is on the top of the building (circled in figure )

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Figure 6

These two photos show the concrete column with steel reinforcement inside and the water pipe

next to the wall. Also as the glass wall dose not carry loads, there must be long beams for more

then 6 metters across the celling to carry yhe loads.

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Location 3: QUEENS COLLEGE EXTENTION

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This building is mainly structured by concrete,

steel and timber. Frame structural can be

recognized at the constructing area. The

concrete wall in the constructing area seems to

be supported by timber structure back inside.

Also, the similar roof structure from location

one can be discovered.

Figure 9

Location 4: MSLE BUILDING (LINK BETWEEN BUILDINGS)

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This building is a connection of two buildings.

On the wall of the front door there is similar

structure of the roof, but the distance between

bars are much longer so they might have

different uses or just part of the architecture

design.

The rain water head with the water pipe is

connecting to the next building.

Figure 11

Frame, or more likely

hole on the wall can be

found inside the building

and the bearing part is

reinforced by a thicker

brick wall.

Figure 11&12

The back of the building also has long strong beam but wasn’t photographed.

Location 5: EASTERN PRECINT STUDENT CENTRE (LINK BETWEEN BUILDINGS)

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This photo shows special the beam structure

that is designed by engineers and precast

especially for this linking part. There is no

bearing column, the beams carried all the

loads and transmit them to the bearing wall of

two buildings.

Figure 14

This is the steel control joints between two

concrete floor slabs that stops concrete from

unexpected cracking. (Chin, 2008) Figure 16

shows how the concrete will be without the

control joint under long time weathering.

One extra structure that analyzed during site visit is the edge of the roof:

Reference list:

Francis D.K. Chin (2008), Building constructing illustrated, Fourth Edition

Google map (2013), Google map, America, viewed 21/08/2013

https://maps.google.com/

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Figure 16

Wind will push the rain water along the slope at the

edge upwards to the roof into and rain water

collecting component instead of dropping

downwards into the building.