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Will It Stand?: December 2009
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Exploring the structural side of design. On a parking garage? The Fairbanks at Cityfront Center in Chicago was built on top of an existing parking garage. In order to support the new football-shaped tower on the center of the garage, a 6-foot deep concrete transfer mat was used to distribute load to the stronger perimeter columns. Like a big "W? Walter Towers are Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group’s latest project in Prague, Czech Republic. Cool design, but will it stand? Wednesday, December 23, 2009.
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Will It Stand?: Will it stand as a Cube?
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Exploring the structural side of design. Friday, November 6, 2009. Will it stand as a Cube? Posted by Will it stand? Based on conventional beam and column floor support, the structure would appear obvious. However, the initial concept dictated that the entire structure be supported only on four central concrete. Cores Columns on the grid would not extend down to a foundation. There would be potential economy in this design requirement, given that the entire building is sited over water. In order to prese...
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Will It Stand?: Will it stand on a parking garage?
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Exploring the structural side of design. Thursday, October 8, 2009. Will it stand on a parking garage? Posted by Will it stand? Constructing a new building on top of existing structure can sometimes feel like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. That’s the problem that designers faced in the construction. The immediate problem faced by the design. In addition a 16’-0” deep transfer girder was introduced along the center of the mat to further alleviate load from the smaller interior c...However, ...
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Will It Stand?: Will it stand in crystaline form?
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Exploring the structural side of design. Monday, October 26, 2009. Will it stand in crystaline form? Posted by Will it stand? If a tectonic shift in an undersea geological formation sent giant crystals thrusting up through the water’s surface, it might look something like this dramatic arts center prototype positioned in a lake or harbor. Eleven jutting, crystalline structures of varying size—with cantilevers. Working within the basic architectural form, top exterior facets would include steel trusses.
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Will It Stand?: Will it tick?
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Exploring the structural side of design. Wednesday, April 7, 2010. Posted by Will it stand? Can you tell the time on my new watch? There should be many ways of marking the passage of time. Why are we limited to digital. Numerals and analog spinning hands? Throughout time many devices, including water clocks and sun dials, were developed, but here in the Western world we've coalesced around two standards. I love my new Nooka. In his controversial work " Toward an Architecture. Wrote that architects should...
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Will It Stand?: The quiet war: architecture and digital technologies
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Exploring the structural side of design. Monday, March 8, 2010. The quiet war: architecture and digital technologies. Posted by Will it stand? Two weeks ago I attended a lecture/discussion led by Tristan D’Estree Sterk and Douglas Pancoast at the Flatiron Arts Building. In Chicago. Both presenters are known for their forward-thinking approach to digital technologies in Architecture. ORAMBRA). We met at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Graduate program at SAIC. During the presentation, Tristan ...
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Will It Stand?: August 2010
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Exploring the structural side of design. On a parking garage? The Fairbanks at Cityfront Center in Chicago was built on top of an existing parking garage. In order to support the new football-shaped tower on the center of the garage, a 6-foot deep concrete transfer mat was used to distribute load to the stronger perimeter columns. Like a big "W? Walter Towers are Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group’s latest project in Prague, Czech Republic. Cool design, but will it stand? Tuesday, August 10, 2010.
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Will It Stand?: Will an unreinf. conc. dome stand?
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Exploring the structural side of design. Sunday, January 3, 2010. Will an unreinf. conc. dome stand? Posted by Will it stand? Few 1800-year-olds look so good. From within the rotunda of the Pantheon. Enclosure that protects the interior from the elements. Constructed in 126 A.D., the Pantheon very likely represents the height of Roman structural engineering. Several recent investigations have been undertaken to answer the mystery of the structure. The most frequent citation found on online accounts o...
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Will It Stand?: April 2010
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Exploring the structural side of design. On a parking garage? The Fairbanks at Cityfront Center in Chicago was built on top of an existing parking garage. In order to support the new football-shaped tower on the center of the garage, a 6-foot deep concrete transfer mat was used to distribute load to the stronger perimeter columns. Like a big "W? Walter Towers are Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group’s latest project in Prague, Czech Republic. Cool design, but will it stand? Wednesday, April 7, 2010.
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Will It Stand?: Will smart balloons change design?
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Exploring the structural side of design. Wednesday, December 23, 2009. Will smart balloons change design? Posted by Will it stand? At the 2009 ACADIA (Assoc. for CAD. In Architecture) conference, I was blown away by all the radical design ideas brought forth. Of them, the most intriguing ideas imagined how new technologies could be used to create responsive structures - buildings that could change shape and function in reaction to external stimuli. Ideas like this are more familiar in the robotics. And r...
