BUILDING CONSTRUCTION & MATERIALS
ASSIGNMENT 1
(Famous Architect Building: Application of Architectural and Structural materials)
In this assignment, we are tasked to choose a building by a famous architect. Students are tasked to do further research on the applied materials, and to identify the architectural materials and the structural materials. We are required to design 2 A3 board and put in our research result. The chosen building for my assignment was The Muse by Renzo Piano.
A3 Board
Lee Yue Yang, 2021
Through this assignment, I had a better understanding on the difference of architectural and structural materials, and also more construction details of different materials. I also learned that it is important to be careful and take serious consideration of the material application on a building when we designing it.
ASSIGNMENT 2
(Construction Detailing of Building Elements)
In this assignment, we are required to find a two-storey house, and we need to find out the construction detail of the house in different materials through drawings. The material that given to our group is concrete.
Research Poster
This project gave me a chance to have a better understanding on the construction detail of concrete building. I would like to give thanks to my groupmates that work hard together to do the research together. Although we were lost at first, but in the end we managed to complete this assignment together.