Construction + Structures 2

Construction and Strcutures 2 is one of the four subjects most second year architects must study. As implied by the subject name, it is concerned with the construction and structures of buildings, namely commercial and smaller multistorey buildings. Blogs will be constructed to display research and work undertaken throughout the semester.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

SITE VISIT 2: Corner of Mackillop and Settlement

This image shows an outlook of the site. The footing system for the strucutre is developing, and its progress will be documented as the process develops in later posts.

More reinforcing can be seen on the top of this cement structure which acts as a retaining wall on the Mackillop Street site.
It was interesting to see the typer of steel reinforcement applied to these columns, which is shown in the image protrucing out the top of the column.

I also found it interesting to observe this building's approach to installing some services, with these pipes being placed right at the edge of the site.

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