Create a plan about to buildings

Create a plan about to buildings

Create a plan about to buildings.

For this project, you are going to explore how a building structure helps organize the plan, and how it can create dramatic architectural spaces.

Select two buildings that you find interesting. The roof of one should have a Trabeated Construction (post and beam, or frame), and the roof of the other should have a Masonry Load-bearing Construction (arches, barrel vaults, groin vaults, and domes).

Each building should have primarily one large, dramatic interior space, like a church, an assembly hall, a grand staircase, a striking great room, etc. You should be looking for a grand space that is clearly shaped by its structure and constructional system.

Look for really significant and dramatic buildings, the kinds that would astonish you when you first walk into the main space. Feel free to use buildings you have seen in the lectures, or buildings you can find online. You may also use buildings that you can go visit and photograph yourself, if you can get permission at the building to do so. If you do this, you will still need to find plans and sections of the building online or in books.

We would like you to prepare photos showing the building inside and outside, and diagrams illustrating how the structure organizes the space. Using this material as evidence, we would then like you to write an essay describing how structure helps organize space, and how this affects your emotional response to the space.

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