STRUCTURAL DESIGN FOR ARCHITECTURE

Structural Design for Architecture Fig. 3.54 Where diaphragm-type vertical-plane bracing is used it is normally constructed in e ...

Fig. 3.56 Belted truss system. (a) The diagonally braced core is here carrying all of the horizontal load. (b) The introduction ...

Structural Design for Architecture Fig. 3.57 In the framed-tube system the columns on the perimeter of the building are closely ...

Steel structures Fig. 3.60 The bundled-tube system. In this system, closely-spaced columns on the perimeter of the building act ...

Structural Design for Architecture Fig. 3.62 Double-skin cable system with two sets of cables separated by short compressive ele ...

Chapter 4 Reinforced concrete structures 4.1 Introduction Concrete is an extremely versatile structural material. It is moderate ...

Fig. 4.2 Hennebique's system for reinforced concrete, which was patented in 1897, was one of a number which were developed in th ...

flat-slab structure was particularly notable (Fig. 4.3 ). All of these early pioneers were concerned principally with the applic ...

Structural Design for Architecture Fig. 4.4 Apartment block, 25 bis rue Franklin, Paris, 1902-05, Auguste Perret, architect. By ...

Reinforced concrete structures The planning freedom which such a structural system offered the architect was summarised by Le Co ...

Structural Design for Architecture 104 Fig. 4.7 The Bauhaus, Dessau, 1926, Walter Cropius, principal architect. This building ha ...

Reinforced concrete structures continuously through the three upper storeys of the building. The steel mullions which supported ...

Structural Design for Architecture 106 Fig. 4.9 Penguin Pool, London Zoo, London, England, Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton, archit ...

Reinforced concrete structures Fig. 4.10 Monastery of La Tourette, Eveux, France, 1955. Le Corbusier, architect. Exposed structu ...

Structural Design for Architecture 108 Fig. 4.11 National Theatre of Great Britain, London, 1967-73, Denys Lasdun, architect. Th ...

Reinforced concrete structures concealed by the upward sweep of the roof and the columns were buried within the self- supporting ...

Structural Design for Architecture Fig. 4.13 Falling Water, the Bear Run, Pennsylvania, 1936. Frank Lloyd Wright, architect. The ...

Reinforced concrete structures expressed on the exterior, especially following the advent of the fashion for 'Brutalism'. Much o ...

Structural Design for Architecture Fig. 4.15 Accommodation plan and cross-section of the Florey Building, Oxford, England, 1967- ...

Reinforced concrete structures Fig. 4.16 Florey Building, Oxford, England, 1971. lames Stirling, architect, F.J.Samuely & Pa ...