Week 3 journal: site visit
Location 1: Oval pavilion-redevelopment
Figure 1 shows the material of wall structure of the
building is mainly timber and during the
construction, unfinished structure needs to be
supported before it turns stable.
The top part of foundation which wasn’t able to be
photograph and the pipes underground are also
recognized.
Figure 1
This figure shows the steel reinforcement for
concrete blocks or walls. The yellow ‘hat’ on the
reinforcement can protect people from full down on
the reinforcement.
Figure 2
Figure 3 shows the isolated layer for the basement
As it can protect the basement from permeation of water and
Other reactant in the ground. Figure 3
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From this figure we can see some long steel bars which seems
to be the reinforcement of the celling that helped fixing the
slabs on it.
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Location 2: ORMOND THEOLOGY CENTRE RECEPTION
Figure 5:
The main materials of this building is concreat, glasses and steel. The structure system includes
concrete and steel columns, long steel beams and concrect slabs. It’s rain water collecting
component is on the top of the building (circled in figure )
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Figure 6
These two photos show the concrete column with steel reinforcement inside and the water pipe
next to the wall. Also as the glass wall dose not carry loads, there must be long beams for more
then 6 metters across the celling to carry yhe loads.
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Location 3: QUEENS COLLEGE EXTENTION
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This building is mainly structured by concrete,
steel and timber. Frame structural can be
recognized at the constructing area. The
concrete wall in the constructing area seems to
be supported by timber structure back inside.
Also, the similar roof structure from location
one can be discovered.
Figure 9
Location 4: MSLE BUILDING (LINK BETWEEN BUILDINGS)
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This building is a connection of two buildings.
On the wall of the front door there is similar
structure of the roof, but the distance between
bars are much longer so they might have
different uses or just part of the architecture
design.
The rain water head with the water pipe is
connecting to the next building.
Figure 11
Frame, or more likely
hole on the wall can be
found inside the building
and the bearing part is
reinforced by a thicker
brick wall.
Figure 11&12
The back of the building also has long strong beam but wasn’t photographed.
Location 5: EASTERN PRECINT STUDENT CENTRE (LINK BETWEEN BUILDINGS)
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Week 3 journal: site visit
This photo shows special the beam structure
that is designed by engineers and precast
especially for this linking part. There is no
bearing column, the beams carried all the
loads and transmit them to the bearing wall of
two buildings.
Figure 14
This is the steel control joints between two
concrete floor slabs that stops concrete from
unexpected cracking. (Chin, 2008) Figure 16
shows how the concrete will be without the
control joint under long time weathering.
One extra structure that analyzed during site visit is the edge of the roof:
Reference list:
Francis D.K. Chin (2008), Building constructing illustrated, Fourth Edition
Google map (2013), Google map, America, viewed 21/08/2013
https://maps.google.com/
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Figure 16
Wind will push the rain water along the slope at the
edge upwards to the roof into and rain water
collecting component instead of dropping
downwards into the building.