Building Design of the Engineering and Computing Builiding Coventry

The building was a marvel of modern engineering. A carbon neutral, solar and geothermal powered monument to the future. The outside of the building a sleek combination of recycled redwood and interlocking solar panels. The inside’s high vaulted ceilings and sleek white pillars formed a cavernous inner space. Three classrooms divided the building into working spaces. The bright L.E.D lighting and modern fixtures completed the buildings futuristic design. This building was the newest in a long line of additions to my middle school's campus.

Stability and balance is also achieved through the incorporation of the vertical and horizontal planes. In the southwest facade of the building the vertical slits are balanced with the horizontal planes created by the cubes, cornice and the ornamental horizontal band that runs halfway through the walls. These vertical and horizontal planes further dictate a rhythmic continuity throughout the building. Building's scale is rather modest in comparison to its site and the surrounding landscape and the smooth texture of the facade helps its integration to the environment. (Figure 4)

The first section of my report touches two case study buildings that considers such matters in an intimate way, the Dalby Forest Visitor Centre in Yorkshire, and the Heels Building, National Trust Headquarters, located in Swindon. The second section of the report focuses on a personal statement, giving my opinions on both buildings environmental sustainability and overall impact.

The building itself is a large white structure with a massive rotunda and four wings coming off the rotunda like arms. Surrounding the building are small parks and benches, as well as the busy sidewalk, which on Saturdays is packed with farmers’ market customers. The streets surrounding the square are lined with excellent local cafes, restaurants, and bars.

The forms are partially buried into the sloping ground of a national park and become a compositional addition to the (wide view of a nature scene/wide area of beautiful land). Placed carefully as to not disrupt the pre-existing trees on the site, the structure responds to the (next to something else) community while the concrete forms address a more general nature through a playful moving around/misleading and tricking of light. The northern volume consists of a two-story height containing a double height living room, a kitchen and a dining room on the first floor with the master bedroom and a study on the second floor. The southern mass then consists of six linearly organized children's bedrooms, a bathroom and a lobby. Connecting the two spaces is a below grade tunnel that lies beneath the exterior stairs of the (open space next to a building).

From the observation tower the horizontal building’s three parallel bands can be seen that extend into the lush landscape. The architects’ concept was to immerse the museum in nature by creating a set of three bracketed pavilions under one roof surrounded by gardens. The roof can be seen as

Work will include presenting a new facade to Latrobe Terrace, as well as …………………of laboratories and equipment.

Established in 2015, the GCI is built on a constructed site, nestled within and spilling out from the footprint of the well-established Steele Building. Designed as a living element of the natural world, the GCI seeks to work with the environment and “operate[s] as a zero-energy and carbon neutral workplace” (HASSELL Studios 2016, paragraph 2). The green ethos extends to the use of recycled and recyclable materials and is constructed with the limited palette of geopolymer concrete, black steel, glass and wood. Built into a gentle slope, the building consists of 5 levels: the basement, embedded within the earth; level one, nestled into the slope; and levels two, three and four designed as mezzanines with learning spaces wrapping around the central atrium (Figure 2). The GCI represents a carefully orchestrated architectural system with a sense of immateriality that blurs the boundaries between inside and out, and promotes a strong connection to the natural world. Although enveloped by structures, the atrium’s three storey green wall, bio-retention basin and abundance of natural light maintains the relationship with the nature. The GCI expresses the characteristics of tectonics and stereometrics in its construction methods, use of light, load transfer and

Introduction- Traditional engineering design courses frequently have depended on chance to connection hypothesis with practice. Seeing these shortfalls in understudy reasonable building plan encounter, the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign chose to patch up its green bean level designing course by presenting an undertaking based educational programs. The reason was that a venture based, hands-on action that was associated precisely with quantitative building examination would acquaint understudies with the rigors of designing configuration hone at an early stage in their building vocation, alongside different advantages.

In 2009, Perkins + Will was commissioned to design the Earth Sciences Building (ESB) at the University of British Columbia. ESB is designed to develop the growing relations between the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmosphere, the Department of Statistics, the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, the Dean of Science and the Pacific Museum of the Earth, providing important chances for shared learning and partnership. Placed along Main Mall, the primary north-south pedestrian route on campus, the building provides opportunity to add visual interest to the pedestrian experience by displaying the research inside the building; to achieve this, the ground floor is considered the main public space, and is glazed on all sides to maximize visibility into the building. Situated across the street is the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, which along with the ESB creates a ‘museum precinct’ in this area of the campus. Also, to promote the project goal of ‘science on display’, a double-height research lab area operates as a backdrop to integrate exhibits from the Pacific Museum of the Earth. The building contains faculty and staff offices for each department, research laboratories, three lecture theatres, and a café. A five-storey atrium divides the north and south wings of the building, providing an organized structure for the departments while simultaneously creating an east-west pedestrian route directly through the building. Unlike the concrete south wing that contains the

The entryways of the building come from four different sides and meet in the middle. The overall shape of the building creates different views and facades. The building was not created just on the looks of it; it is made up of a three dimensional, stimulating, tactile human thing.

The Hong Kong Peak Leisure Club (The Leisure Club) and the Jockey Club Innovation Tower (The Innovation Tower) of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University were projects initiated by Zaha Hadid in two different periods of time: The Leisure Club was an architecture proposal in the 1980s while the Innovation Tower was a structure built in the 2000s (Pinterest, 2016). Both were distinctive architecture pieces under the influence of deconstructivism, as reflected by their visual appearances. The following essay will start with a discussion on the relationship between the two buildings and their surroundings, followed by an analysis on the design concepts behind. Diagrams and photographs

In this essay I will be identifying and discussing the design principals and philosophies that characterise the work of architect Le Corbusier, this will be done in order to define his personal style. There will be an analysis of one significant work by the architect to show his approach to design, structure and material. There will be a discussion on the Domino System created by Max Dubois and Le Corbusier. The Five Point Plan, put together by Le Corbusier, will be analyzed and will lead the discussion towards the Villa Savoye. There will be an in depth analysis of this building in order to define Le Corbusier’s style of architecture and design.

The block is open at each end (west and east) with solid Storey height panel along its sides, and large

Even so, it was a very interesting experience.The motives for designing the building were twofold: research and education or information.Its location, on a south-facing hillside with approximately a 30º incline and prevailing north-easterly winds, notably favoured energy saving both in winter and in summer.The building lies along the slope, just sticking up enough on the north side to collect the cold air from the north-east for cooling during the summer.In summer the building is air-conditioned by means of a "cold wall" made up of two layers between which the air is collected, cooled and channelled, and then divided among all the floors of the building by means of natural convection regulated by practicable openings on each floor. Two mechanisms to expel the hot air complete the building’s ventilation cycle: the ‘Trombe’ walls in the south-facing wall and the higher opening in the roof.In winter the "cold wall" is closed, becoming an insulation chamber, and is only opened for occasional ventilation. The "Trombe" walls store up heat and release it slowly by radiation while at the same time heating the air by convection. The air chamber under the roof - an element which regulates the overall temperature and ventilation of the building - acts as a hygrothermal cushion when needed.The notion of comfort seems to be reduced to only one idea: air temperature; but this only partially intervenes in the