Floor Systems

Explain the major features of this floor plan. For example, are there large open spaces, large walls, cubes, or offices?

transportation with these hexagonal concrete blocks weigh well over a tonne each to be used as a line of defence agiasnt the waves and erosion. These concrete walls over a

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)

Since the start of last school year, I have probably poured a total of over one hundred cubic yards of concrete. Later on I will explain how to calculate what a cubic yard is, but for now, just know that concrete is no joke. Everyone involved must be focused at all times and if anyone fails to complete their job, then the entire pour could go downhill quickly. After reading this essay, I hope you learn to not only respect the amount of effort and work required to have a successful concrete pour but also to learn some of the basic things involved in concrete.

Concrete has many effects on the environment. Concrete damages topsoil which is the most fertile layer of soil. Concrete also contributes to surface runoff, erosion, and pollution. Concrete is helpful for preventing floods by building dams. I think that using concrete is good because while it does create runoff while used in roads it won't when used in a monument. And even though it damages soil it will not matter because their are no farms in the city.

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).

Typically, a basement floor is a thin layer of concrete only about two to four inches in depth. It does not have a structured role in the home’s foundation, which means it is at risk for becoming compromised due to hydrostatic pressure, or when groundwater presses upwards on the thin basement floor, causing it to crack and allowing water to seep in. This can result in standing water.

Slopes either occur naturally or are engineered by humans. Slope stability problems have been faced throughout history when human or nature has disrupted the delicate balance of natural soil slopes. Furthermore, the increasing demand for engineered cut and fill slopes on construction projects has only increased the need to understand analytical methods, investigative tools, and stabilization methods to solve slope stability problems. Slope stabilization methods involve specialty construction techniques that must be understood and modelled in realistic ways.

Concrete is a composite material used widely in the construction industry. Concrete is basically a mixture of cement, water, aggregates and admixture (sometimes). Cement is a fine gray powder that consists of oxidizes calcium, silicon and aluminum. The aggregate used is normally gravel, crushed stone or sand. Admixture is a solid or liquid substance that gives a certain characteristics of the concrete. The cement reacts with water chemically and binds the aggregates together through a process called hydration during hardening or curing of concrete. It means that water helps in the hardening of the concrete while the cement bind the aggregate and also react with water to form a solid mass.

The foundation is the base for the constructed building and as such is required to carry out several functions as follows:

The platforms are commonly fashioned the boxed structure of a ceiling and roof, or the ceiling and ground joists of the story above. right here the technique is variously cited colloquially in the building trades as stick and body, stick and platform, or stick and field because the studs and help the shape its vertical member guide, the container-fashioned ground sections with joists on within long post and lintels, will also support the load and the roof above the top tale. Framing lumber should be grade-stamped, also have a moisture content material not more exceeding 19%.

It is important to point out that the main elements of the system employed in this network of hospitals are prefabricated reinforced mortar and steel (for the base structure and to cover). The mortar was chosen because of the architect and his team’s experience, which had already developed elements with this material for large-scale and quality of finish, whereas the steel was chosen by the domain of the working team on the various processes involved (casting, lamination, mounting, welding etc.) and also by the lightness, ease of transportation, since some units were distant from the center of technology, and ease of handling,

A steel frame situated around a building’s core or along exterior walls offers structural support. The frame’s columns, however, are free to rock up and down within steel shoes secured at the base.

The first and foremost thing begins from the design of the building and the fit outs should be deigned in accordance with the design of the building

✓ Broad based ridge terrace: It consists of making wide but low bunds on the contour lines by excavating soils from both sides of terrace. This is practiced in areas where the rainfall is relatively low.