The building envelope is the building shell or enclosure that separates the interior of a building with the outdoor environment. This physical separator serves as an important component to maintain a comfortable and healthy indoor environment by transferring the air, water, heat, light and noise. The components of an envelope typically include walls, fenestration, floors, roof and doors with additional parts such as thermal insulation and shading devices. As discussed above, the climate is an important factor when designing a building. A well-designed envelope with high performance should be accustomed to the local climate. Accordingly, there are arid climate envelope, tropical climate envelope, cold envelope and mixed cold/hot climate envelope which may be composed of components such as sheets and blocks. The building envelope have a big influence on whole building’s energy usage. An energy effective building envelope design saved as much as 35% and 47% of total and peak cooling demands respectively. At the same time building code requirements on envelopes have increased significantly. Although the codes and standards used in local and state level of government varies in place, they all derivate from ASHRAE and International Energy Conservation Code (IECC).
Walls are a major part of a building envelope and are expected to maintain a thermal and acoustic comfort inside the building. The crucial performance factor of the wall is thermal resistance (R-value) since it
Building a family is, in many ways, similar to building a house or a building. It needs to be made of a strong material, like bricks, to protect the family. In addition, the building needs to have a good support material to keep the bricks from a falling out of places, like mortar or cement. Families have similar needs to make them work as well. The father figure is seen as the bricks because they are generally classified as the provider and protector of the family; the person to earn the paycheck
Green Buildings
As Goldman Environmental Prize winner Terry Swearingen stated, “we are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to.” In today’s society, the architectural process is beginning to exponentially grow due to the vast need of building construction for evolving communities. However, many architects are massively constructing without truly realizing the side effects of building architecture to the economy or environment. A building plan should not be viewed solely on the physical
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Materials like tile covered concrete quickly supplanted marble as the primary building material and more daring buildings soon followed, with great pillars supporting broad arches and domes rather than dense lines of columns suspending flat architraves. Concrete also inspired the colonnade screen, a row of ornamental columns in front of a load-bearing wall. For smaller buildings, concrete 's strength freed the floor plan from rectangular cells to a more free-flowing environment. Most of these developments
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While historic buildings have benefited greatly from decades of regulatory reform, a new generation of advocacy is required to address issues of building integrity . For historic buildings, introducing building codes may present a challenge that can stifle the historic preservation tenet applied to the historic structure whether it be preservation, restoration, rehabilitation or reconstruction. Building codes are a set of regulations that provide for a minimum standard that would safeguard
In section B1 it is stated that a building shall be so designed and constructed that there are adequate means of escape in case of fire from the building to a place of safety outside the building, capable of being safely and effectively used.The provisions in this Section (B1) are concerned with the measures necessary to make sure that reasonable facilities for means of escape in case of fire outbrake and with structural fire precautions only where these are necessary to safeguard escape routes.
When thinking of buildings that were ahead of their time two come to mind the Chrysler Building and the Seagram Building. Both of these structures were built to withstand the elements of time and are still beautiful to this day. These buildings have been featured on the cover of magazines, tv shows and are modern marvels in today's society. Between the two buildings, one can not help but look at the similarities as well as the differences between the two. Today I want to discuss these differences
Shiva Shushtari
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Theme: Buildings and Time
Buildings Visited:
Eaton Centre
St.Lawrance Market (South Building)
Art Gallery of Ontario-AGO
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Nowadays, as modern societies provide an almost fixed time-table for humans to operate in various fields, we have far less freedom regarding our natural and momentary impulses than in the past. In other words, "we are increasingly detaching ourselves from organic and functional periodicity which is dictated by nature
Concrete is known for being an enticing building material because of its economic availability. While steel and wood can be expensive, reinforced concrete has consistently proven to be cheaper and efficient. When forms go beyond rigid structure, reinforced concrete provides the next level of opportunities blurring the line between structure and architecture. This gray zone is where the capabilities of structural art falls. Within reinforced concrete building, pre-fabricated systems link the desire
Green buildings could become one of the main factors to preserve our rapidly decaying environment. There is no easy way to define a green building, but a green building is essentially a structure that amplifies the positives and mitigates the negatives throughout the entire life cycle of the building (Kriss, 2014). There are many definitions for a green building, but all of them include the planning, designing, constructing, and operating of the building while taking into huge considerations of the