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Constructing Environment
Week 8, studio journal
Jianpeng Deng, 657598
This week, e-‐learning section is mainly about openings in structures and the
property of glasses. As it is also discussed during studio section, openings
provide access between two spaces that allows lights, views and especially
people to walk through etc. Openings are divided into two categories, windows
and doors; speaking of door, there are exterior door and interior door, “exterior
doors should provide weathertight seals when closed and maintain the
approximate thermal insulation value of the exterior walls they penetrate.”
(Ching, 2008, Pg. 8.02) Also, door types are of variety, such as, swinging door,
bypass sliding door and folding door. On the other hand, windows are much alike
as doors, different types of windows achieve ventilating differently; for example,
fixed windows produce 0% ventilating whereas casement windows can produce
100% of it. In addition, we also discuss the details about openings, such as
mullion, spandrel and sash.
Glass is another emphasis that is a material widely used in construction
nowadays. An example of which is Wilson Hall in campus that the curtain wall is
made of glasses. The focus is on flat glasses, to be more specific, it is float glass,
laminated glass and tempered glass; float glass is standard window glass and the
process involves a large bed of molten tin. Laminated glass consists of glass and
plastic interlayer that makes it has an advantage of safety. Tempered glass is
strong in the bending strength and the biggest advantage is the little fragments
the glass will become when it breaks. Moreover, double-‐glazing is also discussed
in the video as well as during the studio class, that double-‐glazing simply means
a window with two panes and a gap in between and the purpose of which is to
reduce heat and noise transmission through the window.
Image 1 is the summary of the week’s topic.
Image 1
The activity for this week is to visit case-‐study building and find assigned detail.
MSLE building is the building that I am assigned to as well as the specific part of
the building is shown in the following images.
The blue-‐line
section is the one I
take charge to find
out the details
about, material and
structure etc.
Image 2-‐ the footprint of MSLE building
This is the image of the
tasks that other group
members are working on.
This image shows the task
that I am assigned, the one
at the bottom in blue-‐line
section. First of all, it
clearly tells us that it is the
rear part of the building
structure.
This image on the left shows the specific part of the real
building, it will be referred back to illustrate the detail.
Simply it gives an idea of metal frame, transparent and
white-‐color glasses.
Image 3
Image 4
Image 5
The picture on the left is my
1:1 sketch of the assigned
section; it is not drawn
accurately as I am not a
good sketcher.
“1” with an arrow to the thin sketch, it is vinyl floor finish that it is either tiles or
just the painting on the floor, which is to protect and beautify the floor
underneath.
“2” represents one of the important structures of building which is the concrete
floor slab. As it refers back to the big drawing, it is new concrete slab added to
the existing one.
“3”, I fail to find the information about it, but it seems important that it connects
the floor and ceiling, also, there are dozen of it in the same section and regularly
seen in drawings; therefore, it has to be strong enough to hold the ceiling
underneath. I guess maybe there is a light bulb in it.
Picture 1
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2
3
4 5
5 6
6
7
8
“4” is flush jointed plasterboard ceiling that the purpose is to provide a better
looking as well as other systems (light, smoking detector etc.) so that we don't
see the concrete floor at the top directly; also, it in some ways blocks dirt and
moisture to the floor above. See the image in the following that shows the ceiling
in real building.
Image 6
“5” represents two window framing, to my observe and also refer to Image 6
above, that the window framing is made of aluminum; the benefits of which are
to reduces carbon footprint, long durability and low maintenance etc.
“6” represents two joints that holding a spandrel in between, it is complicated as
apart from the ingredients that clamping the glasses and spandrel, there are also
a rectangular shape with a cross inside stands for timber; moreover, it is made a
draining hole that when rainwater leaks in, it will then flow down and out.
“7” is the spandrel which is a white color glass (refer to Image 5), cover the
construction that is not good in viewing it, in this case, it would be the concrete
floor slab and so on. Besides that, it acts just like glass preventing moisture,
rainwater etc. (this spandrel should look straight)
“8” refers to the shadowline which is a line that separate glasses and ceiling, so
that it facilitate the cleaning method in both of them and makes it easier to
uninstall any one of them without the other.