Bachelor in Interior Architecture- Construction and Technology- Assignment 2

Task:

• Group work
• Build a skeletal structure of an actual building by utilising the application of building fundamentals into actual context using plasticine and rolled paper.
• Model should include beams, slab, footings, and 4 column.

Material

• Plasticine (as a cover material, concrete)
•  Rolled paper (as core reinforcement bar)

Importance of Skeletal Construction

•  Building using a rectangular “skeleton frame” comprising members of

ØBeam

Ø  Column

•   “Hold together” parts of concrete in tension

What are Beams?

• Support for the wall
•   Long, sturdy piece of squared timber or metal spanning an opening or part of a building
• Structural that act to distribute load horizontally, and onwards to its supporting structure below (Usually column)
• Resist bending

What is Columns

•  Vertical load bearing structures that transfer loads above to the supporting structures below.
• Both beams and structure work together to withstand horizontal and vertical force.

What is Footing?

• Shallow foundation that go about a meter into soil
• To transfer loads from wall &column to ground /soil
• To spread out weight of the house

What is Slab?

• ·        A large, thick, flat piece of stone, concrete, or wood, typically rectangular.
  ·        Are constructed to provide flat surfaces, usually horizontal, in building floors, roofs, bridges, and other types of structures. 
  ·        May be supported by walls, by reinforced concrete beams 

After Understanding the above keywords, we have started to build our model

• First, we started up with the formwork for the foundation by combining 4 equal length rolled paper to form a square shape.  
• Then, we did the foundation by pasting plasticine onto the foundation framework. 

• Next, we started to build the column bars for each side of the square.
• We made sure the rolled paper (reinforced steel bar) is connected to the framemwork we have done for the foundation.
• Then followed up by the procedure to paste the plasticine (concrete) onto the rolled paper.

• After that, we did the roof/ second floor’s beam framework by creating another square-shaped combined rolled paper.
•  After that, we covered it with plasticine as slap.

• Finally, it is done.  

Learning Outcome

•  I have learnt that the application of building fundamentals in real life by simulating it using the plasticine model.
•  Building designs included a lot of calculation and technical work for example RC to make a building stronger.
• Concrete is the most suitable material to building walls and column bars because it is good in compression and cheap
• Reinforced steel bars are important and were  put into the internal part of the concrete to compensate the weakness of concrete, which is weak in tension.
• Steel is able to withstand high tensile stresses.