Building Environment Technology: Exploring structures- Structural Principles- Report Writing Assignment

Internal Code: 1HDJE

Report Writing Assignment:

Task: You are to prepare a comprehensively illustrated report of approximately 900 -1100 words long to demonstrate your understanding of the relevant structural principles in a full-scale existing structure. The structure can be almost anything that actually exists in the world, designed by a human. (Examples include a tower like the Killesberg Tower in Stuttgart, Stage 88 in Commonwealth Park, a mountain bicycle, a dining chair by Charles and Ray Eames, or a local park shade structure, an architectural “pavilion” or the wing of a Boeing 777. There are a  exceptions: the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge and the Eiffel Tower cannot be chosen as your structure (partly because there will be a lecture which covers these designs in general and partly to encourage exploring lesser known structures). Your selected structure must demonstrate at least 3 of the following structural element types:

• an element that manages bending forces.
• an element that manages axial compression.
• an element that manages axial tension.
• a truss like structure.
• a slab, plate or membrane structure.
• a grid structure.
• an arch like structure.