principles,history, methods, materials, joints, esthetics.
Pieter Sijpkes
pieter.sijpkes@mcgill.ca
picture by Hanna Salameh
this is as far as we'll take it..
As requested by some students, Sylvie Boulanger sent the following slides of joint details:
http://homepage.mac.com/quebec.cisc/cx/PhotoAlbum116.html
| Important Notice to all students: Below is the link to the outline of the final assignment that I promised for this week-end. I have decided that we will not continue onto the 20 foot model of the cardboard arch, for lack of time between now and the end of term. We have learned quite a bit from the 8 foot model, and even though it would be fun to build the 20 foot version, time is now needed to complete the final assignment outlined in the page linked below. We will discuss the project further in class. Link to final assignment |
the catenary drawing with 47 voussoirs
arch-in-class.html
proposal for 'voussoir' construction by Amanda Smith
Thursday 16.00-18.00 Room 210 McConnell
Friday 11.00-12.00 Room 210 McConnell
(ARCH241)
Note: these lecture websites have been created using information and images from many sources, many on-line. It was not possible to credit all sources; if there is material on the following web sites that infringes on someone's copy right, please give notice to Pieter Sijpkes, and the offending material will promptly be removed.
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Lecture 1 |
intro
Basic principles, "the three's", the role of
digital modellingof structures. |
| Lecture 2 | intro Timeless 'informal structures' .. "architecture without architects". |
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Lecture 3 |
intro
Obelisks: Stone monoliths that have been in the news for
5000 years |
| Lecture 4 |
intro
Pseudo arches and vaults of Mycene and Mexico, post and beam
in Egypt and Greece |
| Lecture 5 |
intro
Rome: the creation of large scale monumental structures,
infra structure and interior space through the use of arches,
vaulting and domes. |
| Lecture 6 |
intro Timber frame works filled in with wattle and daub, stone or brick |
| Lecture 7 | intro
Renaissance domes. |
| Lecture 8 |
intro
Cast Iron, Iron Bridge 1779, early cast Iron buildings |
| Lecture 9 |
intro
wrought iron tower Eiffel 1879 Chrome steel Eads bridge,
St. Louis, 1880 |
| Lecture 10 |
intro
steel suspension cables Brooklyn Bridge 1889 (precedents:
vine bridges, rope bridges, chainlink bridges etc..)
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| Lecture 11 |
intro reinforced concrete timeline |
| Lecture 12 |
intro
stud framing with wire nails (USA) |
| Lecture 13 |
intro
concrete shells (Jahrhundert Halle), 1913, grain elevators...Freysinnet
dirigible hangars 1917 |
| Lecture 14 |
intro
"Structural Dinosaurs": stone bridges at Luxembourg
and Saarbrucken (1905), Monadnock building Chicago 1890) |
| Lecture 15 |
intro
The problem of steel structures and esthetics: Biblioteque
nationale in Paris and London Bridge, Pugin's column. William
Morris' musings |
| Lecture 16 |
intro
Modern steel frame: Reliance building Chicago (1891)
(compare with Monadnock Building) |
| Lecture 17 |
intro
Concrete slab and mushroom columns buildings :Van
Nelle building Rotterdam, (1929) Maillart warehouses in Switserland, |
| Lecture 18 |
intro
Steel cantilevers: Quebec Bridge, Sydney harbour
bridge 1919 ,Firth of Forth Bridge and some recent bridges |
| Lecture 19 |
intro
Visionary structures: Telford's cast iron bridge,
FLW Mile high Tower, Messina Strait bridge, Gibraltar bridge |
| Lecture 20 |
intro classic (heavy) steel frame buildings: Empire state building, Chrysler building, |
| Lecture 21 |
intro
famous failures or near failures: Niagara suspension
bridge, Tacoma Narrows bridge, WTC and Empire state airplane accident,. Montreal Olympic stadium roof problems. Hancock tower Boston, Biblioteque nationale du Quebec windows. |
| Lecture 22 | intro
Inland Steel building, Hancock Tower Chicago, Sears tower
Chicago, |
| Lecture 23 |
intro
Structures and
art: Snelson (tensegrity), Buckminster Fuller (geodesics) and Calder
(mobiles and stabiles), Christo (large scale fabric
structures). "Land Art" |
| Lecture 24 |
intro
Frei Otto:
cable nets, spider webs, German pavillion Expo67 Montreal,
Olympic stadium Munich, music pavillion drawing of city inflatable roof |
| Lecture 25 |
intro
Air supported structures, Bird air |
| Lecture 26 |
intro
Non-Standard architecture: Use of computers in design and construction
of Structures. |
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