logbook student name: Linwan Zhang student number: 668433

The building is constructed by fiber rod, raising a

height of approximately 1.5 meters, costing almost 2

hours. The structure is largely composed of

triangulated sections, enhancing the stability of the

root and the height of the whole building.

The whole building is supported by bonding the

stripes using glue to balance the tension and

compression to keep it standing, with the triangular

frameworks transferring the weight of the structure

onto these vertical sticks.

logbook student name: Linwan Zhang student number: 668433

The second floor and upwards are structured as a triangular prism, while the bottom

part of the building is designed as an anomalous Cylindrical to enlarge the contact

surface to the ground, making the whole building more steady.

Using the support from combination and segmentation of several pieces of

planes, the building forms a three-dimensional brace system, making the struts

support in full load, at the same time, also undertaking almost all of the gravity of

the building, and thus further enhancing the ability of solid support to resist

overturning moment.

logbook student name: Linwan Zhang student number: 668433

Construction materials Strength

Stiffness---stiff, flexible, stretchy or floppy

Shape---linear, planer or volumetric

Material---behaviors---isotropic or anisotropic

Economy & sustainability

Load path diagrams

Different building system

Structural system---columns, beams and loadbearing support

Enclosure system---windows, doors and physical access

Mechanical system---water supple, heating and ventilating system.

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The tower is constructed by compressed wooden

blocks, with a height of approximately 1.5 meters.

The whole tower is like a torch barrel with a bridge

connecting the both sides of the vertical cambered

surface and two big ‘windows’ near the bottom of

the building.

The two windows were constructed by artificially

digging the surrounding blocks. In the building,

some blocks are essential for providing support

and attachment sites for mounted structure,

while some of them do not work necessarily.

logbook student name: Linwan Zhang student number: 668433

A stack bond is utilized in the bottom of

the tower, stabling the root of the tower,

while the stretcher bond in used for the

second floor and upwards to enhance the

possible height of the tower.

The tower stands with three layers of

ring-shaped corridors, forming three

different heights of circular supported

corridors. The top is standing step by step

backwards, forming a stepwise gradient,

like the edges of the serrated wheel.

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Structure systems

Solid----Great Wall, bricks----compression is the main structure action

Surface---Opera House, plane structure

Skeletal---Eiffel Tower, more common---official way to trans load down to the ground

Membrane---sports stadium---less common

Hybrid---Bei Jing Olympic swimming cube, Bird Nest---use particular membrane called ETFE,

covering a large expansion economically

Structural joints

Roller joints---used in bridges

Pin joints---used in connections

Fixed joints---not move---restricted movements-horizontal, vertical

logbook student name: Linwan Zhang student number: 668433

Week 3

E-learning

logbook student name: Linwan Zhang student number: 668433

logbook student name: Linwan Zhang student number: 668433

Activity: walking around the campus to apply the knowledge to real buildings.

This place is in Lot6

Café. Obviously, the

wall is applied raked

joint, which is made

by removing mortar

to a given depth with

a square edged tool

before hardening

（CHING,2008）.

We are in the Arts West

Student Centre. The

beam is putting on the

lump construction, thus

supporting the ceiling of

the front door. Both

rough and smooth walls

are made in the

construction after

adding glass in the cube.

This place is underground

car park in South L awn.

The supporting pillar is

constructed by reinforced

concrete, filling with one

tree up ground in South

Lawn. The material

includes 1 part cement, 2

parts sand, 4parts crushed

rock and 0.5 part water.

The reinforced concrete

has strong compression

with steel in the form of

BARS to strengthen the

tension.

We came here, finding the

ashlar stone was used in

the construction which is

modular. The surrounding

walls are made of

monolithic stone which is

non-modular.

We are in the North Court of Union House. The

ceiling is used for protecting people from the

rain, which also present the compression and

tension. The edge is suffering strong tension

while the middle part is suffering mostly

compression. The holes in the center is used for

reins to streaming down instead of staying on

the ceiling which avoids the adding weight on

the the ceiling

This is the stairs on west end of

Union House. Actually, the beam

did not give support to the stairs.

logbook student name: Linwan Zhang student number: 668433

Week 4

E-learning experience

logbook student name: Linwan Zhang student number: 668433

Activities: understanding different symbols and language used in case study

DRAWING CONTENT - PLANS

Floor plan: include doors, windows, room number and space.

Dimensions: Windows and doors Grid lines:

Other areas floor levels:

Legend: Annotation:

DRAWING CONTENT – ELEVATIONS

Include: timber, door, window, things looking from outside

Levels: Grid line:

Other information:

DRAWING CONTENT – SECTIONS

Difference: elevation - just outside viewing cut through: thick lines

Section - cutting through it and seeing the hidden things background: thing lines

Mystery material

Color back glass

1. home decoration pieces

2. environmental-friendly glass material

3. usually for exterior and interior floors, can be used for room,

swimming pools, bathroom, kitchen

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=Color+back

+glass&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&

ei=49txU4HVFYftkAWXooHQAw&ved=0CAgQ_AUo

AQ&biw=1366&bih=643#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc

=rnVmkzx_YpWXDM%253A%3BbEkQBhXR7SWFu

M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.dullesglassand

mirror.com%252Fimages%252Fback-painted-yello

w-wall.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.dulles

glassandmirror.com%252Fback-painted-glass.asp%

3B300%3B269

https://www.google.com.a

u/search?q=Color+back+gla

ss&es_sm=93&source=lnm

s&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=49tx

U4HVFYftkAWXooHQAw&v

ed=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1

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dii=_&imgrc=cnuy82Uwyf5

tRM%253A%3BNhGDR2xw

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Week5 E-learning experience

logbook student name: Linwan Zhang student number: 668433

Activity: model making to show structural systems

Our work is to build a model to make a

deeper understanding of the structural

systems. The teacher gave us the plan

drawing which is 1:200 required us to make

it 1:20. Our base is on the enlarged plan

drawing. We only need to build the

structure walls and supporting beams

instead of interior things. The model should

have two stories. Actually it is the part of the

toilet！

Card board is used in the walls and

ceilings in the first floor. The upper

force streams down through these

walls to the ground, which cause the

ground to offer an opposite direction

supporting force.

the whole model is here. (a little bit ugly!)

the beam is shown here. it can carry vertical

load and have bending resistance.

Cantilever is also shown here.

The balsa is used here for columns in the secondary

floor. It’s light. The span between two columns is

21cm. I think it is the TIE which can carry load to long

axis and produce tension.

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Week 6 E-learning experience

logbook student name: Linwan Zhang student number: 668433

Mystery material: Damp proof course

DPC is a barrier of impervious material built

into a wall or pier to prevent moisture from

moving to any part of the building(from the

website following).

https://www.google.com.

au/search?q=damp+proof

+course&es_sm=93&tbm

=isch&tbo=u&source=uni

v&sa=X&ei=dpB3U8b3J87

pkgW-woD4Ag&ved=0CD

YQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=6

https://www.google.c

om.au/search?q=dam

p+proof+course&es_s

m=93&tbm=isch&tbo=

u&source=univ&sa=X

&ei=dpB3U8b3J87pkg

W-woD4Ag&ved=0CDY

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Week 8 E-learning experience

Mystery material:

Expanded Mesh: uses galvanic principles to protect metal inside from corrosion.

https://www.google.com.au/se

arch?q=expanded+mesh&es_s

m=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch

&sa=X&ei=aJt3U9TzEMbDkwX

O54DYCw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ

&biw=1034&bih=595#facrc=_&

https://www.google.com.au/searc

h?q=expanded+mesh&es_sm=93&

source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=

aJt3U9TzEMbDkwXO54DYCw&ved

=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1034&bih=

595#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=SAt

n445MkFgw_M%253A%3BBomBB

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people can stand here to see the things inside the

window.

The drawing is a corner detail of the window. It’s like

cutting the window from the middle, then look down

side.

Brick

Fabricated steel hood

Wood

logbook student name: Linwan Zhang student number: 668433

Week 9 E-learning experience

logbook student name: Linwan Zhang student number: 668433

Week 10 E-learning experience

logbook student name: Linwan Zhang student number: 668433

Activities: drawing the 3-D perspective of the section and have a deeper looking at details of the

real section.

Steel window is resistant to heat

transfer so there is no thermal

breaks (CHING,2008).

Jambs

Sill

subsill----can cause the rainwater to drip farther away from a wall surface (CHING,2008).

This steel window frame is also fabricated. Because the steel is stronger, the sections are also

more rigid. It offers narrow

sightlines and allows larger

lights to be installed in a given

rough or masonry opening

(CHING,2008).