INTRODUCTION:

The fifth project, Poetic Tectonics of Masonry, will deal with the tectonic design development and documentation of a part of a previous Riverwest Market project, with students working together in teams (as in the setting of a typical professional office). Faculty will divide students into teams (4 teams per studio), with each team electing a single Riverwest Market project to be the subject of the tectonic development project. Each team is then to determine a part of an exterior wall to develop during Project #2, preferably an exterior wall with a significant and interesting brick masonry component. Teams are to consult with their faculty, and get approval on the project, specific exterior facade location, and extent to be developed. Teams should make an effort to identify and articulate the design concepts that provide the formal structure for the chosen project, using these design concepts to drive and evaluate the attempts to develop and detail the project. Even technical details should attempt to support the articulated design concepts. While the chosen design can be improved, developed, and refined, changes to the design should not be so severe as to obliterate the original design intentions.

TECTONICS OF MASONRY:

For Project #5, students are to use standard (with holes; no custom cast shapes) modular brick and concrete block masonry and glass for the enclosure systems of their buildings. Modular brick and/or concrete block masonry should also be used for load-bearing walls and piers, as well as for most interior partitions. The structure for floors should be 8” precast plank or steel/concrete composite decking supported by masonry walls or steel I-Beams, while roofs can be either plank or I-Beam steel with steel decking, using steel rods for tension members as required to make trusses. I-Beam steel can be used for columns.

MASONRY TYPOLOGIES

Masonry can be categorized into several typologies which will help us as we design.

(Brick Masonry) (Stone Masonry) (Concrete Masonry) (Veneer Masonry) (Gabion Masonry) (Composite Masonry)

PROGRAM:

Project five will deal with the tectonic design development and documentation of a part of a previous Riverwest Market project, with students working together in teams (as in the setting of a typical professional office). 

A well-crafted partial model of building exterior facade: ½” = 1’ scale

Partial Plan, section, and elevation drawing of the exterior facade: ½” = 1’ scale

Three construction details w/ material notations or a section oblique/axonometric: 1 ½” = 1’ scale