week 2 - tutorial exercise

Site Visit 1 - 1033 High St. Armadale

ARCHITECT： Name： DAVID CARABOTT
Company： CH ARCHITECT
Address: 204 WELLINGTON STREET, COLLING WOOD

BUILDER: Contact person: MARCO IACOVANTUONO
Company: INGERSON CONSTRUCTIONS
Address: 49-55 YORK STEET, SOUTH MELBOURNE

This is a retail and residential building on the 1033 High Street, Armadale. There are four levels totally. Basement floor is used for sub station. Ground floor includes garage and one tenancy. The first floor is for the second tenancy. And the top floor is for the residential tenancy. The building has exterior concrete block wall and concrete slab. Interior wall and ceiling structures are based on steel framing and the plasterboard on them.

WALL:

140mm Concrete block wallSteel Column in

140mm concrete block wall with down pipe.

Steel column in (picture from the back of building)

Interior wall: steel framing.

The plasterboard will be pasted on the steels.

Some steels may run through the holes to brace the wall.

Or the service lines may run through as well.

Insulation boards (green) are outside the concrete block wall.

Then the steel framings are outside the insulations.

The transverse steel run through the holes to brace the framings.

Plasterboards will be pasted on them.

FLOOR:

200mm concrete slab for suspended floor.


CEILING:

steel framing for ground and first floor ceiling

metal decks under the concrete slab

Second floor: Timbers connects around the steel ceiling framings.
Big holes are on the ceiling framing.

Timbers run through them to fix the framing.
Or service lines may run through as well.

Verandah ceiling joists.

Three skylights totally and one light well.


STAIR:

concrete stair. Storage under the stair
timber framing around the stair on the second floor .

concrete block fire resistent wall on on the lower floor.

DRAINAGE:

100mm spoon drain on the upper floor.

Connection to the downpipe and make sure the stormwater

will flow through them to the underground.

PVC downpipe on the north wall

SPECIAL EQUIPMENT:

acess hatch with 2 HR
fire rating to be accessible at all times.


SERVICES:

air condition connect lines behind the wall

Gas ducts behind the wall.


EXTERIOR:

Building façade facing High Street.

Glass window and door for the building entrance on the ground floor.
This is the timbers outside the concrete work on the north wall.

Light well on the east concrete wall.

Week 3 - Tutorial exercise

Week 1 - 3 Commercial Building Visit

Built : 1991

Address : 171 Latrobe Street

City : Melbourne

Building design by : Nonda Katsalidis

Original purpose (when built) : Office

Built in the Nineties period in the Modern style

Notable architectural features :

This project argues for a multiplicity of functions within one building. It is essentially a ten storey office building with accommodation for a tavern at ground level and two double storey apartments on top. The design clearly delineates the different functions within the building and uses them as the means of articulating the architectural expression. The main body of the building is split into 2 distinct vertical masses, something common in Katsalidis designs, one is of rectangular windows and a glazed green stone-like surface, and the other is acurtain walled glazed green glass. This gives a high contrasting visual effect embodied by the same building.

Built : 1940-43

Address : 336-376 Russell Street

City : Melbourne

Building design by : Percy Everett

Original purpose (when built) : Office

Built in the Forties period in the Art-Deco style

Notable architectural features :

The former Police Headquarters Complex is architecturally significant as a rare, surviving example of an early stepped geometric New York or Los Angeles style skyscraper, with brick-facing, in which the combination of radio mast and building form epitomises architectural design of the 1930s. The buildings are also significant for the relatively early moderne style of the ground floor foyer.
The headquarters building was for some time one of the tallest and most visible buildings in Melbourne and was readily identified by Victorians as symbolising the law and order within the state.
With the step-back form inspired by the empire state, this building became like a mini empire-state for many Victorians.



Built : 1988 - 1991
Address : cnr Swanston & Lonsdale Streets
City : Melbourne
Building design by : Kisho Kurokawa, Bates, Smart & McCutcheon, Hassel Pty. Ltd
Original purpose (when built) : Office
Height (to roof) : 211(to pinnacle) : 246 number of floors : 54
Built in the Eighties period in the Modern style

Notable architectural features :

The office tower follows the concept of skyscraper design as a "Crystal Cut" volume. Within the smooth shape, the facades are a composition of heterogeneous materials, such as stone, aluminum panel, reflective glass and tinted glass. At the top of the tower, high-technology communication equipment is visible. The lower part of the building is more traditional in design. The facade represents a transition, from the solid city building at the base, which slowly evaporates towards the sky.

The basic concept of Melbourne Central consists of the four following targets: The Symbiosis of History and the Present The existing shot tower located on the redevelopment site is not necessarily important from the architectural point of view. It is, however, an important landmark with which the citizens of Melbourne are familiar.