Shape :

Structure : posts and beams, functions as a metal structure.

Down load diagram :

Possible extensions ?

Same posts at the bottom and at the top

Oversized structure possible to add for example a roof terrace, 2 or 3 floors (but is that it

really would be judicious ?)

Currently we don’t know very well how many loads we can add because we lack

informations (for example the reinforcement plan).

Removal ?

We can destroy everything with explosives if we want.

To destroy some parts, we can use a shovel and be careful to not destroy the bearing

elements without those they are beared over, because they could fall (for example, don’t

destroy a post whithout the beams and the floor above)

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Demolition tasks :

New buildings ?

Comparison between different kinds of structures :

STEEL STRUCTURE

Advantages Disadvantages

Maintains its strength indefinately

Does not deteriorate with age like

timber and concrete, provided its

surface is protected from rust.

Very strong and flexible

Can be recycled

Structures can be prefabricated

(welded) in large sections, and lifted

into place with cranes and bolted

together

Buildings can be made quickly. Many

section types are made (square, tube,

H-section, etc)

Heavy and thus expensive to transport

Susceptible to corrosion- steel

structures must be painted

continuously

Has a high expansion rate in changing

temperatures, and this must be

allowed for in the engineering.

In conditions of repeated stress and

changing temperatures, can suffer

from fatigue and cracks, and more

corrosion.

TIMBER FRAME STRUCTURE

Advantages Disadvantages

- Construction times are reduced by as much as one third.

- Earlier introduction of following trades

- Low embodied energy if constructed in local timber

Recyclable

- Reduced construction waste through efficient controlled manufacturing

- Low volume of waste on site requiring removal

- Can be built to exceed 60-year design life

- Energy efficient when constructed to current standards

- Fast heating due to low thermal mass

Reduced time on site reduce

- Efficient use of material due to controlled engineering and fabrication s environmental nuisance and disruption to local residents

- Factory controlled quality assurance in fabrication

- Traditional procurement process

- Additional design and engineering time

- Modification of general arrangement drawings if based on masonry construction

- Lack of experience of building crews

- Lack of experience of following trades

- Transportation and carriage access

- Exposure to weather before enclosed

- Deficiency of site quality control

- Combustibility of timber requires vigilant quality control to achieve required fire rating of separating and compartment walls

- Susceptibility to decay of timber when exposed to excessive moisture

ACTUAL CONCRETE STRUCTURE

Advantages Disadvantages

- Strong structure

- Hyperstatic: some columns can be removed

- Symetric structure (composed of slaps and

columns): Can be transformable easily (to be

more fluid)

- Additional loads can be supported

- Heavy

- Demolition will be complicated during the

use of the building

- The parts of hoistway are composed of

loadbearing interior walls.

Structure ideas for imagination :