Charles Prior lecture V

Charles Prior_PP2 lecture.

Eltham Palace (Greenwich, google this!)-gothic/ Tudor hall/ Georgian house! Art deco interior, inside a stately home.

Don’t be afraid to have lots of the same colour (imposing)

GRC- Glass-reinforced-concrete

Types of celling

Direct- When you stuck the plasterboard onto the celling. (most common in residential)

Suspended- Wire suspension system, will have lots of drop in panels, sound insulation, heat insulation etc. (Usually commercial, as can hide utilities)

Exposed-Becoming more common. Retail outlet. Sprayed everything in the ceiling black. Or not coloured at all. Looks rustic with all utilities visible. Popular simply because of the cost of maintaining and producing.

Commercial spaces- suspended celling

Commercial services.

HVAC- Vacuum heating system

Cable management

Pipework (Laid to falls)

Sprinkler/fire systems

Sound

Absorption

Insulation

Reverberation

Sound absorption describes how sound behaves inside a room

Sound insulation describes the degree to which sound is transmitted to another room.

Sound reverberation is the time it takes for reflected sound to die down within the space.

Suspended ceilings are usually suspending by a system called T-Bar.

Metal perforated systems are useful, but they echo and sound poor!

Another celling system called Armstrong technology. They work well in high tech areas, where there is lots of cabling to run.

Armstrong also make a wooden celling. (very smart)

Curvy ceilings

Barrisol “World leader of stretched ceiling.”

They make interesting suspended celling, out of stretched material.

Charles Prior lecture IV

Doors & Openings.

What is a door?

Protects the space

Defines the space

Creates access to the space

Closes off the space

Doors do not just have to be external… consider internal, garage and gate access to the premises.

Doors create initial emotion. As you walk through it, you have a first impression.

Geometric patterns cut into the face.

 

Hardware (Link to buster + punch)

Door height: 2040mm

Door width: 926,826,726,626

Door depth: A fire door: 44mm Entry door is thicker than an internal door.

Hollow core door (Built in frame, then clad on back) This is cheap, not good for sound and thermal.

Solid core door: Expensive, time and quality. Always solid core door. (SOUIND)

Rough opening: All doors and frames are fitted into an opening, sometimes called a rough opening

Door lining- Door linings are basically the inner part of a door frame onto which a door is hung.

Door- The door is hinged on the door lining.

Door Stop- Once the door is hung, you then position door stop around the inside of the lining, so that the door has an edge to close on to.

Architrave- These are the decorative mouldings that are fixed to the edge of the door lining, to cover the junction between the lining and the wall, thus creating a decorative finish to the frame.

Door-set is a fully finished and engineered element It is all matched together and preassembled in the factory.

Handing: How the door actually opens, clockwise and anticlockwise, to the right or to the left.

Polished nickel and chrome architectural hard wear (look at buster and punch)

Parts of a door.

Door closer

Lever set- handle

Push plate

Pull handle

Signage

Escutcheon- key hole cover, must match the base plate of the leaver.

Cylinder-

Kick plate

Doorstop-floor or wall mounted.

Intumescent.

Regulations

300mm from the door frame to the wall minimum.

Always be glass on the doors (so you can see somebody coming)

Traditionally internal doors open outwards, entry doors open in.

When using AutoCAD, number all doors. Draw a circle, and inside write door number (1- however many needed)

Threshold is where you change the surface from the inside, to the outside. IT often comes with a change of level, usually there is a timber step or threshold. Threshold can also be used for a break in material!

 

Windows and openings.

Letting light in, means of escape, letting fresh air in.

Stained glass windows

Velux windows.

Types of window

Double hung window

Mulled double hung

Two lite slider

Hopper

Casement

Double casement

End vent slider

Awning

Bay window

Skylights

Centre pivot

Top hung

Roto third pivot- good for cool climates when it rains.

Side hung

Balcony or terrace

conservation

 

Lost Foam

Today i had a class/ workshop on how lost foam works.

Really interesting! Its a bit like working with fibreglass molds… kind of! The way that you have to think backwards, about what you put into the mould, is going to look like when you remove it… you have to take into account the negative space of the foam, because that in turn will be where the metal sits!

Good fun workshop, apart from the searing heat from the forge and furnace!

I’ll definitely try and use the facilities again, and try and incorporate the lost foam final product into my final design!

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Charles Prior-Lecture III

This lecture was based around walls. In its most basic form, a wall is an object used as a method of dividing space. It is a method of linearising an area.

Brick dimensions; 215mm long X 65mm High X 102.5 Wide… This is typically joined to other bricks using a mortar fillet of 10mm.

A blade wall is a non structural wall that does not always attach to the ceiling.

 

The composition of an external load-bearing wall.

• Concrete slab on the bottom
• Coarse aggregate
• Fine aggregate
• Membrane
• Concrete slab

A load bearing wall is a wall that is structural and ties itself to both the ground, and the wall above it.

We also learnt about the various types of methods of laying out bricks.

Stretcher bond

Header bond

English Bond

Flemish bond

Stack bond-This is by far the least structural wall, however, if tied in to a structural wall behind, can be effective.

Monk Bond

The composition of a Load bearing internal wall.

• Fair-faced blockwork
• Core 10 steel
• Lightweight aerated concrete block 215mm high, by 440mm long
• 2 layers of concrete block, is 6 layers of redbrick, then tie together.
• Good resistance to water penetration.
• Excellent fire protection
• Directly take fixing
• Only needs 2 coats of plaster

Internal wall studwork needs to be 600mm distance (this allows for the dimensions of the  plasterboard for easy fastening to the studwork itself.)