Major assignment posters

Grunge Street Office and Warehouse

Grunge Street Office and Warehouse
Steel Structure, clad with alucobond aluminium panels.




Concrete strip footing, reinforced steel mesh layed below surface
Primary steel column fixed to concrete footing. Primary roof beam fixed to column
Secondary structure, purlins fixed to roof beams to support cladding
Triangular structure, welded girts form fixing point for cladding
Insulation, safety mesh and sarking applied to external skeletal structure
ALUCOBOND aluminium panels applied externally as cladding
detail of cladding being applied to structure via suspended cassette fixture.
detail secondary girt system fixed to primary column via bolts
view of box gutter and flashing
detail roof purlin attached to beam with cleat which has previously welded to the beam.

Site Visit Four

Commercial/Office Site, Ryrie Street, Geelong City
(next to Bendigo Bank headquarters)
This site is of pre-cast concrete and steel construction.

Alucobond panels

Helpful pages from the alucobond leaflet
Connection details

London Metropolitan University, Graduate Centre

Daniel Libeskind's 'Michael Lee-Chin Crystal'

The extension/renovation of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, became known as the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal structure.
The crystal structure was developed by Daniel Libeskind, while its primary structural layout is based on the notion of organically interlocking prismatic forms, the overall structure is composed of a complex steel skeleton, clad with aluminium panels, embacing irrational form given also by glass facade.
It is described as an example of dramatic new architecture.

Initial concept sketch

Construction site from the street - Steel frame, forming structural skeleton





Construction site from above - scafolding, steel framing






Application of aluminium cladding to complex steel frame





External view of the completed 'Crystal' structure

Libeskind's Michael-Lee Crystal envokes curiosity within the viewer to explore its fascinating form of informally entangled skewed geometric forms, both internally and externally.
The internal perception of the crystal structure differs from the viewers perception externally, as the space displays little incorporation of the main external material, the aluminum sheeting. The complex steel skeletal structure is not visable internally, instead the space is filled with false ceilings and non load-bearing partitions, in order to create an entangled journey or experience of its own.


Internal space under construction
Internal space completed
Computer generated image of the resturant within the 'crystal'