MODEL MAKING

1. Tall Wood House Prepare Stage The selected design element is to show how the Glue-Laminated Timber columns connect to the CLT floor plate. I decide to make a 1: 5 detail model. I researched a lot about this building, and find the right structure system. The construction picture Then I make a digital model At the very beginning, I make a digital model for the whole building and want to make a 1: 500 model because it is the tallest timber structure building in the world at the moment. And I give it up finally because in this scale I can only show the relationship between different members and how it looks like, I can't present how they connected and the why this building is so stable. Therefore, I decided to make a 1:5 detailed model. The metal connected part, I first tried to used metal plate to make it. Cutting the metal plate in the right size.   Using an electric drill machine to drill hole on the metal plate and sanding it.   Then using...

1. Tall Wood House Selected Design Element Tallwood house is the highest timber building at the moment, and the usage is student accommodation. The most interesting point of this building is how can it be stable within an 18 stories height, and due to the usage, the scale of the columns cannot be very big, how to connect different parts. I made a 1:5 detail model to show the connection of its GL beam and CLT floor plate. Step 1: Using Rhino to build a digital model                                               Step 2: 3D Print the Steel connection Step 3: For well representing the timber structure, using 5 layers Balsa wood glued together. Step 4: Assemble All the parts Detail Assembly process 2. University of Massachusetts Amherst Design Building Selected Design Elements: The building is organized around a...