Building Systems – Donnelly – Spring 2005

Building Systems - Donnelly - Spring 2005

The building systems course allowed me to reexamine my summer internship experiences and the classes I took for my structural engineering minor through the lens of building technology. Ultimately, the material learned in building systems allowed me to further enrich my studio projects, applying building tectonics to concept development.

Course lectures were supplemented with building construction tours of a variety of structures. Following each tour was a building section assignment. The drawing at right is for a new building on the Medical Campus at Washington University. In this project, I deduced – from section outlines, lectures, and research – the composition of the wall structure. I then drafted the section as a cut isometric drawing.

Drafting in AutoCAD