MSLE GROUP PRESENTATIONS

Above: Presentation slides, words were mainly taken from previous weeks worksheet done together in the tutorial.

MODEL MAKING

Above Photos (left to right): Cutting out different level floors which do not have particular structural features, Two load bearing walls which support and take the weight of the slab flooring, Roofing structure with 10 rafters distributing loads to

the walls.Within this weeks tutorial we were required to make a structural model of out building (MSLE link) in order to visually see the load

paths of the structure. The area of the building that we were focused on had two load bearing walls to either side of the structure, which supported the main loads (Figure 1). However within one of these walls there were two lintels (one above a door and the other above windows), which were designed to direct the load around these new features in the pre-existing brickwork (as shown in Figure 2). The upstairs ramp was also supported through cantilevers attached to the load bearing side wall (Figure 3). The roof structure is a low sloped skillion roof which had one ridge beam and then 10 rafters that spaned between the walls equally taking the load of the roof and directing it down the two load bearing walls (Figure 4).

Left to right: Load path diagram (cross section of walls), load path diagram with new and old lintel in brick wall

Left to right: Load path diagram second level cantilever ramp, load path diagram of skillion roof (birds eye and cross section view)