Geelong Waterfront Carousel

The Geelong Waterfront Carousel was constructed by McGlashan-Everist Architects in 1999. It is of mainly steel and glass construction. It is one of the more aesthetically dominant buildings of Geelong’s Waterfront.

The photo below depicts the canter lever corner roof section of the building. It shows the expansive steel mesh stretched of the curved steel framework, all joining to the central beam.

The photo below depicts the pin joint connection which supports the central beam mentioned above.

The photo below to the is view of the interior ceiling and the connection between the four corner beams being pin together allowing the forces of each beam to balance with each providing a state of equilibrium throughout the structure. The second photo below is the external joint that occurs between the two corners allow for gutter to be installed

This is Photos of the Geelong Westfield car park. It uses a suspended concrete slab as the floor/ceiling of the first and second level car parks. This concrete slab is supported by Bondek. An interesting not is the use of uneven mixture used to cover the concrete beams. Shown in the photo below where the cladding has crumbled off revealing the concrete beam this is used to make the beams more fire resistant

Thank you to Liesa Nunn for her information that the cladding is usually made out of lightweight vermiculite and gypsum or cement.

Mies van der Rohe

( Richard Israel and my self decide to focus our design on Mies van der Rohe's New National Gallery, Berlin Germany. We concluded that this would be a good choice as it allow for large functional spaces and use modernist massing which would provide, as we believe, simpler construction techniques .

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Museum Design Mirrors Swiss Artist it Honours

This Article talks about a new museum built in Bern, Switzerland. It comprises of three large steel and glass undulations to create the form. It gains relevance as it talks about how steel was the only possible choice for materials. As steel could adequately account for the diverse stresses the form would experience. this is because steel allows for differences in plate thicknesses without changing material sections. The extremities of the steel arches are stressed together with tiebacks and connected to the floors and the floor slabs to prevent the steel arches slipping apart at the base.







This was taken form "Steel Australia, Vol 20, Num 1, March 2007" page 11

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