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jlxarchitect
Joined: 20 Aug 2004
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 Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 6:13 pm Post subject: 505 Union station building at seattle |
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| Is anyone familiar with 505 Union Station building designed by NBBJ at Seattle? It seems it uses some slopped columns to contain the glass curtain wall. I am interested in knowing more details about it. |
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jlxarchitect
Joined: 20 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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Donald:
The following is the words I quato from the article you meantiond:
" Instead of employing a single exterior design vocabulary, the designers used three wall systems — glass, metal, and precast concrete. “Because of the aggressive approach to the form, we have walls that slope out, that slope in, and a curving curtain wall,” says Savo. A full-height glazed north wall slopes inward at a 15-degree angle, and the west wall angles outward at four degrees. "
For the commercial projects, I am thinking of collecting different type of treatments and styles for the modern elevation treatment. I belive this kind of library is useful for a professional commercial architect. Do you like this idea? The following is some company is the targets at this stage:
NBBJ: mass responding to the program, enviornment.
KPF: mass responding to the program, enviornment. Mullion use.
Another quato from the article:
"Terry Lundeen, a principal with structural engineer Coughlin Porter Lundeen, Seattle, says a major objective was to integrate the building structure and the curtain wall system to maximize the transparency of the north fa‡ade. Because this wall's slope continues down to the base of the building, a severe earthquake that damaged braced frames could cause the structure to move laterally. A moment frame within the building core is designed to counteract such a post-earthquake condition. Because 505 Union Station does not have a typical vertical/horizontal structural grid, gravity thrust forces must be taken out through the floors. “We needed special connections to make that happen on the north and west sides, which have sloped structural elements,” Lundeen says. "
Yes, I see the interesting part of the structure. I am wondering where I can get the plan and section to see how they deal with this structure. |
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Bryce Hanna
Joined: 10 Sep 2004
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Location: Chicago, IL - USA
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| Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 10:04 am Post subject: |
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Please share any of the information you find about the 505 Union building with the rest of us – I think it’s a really intriguing structure. The information about it on NBBJ’s website is pretty sparse and I halfheartedly tried to contact their marketing people once to try to scare up information. All to little avail.
As an aside, that building was featured in AR a while back because they use a combination of solid modeling and sterolithography to study the massing, producing rapid prototypes massing models (real actual models that you can toss around the studio) much like the auto industry does. |
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jlxarchitect
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| Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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| I will post what I have next week. Begining from next Monday, I will contact their recption, John Savo(project architect), scott johnson( technical designer) to see if they are willing to speak sth for their structure. |
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