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BUILDING SYSTEMS SCAVENGER HUNT
M. Lorena Reyes BahamonIND 5615 | Fall 2011
Assignment 1
Building Envelope
Location: My house
In this picture, three elements of the building envelope are visible: the exterior wall, a window, and the front door which is also made of glass.
Building Layers
Location: Brickell
This picture depicts three building layers: a lower layer which is completely commercial, in which restaurants and shops with high traffic can be seen, a middle layer with lower traffic or more private shops, and an upper layer (seen in the back) where parking occurs.
Energy Star Rated
Location: my laptop
The Energy Star Rated sticker on my computer is clearly visible, next to logos of other features, like the software and hardware of the computer
UL listed
Location: FIU
Here, the UL logo is visible on the side of a vending machine in FIU. Coincidentally, next to an Energy Star logo!
Porous pavement
Location: my house
The driveway in my house is made of loose bricks, that allow for water to drain between them, diminishing runoff. Grass and plants can be seen growing between the bricks.
Plenum
Location: Berenblum Busch Architects
Here we can see a closed plenum, with acoustic tiles.
Service Core
Location: Mary Brickell Village
The service core at one of the buildings in Mary Brickell Village includes storage, mechanical rooms, a staricase and elevators. (I forgot to include myself in this picture.)
Accessible doorway
Location: Chase bank, 8th street
The doorway at this location is clearly accessible because there is a ramp from the parking area to the entrance, there is no differentiation in the floorlevel of the door and the interior. The doors can be seen in the background.
Two people with different metabolic rates
Location: Lincoln road, Southbeach
Two people of different genders, weights and ages have different metabolic rates. The skinnier person probably has a faster metabolic rate. Also, woman, which is younger will probably have a quicker metabolic rate.
Source of UV and IR radiation
Location: My friend’s house
The tungsten lightbulb in this lamp emits both UV radiation and Infrared radiation, creating heat.
BONUS! LEED AP
My friend Nicole Snarski works for Cassidy Turley, a real estate company, as a Sustainability project coordinator, and was nice enough to send me a picture of her business card (she works in DC)
Lintel
Location: The Biltmore, Coral Gables
The horizontal element above the window is a lintel
Pilaster
Location: The Biltmore, Coral Gables
Here I am standing between two pilasters. They look like columns embedded in the wall.
Load Bearing Wall
Location: The Biltmore, Coral Gables
This wall is evidently load bearing because it is an exterior wall, more than fifty percent of it is solid, and seems to be very thick.
Live Load
Location: The Biltmore, Coral Gables
This bellboy and his cart (and I) are live loads, since we are not actually part of the structure, and are easily moved.
Fenestration
Location: The Biltmore, Coral Gables
This view shows many of the Biltmore’s windows, or in other words its fenestration.
Screen block style CMUs
Location: Miami Beach
I forgot to pose with this one, as I was driving, but the framed elements on the left are typical Miami screen block style CMUs.
Running Bond
Location: Miami Ave, Brickell
Although it is not easy to find brickwork in Miami due to its absorption of heat, I found this restaurant in Brickell. The brickwork is a running bond because of the style they are set in where the ends of the bricks on one row coincide with the middle of the bricks above and below them. This is more clearly seen in the picture.
Expansion Joint
Location: sidewalk in Coral Gables
This type of cut is made in the cement at certain intervals in order to allow for the material to expand and contract, reducing the cracking of the surface.
Exit Stair
Inclined platform lift on a stair
Couldn’t find one
Balustrade
Location: The Biltmore, Coral Gables
These small elements (called balusters) that support a railing are called a balustrade.
Tread depth and riser height
Location: SIPA building, FIU
Here we can see that the main staircase in the SIPA building is compliant with the maximum riser height (7 “) and minimum tread depth (11”). Here they are actually 11.5” deep
Hydraulic elevator cab
Location: The Biltmore, Coral GablesAlthough I did not take pictures of a hydraulic elevator, a sign like this one would tell us it is hydraulic. This one actually says electric.
Elevator signals…
Location: The Biltmore, Coral Gables
Here we can see raised braille on the buttons, the hall light (and yes, it did make sounds), ant that the height of the call button is compliant with ADA guidelines (we forgot a measuring tape, but measured with letter sized paper, and it is aproximately 44” above the ground
Graywater
Location: friend’s house, Coral Gables
These pipes drain the already used water from the kitchen sink. Since it has been used it is called graywater
Potable water
Location: my friend’s house, Coral Gables
The kitchen sink is (in the US at least) a source of potable, or drinking water), although many people prefer to filter it again.
Branch supply line
Location: my friend’s house, Coral Gables
The white element that the pipes are attached to are a branch supply line.
Shutoff valve
Location: my house
If you look carefully behind my hair you can see a residential shutoff valve, used to turn off the water supply to a toilet.
Large building solid waste collection
Location: The Biltmore, Coral Gables
The solid waste collection area in the Biltmore is obviously kept away from the guests, in order to avoid unpleasant odors. It is interesting to note the communication between back of house and front of house areas in places like these.
ADA compliant sink p-trap
Location: The Biltmore, Coral Gables
Here the p-trap has been recessed, covered in protective plastic, AND set behind a recessed cabinet, and thus protects handicapped guests from possibly burning their legs.
Commercial sink
Couldn’t get access to one
Interesting public restroom layout
Location: The Biltmore, Coral Gables
This is in reality more than a bathroom, but the layout is interesting to me. As soon as one enters, one sees the stalls ahead to the left, and before this, immediately to the left one finds the sauna and steam room. The core of the area consists of the toilet stalls on one side, and showers on the other, making plumbing more efficient. Then further ahead was a place with stools for touching up, doing your makeup or styling your hair followed by lockers. The circulation is central, around the stalls and showers.
Interesting public restroom design feature
Location: The Biltmore, Coral Gables
This folding cabinet is a nice way to hide plumbing elements, closing it off so that they are not available to the publicwhile making them accessible enough to be fixed when necessary.
Unique toilet!
Location: Kohls stand in HD Boutique, Miami Convention Center
Not only is this stall visually unique and out of the ordinary, but it included all sorts of “amenities”. These included warming your feet, an incorporated bidet, and an automatic lid.
Aesthetically pleasing finish but not functional
Location: Sipa building, FIU
This glass tile adds a pleasing aesthetic quality to the bathroom, yet It serves no functional purpose since it is so high up. If it were located closer to water or the sink one could say that it was placed there as a backsplash, but it is not.
Drinking fountain INSIDE a bathroom!!!!
Location: The Biltmore
GROSS!!!! This drinking fountain is actually set INSIDE the bathroom area of the gym’s women’s restroom. It is not separated by a door, and through the sequence of pictures one can see how close it really is to the stalls.