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ARCT4430unit coordinator : sophie gilesuniversity of western australia

faculty of architecture, landscape architecture

and visual arts3 . april . 2013

This is a 2 storeys bungalow that could be categorised as a class 2 building and a Type B.

KING ALBERT RD, TRIGG BEACH - HILLAM ARCHITECTS

Topics : The Basic Construction Staircase construction

This house is 100m from the breaking surf, due to its near distance towards the beach, the structure such as the reinforce in the concrete need to use high grade coating or galvanised, thus to avoid rust. For the exposed structure such as roof, handrail and pergolas, stainless steel is implemented.

Long span truss along the facade of the house to avoid column.It is then covered by a fascia board.

At the balcony, on top of the concrete slab the floor will be covered with tiles because the potential of a wet surface. It is then will be covered with decking. A C-Bus system (smart wiring) is installed to control the lighting and other electrical such as Audio Visual Devices, the pergolas blade to open and close,etc. To install a smart wiring service, it needs to be done together during the construction.

An i-pad will be inserted. The main controller of C-Bus

The wire room is placed at the back of the house.

The main facade of the house have a big panel of glass, to capture the grand vista of the ocean.

The glass must have strong wind load. It is thick and double glazed. The height of the glass is 2.7m, which is the maximum height of the frame.

On the major building which are the living room and master bedroom is and operated external louvre.

2700mm

operated external louvre.

After removing the props, the stairs may not be able to support itself.

KING ALBERT RD, TRIGG BEACH - HILLAM ARCHITECTS

Thus the backuo plan is to increase the bearing at the bottom of the stairs by inserting pvc pipe in the stringer, wich will be filled up with grout. It should increase the bearing if there is any cracking.

It is an open staircase. The width of the stairs is wide and the side walls are thick.Originally the stairs was planned to be a little bit slender.

U-profile, fabricated form a flat plate. Welded to the stringer.

350mm Stringer

As for the stair tread, at first a 25mm flat plate wants to be use. A 25mm flat plate is very substantial but because of the width, the stairs bounce. After working out with the contractor, They made a u-profile which was fabricated from a flat plate. It have reinforced bar in it and fill it up with. Then it will be stone clad from top to the bottom

Inside is a reinforcement bar, which then filled up with grout.

The side finishes of the stairs will be covered by plaster board and will be polish with a layers of plasters. As for the top (railing) will be covered with be covered with black stones.

Part of the stairs is bolt and hang on to the ceiling space. The stringer will continue until the top of the stairs.

The internal wall is covered with plaster board which then will be covered with plaster. At the part of the stairs of the house, a curved was created. It was created by the plaster board which later on was smooth by plaster.

brick wall

spacing for

wires

stud

plaster board

The external wall , there is a main concrete form work as a column that supports the master bedroom bath and brick work that will be covered with cement and paint.

plaster board

KING ALBERT RD, TRIGG BEACH - HILLAM ARCHITECTS

Ventilation pipe is been set out along the corridor.

This is a 2 storeys suburban house that could be categorised as a class 2 building and a Type B.

FEDERATION ST, MT HAWTHORN - MATT STACK

The demolition phase : need a good job in racking all the rubbish on site. The surface need to be racked about 75mm deep, if there is a brick size or bigger, it need to be taken away.

Earthworks : A bounding line need to be set up. To avoid any damages towards any of the neighbours side of the house, both on the boundary need to be injected the underground beneath with a cement compound that penetrates the sand binds in a stable like concrete situation. the civil engineers will come in and look at the plan and the proposal level. They will see wether the site need to be extra fill or extra fill need to be taken away. Then they will come through with a laser level or a bobcat depending on the size of the project. After that spreading the soil around and use the compacters (plate compacters). Once compacted, lay out the plumbing and electrical need to be dug into the site.

Footings : First do the trenchers according to the set out. It all according to the string lines and excavate according this line. The trenchers are set with concrete forms and the first concrete poured. It is the first mash concrete footing, which is the trench mash. Because of the soil type is sand, a standard type of footing could be use, which is a fairly big footing but not a lot of mesh. Some other area might need more reinforced depends on the soil type, but this is able to find out during the site investigation.

Slab : Then they will form up the slabs. Slabs is formed up onto the footings. The edge of the slab is about 2-3 courses of bricks. In some cases the footings need to be lowered because of the plumbing in the ground and need to be trenched out, so the slab (at the master bedroom area) is a bit higher, it is formed up in different levels. The set is set off in a bout a week. After the slab is set down, the plumbing work is carried out onto the slab in connecting the sewer connection.

Cavity wall and Ground Bearing Slabs - -drawings from http://www.springvale.com/products/

floorshield/index

Trench footings

Compacted soils

Concrete Slab

Cavity Walls

Damp proofing membrane

Separating membraneInsulation

Reinforced bar

Cavity wall - The brick have cavity insulation, thin foam with aluminum. It restrict of moisture passing through the wall (just water vapour). The wall works on the principle that water can pass through the porous outer leaf, but then collects on the inside of the outer leaf and runs down to weep holes. Cavity wall also known to be a good thermal insulation, kept the cool atmosphere during summer and kept in the heat during winter.

Wall Tie

Wall Insulation

Weep holes - the small openings in a wall through which accumulated condensation or water may drain to the building exterior. The weep hole is mostly located at every 2nd brick.

Lintels - There should be at least 3 courses of

bricks above an openings (lintels) and a 6mm galvanized rod is

a essential components in

brickworks for above lintels.

The wall tie is a 4mm galvanized steel wire that is used to bind the tiers of a masonry wall together.

2 galvanized rod is located at the top 2 courses above the

lintels

FEDERATION ST, MT HAWTHORN - MATT STACK

After the foundation and slab was done, then the bricks was brought into the site. Having a good bricky would eventually make the brick have an astonishing finish. In this case there are to colour of brick so a good coordination needs to be done, to make sure they are in the right ratio and in the right place. Matt works with a 350mm thick wall, a bigger than a necessary cavity but the purpose is to use the brick in full brick and avoid to be cut all the time. During the brickworks, if it rains, the the top of the bricks should be covered. If fresh brickworks get wet it wash out the cement of the bricks and weakens the mortar. If using a scaffold, the edge board of the scaffold should be taken out, because the scaffold is covered with mortar, so when it rains, the rains will rain onto the mortar and it splashes onto the brickworks leaving stains.

Flemish Bond Running Bond

Corbel

The interesting part about Matts house is the brickwork arts.

350mm

The amount paid to the bricky, is generally set the price on a rate per-brick, say about AU1.20 a brick, so how many brick they lay in a day is how much the price is. However there are certain things that are counted as a daily rate, in things that the bricky knows require longer time to set up, such as the arch, flemish bond or the corbel at the front of the facade. The mortar joints finishes was flushed with a tennis ball strokes, slightly recess from the flush and have a soft finish. Other type is a broom handle and steel rod.

After the brick is done, brick cleaners will come and wash the bricks with a weak acid compound, hydrochloric acid. Hydrochloric acid is only used to remove mortar stains from clay brickwork. If washing bricks are done correctly, the bricks will have burnt stains, which then have to be brought down. Afterwards the walls need to be washed with heaps of water, or else it will leave white stains onto the bricks.

The maximum cantilevered distance of a corbel is determined by the one third rule, that is, each brick should not project more than one third of its bed length (like the picture on the top right). However, Matt showed on how to place the brick half of its bed length by setting a form work, that took about 5 days to set.

FEDERATION ST, MT HAWTHORN - MATT STACK

LVL - Laminated Veneer Lumber

A wool insulation is inserted between the purlins and the battens, which then covered up by plywood ceiling Metal roof decking. Warehouse truss.

Rafter connected to a steel plate which then connected to the column that goes to the slab . Bolted connection of the truss to the brickwork.