Bus Shelter

Project 1 (Bus Shelter)

In this project, in a group of five to six people. students are required to construct a temporary bus shelter according to the following specifications: scale, construction, form joints, materials and other design considerations. Students have to build the bus shelter model in 1:20 and do the analysis, construction progress in the form of A3 bound report. Students are encouraged to use annotated sketches / diagrams to explain the construction, joints, forces, structural movement experienced during the testing of the shelter.

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Final Report

Final Assignment

We had chosen TENSILE as our building study object.

Chosen Building

MGM form Las Vegas

A significant tensile building, we had chosen this building as for our case study about grid shell construction. 

In this project, in a group of 3, students are to propose a building (tensile/membrane construction or grid shell construction) and identify the structural systems used in the construction of the building and also describe each structural system identified in terms of Function, Material and Load Distribution. Students are required to produce one construction detail model with suitable scales and materials on an A3 size base and also one A2 size sheet utilizing both sides which consist of the analysis and drawings. 

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