WEEK 35This week was all about the site drainage and column iterations. Earlier in the week we met w
WEEK 35This week was all about the site drainage and column iterations. Earlier in the week we met with Mr. John Jay and crew to talk about how drainage is usually dealt with in Greensboro. The following day we met with Adele Schirmer, a civil engineer from Georgia to better understand our options; considering the site topography, the amount of water the roof receives and where all the water would go once its on the ground. We talked through potentially using some of the water for the vines on the screens or making a retentions system at the back of site. This would slow down the water to the overflow drain from site and help avoid washing away the top soil and gravel on the courtyard.After the meeting with Adele we spent some time Sunday surveying Beacon Alley, which is adjacent to our site, to figure out how the water flows down the street and away from the site. Which is incredibly important to understand how much we can alter the grade on the courtyard and still allow the site to drain well. After studying the first set of models we made, we took the elements from those columns that we wanted to include in our design and increased the scale for the next set to model the connection details more accurately. Stay tuned for images of the model in the next post! -- source link
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