2/17 & 2/19

2/17

Today in class we toured Huff Hall, the Armory, and the Football practice building.

We started class with Huff hall and began discussing the ceiling and the structure of it. The ceiling actually reminded me of a bridge by my grandma's house, so I guess it kind of works in the same way. Through a series of metal rods, the largest arch transfers the force put onto it into columns that are located on the sides of the stadium. There was also another beam (maybe it was called a tress?, I don't quite remember) that caused the largest arch to seem like it was smaller than it actually is.

We then went to the armory, which was my favorite building of the day. One side of the arch is cemented down, and a pin is used to hold the two sides together so that the building can't really move. They then added rooms in addition to this which are on the second level. These rooms put stress onto beams that then make a pathway through other beams until all of the stress from the rooms are eventually put into a series of columns.

Lastly we went to the football practice stadium. I didn't find that one quite as impressive as the others, but it was interesting that they chose to do the arch the opposite way that most people would.

2/19

Today we finished discussing the threshold projects. I really liked seeing how thresholds meant different things to different people.

We also discussed our new assignment, which has a lot of rules to it... I came up with three ideas, but all of them were eventually knocked out from one rule or another. I'll figure something out!