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When it comes to creativity at Cal Poly, the sky is the limit – literally. This winter and spring quarters worked twenty-two architecture (Architecture) and Architectural Engineering (ARCE) with the famous architecture company Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (Som) together with the building, including the Willis Tower in Chicago, in Chicago, a World Trade Center in New York City and Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
Studios, led by Professor Thomas Fowler and Kevin Dong, worked with Som Partners Leo Chow and Mark Sarkisian. Chow and Sarkisian gave advice, ideas and criticisms. They also gave feedback on the end products: At the end of the spring quartal, the students Chow and Sarkisian presented their detailed posters and four feet high models in the Som Som office.
“The goal of the class is to teach the students architecture and engineering at the same time,” said Sarkisian. “Architects learn from civil engineers. Structural engineers learn from architects. And that is the premise of the class.”
The first challenge to which the students had met was the extent of the project. The guideline students received a height limit of 853 feet – about the size of the legendary transsamerica pyramid in San Francisco – and about 48 floors. In front of this studio, most students had not designed or built a model for a building as 20 feet.
“We usually carry out two or three -story buildings,” says Anna Langer, an architectural student in the fourth year. “To make a high -rise building, we dealt with various structures.”
Another challenge: the students were divided into teams, each ratio of around four architecture students to an architectural student.
“It was definitely a challenge at the beginning,” said Josh Gonzales, architecture stectator in the third year. “Especially four architects who all want to bring their own ideas. But the more we work together … we can find a coherent idea.”
For Jack Evans, student of the architecture student in the fourth year in the fourth year, the architectural -oriented design process was a premiere.
“We never really worked with architects,” he explains. “Let alone in a 4-to-1 ratio. So it is definitely a different thought.”
To help the students better understand the factors that are to be taken into account when designing a high-rise building, they had the opportunity to visit the Som Hauptquartier in Chicago that has a wind tunnel system to test how structures react to the effort of wind. The students had to visit the facility and even test their handmade, measures building models against various simulated wind conditions in the tunnel and experienced the vibrations and vibrations first hand.
Gonzales and Evans, who were in the same team, worked on a design that was inspired by the historic sunken ships under San Francisco's artificial coast.
Other students followed a different approach. Anna Langer and Paige Delph, both architecture students in the third year, were inspired by the Redwoods of North California for their cloud of clouds.
“We wanted to take over the technological aspects of San Francisco and combine them with the natural aspects and show how these two connect and build together,” said Delph.
In order to cope with the challenge, the students had to examine a careful balance between design and engineering with the help of hand -drawn perspectives, digital renderings and physical models.
“They make a physical model of the entire building,” said Dong. “You will create models that show how the building facade is back to the building. How this facade is executed in both solar and wind.”
The feedback from Som during the design process was of crucial importance for the success of the students-to promote and simulate a real working environment.
“You think of everything,” said Gonzales. “No matter what you do, you can feel confident, and then they suggest something and it is like: 'Why didn't I think of it?'”
“It's great to get feedback from such a high level,” said Delph. “You think you are all set, and then give you a rating and you are not set.”
In addition to the reaction to constructive feedback, the students also learned how to solve technical problems in connection with the design of large buildings.
“I think it is a great opportunity for the students to work with a leading leader in architectural and structural design, especially in the realm of a high building,” says Dong. “[They] Just becomes valuable employees on collaborative skills. “
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