COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

 

A4125 - Building Systems I

Building Analysis Assignment No. 1                                                                            

 

 

 

 

 

1.   Find at least three articles on your building that discuss the designers' spatial, formal and          technical intentions.

 

2.   Using the working drawings, take a first pass at determining the gravity and wind structural systems for your building.  Prepare gravity and wind free body diagrams similar to those used in the Farnsworth House example (three sketches/drawings).