BIG ASS BEAM PROJECT

AIA Office + Exhibition | pettydesign | James Petty

Undergraduate Work

Fall 2005
11 weeks
Prof: William Truitt
University of Houston

 

Create an AIA Center for Houston to include exhibition, office and auditorium. Address threshold, hierarchy of actions, sequence of spaces and a big ass beam. Initial research of project area included investigation between lighting and economic divides.

AIA Office + Exhibition | pettydesign | James Petty

AIA Office + Exhibition | pettydesign | James Petty

AIA Office + Exhibition | pettydesign | James Petty

Section drawings were drawn with the corresponding plan as cut along the ground plane.

AIA Office + Exhibition | pettydesign | James Petty

AIA Office + Exhibition | pettydesign | James Petty

The auditorium is floated in the building between two Big Ass Beams. The section model below illustrates one of the beams and its ability to take on massive loads.

AIA Office + Exhibition | pettydesign | James Petty

AIA Office + Exhibition | pettydesign | James Petty

AIA Office + Exhibition | pettydesign | James Petty

AIA Office + Exhibition | pettydesign | James Petty

AIA Office + Exhibition | pettydesign | James Petty

*all model photography by Brandon Hendricks

About pettydesign

James Petty is an American architect experiencing and contributing to the Yale School of Architecture.