Breaking Down Pancaked Floor Slabs Architecture

Dig about 1 foot inward from the slab s edge making a gap of 1 inch or so.

Breaking down pancaked floor slabs architecture. Serviceability is the name of the game with floor slabs that will have lift truck traffic. The house named casa trevo or trefoil house the building is a two storey residence in aroeira portugal which has an indented appearance in a a forest of pine trees rising tall above a sandy terrain. Carpet is used on the second floor to warm the master bedroom. This void can provide a useful space for the sprinklers distribution of heating ventilation and air conditioning hvac services and plumbing and wiring.

A pickax is handy for cutting through roots breaking up rock or shale and scraping material out from under the slab. Floor slabs and ceiling planes are aesthetically identical intensifying the idea of the stack. Completed in 2019 in bordeaux france. Images by vincent monthiers.

The joints break down when a lift truck moves toward the joint deflecting down the edge of the slab panel it is on then bumping against the joint face of the adjacent slightly higher panel. This use of material connects the floor slab with the stairwell and presents them as a single element. The void does not need to be deep. Slabs were laid not very evenly on a sand and soil substrate.

The architectural mechanics are concealed only the facade s superfluity is revealed. Double o studio has built a private house that comprises circular and hexagonal units merged in one massing as a whole located south of lisbon portugal. The most vulnerable places on such a floor slab are the joints. These are secondary ceilings suspended from the structure above typically a floor or roof slab creating a void between the underside of the slab and the top of the suspended ceiling.

However the carpet is continued around the edges of the floor slab down the walls of the stairwell and appears on the ceiling on the entry level below. The granular material serves as a capillary break and a place to store the water until it can be absorbed back into the surrounding soil. My plan would be to break the slabs in situ to serve as hardcore base try to level and pack this hardcore base with a sledgehammer the best i can prepare a frame around it and pour concrete. The people behind this chicago skyscraper didn t find that out until it was too late and in 1974 one of the slabs detached from the building and crashed into the roof of the prudential center.

In northern bordeaux the grand parc district is made up of slab and tower blocks where the project slips into aligning or.