design portfolio 2005 - 2011
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Undergraduate, Professional and Graduate design workTRANSCRIPT
S a m H o l t z m a n : D e s i g n Po r t f o l i o
M A r c h C a n d i d a t e 2 013U n i v e r s i t y o f C a l i f o r n i a B e r k e l e y
B . A . i n A r c h i t e c t u r e F l o r i d a I n t e r n a t i o n a l U n i v e r s i t y
Mapping the Cit y
Venice, italy
Design 3: arc 2303 p. 14 - 15
O ys ter Point
san Francisco, ca
graDuate Design 1 p.2 - 7
Bath H ouse
gainesVille, Fl
Design 5: arc 3320 p. 12 - 13
Archer y Range
gainesVille, Fl
Design 5: arc 3320 p. 8 - 11
Mapping the Cit y
Venice, italy
Design 3: arc 2303 p. 14 - 15
H onor s Col le ge
MiaMi, Fl
Design 7: arc 4342 p. 16 - 21
T he Str ip Mal l
MiaMi, Fl
Design 8: arc 4343 p. 22 - 27
Tateuchi Center
BelleVue, Wa
proFessional p.
SITE PLAN1:500
inDiViDual space
- sleeping
- concentration
:packing the spaces
:suBtraction
incuBator space
- transForMaBle
- oVernight or long terM projects
- exhiBitions
- conFerence
Meeting space
- ViDeo conFerence
- sMall presentations
- Meetings
core
- BuilDing serVices
- circulation
perManant space
- Workshop
- oFFice
- storageinForMal Meeting hall
- iMproMptu
- hot Desk
- open oFFice
existing site anD BuilDing
- 20 to 30 Feet aBoVe aDjacent site
- BuilDing is Vacant
- no access to Bay trail, transportation, or urBan aMenities
suBtraction operations
- reDuce sq Footage oF Vacant BuilDing anD open grounD Floor
- proViDe increaseD site access anD circulation
- create More puBlic space
interVention operations
- raMp to loWer portion oF site anD Bay trail
- BoarDWalk connections to aDjacent BuilDings
- courtyarD
puBlic outDoor space
- caFe
- courtyarD
site plan
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Oyster Point Office ParkSouth San Francisco, California - Fall 2011Graduate Design 1 - Critic: Jill Stoner
: A Space for Everyone
Site Observations:
Oyster Point is a business park, with primarily biomedical research tenants. The
site is located 5 miles north of SFO, just east of the US101. It is separated from and severely
lacking urban amenities - transportation, dining, shopping, public and shared space.
Connections to adjacent buildings, exterior access roads, and the limited existing amenities
and spaces, is largely happenstance. There is currently a wetlands restoration and bayfront
walk project underway. This is being supported by the City of South San Francisco and the
private landowners along the proposed trail path.
Building Observations:
The existing building is perched 20 feet above the site, behind a retaining wall. It
is currently vacant and has no real connection to the lower portion of the site, the bay trail,
or the neighboring buildings.
ARCH 201 - Fall 2011Review: 2011-12-7Critic: Jill StonerSam Holtzman
SFO
SITE: OYSTER POINT
101: BAYSHORE FREEWAY
VICINITY MAP: A space for everyone.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Site Observations: Oyster Point is a business park, with primarily biomedical research tenants. The site is located 5 miles north of SFO, just east of the US101. It is separated from and severely lacking urban amenities - transportation, dining, shopping, public and shared space. Connections to adjacent buildings, exterior access roads, and the limited existing amenities and spaces, is largely happenstance. There is currently a wetlands restoration and bayfront walk project underway. This is being supported by the City of South San Francisco and the private landowners along the proposed trail path.
Building Observations: The existing building is perched 20 feet above the site, behind a retaining wall. It is currently vacant and has no real connection to the lower portion of the site, the bay trail, or the neighboring buildings. This separation can be seen in the accom-panying ‘NW corner’ existing site photo.
Project objective: This is two fold. The first is to increase connectivity to the site, and to create a public space that can contribute to and be shared by the community at large, and the business park tennants. The second is to reduce, reconfigure and reuse the currently dormant office space by reimagining the work environ-ment and testing new spatial organizations and typologies. The building was approached as a contemporary ruin; a dated and defunct site to be intervened. Existing elements were deconstructed and dissolved, much of the enclosed space
opened to making the building and site more open and accessible. Almost the entire ground floor was devoted to public courtyard space, connective pathways through the site, protected public bike and kayak storage and an outdoor cafe. The remaining enclosed portion of the ground floor is core building function, and a permanent home for the non profit environmental group, San Bruno Mountain Watch, dedicated to restoring the grassy salt marshes and the nearby San Bruno Preserve. The goal to reoccupy the upper floor vacant space with a more relevant and functional program is pursused through reap-proaching the office typology, both as a built environment, and organi-zationally. This idea of alternative work is predicated on fundamental changes in work scheduleing and location. The new concept in office operations eschews the individual and permanant desk space for spaces designed for teams, departments, or a mix of organizations. Essentially, an office for everyone and anyone. Close proximity to the airport, current disuse, and hotels located on the site make this site a reasonable location for work space experimentation. Combining the research and the ideas about the projected users led to the creation of several tyeps of spaces, with varying visual and adjacency relationships: Team areas both large and small, a cafe, personal workspaces, conference and meeting space, informal meeting locations. The variations and the site relationship interventions attempt to increase the current use potential and relevancy of the building, as well as provide a forward looking concept for office planning and design.
interVention operations
- raMp to loWer portion oF site anD Bay trail
- BoarDWalk connections to aDjacent BuilDings
- courtyarD
claDDing 2-transparent
claDDing1- opaque
- punctureD
- DeconstructeD
- DissolVeD
structure
grounD Floor
leVel 1 & 2
:Wrapping the spaces
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Oyster Point Office Park
incuBator space
EAST ELEVATION1:150
Project objective:
This is two fold. The first is to increase connectivity to the site, and to create
a public space that can contribute to and be shared by the community at
large, and the business park tennants. The second is to reduce, reconfigure
and reuse the currently dormant office space by reimagining the work
environment and testing new spatial organizations and typologies.
Close proximity to the airport, current disuse, and hotels located on the
site make this site a reasonable location for work space experimentation.
Combining the research and the ideas about the projected users led to
the creation of several types of spaces, with varying visual and adjacency
relationships: Team areas both large and small, a cafe, personal workspaces,
conference and meeting space, informal meeting locations.
The variations and the site relationship interventions attempt to increase
the current use potential and relevancy of the building, as well as provide a
forward looking concept for office planning and design.
east eleVation
Oyster Point Office Park
EAST ELEVATION1:150
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archery range siteus 441interstate-75
The program was developed individually by each student with
the rubric outlining only the broad requirements that the final
project be a multi building complex used for teaching a craft, art
or skill.
My initial research and investigation led to a site located at the
boundary of open prairie and dense forest. This zone, with both
environments tenuously entwined, provided an ideal location,
both physically and conceptually, for a complex of connected
and functionally complementary space.
Kyudo poetically reveals landscape.
Landscape poetically reveals Kyudo.
The center teaches about the landscape and kyudo. A moment
in archery, of expansion, a culmination of practice, learning, skills
and concentration, is heightened with greater understanding.
The transition from targeting, acquiring aim, stance, position,
level, to a fantastic release of power and precision, gains accuracy
and meaning, and a certain enlightenment is achieved, as more is
learned and practiced.
The landscape is complex. An understanding of which could
be considered an art; where data, meditation, appreciation
and exploration meld together. The shift from forest to prairie
is a dramatic moment, an almost instantaneous release of
conditions. To comprehend the full intensities of the forest and
prairie make this shift more profound. This moment, the before
and after, become reflective. There is a conceptual interstitial
zone of tension between the two environments. This moment
of expansion - the culmination- becomes more profound as
understanding grows.
Paynes Prairie Archery Range Gainesville, Florida - Fall 2005Design Five - Critic: Hui Zou
0 1/2 Mile 2 Miles 5 Miles
loBBy kitchen priVate apartMents
locker rooMsoFFicesBoW Making stuDio
BaMBoo greenhouse
Workout stuDio
MeDitation garDenarchery range
0’ 8’ 16’ 32’
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section
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Paynes Prairie Archery Range
MeDitation garDen
kitchen Detail
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prairie VieWing platForM
colD Bath
Mechanical
hot Bath
sauna
changing rooM
plan DeVelopMent
0’ 8’ 16’ 40’
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Paynes Prairie Bath HouseGainesville, Florida - Fall 2005Design Five - Critic: Hui Zou
entry axis sauna Detail
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The bath house project began by acquiring knowledge
of the program, the complex site and ecosystem, and the
ramifications of their coexistence. The prairie landscape - a
natural sectional construction of layered horizon, tree line,
water, grass and flower - is pierced by a highway. Human
occupation is momentary and the thought is fleeting at best.
A bathhouse, intimate and serene by function, provides
an opportunity to occupy this natural environment in an
inherently contemplative way.
The design process included a series of aerial photos taken
from an observation tower. Seen in the plan montage, these
images capture the range of depth, color, and material as
you gaze through the foliage, and onto human constructed
concrete and wood structure on the ground. Together,
the natural and man-made inhabit the prairie, man-made
conquering nature at first, but eventually being overtaken.
This rugged duality is very much a part of the prairie and
strongly investigated in both Paynes Prairie Projects.
Venice Mapping stuDies
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This was an early design project, part of a theme throughout the
third semester; one of memory and time. The class began with a
movie - Memento - and ended in Venice, with stories by Calvino and
layered drawings and thoughts on this rich urban construct. The
city was divided into 6 vertical slices, with each student choosing
one. With this portion of Venice and the analysis of the buildings
and images it contained, mappings emerged. Light, itinerary, figure
ground, perspective; these are a few of the building blocks for design
conception and analysis. The culmination of this mapped information
and the narratives built from ‘Invisible Cities’ helped to create this final
perspective. Smeared and ghosted with process, the drawing emerged
much as this city has; built and rebuilt, remodeled, re-faced, moved
and concealed. The green shading anticipates movement of built
environment and inhabitant. The darkly poched, hard-lined masses,
exist now, and the light construction lines are a story of what was.
Mapping the CityVenice, Italy - Fall 2004Design Three - Critic: Robert Macleod
Venice canal perspectiVe
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honors college site
FloriDa turnpike
8th street
‘calle ocho’palMetto expressWay
strip Mall site
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The Honors College at Florida International University is currently
housed in appropriated space within the Deuxieme Maison Building,
sharing it with several other colleges and campus programs. This
project is based on university issued program requirements and
located on a predetermined campus infill site. The final design
needed to have classroom space, technology learning commons,
offices for permanent and visiting professors, auditorium space, and
several outdoor plaza and meeting spaces. The college also wanted
a contextual and welcoming building that would invite and promote
student teacher interaction and stand as a positive addition to the
campus fabric.
FIU Honors CollegeMiami, Florida - Fall 2007Design Seven - Critic: John Kneski
VeW looking southWest
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plan DeVelopMent:
leVel 1
1. loBBy/atriuM
2. oFFices
3. classrooM
4. restrooMs
5. Mechanical
6. outDoor Meeting
7. inDoor Meeting
8. open to BeloW
9. lunch counter
10. auDitoriuM
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That said, the FIU campus is a unique one. Contained
within a strange sprawling suburban city, the school
has various scales of access and circulation and an
eclectic mix of architectural styles, objects and spaces
of “urban” corridors and collegiate quads. Such a site
can make it impossible to traditionally categorize and
build within an overriding style.
I approached the project as it would be used in its
final realized form; at the human pedestrian scale.
Ultimately, a campus is used by walking people who
gather, move, sit, sleep, study and watch. Aside from
two dimensional fenestrations, patterning or material
choices, what are the spatial and experiential concepts
that can strengthen a relationship with this newly
defined context of use and movement?
To address the context, I considered issues of
permeability, both at the human scale of circulation
within, into, and through site and building, as well as
the permeation of rain, wind, sun and sound. I also
considered issues of transparency, where, more than
with just exterior glazing, interior functions become
manifested in the volumetric relationships and
construction details from the outside in, as well as in
the interior spatial organization and circulation.
FIU Honors College
leVel 2 leVel 3
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section1
south eleVation
north eleVation
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outDoor Meeting space auDitoriuM aDMinistration atriuM
oFFices Main loBBy stair Main atriuM classrooM
FIU Honors College
thirD Floor terrace VieW looking West
These conceptual issues drove the decisions for expansive
vertical openings surrounded by circulation as well as the
unique, layered sectional experiences that allow occupants
to view adjacent spaces and their functions from above,
below and within. They also prompted an investigation of
building relation to ground with the human as mediator.
Heavy floating mass, rooted foundation, below grade
gathering space, balancing mass on column, cantilevers,
raised walkways; these are a few of the built experiences
for the passing pedestrian or active user. Layered
transparencies, building-ground relationships, and intrinsic
permeability work to create many planned and impromptu,
interior-exterior gathering spaces.
The Strip MallMiami, Florida - Spring 2008Design Eight - Critic: Alfredo Andia
1. oFFices
2. tennant/retail space
3. parking
4. rooFtop
5. BillBoarD
early DiagraM stuDies
4
3
2
8th street
3
2
1
5
leVel 1
leVel 2
0’
25’ 75’ 150’
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The strip mall is a ubiquitous member of the urban/
suburban sprawl characteristic of many American
cities. Miami may be one of the worst offenders. The
city begins at the foot of the Atlantic in South Beach,
and stretches west, into the delicate and threatened
Everglades. The cookie cutter malls helping to span
this divide are cheap to build and operate, leading to
low rents easily paid by willing tenants. And while it
is well and good that virtually any mom and pop can
enter the marketplace to earn a living and bolster the
economy, the resulting collective environment is often
a downscale, generic gathering of stores and local
businesses that have little regard for the insignificant,
thoughtless degraded space they occupy.
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photo Montage: perspectiVe stuDy
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Can this be rethought and fixed? As mundane and straightforward as this
typology may be, is it possible, indeed, worthwhile to… build a better strip
mall? Can the perceived cost be mitigated by the potential of efficient use,
density and customer volume drawn to a better and functioning space?
The Strip Mall
Doors to car Dealership
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Front WalkWay
Ultimately such a dream of green, efficient, pleasant shopping avenues,
conscientious of neighbors and the city will need the support of urban
planners and officials as well as the cooperation between developers and
designers. But this project means to pose a suggestion for one member
of this inevitably dynamic fabric, that can perhaps plug into a row of
shops, and fit seamlessly into the movement between lots, yet also end
the blur, that phenomenon that occurs in such jumbled and unorganized
suburban alleys of signage and window decor.
The Strip Mall
skylight tennent spaceoccupiaBle BillBoarD
Front WalkWay anD seating
‘BackyarD patio’
BackyarD patio Main entry perspectiVe
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The Tateuchi Center is an urban in-fill project in downtown Bellevue
Washington. The five story, 135,000 square foot performing arts center has two
theaters. The main hall seats 2000 split between an orchestra, and two balcony
levels. The Cabaret theater seats 250.
I joined the design team towards the end of Design Development and
continued on through the conclusion of ten months of Construction
Documents. The complexities of coordinating and documenting an urban in-
fill performing arts center proved to be quite a learning experience.
The neighboring site contains the Hyatt Regency Bellevue. The zero lot line
and direct connection to the hotel lobby meant there was a constant and
intense effort to coordinate structural, mechanical and egress issues.
On the exterior detailing team, I developed the enlarged plans and elevations,
including the extensive curtain walls and precast panel system cladding. I
also collaborated on the exterior wall sections and detailing, solving material
transition issues from the base up to the parapets. Other contributions
included presentation renderings and drawings.
Tateuchi Center for the Performing ArtsBellevue, Washington - 2009-PresentPfeiffer Partners Architects - Principal: Norman Pfeiffer
precast architectural concrete
precast support
aluMinuM curtain Wall
Metal stuD FraMing
preForMeD Zinc Fascia
structural steel With
FireprooFing
preForMeD Zinc panel soFFit
aluMinuM curtain Wall
interiorexterior
recesseD trench raDiator
FiresaFing
preForMeD Zinc coluMn coVer
precast architectural concrete
BoarD ForMeD architectural concrete
scoreD concrete paVing
Main loBBy leVel
First Balcony leVel
seconD Balcony leVel
1. theater
2. stage/Fly toWer
3. loBBy
4. caBaret
5. oFFice suite
6. hyatt entry
7. loaDing
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FIRST BALCONY LEVELEL: +185' - 0"
SECOND BALCONY LEVELEL: +204' - 10"
CATWALK LEVELEL: +229' - 0"
MAIN LOBBY LOWEREL: +165' - 0"
FIRST BALCONY LOWEREL: +177' - 3"
SECOND BALCONY LOWEREL: +192' - 10"
566.4
MECHANICAL ROOMEL: +217' - 6"
4.7
4"TYP
1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4
8' - 4" TYP. 7' - 0 1/4" 8' - 4" TYP.
A.3
A.2
A
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A.1
"4/3 9 - '71"4/1 2 - '4"4/1 4 - '4"4/3 0 - '4"2 - '4"2 - '4"2 - '4"2 - '4"2 - '4"2 - '4"9 - '2"01 - '1"7 - '7"3 - '2
3 1/
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- 7"
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4' -
6"
6"
3/4"
3/4"
WP3
PEDESTAL PAVER
DRAIN
CONCRETE DECKSLOPE TO DRAIN1/4" PER 1'-0" MIN
DEPRESSEDTRENCH RADIATOR
EL. +192'-10"
SECONDBALCONY LOWER
6" METAL STUDW/ 6" INS 52
SIM
1/4"
STEEL CURTAINWALLSUPPORT ASREQUIRED, BYCURTAINWALLINSTALLER
1".
2 1/
2"
FLEXIBLE FLASHING
EXTRUDED ALUM.CLOSUREPOCKET TO MATCHCURTAINWALLGLAZE INTO CURTAINWALL
ALUM CURTAINWALL
SEALANT ANDBACKER ROD
(2) LAYERS PTD GWB
6" METAL STUDFRAMING WITH 6" INS51
PRECAST SUPPORTSTEEL FRAME, SEESTRUCTURAL
SEALANT
BREAKMETAL MOUNTINGBRACKET
FLEXIBLE FLASHING, TURNINTO GLAZING POCKET
9 1/2" AT SLIDING PANELSALONG Y.1 COLUMN LINE
CL
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8" 1' - 1"
(1'-11" AT OFFSET PANELS)
1' - 9"
6 1/2"
2" M
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ARCHITECTURALPRECAST PANEL
LINE OF TWO-STAGESEALANT JOINT
2" INS54
4" METAL STUDFRAMING WITH 4" INS51
BACKER ROD TO ALLOW FORMOVEMENT
SHEATHING
SHEET METAL ANGLETO CONTAIN INS54
1' -
10"
MEDIUM SANDBLAST FINISH@ BACK SURFACE PANEL
ALIGN
SEALANT
1' - 3 3/4" 3/4" 5"
ARCHITECTURALPRECAST PANELBEYOND
CONCRETE PAVINGPER CIVIL
CONCRETEFOUNDATION WALL
SEALANT JOINTBEYOND
VAR
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SEALANT ANDBACKER ROD, TYP
A.1
WHERE INDICATEDON PLANS PROVIDEIN-FLOOR RADIATORS
A.3 A.2
EL. +165' - 0"MAIN LOBBY LOWER
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renDereD east eleVation
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Tateuchi Center for the Performing Arts
The extensive curtain wall system included large vertical expanses,
various acoustic requirements based on the interior program, and climate
considerations particular to the Northwest.
There was also close attention paid to detailing of the multiple material
transitions, both for constructability and aesthetics. Interface of curtain
wall to cast in place, precast and rheinzink meant a high variety of
connection and waterproofing strategies had to be researched and
implemented.
FIRST BALCONY LEVELEL: +185' - 0"
SECOND BALCONY LEVELEL: +204' - 10"
CATWALK LEVELEL: +229' - 0"
MAIN LOBBY LOWEREL: +165' - 0"
FIRST BALCONY LOWEREL: +177' - 3"
SECOND BALCONY LOWEREL: +192' - 10"
566.4
MECHANICAL ROOMEL: +217' - 6"
4.7
4"TYP
1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4
8' - 4" TYP. 7' - 0 1/4" 8' - 4" TYP.
A.3
A.2
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A.1
"4/3 9 - '71"4/1 2 - '4"4/1 4 - '4"4/3 0 - '4"2 - '4"2 - '4"2 - '4"2 - '4"2 - '4"2 - '4"9 - '2"01 - '1"7 - '7"3 - '2
3 1/
2"3'
- 7"
7 1/
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4' -
6"
6"
3/4"
3/4"
WP3
PEDESTAL PAVER
DRAIN
CONCRETE DECKSLOPE TO DRAIN1/4" PER 1'-0" MIN
DEPRESSEDTRENCH RADIATOR
EL. +192'-10"
SECONDBALCONY LOWER
6" METAL STUDW/ 6" INS 52
SIM
1/4"
STEEL CURTAINWALLSUPPORT ASREQUIRED, BYCURTAINWALLINSTALLER
1".
2 1/
2"
FLEXIBLE FLASHING
EXTRUDED ALUM.CLOSUREPOCKET TO MATCHCURTAINWALLGLAZE INTO CURTAINWALL
ALUM CURTAINWALL
SEALANT ANDBACKER ROD
(2) LAYERS PTD GWB
6" METAL STUDFRAMING WITH 6" INS51
PRECAST SUPPORTSTEEL FRAME, SEESTRUCTURAL
SEALANT
BREAKMETAL MOUNTINGBRACKET
FLEXIBLE FLASHING, TURNINTO GLAZING POCKET
9 1/2" AT SLIDING PANELSALONG Y.1 COLUMN LINE
CL
C L
8" 1' - 1"
(1'-11" AT OFFSET PANELS)
1' - 9"
6 1/2"
2" M
IN
3/4"3"1/
2"
1/2"
ARCHITECTURALPRECAST PANEL
LINE OF TWO-STAGESEALANT JOINT
2" INS54
4" METAL STUDFRAMING WITH 4" INS51
BACKER ROD TO ALLOW FORMOVEMENT
SHEATHING
SHEET METAL ANGLETO CONTAIN INS54
1' -
10"
MEDIUM SANDBLAST FINISH@ BACK SURFACE PANEL
ALIGN
SEALANT
1' - 3 3/4" 3/4" 5"
ARCHITECTURALPRECAST PANELBEYOND
CONCRETE PAVINGPER CIVIL
CONCRETEFOUNDATION WALL
SEALANT JOINTBEYOND
VAR
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ARCHITECTURALCONCRETE, CON 51
SEALANT ANDBACKER ROD, TYP
A.1
WHERE INDICATEDON PLANS PROVIDEIN-FLOOR RADIATORS
A.3 A.2
EL. +165' - 0"MAIN LOBBY LOWER
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Detail: curtain Wall heaD at precast
Detail: curtain Wall at Balcony
enlargeD plan: curtain Wall
enlargeD eleVation: curtain Wall
Detail: curtain Wall at c.i.p. Base
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rheinZink Metal panel Wall
operaBle WinDoWs
precast panel Wall
Balcony
Balcony
cast in place concrete Base
precast concrete panel Wall
precast concrete panel Wall
aluMinuM curtain Wall
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