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Comprehensive Overview of Architecture and Building Systems: Utility, Lighting, and Acoustics

This document provides an in-depth exploration of key elements in architecture and building systems, including cold and hot water distribution, sanitary sewer systems, and electrical circuits. It covers critical components such as vertical transportation, lighting strategies, and acoustical considerations, emphasizing the importance of design processes, architectural history, and preservation techniques. The text analyzes the interplay between creativity and critical review in design, offering insights into various architectural styles from classical to modernist.

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Comprehensive Overview of Architecture and Building Systems: Utility, Lighting, and Acoustics

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  1. UTA - REAE 5392 3/24/07: Architecture & Building Systems III

  2. Utility Services • Cold water distribution • Hot water distribution (boiler) • Sanitary Sewer • Traps, stack vents, clean-outs • Electrical circuits & service type • Transformers

  3. Vertical Transportation (137) • Timing and capacity studies • Demand, car capacity, car speed, waiting time • Hydraulic vs. traction elevators • Machine rooms, counterweights, cables, pit, guide rails

  4. Lighting (141-158) • General vs. Task Lighting • Illuminance: ranges from lighting for difficult tasks (100-150 fc) to ordinary office (30-80 fc) to low ambiance (20 fc) • Daylighting & quality of light (avoid glare) • Photometric charts for light fixtures

  5. Acoustics (160-177) • Decibel scale – logarithmic • Sound range: 10 dB whisper to 120 dB jet • Absorption and transmission • Reverberation and resonance • Transmission loss (STC) • Doubling mass of wall = 5 dB decrease • Panel absorbers, insulation, isolation

  6. Design Process (SP 137-139) • Reason and unreason • Creativity vs. Critical Review • Alternatives Studied / Discoveries Made • Process is open and fluid • Concepts – Schematics – Design Development – Construction Docs

  7. Architecture • Commodity – Firmness – Delight • Form Follows Function • Human Scale • Expression of Structure • Order, rhythm, symmetry, proportion • Classical/Historicist Architecture • Modernist Architecture

  8. Architecture • Applied styles vs. inherent style • Decorated Shed vs. Duck • ‘Starchitecture’ / Trophy Buildings • Expression of Technology • Preservation / Adaptive Re-use

  9. Architectural History • Greeks / Romans (Classical) • Romanesque / Gothic • Renaissance / Neo-Classical • Baroque / Romantic • Steel-frame / Skyscrapers • Modernist • Post-Modernist

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