For this meeting the Pasadena team met at Marshall high school, in order to work on our annual design project. Our set goal was to redue the model and for both an architectural and engineering structural model. For this meeting we worked on the structural models of the building and established the columns that hold the loads of the building weight on each floor level. One thing that I found very interesting was the concept of making a ceiling thicker in width can eliminate the need for columns, which is what we implicated within the lobby of the theater. For every floor we had to indicate support columns every twenty feet throughout the building in order to hold the building's weight loads. For the roof plan we had to put decks on the roof to support the metal shingles that run along the roof top. The reason why we put decks to hold up the shingles is because if the shingles spand over twenty feet the load of the shingles will eventually start to concave inward; so the decks help to keep the load from the shingles from concaving inward. I thought that it was a great experience to learn how to construct the structural model in the engineer perspective; since the job of an architect is to be educated in all fields that contribute to the construction of a building.
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