Wholeness and Order in Large Span Roof Trusses

M.Arch Thesis and Professional Reports submitted for partial completion of the Master of Architecture Program.

One of the main topics of research, included in every building project, was to identify, early on in the design process, the material and techniques of construction. This would re-establish building as an art, and allow rapid shaping and adaptation, ...

The Central Hall is located at the end of the homebase street. Α student gathering area with four-foot-thick concrete base walls and arched openings, with built-in benches, which double as entrances to the building. Arches and seats form alcoves, and ...

The Gymnasium is a large, 11,340 square feet, wooden building, surrounded by the water of the lake and accessed through a bridge. The walls covered with black plaster, and the dark red metal roof give its exterior identity, and wood ...

The Judo Hall was initially part of the College Complex, located at the edge of the south ridge. It is a wooden building, with a floor area of 3,000 square feet, 80 feet long, 30 feet high, used for judo ...

Judo Hall trusses stepped in form, following the line of a stepped flat ceiling.

Douglas fir horse-shoe-shaped truss, a pure compression truss, with no interior bracing, but with a longitudinal exterior X-truss. The truss is connected to the massive concrete piers at the base with moment connections.

Gymnasium hammerbeam roof trusses, spanning 53 feet, with mortise and tenon connection details, and specially fabricated steel connections for joints.