Completed Model

Completed Model as part of Major Project for SRT251 Construction & Structures 2. Details designed in the manner of Glenn Murcutt. 5mx5mx5m section of the office/showroom building. Steel primary structure, collumns & rafters. Timber secondary structural elements such as purlins & girts. Timber floor frame. Corrugated steel cladding and roofing.


Detail of the knee joint showing the circular hollow section collumns & curved steel rafters complete with haunching.


Detail of purlin to rafter connection & fixing plates also showing the wire safety mesh under corrugated roofing material.


Perspective section illustrating the profile of the structure.

Preliminary Sketch of Detail

A preliminary sketch to help with my model for the Major Project.
I'm using timber and steel in various elements and members in the same manner that Glen Murcutt does. I'm incorporating a curved roof which will require a curved I-beam rafter and I'll also use simmilar haunching to that on the Magney House.

Research for Major Project

Note the use of different materials together, primarily steel structural elements with some tember members such as purlins and girts, and steel and timber claddings.


A circular hollow section used as a collumn attached to a UB used as a rafter, note the steel haunching.


Mangey House - note the use of corrugated steel roofing & steel for the structure.

Week 4 Sketches

Typical portal frame constructed warehouse with a composite tilt-up panel/steel/bondeck constructed office/reception attached.


A detail of a typical portal frame at the knee joint cut through the opposite direction.

Portal Frame Detail

Portal frame knee joint, apex & footing sketch detail.

Portal Frame Photos

Some collumns being used in a warehouse hybrid concrete tilt-up panel/portal frame. Note the pre-welded steel webbing and angles.


A pedestal footing with collumn/bolted connection, outside a basketball stadium.


A pin joint on a collumn/rafter beam connection at the Melbourne Museum.


Bolted collumn/rafter connection in timber frame construction at the Eltham Leasure Centre.