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.