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