Exercise 2 Introduction

This brief introduction will help guide you through Exercise 2 which asks you to begin thinking of the material palate to be used in your facade/building envelope system as well as your strategy for composing the overall facade. We are interested in how you develop your window types and how you position them within your building walls. Along with the material presented in this series of lessons, we would like you to begin considering not only what material systems you will choose, but what construction systems you will be using to connect your facade back to your building structure. This topic will be developed further in subsequent lessons and exercises as you develop representative wall sections through your building facade.

Coordinate this work with your studio work. The idea is to use the same drawings for each. The intention is to help prepare you for your Wall Section Cross Check / Review

Follow this link to a pdf version of the Exercise Introduction presented in our discussion session.

Follow this link to a pdf version of Exercise 2: Facade Design.

Follow this link to an InDesign Template version of Exercise 2: Facade Design.

Follow this link to Examples of the Facade Design Exercise from previous semesters.

Follow this link to our course Canvas site where you can upload your Exercise 2. Please be sure to optimize/compress your pdf submittals!

Please submit only one pdf of Exercise 2 per team..

Make certain all team members names and the names of your studio instructors are clearly written on your submission.

Submit only one pdf per team.

Please note that the submittal date for Exercise 2 is Sunday, March 26, 11:59 pm.