Tombras Building Wall Section

The research conducted throughout the duration of the project was meant to enable the understanding of a building’s wall assembly through prior knowledge of wall assemblies across architecture and group research of the assigned structure. The majority of the research consisted of contacting the architect and to tour the building, which in this case was the Tombras Building in Knoxville, Tennessee, designed by Sanders Pace Architecture, to further understand wall assemblies and enclosures by analyzing construction documents and wall sections drawn by the architect which were then used as research to draw a complete wall section assembly. Once enough information had been gathered and studied, a greater understanding of how the encloser and envelope of buildings work were used to interpret and decide drawing conventions as well as methods to represent this information. The complete wall section assembly consisted of: a wall section, an axonometric section, a three-dimensional model, and an exploded three-dimensional model that helped visualize each piece of the wall. In doing this research and diagrams we learned new ways of obtaining information, as well as new techniques of drawing with construction hatches. Another important thing that was introduced in this project to us was the ways a wall can differ in its structure or insulation even if the facade looks the same.