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Determining the Structural Grid
3m 44s
Russell Buchanan of Buchanan Architecture walks us through the schematic design phase of his residential project in Crested Butte, CO. He discusses the importance of capitalizing on views and solar orientation, and how they influenced the building layout. He also sketches out a bubble diagram to illustrate the spatial and functional relationships as well as the structural grid.
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We didn't, but the idea behind a four foot grid is that the materials that are gonna be used to build this are essentially laid out on a four foot grid think for example of a sheet of plywood. A sheet of plywood is four feet wide and eight feet long they didn't just make that up. The reason they did that was because studs are at 16 inches on center.
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