Visionary Lab: Construction documents

In the 2023-2024 academic year at OSU, an Arts Task Force led by Dr. Rebecca Brienen was established to improve the visibility and collaboration of the arts on campus. Due to many artistic focuses being spread across four different colleges and multiple buildings, community involvement and overall collaboration has been difficult. Thus, the team was tasked with designing a facility at University and Ramsey where different art programs could share resources, create work together, and bring attention to the work done by OSU students. Asked by the faculty to develop our basis around the idea of craft, the team took inspiration from research done on the site, OSU architectural guidelines, environmental factors, structural capabilities, and good architectural practices to create the initial building design. By showing the schematic design results to a jury of staff and outside professionals, the team incorporated ideas on how to improve the design. In the design development phase, the team members cooperated less to focus on individual designs, in which this thesis focuses on the structure of the building. Hand calculations were done to determine the loads applied on the structure, and to design some of the members. Analytical models were then used to apply the loads and design most of the structural members of the building. The structural layout was then documented on drawings of framing plans and elevations. In the construction document phase, these drawings were made neater and were marked for their final calculated design shapes and sizes. The process and final results of the designed structure were then presented to a jury of professional engineers for comments.