SITE / CIVIL / LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

STUDENT SHOWCASE PCA SITE - MARCH 8, 2023

Bathroom/ Wash Area

Living Area

Open Space

Community Building

Anna Phan

Gabby Sarnaglia

Cooking

ARCHITECTURE

STUDENT SHOWCASE PCA SITE - MARCH 8, 2023

MEP

STUDENT SHOWCASE PCA SITE - MARCH 8, 2023

Items needing power:

- Refrigerators

- Fans

- Ovens/stoves

- Grills

- Trailers (Cleaning & Laundry)

- Room lighting

- Power outlets

- Medical facilities

- Pumps

- Airhandling equipment

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Plumbing

HVAC

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Electrical

the air handling unit pumps air into and out of the community buildings well matching its temperature

the tents will lack proper insulation, so they will have more constant temperature control

the utility trailers will come with their own heating and coolingj

STRUCTURAL

STUDENT SHOWCASE PCA SITE - MARCH 8, 2023

Design Criteria

Utility Bridge:

• Purpose - Carries water across road to water tower
• weight major concern - human labor, limited set-up time
• Aluminum “ ” shape
• Reviewed clearance and truck height
• against MASSDOT standards

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Water Tower:

• Purpose - to support 6,000 gal. 20’ in the air
• Checked columns against weight of water and lateral wind loads
• Reviewed bracing requirements
• Used aluminum for reduced weight
• Designed potential anchor bolts

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Concrete Foundation:

• Purpose - to support solar panels on a hill
• Made of rapid setting concrete
• 4” diameter Sonotubes buried 3’ below grade
• Supported loads with a combination of skin friction and end bearing
• Buried to a depth to protect for frost heave

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Tent Structures:

• Purpose - Framing secures canvas outer layers and withstand loads

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Residential Tent:

• Purpose - Smaller tents (15 feet by 33 feet) house family units
• Frame is made up of aluminum pipe cross sections and perimeter columns braced by steel cables
• Aluminum has an ideal strength to weight ratio
• Steel cables distribute force using tension
• Internal walls use same cross sectional cable structure
• Pitched roof
• Deflects wind load and mitigates suction

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Communal Tents

• Purpose - Large tents (25 ft. by 40 ft.) provide spaces for large groups of people
• U/Arch shaped frame
• distributes internal load of larger and heavier frame
• Interior columns
• Perimeter columns cannot sustain the interior and exterior loads placed on the larger frame
• Large doorway
• Flap entrance allows large amount of people to enter and exits as well as provides ventilation

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Leighton Fischer, Jay Rochberg, Mohamed Arham, Charlotte Fokema

Key Concepts

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• Load types
• Wind
• Dead and live
• Load paths
• Truss forces
• Bending and shear

• Materials
• Yield strength/stress
• Stiffness/modulus of elasticity
• Buckling
• General Process
• Collaboration
• Communication
• Inspiration

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT

STUDENT SHOWCASE PCA SITE - MARCH 8, 2023

Schedule/Estimate

Site Logistics Plan