Building Construction 2: Project 1: Skeletal Construction (Temporary Bus Shelter)

Design and construct a temporary bus shelter as the aim of this project. The temporary bus shelter bus be able to resist weather, lateral forces, and unpredictable loads such as passenger. The bus shelter can be in any form or shape but mainly support are from the skeletal structure itself, roof or wall may be added as non load bearing.

As a group, we design a rectangular temporary bus stop with minimum design, this is because a rectangle structure is most stable compare with other shape with structural support. Minimum design due to minimum obstruction in the interior space or exterior wall. We had experience with many different shape, come out with a huge unusable or waste space with is so unsustainable. The roof itself is a pitch roof. In our country with the data of rain pour, a pitch roof is most suitable because it drain water at a very efficiency rate and does not accumulate water, with slightly extended roof also provide a sheltering for rain and sun. 

The material itself we choose is bamboo as the structure frame. Bamboo is recyclable and with strong with can withstand compression and lateral forces. The bamboo we estimate with a diameter of about 150mm, which give enough strength. For the roof, nina palm leaves as the roof material with the properties of very light weight, water proof, available locally, and sustainable and recyclable. For the foundation of the structure, it is elevated up and the footing is embedded into concrete foundation to resist and lateral forces.

Report

Bcon report bus shelter from Yung Kai

The skeletal structure stability is very important for any building because it is the skeletal that hold up the entire building. If the skeletal itself is not durable enough or cannot resist any external force, then it fail to be a structure. A good skeletal structure is a carefully design structure which can withstand any weather condition and hold up any loads and provide safety for the user. Base on this assignment, A strong skeletal structure now a days is much much important because the unpredictable climate change due to the global effect, anything can or could happen so structure must be prepare to withstand any of this natural disaster.