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For this week I planned to look up interior color settings and materials used with in a structure. While I was researching colors I knew I had to have an intention on including this with architecture so I decided to look up how colors generates different moods for people in certain settings of a home, individuals color preferences, and specific color meanings. Seeing color and how it can affect an individual in numerous amounts of ways and shades I felt that it was a good idea to research colors. Affecting an individual means that having the right colors for flooring, structural based materials, wall color, and most important having the right selling colors. Another part of this week I looked up material related research.
Room Color summary:
Colors are strong with their emissions that they give off and moods they generate for people, and the reason is because they have an active, passive, and neutral mood feeling state. Color preference can also be related to temperature, people who are cold prefer warm colors like red and yellow while people who are hot prefer cool colors like blue and green. The color red is strongly related to strong energy, and raising of the blood pressure and intimacy between individuals. Yellow stimulates the feeling of joy because it being related to sunshine, therefore I believe yellow and a few lighter or darker shades of yellow can be ideal or the base color for color decision for a kitchen or living area. Having Yellow stimulate joy, it’s a good advantage to have for company. Having the color Blue included in the interior of a building has calm and relaxing sensations but at the same time if natural lighting penetrates to the inside with a pastel blue, it can make you feel colder than you really are. Green being associated with the color of nature, I have already known that green symbolized wealth and natural healing. Green has great healing power that it’s recommended to have green in a room for fertility. Purple was an obvious one, representing royalty/power and sometimes indications of romantic and nostalgic feelings. Neutrals: White, purity and wants to be livened up with other colors. Black, in enclosed spaces it’s bad to have a lot of dark colors because it will make the user feel surrounded by darkness and cause uncomfortable feelings for them and can represent death. For Structural properties colors each color has a different albedo level. Albedo is the reflection rate of the suns rays, for example black is the most absorbent towards the sun.
Resource:
Room Color and How it Affects Your Mood:
http://freshome.com/2007/04/17/room-color-and-how-it-affects-your-mood/
Color Wheel:
http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-meaning.html
Materials Summary:
Walls:
Concrete Masonry Bearing Walls:
- both materials are qualified as noncombustible constructions and rely on their mass for their load-carrying capability. When in wall design and construction height-to-width ratio, lateral stability, and proper placements of expansion joints are critical factors. Concrete walls walls mor e than 10″ thick requires reinforcement in two ayers placed parallel with the faces of the wall. reinforce door and window openings with a minimum of 2 No. 5 bars extending at least 24″ beyond the corners of the opening. Minuimum wall thicknesses 6″ minimum for bearing walls, 4″ minimum for non bearing walls, 6″ minimum for interior walls (un-reinforced), and 8″walls for basement, foundation, fire or party walls. (5.03)
Metal and Wood Stud Walls
- When using these materials for studs in the wall the space between each stud is 16″ or 24″. Studs carry vertical loads while sheathing or diagonal bracing stiffens the plane of the wall. Cavities in the wall can be used as insulation fillers and water retarders. A cavity is a hallow spacing (2″- 4 1/2″)between two wall skins that serves as a way to drain this water back out through weep holes at the base of the wall system or above windows. (5.03)
Adobe and Rammed Earth Construction
- Adobe and rammed-earth both are UN-fired earth materials that are low cost alternatives for other building systems. Many areas of the world using earth materials is an economic necessity. Adobe is nothing more than simple bricks made of sun-dried mud. As a green-building bonus, adobe’s mass helps keep buildings naturally cool in summer and warm in winter, reducing the need for air conditioning and heat. A note that learned a while ago about adobe is that its affected by the weather. Wet climates are more susceptible to have the adobe turn back to mud or freezing the mud resulting in it thawing of the mud and causing it to crumble, that is why adobe is considered mainly in warm climates like Latin America. Rammed Earth is mainly a mixture of clay, silt, sand and water that is compressed, shaped and dried in a wall structure. (5.31-5.32)
Wood and properties:
- CHERRY: Cherry is grown in the Eastern half of the U.S.. It is sometimes called fruit wood. The term fruit wood is also used to describe a light brown finish on other woods.
Properties: A moderately hard, strong, closed grain, light to red-brown wood, cherry resists warping and checking. It is easy to carve and polish.
Uses: Cherry veneers and solids are used in a variety of styles. Cherry has been called New England mahogany and is often used to craft 18th century, Colonial and French Provincial designs.
Resource:
Door Operation Summary:
- After learning about the different types of doors my options opened up on my SketchUp designs. The different types were based off of door operation style: Swinging the most convenient operation for entry and passage and most effective door for thermal and acoustic insulation and for weather resistance, Bypass Sliding usually used for visual screening but it also offers 50% of doorway width (closet sliding doors), Surface sliding Similar to bypass sliding door but provides access through full width if doorway, Pocket Sliding doors have pockets that they can be slid into to open and slid back out to close the door, Folding doors fold flat when opened primarily used for closet or storage spaces with a style used to subdivide interior space called the accordion doors. (8.04)
Window Operation Summary:
- There is a total of 6 window operation styles, and each has its own amount of ventilation that it provides either 0%, 50% or 100% ventilation. The first window operation that doesn’t really have any operation is called Fixed. The next window operation is Casement which provides 100% ventilation by having operating sashes that are side hinged and swing outward and being able to direct ventilation. Awning & Hopper windows are windows with sashes on the top or bottom of the frame inward our outward, they provide 100% ventilation and give LEED Credit: 2 for increased ventilation and 8 for daylight and views in the Indoor Environmental Quality category. Sliding windows give 50% ventilation, Double Hung windows give 50% ventilation, the last two Jalousie and Pivoting give 100%. (8.23)
Resource:
“Building Construction Illustrated 4th edition” Francis D.K. Ching
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