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    Langford Building A

    Case Study
    ARCH 631 Applied Structures
    Anne Nichols
    Jorge Casique Araujo, Maria F. Chacon Portillo, Oscar Garza Reza, Heather Lorenzo
    Overview
    - Fun Facts - Loading Summary
    - Brief History - Gravity Loads
    - Lateral Load Resistance
    - Design Concept
    - Visual Analysis
    - Building Layout - Foundation and Soil
    - Structural Features - Bibliography
    - Building Components & Systems
    The Ernest Langford Architecture Center
    Designed by: Jack R. Yardley ‘58 Price: <$7 million

    Architect/Engineering Firm: HKS, Dallas Dedication Year: 1976

    Location: Texas A&M University, College Construction: 1975-1978


    Station, Texas.
    Brief History

    - Dedicated and named after Ernest Langford


    - Head of Architecture department for 27 years (1929-1956)
    - Building was designed to accommodate 1,500 students.
    - The Langford Architecture Center was built in two phases.
    - Phase 1: renovation of “Building C” from 1961 to 1963.
    - Phase 2: Addition of “Building A”

    https://one.arch.tamu.edu/news/2011/9/7/trc-archive/
    Design Concept
    - Style: Brutalism
    - Characterized by its massive, monolithic, rigid
    geometry
    - From “HKS: Selected and Current Works”:
    - Designed to:
    - express primary building systems
    - Utilize climatic elements for energy
    conservation
    - Precast reinforced concrete structure used to
    highlight design concept.
    - Special features:
    - Bridge connection to all buildings (A, B and C)
    - Deep recesses on east and west side of the
    building
    Building Layout
    - Floors: 4 - Program:
    - Penthouse + Roof Garden - Building A currently houses
    - Total square footage: 116,000 sqft. - Offices
    - Orthogonal grid system - departments (Architecture,
    - 40 ft. bays Landscape Architecture
    - 10 ft. service modules and Urban Planning,
    - Area tabulations Visualization)
    - Staff + faculty
    - Education
    - Studio spaces, study rooms
    - Design/print labs (Makerspace, ITS,
    Photoroom)
    - Mixed-use open areas
    - Gallery space
    - Cafe
    Table: Texas A&M University College of Architecture TRC Archives
    Building Layout - Building A
    Green: Educational (Studios, study
    rooms/classrooms)

    Orange: Mixed-use

    Yellow: Offices

    Blue: Design/Print labs

    Purple: Services

    Red: Cafe

    Pink: Gallery/Lecture space

    Plans: Texas A&M University College of Architecture TRC Archives


    Structural Features
    - Skylights at 45 degrees due North
    - Columns = shafts that encase the
    mechanical systems that service the
    building
    - Double Tee Joists
    - Precast beams
    - Handrail beams

    Original Drawings: Texas A&M University College of Architecture TRC Archives


    Building Systems
    - Hybrid
    - Pre-tensioned and post-tensioned
    precast reinforced concrete components.

    - Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls

    - One-way Precast Reinforced Concrete


    Double Tee Beams

    - Reinforced Concrete Rigid Moment Frames

    3D model reference courtesy of Prof. Marcel Erminy


    Building Components Overview
    - Precast reinforced concrete components
    - Columns
    - Shear Walls
    - Post-tensioned Beams
    - Double Tee Beams
    - Spandrel beams
    - Handrail girders
    - Cast-in-place reinforced concrete components
    - Belled Piers
    - Pier Caps
    - Retaining Walls
    - Topping Slabs
    - Grade Beams
    Building Components
    - Precast reinforced concrete components
    - Columns
    - Shear Walls
    - Post-tensioned Beams
    - Double Tee Beams
    - Spandrel beams
    - Handrail girders

    Original Drawings: Texas A&M University College of Architecture TRC Archives


    Building Components
    - Cast-in-place reinforced concrete components
    - Belled Piers
    - Pier Caps
    - Retaining Walls
    - Topping Slabs
    - Grade Beams

    Original Drawings: Texas A&M University College of Architecture TRC Archives


    Loading and Materials
    - Live loads

    - Lateral Loads

    - Material Properties
    Loading Summary
    Gravity Loads

    3D model reference courtesy of Prof. Marcel Erminy


    Loading Summary
    Lateral Load Resistance

    3D model reference courtesy of Prof. Marcel Erminy


    Axial Analysis
    Shear Analysis
    Moment Analysis
    Loading Summary
    Foundation

    - Plan
    - Allowable end bearing values
    - Soil: Blackland Prairie, Post Oak/Claypan Area
    - “Thin, light-colored, acid sandy loam surface layer
    over dense, mottled red, yellow, and gray claypan
    subsoils. Some deep, sandy soils with less clayey
    subsoils exist. Bottomlands are deep, highly fertile,
    reddish-brown to dark-gray loamy to clayey soils.”
    (texasalmanac.com)

    Original Drawings: Texas A&M University College of Architecture TRC Archives


    Loading Summary

    - Belled piers
    - Pier caps
    - Grade beams
    - Retaining walls

    Original Drawings: Texas A&M University College of Architecture TRC Archives


    Bibliography
    McCoy, Nancy T., “Architecture That Speaks”. College Station, Tx: Texas A&M University, 2017.

    The Eagle, “Langford Architecture Center”, My Aggie Nation. Published Aug. 31, 2013.
    www.myaggienation.com/campus_evolution/building_history/langford-architecture-center/article_0bd52df8-12ac-11e3-b162-
    001a4bcf887a.html

    College of Architecture, “Our History”, Accessed Nov. 5th, 2019. www.arch.tamu.edu/inside/history/

    Gordon, Eric, “The Power of Place: Reimagining the Langford Architecture Center”, College Station, Tx: Texas A&M
    University, wixsite.com, 2019.

    HKS, Inc., “HKS: Selected and Current Works”, Hong Kong: The Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd, 2001, pg. 154.

    Texas Almanac, “Soils of Texas”, Accessed Nov. 20th, 2019. texasalmanac.com/topics/environment/soils-texas

    Historical photographs courtesy of the Texas A&M University College of Architecture TRC Archives. Used with permission
    from Ian Muise.

    3D model references courtesy of Prof. Marcel Erminy

    Interviews with faculty: Prof. Gerald Maffei

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