Project MaterialĪ presentation describing various aspects of the project including planning, architectural design, geotechnical constraints and design, structural analysis and design, construction, and certain structural details is provided in the materials section below. The main objective of the project assignment is to gain hands-on experience in tackling the planning, analysis and design issues in real-life open-ended structural design projects while performing the analysis and design of representative structural system and components. Though not part of Holl’s initial concept, the exoskeleton of the building is formed by a gridded shell, composed of precast concrete wall panels, called Perfcon, developed specifically for this project. This precast concrete wall panel system serves as part of the gravity and lateral load resisting system and essentially provides a bearing wall that accepts a regular pattern of holes while allowing for major structural variables as large openings and cantilevers. The building is wrapped almost entirely in a matrix of 2-foot-square windows, 5,538 of them to be exact. The building stands 10 stories (or 100 feet) high, 385 feet long, and 53 feet deep. Simmons Hall is a 350-bed dorm with 253 single and double rooms and 17 suites, providing approximately 180,000 square feet of area for use.
Taking a conceptually open attitude, the building was envisioned to be open to light and air, open to undergraduate and graduate students, open to faculty and artists-in-residence who will live, work, eat, study, and be entertained within its dynamic spaces. One of the architectural design goals was to respect existing view corridors from the residential district gradually taking shape in an industrial landscape just over the tracks through the achievement of transparency, porosity, and permeability. The focus of the architectural vision was a “porous building morphology,” which called for a row of “permeable” rather than barrier buildings designed with the “sponge” concept in mind. The construction of Simmons Hall, a dormitory at MIT, started in 1999 and was completed in 22 months.
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