Materials and methods
Woodbury University
Instructor: Eric Olesn
Fall 2017
Each major material – wood, masonry, steel, concrete and glass – is placed within a fundamental context of
physical properties, historical evolution, structural behavior, sustainable design, contemporary methods of
construction and detailing, building envelope systems, and new and future products. Their influence on design
with respect to durability, building cost, life-cycle cost, and scheduling is evaluated. Through a careful study and evaluation of Peter Zumthor’s St. Benedict Chapel our group was able to recreated the building methods used in the project to connect different materials and manifested them into a small scale precedent study model that can be experienced from the inside-out.
