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Tombras Building Wall Section, Greta Marie Mehlberg, Jakeb Moore

EURēCA: Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement

The research conducted throughout the duration of the project was meant to enable the understanding of a building’s wall assembly through prior knowledge of wall assemblies across architecture and group research of the assigned structure. The majority of the research consisted of contacting the architect and to tour the building, which in this case was the Tombras Building in Knoxville, Tennessee, designed by Sanders Pace Architecture, to further understand wall assemblies and enclosures by analyzing construction documents and wall sections drawn by the architect which were then used as research to draw a complete wall section assembly. Once enough information …