SYDNEY HOUSE -john utzon - CASE STUDY.pptx

Basic case study of sydney house

1. SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE JOHN UTZON

2. LOCATION Bennelong Point, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia STRUCTURAL ENGINEER- Ove Arup & Partners ARCHITECTURAL STYLE- Expressionist STRUCTURAL SYSTEM- Concrete Frame and precast concrete ribbed roof OPENED on -20 October 1973 DIMENTIONS- LENGTH: 183m (600ft) WIDTH: 120m (394ft) AREA: 1.8 hectare (4.4 acres) HEIGHT: 65m (213ft) ELEVATION: 4m (13ft) ABOUT Sydney Opera House (1957- 1973) is a masterpiece of late modern architecture. It is admired internationally and proudly treasured by the people of Australia.

3. WINDROSE DIAGRAM AND AVERAGE TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION GRAPH

4. MAP OF AUSTRALIA

5. GEOTAG OF THE SITE

6. ABOUT THE ARCHITECT Jørn Oberg Utzon, (9 April 1918-29 November 2008) was a Denmark architect most notable for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia. • Jorn Utzon died in Copenhagen in November 2008 aged 90. The Opera House was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007.It is one of the world's most distinctive 20th century buildings, and one of the most famous performing arts centres in the world. The Sydney Opera House is situated on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour, close to the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It surrounded on three sides by the harbour (Sydney Cove and Farm Cove), and neighboured by the Royal Botanic Gardens

7. CONTEXT OF THE SITE The Sydney Opera House is located on the peninsular on the eastern side of Circular Quay known as Bennelong Point, on the south side of Sydney Harbour, The site is surrounded on the east, north and west sides by the waters of Sydney Harbour and on the south by the Royal Botanic Garden and the north end of Macquarie Street and East Circular Quay. The Opera House comprises four main structures being: –The broad flat platform comprising the Forecourt and Broadwalks –The Concert Hall on the western side of Bennelong Point –The Opera Theatre (Joan Sutherland Theatre) on the eastern side –The Bennelong Restaurant, to the south of the two main venues

8. THEATRES The Concert Hall (with 2679 seats) Opera Theatre (with 1547 seats) Drama Theatre (with 544 seats) Playhouse (with 398 seats) Studio Theatre (with 364 seats)

9. UNIQUENESS Many touring theatre, ballet, and musical productions, the Sydney Theatre Company and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. The Sydney Opera House has about 1000 rooms, including five theatres, five rehearsal studios, two main halls, four restaurants, six bars and numerous souvenir shops The five constituent theatres of the Sydney Opera House are the Concert Hall (with a seating capacity of 2,679), the Opera Theatre (1,547 seats), the Drama Theatre (544 seats), the Playhouse (398 seats) and the Studio Theatre (364 seats). The Concert Hall contains the Sydney Opera House Grand Organ. The Opera House provides 45,000 square metres (11 acres) of usable office space out of 18,000 square metres (4.5 acres) of land. It is 183 metres (600 feet) tall and about 120 metres (388 feet) wide at its widest point. The roofs of the House are constructed of 1,056,000 glazed white granite tiles, imported from Sweden. The House interior is composed of pink granite mined from Tarana, NSW and wood and brush box plywood supplied from northern NSW. It is supported on 580 concrete piers sunk up to 25 metres below sea level.

10. The distinctive roof comprises sets of interlocking vaulted shells' set upon a vast terraced platform and surrounded by the terrace areas that function as pedestrian concourseThe whole Podium is constructed in reinforced concrete with load-bearing walls instead of columns, cellular rather than framed. Reinforced concrete columns are generally only used to support the concrete shells structure, and are visually separated from the Podium structure. STRUCTURE

11. FORM DEVELOPMENT INSPIRED FROM NATURE

12. SITE PLAN

13. AERIAL VIEW