Building Design and Building Science: A Case Study of Forsyth House in London

BUILDING
DESIGN AND
BUILDING
SCIENCE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
The Forsyth house, London.........................................................................................................3
The structural elements ...............................................................................................................5
Non- structural elements as well as the materials in the building- 'Forsyth House'....................7
The behaviours of the materials that were used for the construction of the building..................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
Summary of the findings of the report.......................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
The building science is defined as body of knowledge that generally draws upon
disciplines of the architecture, physics, engineering, biology and life sciences generally to
understand physical behaviours of building as system. The building construction means physical
activity particular on site includes erection of structure, form work, fixture, installation and many
more. Construction is generally termed which in architectural field that particularly deals with
the formation of company, objects, and many more from the past few decades, the construction
industry generally grow rapidly with various improved technologies as well as designs that
mostly includes many stages that is related to the construction. In this report, here project of
construction is chosen as “Forsyth House” in Hackney. This project is of a low rise building
whose construction basically completed in the year 1970. And this building or the project was
particularly completed in this year.
This project is mostly based on the old but at the same time existing also low rise housing
building that was generally constructed in the year 1985 and also construction duration for this
whole building was 5 years from their initial which exist of various unique idea as well as
creativity. The space generally in between the room is particularly not enough due to it is 5ft 5in
(1.65 m) s wide as well. This property is also attractive as it's externally is painted in the blue
that is point of noticing, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom all also well furnished as well as have
wooden furniture. This property is also used specially in photographic industry for various years.
The report addresses the “Forsyth House” building, location, photograph, postcode of the
building as well as construction date of the building. Along with this it also includes purpose of
the building, methods and materials which is use in construction and building design. The report
also discuses on structure as well as non-structural of selecting the housing. The structure
elements are generally divided into two parts that is substructure and the superstructure.
MAIN BODY
The Forsyth house, London.
Address of the building.
The address of the Forsyth house is basically the Tachbrook street, Lillington garden
estate, City of Westminster, London, England, UK.
Location map.

(Emporis, 2022)
Postcode of the building.
The postcode which is commonly known as the ZIP of the building is SW1V 2LE.
Main facade.
(The move market, 2022)
Date of the building.
The construction of the building 'Forsyth house' basically begun in the year of 1967. The
project went on for almost three years and was completed in the year 1970.
The Forsyth house was particularly built in the 1960's and the design and the quality was
in accordance to that time and the trends and the ways of living of the people of that time in
particular. But the elements and the construction components used in the overall process of