Architect and engineer . and was followed almost immedi- have been a long drawn out job. Almost ately by a series of difficulties that handi- endless studies were made as to the best capped every move. Deteriorated and cor- way to solve the problem and finally the roded plumbing, rusted metal lath, loosened present system of a tank within a tank plaster, faulty wiring and numerous other shored up below with steel and brick walls obstacles made each days progress a new was decided upon. It was a real engineer- and unforseen problem, requiring constant ing achievement,attention and thought. But
Architect and engineer . and was followed almost immedi- have been a long drawn out job. Almost ately by a series of difficulties that handi- endless studies were made as to the best capped every move. Deteriorated and cor- way to solve the problem and finally the roded plumbing, rusted metal lath, loosened present system of a tank within a tank plaster, faulty wiring and numerous other shored up below with steel and brick walls obstacles made each days progress a new was decided upon. It was a real engineer- and unforseen problem, requiring constant ing achievement,attention and thought. But the major diffi-culty, and the one that seemed a veritablemountain to overcome was the corrosion ofstructural steel in and around the swim-ming tank. Beams were found completely Practically every room in the old build-ing was included in the general work ofrenovating. In short, the club has theequivalent of a new home with every rnod-ern need taken care of. THE AHCHtTECT AND ENGINEER < H ? MAY. NINETEEN THIRTi-FIVE. PENCIL SKETCH BY W. R. YELLAND. ARCHITECT THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER ^ 44 ^ MAY, NINETEEN THIRTY-FIVE Quakes by A. Floris Design o[ Horizontal Members toResist Earth Temblors De-scribed by Los AngelesStructural Engineer THE seismic rehabilitation of schoolbuildings in Los Angeles and vicinityis now, as far as design is concerned,partly completed. As basic principle ofdesign it is required by the State Divisionof Architecture that any part of the struc-ture shall not deflect appreciably more thananother. Thus dangerous cracks in wallsand other resisting members may be avoid-ed and the building is made to move as aunit. Inasmuch as walls, frames and other ver-tical members cannot be made in practiceto deflect equally, the ideal solution of theproblem would be to load each of thesemembers in such a way that their deflec-tions will be equal. This method of earth-quake resistant design was applied byNaito, for the first time, to buildings inTokio. In order to distribu
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