Affordable house- Floor Plans

1.  We spent a few classes sketching and designing out floor plans for our houses.  First we would use bubbles to get the general location of our rooms.  Once we made the bubble sketch we would move on to making a 2D realistic sketch of our house.  Once we completed 2 drawings, we would demension them to make sure we stayed within the Affordable House restrictions.  Once complete, our client picked their favorite of the two and we started using revit.

4. REFLECTION: I think sketching our houses was very helpful.  The bubble drawings helped to make sure we knew where we wanted each room to be.  Once I found out the general design of my house it was easy to add other components such as  hallways and doorways.

Affordable House-Revit Drawings

1. In this project we designed an Affordable House and drew it in revit.  We got to design everything and insert appliences.  We got a lot more experience with revit and building a house was very cool.  We did everything from dimensions to insulation and every llittle detail counted.\

3. I think this project was very interesting.  I enjoyed working on revit alot and now i feel comfortable on it.  It felt good to acomplish a project this important and I know more now.  The hardest part was probably getting enough room for all the required appliences and making my client happy, but overall the project was fun and educational.

Shed Activity-Revit

1. In this project we got to create a shed in the computor progam-Revit.  We started from the very begining creating the floor justs to the finished shed.  It was very fun to lern how to use the new program and see how advanced it is. 

3. I learned that revit is a very cool program and is fun to use and design on.  I also learned that it must take a lot of work to build even a simple, two-roomed shed.
I think it was challenging to have to figure out how to use revit because it is new to me.
Desiging a shed is revelent to me because in this class we are learning about this topic.  I might like to build a shed with my uncle and after this project i know alot more about the topic.

Roof Project

1.  In this project, we worked in a group to build a model of a roof style.  We did the style of Gable.

Gable Roof System

Colin Ritter, Dan Sullivan, Matt Scattergood, Blake Otterlei

                 

Gable Roof structures are the simplest of the all the types of roofs. They are just two flat slopes jointing together at the ridge, which gives it a triangular appearance.

Some advantages of Gable roof structures are it is economically affordable; water easily flows off the roof, and they can withhold heavy snow fall. A disadvantage is they are one of the worst roof designs for hurricanes because the roof can easily peel off from the wind.

Gable roofs are found in mountainous locations, higher altitude locations, and other areas that have heavy snowfall. Gable roofs are also found in low income areas where price is a factor.  

4. I learned a lot about the different layers in a roof to make it durable.
I liked the freedom we had in our models.
I disliked the hot glue because i burned myself about 20 times
Next time i would be more careful with the hot glue and make sure we had enough popsicle sticks (we ran low)

Design Charette

1. In this project we all took up important rolls in making our bridge.  My job was the health and safety engineer so i got to research what they do and act like one in our charette.

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3.Here are our notes:

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Date/Time:

10/4/11 1:19-2:02 pm

Participants:

Dan: Health/Safety Engineer

Mark: Environmental Engineer

Collin: Cost Estimator

Trip: Structural Engineer

Blake: Architectural Engineer

Dan's concerns:

Everything we use is safe for the environment

Materials

Site must be safe at all times

Trip's concerns:

Has to be pleasing to the eye

Withstand tornadoes/hurricanes/earthquakes/river

Collin's concerns:

Stay within budget

Blake's concerns:

Design and construction of bridge

Mark's concerns:

Must not pollute air/water

Design Plan:

Build a bridge with a series of arches.  For the boating dock, build a simple runway to drop off boats and also create another building for people to throw away waste since the boat dock will create a lot of human traffic.

Ideas:

Possibly use steel instead of concrete for costs reasons

Use concrete so it will hold up better to weather conditions, since the bridge is going to be located in the wetlands.

Boad dock: create small for fishing and other small vessells

Make public facilities for waste and other various uses

Possible public facilities:

Rest stop

Bait Shop

McDonald's/Burger King/Wendy's

Public Restrooms - city planner says no using only McDonald's restrooms

Trip and Blake are currently working on the sketches

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5. -I learned that charrettes are really important for making a structure
-I liked the responsibility each of us had to make sure our job wad done thouroughly
-I think it would have been more fun to get to pick what we wanted to build
-I would make better sketches before diving right into the final poster next time

Career

1. In this project we answered questions about what we think our job as a civil engineer or architect might look like 10 years in the future.  Also, we contacted a current civil engineer or archittect to answer the same questions about their job and outside life.

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3. Eric Morin, World Architects and Engineers, eric.s.morin@gmail.c​om

Architectural Style Project Review

1.  For our architectural style project, we got to pick a style of architecture to research and build a model of.  I got to learn alot about the cubic style architecture and it was very interesting to get to build my own model.  It was very fun.

3. I learned alot about cubic style architecture.  It is a very interesting design.  One of my friend's new house is a cubic style and it looks really cool.  I also learned that making models takes time and pacience.  Also, i learned to make sure all my edges are level with each other!  I liked the freedom we got with this project.  We could do any kind of model we wanted, and we could use any materials we wanted.  It was really cool that some people coppied a design from the computer, and some people cam up with their totally own idea.  I think it would have been nice to have a little more time to work on our models.  It took me a while to decide what i wanted to do with my model and i felt rushed to get it done on time.  I think my model would have looked alot nicer if i could have more time.  For example my corners could have been alot more precise and the excess glue could have been removed.  Things i would do differently would be planning before diving right in, and being more careful with my cuts.  If I would have planned more, my design could have looked cooler and it would have been easier to make.  Also, if I was more careful with my cuts it would look alot nicer.

Architecture Review

1.  I researched the split level style architecture.  I looked up information suck as the era, popularity, principles/elements, and the materials used in a split level style house.

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http://www.slideshare.net/sully764/split-level-architecture-9276246

4. I think it was a good assignment and it helped me understand the style of architecture.   Making it only 4 slides made me get the important information in there and I think that is a good idea.