Ryann-7b

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 * Kitchen Assessment:** When you are designing a kitchen on Chief Architect, you can't just throw any object in any old spot. There are certain guidelines in which you have to follow. The groups of guidelines which you have to follow are storage, traffic, ADA or American Disability Act, and safety.


 * Storage/Prep area:** Storage is important in your kitchen because a kitchen is meant to be an organized and clean area, not a messy and disorganized place in your house. A preparation area is important in your house because you need a place to prepare your food. Some of the prep areas in your house are the refrigerator landing area, the microwave oven placement, the oven landing area, the storage at cleanup/preparation sink, and the countertop space. Some of the storage areas in your house are the storage itself, the corner cabinet storage, and the storage at the cleanup/preparation sink.


 * Traffic Flow:** Traffic flow is important because if people are traveling by you when you are trying to cook, it could become dangerous. You need to make sure there are optional ways to travel around the cooking area so they don't disrupt the person cooking. Some of the things you need to remember when you are worrying about traffic flow is separating your work centers, create a working traffic triangle, make sure your widths on your hallways are correct, and the distance between work centers.


 * American Disability Act**: The American Disability Act, or the ADA, was created to make sure that the regulations are handicap accessible. Some guidelines your need to follow for the ADA when you are creating a kitchen is the door entry, and other things that have to do with doors, the hallways width, separating work centers, the work aisles, walkways, and the microwave oven placement. You also need to make sure that objects are at a height in which a person in a wheel chair can reach. When you create a walkway, you should make sure the it is 36 inches wide, or 3 feet wide.


 * Safety:** While designing a kitchen, you need to make sure your kitchen is secure! If it isn't designed correctly, a kitchen can become one of the most dangerous places in a house! Some safety guidelines you need to follow are the door interface, the work aisle, traffic clearance at seating, the walkway, the cleanup/prep sink placement, the preparatory work area, the dishwasher placement, refrigerator landing area, lighting, and electrical receptacles.


 * Picture 1, kitchen plan view**




 * Picture 2, my range and double oven**
 * Picture 3, my kitchen plan view with my widths**


 * Bathroom Assesment**
 * Picture 1, This is the overlay view of my bathroom.**


 * Bathroom Assesment:** Designing a bathroom in Chief Architect is much like designing a kitchen. You can't just throw any object in any area. You have to follow certain guidelines. The National Kitchen and Bath Association or the NKBA, created these standards. There are four different catagories you have to follow. Those catagories are safety, the ADA, and traffic flow. Some of the rules and restrictions while designing your bathroom is that your door must be 36" wide. The door also can't interfere with any other objects when it opens and closes. The height of your ceiling must be 80" in height. My ceiling meets the requirement of 80" so that your shower can be larger. You also have to have a certain amount of space for your sinks. That is if there is more than one person in the bathroom. I also have handles next to my toilet and in my shower incase someone takes a tumble. There is 36" of lavatory height. AS you can see in picture three, I have a large bath tub. So there is an extreme amount of room. As you can see in picture 2, my sink, toilet, and urinals are spread out so that things aren't cramped all together.


 * Picture 2, one room of my bathroom.**


 * Picture 3- My bath**


 * Green Project**
 * Water Efficiency**
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 * Sustainable Sites**
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 * Materials and Resources**
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 * Energy and Atmosphere**
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 * Indoor Environmental Quality**
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**Intro:** This year in CAD Architect, one assignment was the create a “green” friendly building. By “green friendly”, I mean that it is friendly and healthy to the environment.

**Water Efficiency:** One of the five ways to make your home “green friendly” is to make sure your home is water efficient. One of the ways I made sure my home was water efficient was by adding a well, instead of using town water. A well is more efficient than using town water. You save more water, and it also replenishes the water over a period of time. Pictures 1 shows my well, and picture 2 shows my sink. My sink is water efficient, meaning that it doesn’t use as much water as some of the other sink fixtures available for purchase.

**Sustainable Sites:** The second of five ways to make your home “green, is sustainable sites. Some ways that sustainable sites can be used is by using the materials around you, and by choosing certain colors that won’t attract as much sunlight. Picture 1 under sustainable sites shows a tree. This tree blocks sunlight, and will shade my house from the sun in the summer, making it cooler. Also picture 2 under the sustainable sites section shows a full overview of my house. I used gray as my roof because it doesn’t attract as much sunlight as black. Also, my driveway is made of cement, which is also light colored, unlike tar which is darker, and will attract sunlight.

**Materials and Resources:** Materials and Resources and the third way to make sure your house is “green”, or energy efficient. Some ways I used materials and resources was by placing a recycle bin in my home, as seen in picture 1 under the materials and resources section. Some resources I used in my project was the tree, again. This is a resource because I used the resource around me to help make my home green.

**Energy and Atmosphere:** Energy and Atmosphere is the fourth way to make your house energy efficient. As you can see in picture 1, under my sustainable sites section, I have a tree. This tree won’t give bad chemicals that could hard the atmosphere. This also doesn’t cost as much. Also, picture 1 under energy and atmosphere shows my refrigerator. It uses low O-Zone levels which makes it efficient. Also I used a skylight as a solar panel, because they don’t have them in the CAD Architect program.

**Indoor Environmental Quality:** The last of the five rules and regulations for your house to be green is Indoor Environmental Quality. One way I used Indoor Environmental Quality was by putting an air purifier outside of my house, as seen in picture 1 of indoor environmental quality. This is “green friendly” because it is run off of solar power. Another way I made my home “green” under this catagory was by placing CO 2 detectors in every room. I do not have a picture of this because I had no clue what they looked like, and the CAD program doesn’t have CO 2 detectors.

Those are the five categories you have to follow in order for your home to be considered “green”.