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Recently in CAD Architect, I've been adding the finishing touches to my bungalow. My bungalow has a bathroom, bedroom, living room, closets, and a kitchen which is seen above. However, above is my kitchen which meets all the requirements and dimensions that the book asks for. I added quite a few of my own touches making my kitchen more unique and giving it more detail such as changing my sink to a corner sink, changing the colors of the appliances, putting in a new counter top and also changing the design on my cabinets along with color. Designing a house with specific room details and requirements isn't all that hard with the good instructions that my book gives me. It refers to certain tools such as the, Render View Tool, to take a picture of the room which is what I used to take the picture above. I found installing the cabinet above the range hood of the stove the hardest thing to do, what made it difficult for me was getting it to be against the wall. To solve my problem, I changed the view of the camera, deleted the cabinet and then installed a new one. There wasn't anything else that really gave me a problem which took more than a few moments to fix. Adding detail took me the most time to do. Making my kitchen unique by changing cabinet details and color, along with a few other things was my way of being creative. By not following exactly what the book called for, I taught myself how to do a few different things that the book didn't ask me to do such as changing the counter top. The book has taught me how to do many different jobs which has led to being more creative, making my house more detailed.



Above is an outside view of the bungalow which I have created in CAD for Architects. In this picture, you can see the front porch and the back deck. These two features are the two most recent additions to my bungalow. The back deck and front porch meet all the requirements that the book called for, such as having the soffits meet the ground and porch/deck. Adding the soffits to the back deck was probably the hardest part throughout this chapter. It was very difficult to figure out where to place them in the plan so that they would look right and suit their purpose correctly. To fix my problem, I tried putting them in different places then dragging them to where they were supposed to be. After getting the first soffit in the right place, I copied it and pasted other ones to where the book required them to be. After finishing the back deck, the front porch was easy to add soffits to because all I had to do was copy one of the back porch's soffits and paste it to the right spots on the front porch. To make my bungalow more unique, I changed the color of the siding, roof, the back deck railing color and flooring, also the front porch to match the back deck. One thing that I wished the book would have done, is to explain how to insert soffits for the back deck clearly. It would have been easier to do and would have taken less time.



Seen above is the outside view of my house with 4 P.M. shadows that I have created in CAD for Architects. I didn't take too much time to design the landscape because I had to get other assignments done that had due dates coming up. I plan to take a little bit more time to perfect the landscape to my liking. In the backyard, which you cannot see, there are a few other trees along with a fire pit surrounded by chairs, a hammock resides in between two large yellow trees. I didn't have any problems with anything, so it didn't take long for me to follow my instructions. The only reason it took a little while was because I had to decorate everything.







The three pictures above are what I have spent my time on in the class in CAD for Architects. They have taken me a while to do because they require a lot of concentration and it's a long process in general because there are a lot of steps involved. The directions were pretty complex and I had to ask for Mr. Bailey's help several times for help to print. Besides printing, nothing else really gave me a problem, completing these 3 pages just took a while. I got frustrated with it several times and had to take a break, but besides that I didn't mind this part of the project. The book did a pretty good job explaining and making everything clear, the only reason I had trouble with printing was because of different printers and I wasn't sure how to set it up.

The picture above is the most recent thing I've done. It took me today's class time to do it. I decided to do a hip roof instead because the full gable roof wouldn't work on my plan for some reason. I had to redo my terrain multiple times trying to figure out why my roof wouldn't work, after rebuilding the terrain a few times the roof still wouldn't work. However, building this wasn't too difficult. We used terrain elevation to create this picture. Above isn't the best possible picture, but it does show the advanced decking and some of the terrain filled with hills.



Above is my logo that I've done most recently in CAD for architects. I haven't made a what you would call, "professional" one yet. The one above is just what I did to play around a little bit. I didn't have any difficulty with anything, I just made it something simple that I liked.

GREEN BUILDING PROJECT.

The main idea of this project was to create a more environment friendly house by using ideas from the LEED Association. In each section I put pictures of three different possible ideas that can be used to make my house "greener" or in other words, more environmentally friendly. I made my house greener in five different categories. These five categories are energy and atmosphere, indoor environmental quality, sustainable sites, water efficiency, and materials and resources.

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 * ENERGY & ATMOSPHERE**
 * INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY**
 * SUTAINABLE SITES**

ABC ABC
 * WATER EFFICIENCY**
 * MATERIALS & RESOURCES**

In the energy and atmosphere section, picture A shows two different things: skylights and solar panels. The skylights are the light gray rectangles and the solar panels are the darker shades. Skylights are a good way to make your home more environmentally friendly, they allow a sufficient amount of light into the building so you don't have to use electricity in this department as often. The solar panels are also another good way to make your home more environmentally friendly, they store up energy from the sun and use it to create electricity for your home. Even when the sun isn't out, the solar panels store energy so you can continue to use the energy from them when the sun is not out or when it's night. Picture B in this section shows a line of trees. These trees can serve as a few different purposes: decoration, shade and to make your home more environmentally friendly yet again. The trees seen in this picture were previously planted before the building was put on this lot. Instead of cutting the trees down, keeping them where they are or simply replanting them in another location is a way to keep your home greener.
 * ENERGY & ATMOSPHERE**

Many people don't realize what simple things they can do to make their home greener and safer. The point of picture A is to show the wall and it's color. The wall has clearly been painted green, however, it hasn't been painted with regular paint. A paint with low vocs has been used which will give off a smaller amount of fumes compared to regular paint making your home greener. Picture B is showing a wooden floor in the home. Some people clean their floors every now and then with harmful chemicals such as bleach. By using just soap and water, it's less harmful on the floor and it's not putting off potentially hazardous fumes into the air. The last picture in this category, C, is a picture of a thermostat. Not everybody likes a really hot room, but not everybody likes a really cold room either. This dilemma can be handled very easily by installing separate thermostats for each room. By doing this, you can please most everybody and you won't have to run your thermostat to heat the whole house.
 * INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY**

Picture A is showing a line of trees which have been on the site before the home was built. By using the resources around you, you can make your home a greener place. The house on this lot was actually built with some of these trees, leaving a few there as decoration. The second picture, B, is a full overview of the house. Clearing the lot wasn't required to build this home because there was a building previously on this site. By finding a site where there was a building previously located, it makes not only the home but the environment greener. This way, you don't have to cut down even more trees. Picture C is a picture of a fireplaces made out of rocks found on the location. By finding these and building a fireplace out of them, you don't have to pay to get rocks transported from far away places. Not only do you not have to pay, but a large amount of gas won't have to be used to import them from out of state.
 * SUSTAINABLE SITES**

A photograph of a well, picture A, is present in this category. A well is a good way to save water and you don't have to pay for town water either. Picture B is a photograph of the sink. This sink isn't your regular old sink, it's a sink especially designed to save water.You might find one of these sinks in public places such as the movies or restaurants. They don't use as much water because a lot of air is pumped out along with a little bit of water making it seem like there's a lot of pressure because of all the water. The last picture, C, is a picture of a toilet. This is a "low flow toilet." A low flow toilet saves quite a bit of water in such a simple way. When you flush the toilet, it just doesn't use as much water which saves a sufficient amount.
 * WATER EFFICIENCY**

This line of trees seen in picture A, can be used for numerous things. You can cut these trees down to build things for your house or you can keep them there for shade or decoration. It's a good way to make your house more environmentally friendly and good looking. The second picture, B, is a picture of a fireplace. This fireplace is made out of rocks found on the location. By finding these and building a fireplace out of them, you don't have to pay to get rocks transported from far away places. Not only do you not have to pay, but a large amount of gas won't have to be used to import them from out of state. Picture C in this category is of four different colored recycling bins. A special room was built in the basement for recycling, four recycling bins were put into this room. Each bin is a different color for different materials. The blue recycling bin is for paper, purple for bottles, yellow for cans, and green is for plastic. Recycling is an awesome way to make your house a greener building.
 * MATERIALS & RESOURCES**



The main reason for choosing to build a one story house is because I've always liked one story buildings. I find most of them to be quite spacious and well layed out. Also there tends to usually only be one floor but two if you have a basement, so there are less stairs to worry about traveling up and down. Therefor, it is better for somebody with disabilities such as being in a wheelchair. One downfall to one story houses is that a larger space of land is required and the rooms are pretty spread out. Therefor, rooms further from the furnace are are harder to heat making it so it could be more expensive. However, there's generally no problem with electrical heating. If you build your one story ranch house on a concrete slab, it reduces the cost and simplifies the construction. However, one story homes are usually more costly than other designs of the same square footage, such as a two story home. On the bright side, it's only one floor so it's relatively easy to clean and keep up with. However, with most of them being very spacious there's generally a lot of wall spaces and the building requires a larger roof. Most one story homes are extremely spacious but can be on more of the costly side to build, but they are incredibly nice to live in and are very enjoyable.