RebeccaM-8B

﻿ Assignment A- The picture above shows a vector view of my kitchen. I learned many of the basic skills of CAD in this first design. First, I learned how to change the sizes of the cabinets to make them fit together. I also leaned how to create soffits, which are the undersides of a ceiling to fill the space above kitchen cabinets. Lastly, I learned how to place cabinets above a stove or a refrigerator. All these skills are essential to this course because I will always have to design a kitchen. Therefore, learning how to make cabinets and soffits is extremely crucial. As well as learning how to design a kitchen, I learned how to use the wall tools to design exterior walls and interior walls. Also, the book showed me how to create invisible walls to section off specific rooms without putting up an actual wall. Learning how to design a kitchen could be very important to real life. If I were redesigning my own kitchen, I would know how to set up the cabinets, and I would also know to add soffits, which I did not know about before this class. I experienced a few problems in this section of the book, mostly figuring out how to properly place a cabinet or soffit so that it would fit into the corner of a room. To get the cabinet or soffit to fit correctly, you have to click on the right spot on the screen, which takes some practice to get right. I also experience trouble getting cabinets to fit above my stove and fridge. First, you have to place it in front of the object, then you resize it and change the height so that it will fit properly. I think I was very successful in creating my kitchen. I was able to get through the chapter pretty quickly and learned the skills pretty fast. I was successful in making my cabinets fit together properly, as well as making the corner soffit correctly. I think to be successful you need to use trial and error. Also, I asked Mr. Bailey many questions if I didn’t understand, which made designing my kitchen a lot easier, especially when trying to get the corner soffit to fit. I was able to show creativity in many ways, such as changing the color of my walls. Although I needed to follow the guidelines of the book as to what to place in my kitchen, I was able to change the colors of things in my kitchen. I changed the color to a dark shade of blue, the floor was changed to hardwood, and I made all of the cabinets a darker shade of mohagany. I made the floor a lighter shade of brown then the cabinets, so that the colors would be more appealing to the eye. Lastly I added small appliances, such as a coffee maker, as well as a knife set and flowers to give the kitchen something extra.

Assignment B The picture shown above is a finished vector view of the front porch of my bungalow. The drawing shows the front of my house with a door, a porch with stairs, a small roof over the porch, and piers that support the front porch. Compared to the previous drawing, I have learned multiple important skills that are a necessity in CAD for architects. Since the previous drawing, I have added and personalized the bedroom, living room, and family room. I created a basement with stairs leading up to the first floor. Most importantly, I have added a front and back porch to my bungalow. In this photo, I focused more on the exterior of my bungalow, than adding details the interior. An important skill that I learned is how to add soffits under a porch which would act as piers that support the porch. This skill is very important because something needs to be there to support the porch otherwise it's just floating in midair. This skill is extremely important in helping me design decks and porches in the future. I think in real life, adding soffits to the bottom of a porch or deck is extremely important. This skill is important because the soffits are used to support the porch. Without the soffits, which act as piers, the porch would not be able to stand up. In this particular assignment, I experienced a great deal of trouble with the soffits. I could not figure out where they were supposed to be placed, how big they needed to be, and how to create them properly. I sat for quite a while trying my process of trial and error, but could not understand. Eventually, I asked Mr. Bailey for help, and he explained how to properly place the soffits under the porch. I would have liked if the book explained how to do this step more clearly. I think I am fairly successful in designing my bungalow so far. I may have experienced a little trouble with my porch and deck, but now that I understand how to do them, it will help me later on.The book requires you to follow their guidelines as to the size and dimensions of the house, but I am allowed to add my own touch when it comes to the colors and objects that are added. In the picture above, I have changed the outside of the house to a type of stone, made the porch a dark brown wood, as well as making the doors and windows the same shade. I added some special things that are not required, such as front porch lights on both sides of the door, and a small bush next to the porch.



Assignment C The picture above shows the final view of the exterior of my house. Lately in CAD, I have been working on the exterior of my house, as opposed to the interior. Since the last drawing, I have added a deck in the back, a driveway, a road, as well as exterior items like trees and plants. This chapter was very important in teaching me how to add exterior items like trees and roads. A major skill I learned was how to create shadows on your house to show what time of day it is. This skill is extremely important for an assignment where I might have to show the shadows for a specific time. These skills could be applied to the real world because seeing the shadows on the CAD program might help me recognize what time of day it is in the real world. A problem I experienced in this assignment was figuring out how to create the shadows. To solve this problem I read the book closely and was able to understand what they were telling me to do. I think I was incredibly successful in this assignment. I did not have many problems, considering a large portion of assignment was adding objects to the exterior. I was successful creating the shadows, which will help me in the future when I have to use that tool again. I was able to show a lot of creativity in this chapter. I was able to change the color of the outside of my house. I change the exterior to type of stone. I was able to add trees, bushes, an arch, a mailbox, and a fence to my design to make the yard look nicer. Also, I changed the color of the grass to a darker color to make it look more realistic.

Assignment D The three pictures above show what I have been working on recently in CAD architect.The first drawing on the left shows all sides of my house from each direction. I created these page views so that they could be printed out. The second picture on the right shows the plan view of my bungalow with the dimensions included. Then the last picture shows the plan view for my bungalow without the dimensions or furniture. Compared to the last drawing, I have completed my house and started to work on printing out the three pages shown above. I have learned a wide variety of skills in this section of the book. Firstly, I learned how to take a picture of a certain direction of my house, as shown above. For example, I learned how to get the view of the south side of my house then transfer it to the layout page. This will help in the future of this course hen I have to do the same thing with my own house design. I think learning how to create layouts and plans will help in the real world, especially if I become an architect. I experienced many problems in this assignment, such as getting the pictures to fit onto the layout page. It was difficult to get the pictures to the right size, but I kept changing the size until it fit correctly. I also had trouble getting the pictures on the first page to show up without the exterior furniture included. I ended up having to delete all my furnishings outside because they would still show up in the picture. I wasn’t able to show too much creativity in this section, mainly because you had to follow the book guidelines to get the layout to look correctly.



Assignment E Recently in CAD, I have started designing a new house where the focus is on the terrain, rather than the house itself. The house is a very simple design, but the terrain has been changed so there is a significant hill. I have learned how to change the terrain, so that a hill can be made any size you want it to be. In this particular assignment, the hill was quite large. This could be extremely helpful later on in the course when I am designing my own house. I might want to have a small hill in the backyard, or a small slope under the front porch. Learning how to properly use the terrain tools is an essential part of the program. The skills I have learned in this assignment could be applied to the real world where there are hills everywhere. I experienced trouble learning how to get the terrain lines set up properly, but I spent some time working with the terrain tools and figured out what I was doing wrong. I think I was successful in understanding how to correctly set up the terrain, which will help me later on when I want to set up the terrain for my own house design. I was able to show creativity because the design of the house did not matter in this assignment. The focus was on the terrain, so I was able to change the house to look however I wanted it to.

Assignment F The first photo shown above displays a small house built on the side of a hill, with piers supporting the porch. The second photo, shows my logo design, which I created. The focus on the first drawing was getting the piers to fit in correctly under the porch. This drawing focused less on the terrain and more on getting the porch to fit correctly in association with the terrain. This assignment built onto previous knowledge I had on adding soffits under a porch to act as piers. Also included in this assignment was the creation of my own logo. This took some practice, but I managed to design a logo to represent my company. I was very successful in this assignment, mainly because I already had previous knowledge of how to add soffits under porches. I was able to work through this fairly quickly. I was able to show creativity in how I created my logo. I could make it look however I wanted it to. So I designed an M to represent my last name.

**Green Building Design Project-**

LEED and green building design is an initiative to try to conserve energy and reduce the amount of energy that the world is wasting. Many homes in America are wasting more energy than they are saving by doing something as simple as leaving the faucet on when they are brushing their teeth. In green building designs there are things that you can involve that will make you're house much more efficient and will allow you to waste less energy. LEED has five sections with different requirements that allow you're house to be considered a green building. The five sections are indoor environmental quality, water efficiency, energy and atmosphere, materials and resources, and sustainable sites. Indoor Environmental Quality- <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The main purpose of indoor environmental quality is to improve and enhance the air quality inside buildings to allow for the comfort of the people within the building. Many things can be done to improve the indoor quality within a building that are as simple as having a lot of windows. In figure 2 shown above, there is a picture of my house with many windows, which allows a lot of natural lighting into the house as opposed to electrical lighting. This saves energy from not having to light the house, as well as making the house more comfortable from natural light. Another way to improve the indoor quality would be to add a thermostat, which allows a person to control the heating with a house. Through the use of a thermostat, you can prevent heating a room that does not need to be heated, which saves a vast amount of energy. A simple way to attain indoor environmental quality is to use a low VOC paint, which stands for volatile organic compounds. With low VOC paint, you are doing less harm to the environment.
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Water Efficiency-

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The purpose of water efficiency is to prevent wasting as much water as possible as well as lessening the burden on the municipal water supply. Water efficiency is fairly easy to achieve in residential buildings. Firstly, you can use appliances that do not waste as much water, such as low flow toilets, shown in figure 4. These toilets do not fill up with as much water as a normal toilet, so not as much water is wasted. Another option would be to have a small pond of water that you can use for watering your garden. Lastly you can use rain gutters, which are water efficient because they collect rainwater to reuse. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Energy and Atmosphere- <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">﻿Energy and Atmosphere's intent is to make sure there are energy efficient appliances within the building to reduce energy use, lower operating costs, and increase productivity. There are many ways to show energy and atmosphere within a home, as simple as installing a few new appliances. In Figure 7, a view is shown of the roof of my house, which has solar panels. Solar panels collect the suns energy and uses it as a alternate power source. There is no power required to use solar panels and they are extremely energy efficient. Another alternative would be to use Energy Star appliances. Appliances that are approved to be energy star waste less than regular appliances and conserve more energy. In figure 8 shown above, you can see the several energy star appliances in my home, such as the microwave, stove, and refrigerator. Lastly you could install an electric furnace instead of an oil furnace. This would be a good option because oil furnaces are expensive, as well as not being very efficient. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Materials and Resources- <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The main idea of materials and resources is to help the reduction of waste that is put into landfills. A simple way to help would be to section of a specific room for recycling. As shown above in figure 9, there are three bins for recycling household items. This room can be use to sort through waste and decide what items can be reused to help stop the amount of recycled materials that are ending up in landfills. Materials and resources is a bit difficult to show, but another option would be to use locally made materials. For example you could use local bricks so that you will not have to have the materials transported to you. Also in my house, we use wood pellets for heating as opposed to oil. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Sustainable Sites- <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">Fig 10 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The intent of sustainable sites is to stop the amount of pollution from construction activities. In my design, I built my house on a previous foundation, so firstly a new foundation would not have to be built, and also so new septic and electrical systems would not have to be put in.I also built my house on flat land, as shown in figure 10, so that I did not have to waste time and energy excavating the land. Lastly, my house was built closer to a city near stores, so that I could walk to these places. This is helpful to the environment because I do not have to take a car to go places, as cars are very polluting.
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Two-Story Home Design Project Exterior view of my two story home || Figure 2 Plan view || I chose to design a two-story building __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Cost- __ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The main reason I chose to design a two-story home was because it is the most economic design to build. Since the building has two floors, it does not require as much square footage, as well as not requiring as much foundation to be installed. Two-story homes do not require a large lot, which saves money. It also has a smaller roof area as compared to other designs, such as the one and a half story home. In my design, I used a small lot and tried to keep the square footage under 2000, to make my house more economic. __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Maintenance- __ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Although there are many advantages of having a two story home, the fact that it has two floors makes maintenance a bit difficult. For example, cleaning windows would be fairly simple on the first floor, but a ladder would be required to get to the second floor windows. It would also be difficult to clean off the roof when it snowed. In order to compensate for this disadvantage, I chose to use a metal roofing material so the snow would slide off the roof. I also chose to use vinyl siding because it does not require as much upkeep as stone, brick, or wood. With vinyl, it is a lot easier to clean, but it still looks just as nice as wood or brick. __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Accessibility for disabilities- __ Interior stairs, which makes accessibility difficult || Figure 4 Exterior stairs ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Unfortunately, two story homes are not very accessible for those with disabilities due to the stairs, as seen above in figures 3 and 4. Getting into the house would be difficult as a result of the front porch stairs. To compensate for the difficulties due to the stairs, I made sure to have all necessary rooms such as the kitchen and the bathroom on the first floor, so going up the stairs is not needed. Also, in the plan view shown above in figure 2, you can see that the first floor of my house is incredibly spacious, which allows for easy movement for those in wheelchairs. I designed my house so that there is plenty of room to move around, while still being economic. __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Heating and Cooling- __ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Heating for a two story home is very economically friendly. For a smaller two story home like mine, there is not a lot of space to heat. Also, heat rises, so not as much energy needs to be wasted heating the second floor of the house because the heat from the downstairs will rise up. Cooling a two story home is also made easier because the ceiling is not directly under the roof, so not as much heat seeps into the house like it would for a one and a half story. My house also has a lot of windows, which allows for easy ventilation.
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