chelseab-3a



Seeing I have never taken this course, all of the skills I've used with this drawing, I've learned. I learned how to build walls, stairs, doors, place furniture, build a deck, and a porch. These skills will help me all throughout the program. If your an architect all of these skills will apply to you, because it's your job to build a house. These skills are all needed to build a house. A problem I ran into was creating a the soffits. I had to re-do them a few times to be able to angle the soffit above the cabbinet, and not just have the soffits meet in a 'square'. I went about solving it by not dragging to two soffits all the way to the walls, then just placing another soffit in between the other two. I was successful because I created the soffit correctly. When I need to make another soffit in my next kitchen, my soffit tools will come in handy. I was creative in this assignment by changing the colors of my flooring, walls, and furniture



In the last drawing the main part of the assignment were creating the sofitts. In this drawing it was creating a porch, deck, and piers. The skills I learned were creating a porch, deck, and piers. These skills will help me with my next house because I could possibly build a deck or a porch on my next house. These skills can be applied in the real world if a carpenter needs to build a deck, and needs to know how to build piers. In this assignment I didn't run into any problems. In this assignment I was successful because I created everything correctly with no problems. For creativity I was able to show much in this drawing.

In this drawing I've been working on sun angles, compared to last week where I was working on drawing soffits. Skills I've learned in this week are how to create shadows on my house. In this drawing the shade is created from a 4:00 p.m. shadow. These skills allow me to check what shadowing my house will create. In real life this can help if I want to put a pool in, I want the pool to be able to heat up as much as possible, so I don't want it to be in the shade. The only problem I had in this drawing was that I kept forgetting to turn off the low detail button. This button, on, doesn't show everything that needs to be shown. All I had to do to solve this was turn the button off, I have to remember to turn the button off and my problem will be solved. I was successful because I was able to show the shadows and have everything shown that needs to be shown. I can use all of these skills to be successful in the future when I need to look at my shadowing. I was creative in this drawing because I was able to place what trees and exterior furniture that I wanted to.

This week I was working on taking pictures of my plan, and sending them to a layout to print them out. Last week I was working on showing the shadows around my house at different times. I've learned how to send a plan picture to my layout page by just pressing a button. In the future when I have to make a layout page I will be able to do this very quickly. If I was really an architect and I had to show a customer what their house will look like I could make a layout page to show them a quick preview. A problem a ran into was the pictures all fitting on the plan nicely. I had to adjust them somewhat to make them all fit. Also, when I posted this I forgot to change the font, but on my printed copy my writing is all in the box. I successfully made the layout page. I was successful in making all of them fit onto the page, and it coming out neat. In the future, I will use these skills to make more layout pages, and I will just keep making them better while my skills improve. I showed my creativity by resizing the pictures to fit onto the page.

Last week I was working on taking pictures of my house and making a plan. This week I was working on building terrain. I've learned how to build terrain, these skills will help me in the future when I have to create another drawing with terrain as well. In the real world in order to see how the house will look in a certain terrain you have to build the terrain around it. If the house looks awkward in the terrain, you wouldn't want to build it in that space. A problem I ran into was the terrain ran through my house, but I used a tool in the program to help me solve the problem and move the terrain out from the house. Ways I was successful was I fixed my problems that I had. I also was able to complete the assignment the way I was suppose to. Also in my drawing I showed creativity by the way I drew my terrain.



This week I was working on building piers and making my logo design. Last week I was working on building terrain. The skills I've learned were that I just have to click a button, the Advanced Deck, button and I was able to build my piers. Next time I build a house with terrain and a deck I'll be able to use this skill so I can build piers again so the deck connects with the ground. In the real world a deck isn't able to just float in mid air even if it is connected to the house. Obviously in the real world you need to build the piers so that their is support underneath your deck. A problem I ran into was that I didn't read enough of the book as I was suppose to. I read one page and thought that was all I needed to read. I tried to create my own piers but that didn't work at all, so I turned the page and read that all I needed to do was click a button and I was able to successfully draw the piers. I was successful because I was able to build my piers and have them touching the ground to support my deck. I didn't run into any problems creating my logo design, it was simple to accomplish. In the future I'll be able to be successful in building my deck again. In this drawing I was able to be creative by having my piers all one length. I was also creative in my logo design with my arrow underneath my name.



The design of my home is the 2-story model. The 2-story model includes a basement, first floor, and second floor. For all houses there are advantages and disadvantages. Specific pros and cons of a 2-story house deal with the cost, maintenance, accessibility, and heating and cooling. The cost of a 2-story house is expensive in some ways and in others it is not. When building a two story house you do not need as much land as you would with any other house because a two story includes it's essentials on different levels, which means the area of the floor doesn't have to be as big. Obviously the downside of the two story with cost is there is a lot more material going into this house, compared to a one story. A two story is much taller which means more siding. The maintenance is a down fall for the two story. Keeping up with the siding can be expensive and in order to reach the roof you will have to get a ladder to shovel off the snow. In my house my siding is regular vinyl siding and I made my roof a metal roof. Having a metal roof is much more to install than shingles, but metal roofing lasts longer and snow will fall off the roof so shoveling wouldn't be necessary every snow storm. Shingle roofing can also have wholes in them very easily compared to metal. Accessibility for handicap isn't the greatest in a two story home design, unless you build it to have the essentials on one floor. In my house I have to wheelchair ramps to get into the house, one in the front and one on the deck. Also in my house I have put a kitchen, bathroom, and living room on the first floor which would allow a handicap person to get everything they needed. I've also included a king size futon that someone could sleep on if they needed to sleep on the first floor. Obviously, a handicap person wouldn't be able to go to the other floors in my house, but there would be no need to. My doorways are all 36" or more for all wheelchairs to be able to get through. Heating and cooling a two story house can be easy and also be difficult. Heating a two story building can be easy because the spaces that are open from floor to floor allow natural heat to rise. A two story house also can be expensive to heat because of all of the space that needs to be heated. The roof of a two story house does not come into the rooms either so the heat can't escape out into the air. I can't show it, but if I could you would see a thick insulation that holds in the heat and the cool. My basement also stays cool in the summers seeings it is under ground, this allows the cold to travel into my house, same as the heat. A ventilation system also runs through my house so that in the summer when it is warm upstairs, the coolness from my basement will run up through the vents bringing cool air upstairs.