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Above you can see a picture of my kitchen I had just recently designed. To make this marvelous kitchen you needed to know how make a roof, floors, cabinets, windows, a house (obviously), soffits (which are on top of the cabinets in the picture above), chairs, refrigerator, sink, raised ceilings (optional), and the materials painter. It is a lot but it is defiantly worth it in the end. These skills will help me in the future because in the next lesson of the architect book you have to build a porch (see in picture below) and to make the piers that support it you need to make them out of a soffit. I want to be an architect when I am older and having this knowledge about houses will hopefully help me in the future. I really did not run into any trouble trying to build the kitchen and the rest of the house. I was very successful building this house because I READ THE DIRECTIONS!!!!! That is the only thing you have to do to make this house how you want it. In the book they tell you how to make everything but sometimes it is not the way you want it. For example in the architect book they told you to select a certain table and chars, I built an island instead by making cabinets in the middle of the kitchen and then made 4 half circle cabinets to make an oval island.



Above there is a picture of the house I designed in the Chef Architect program. In the last chapter we learned to make a porch, deck, basement, and making stairs to go up to the deck and down to the basement. I have also learned to make railings in this chapter. Hopefully these skills will help me build and upstairs so I do not have to spend an hour making my stairs the right way. Like I said in the previous paragraph these skills will hopefully help me in the future because I want to go to school for architectural design. While building the stairs up to my deck I had trouble getting them to go the right way. Instead of going down off the deck they went up off the deck. I solved this problem by holding shift while making the stairs. By holding shift it allows you to make the stairs going downward instead of upward. I was very successful on building my deck because Every time I got stuck I asked a friend nearby and they helped me get through it. I showed creativity by making the deck the color I wanted it, and re-siding my house.

In the picture above you should be able to see the house I have designed in the end of chapter 10. In chapter 10 we learned how to make shadows, garages, pools, walkways, sheds, roads, gazebos, trees, and obviously land. By learning how to make a garage I should not have any trouble making a garage in the future CAD advanced classes. In the future classes I would like to make a 2 story garage so I can have a game room on top or in case my wife kicks me out I will have a place to live (just kidding). These skills should help me in the future because I would really like to be an architect when I am older. If that doesn't work out I would like to build my own house. In this chapter I built my garage. While building my garage I had a problem with getting the whole structure level with my ground. I fixed it by double clicking on the ground, finding the elevation, double click on my garage, and setting the elevation to the ground elevation I had just looked at. I was very successful on making my pool. I made the pool first try with the fence, diving board, and slide at the same elevation as the pool. I showed some creativity by making the garage, pool, shed, doghouse, and riding a lawnmower.



This picture you see above are the plans that I had made for my house. To make this picture you needed to go to the menu bar, click file new layout, and a blank page will apear. Then you switch back and fourth between your render view and your layout. To transfer these pictures onto your layout from your render view you need to go to file export then on the second drop box select jpeg then save to your documents. After that is accomplished you go to your layout, documents adn add the picture you just saved. If you did this right it should be on your layout, just re-adjust the size and repeat for each view. In this assignment you didn't have to make anything all you had to do was print the layout. Now if anytime in the future I need to make a layout for something I know how. These skills that I have learned on this assignment apply to architecture. If go to school for architecture and need to make a layout for the house I will know how. I did not run into any problems making this layout. I was sucessful in making this layout by not having any problems and getting all the sizes right so the houses could fit on the page perfectly. I showed creativity in this project by creating my name in the bottom left hand corner.



In this picture you see above there are a bunch of random wavy lines. These lines are terrain lines. They show wether the terrain is down hill or uphill. The spaces out lines are downhill and the lines that are really close together are uphills. To make these hills you go to the terrain tools. There is a button that has a line on it, click that one then the same line will appear with numbers on it, click that one and then you will be able to draw curvy lines. After you draw curvy lines then you click the copy and paste button and add the other line you just copied right above the line you drew. You should make about 3 lines and then select terrain and you will get the wavy lines creating the hills. This assignment had me make a house, build terrain, make windows and doors, and a deck. Our teacher told us to not worry about the inside so we could get done the book quicker. Thank you Mr. Bailey! I have learned to make terrain and quick soffits in this chapter, Now that I know how to do this I will not have to waste time trying to make my terrain and making soffits for my porch. These skills that I have learned can apply to architecture because if I end up becoming an architect I can make terrain and I will understand what the lines mean. A problem I ran into with this assignment was making the terrain. I ended up making random lines everywhere and the terrain was crazy. There were hills everywhere and random holes so I had to restart the project. To solve it I asked my teacher for extra help and to show me step by step how to do it. I was successful by making my house and the soffits under my porch. I showed creativity by painting my house brown and creating a different roof.



In this picture There is a render view of the house above. You can see the instant soffits I made and you should be able to see how my land goes down in front of my house and a hill in the back of my house. I did all of the same things in this picture except it is just a different view and I changed the color again. I actually had a problem trying to get a render view on this specific picture because the camera was to low so you could not see the bottom of the house and the terrain I designed. Like I said in the last picture This can apply to architecture because if you need to make a terrain drawing you will know what the lines actually mean. I successful in getting the picture that I wanted, After the little mishaps but I got it all under control by making the camera higher so you could se all the stuff you need to see. Yet again I showed creativity by painting my house a, making a different roof, and choosing a different door for the front of the house.

In this picture you can see the logo I made on a layout. To make this layout I selected new layout, text and placed the text box in he center on the layout. As you do that a text box will appear and you type what you want into the box. In my case it was TrenTopia designs. Next you go into CAD mode and draw lines. I drew a house to represent the amazing architecture I design. Then you double click the house and select brick on one of the drop down boxes. I had many problems making this logo. Believe it or not this was my fourth one. My computer was saying that my files were corrupted and would not let me open them. I also had a problem with the bricks. They were overlapping my letters but then my teacher fixed it. I don't know how but he did and I thank him for that! We ended up just deleting my file from the computer and remade one. It just so happens that the other day I tried to open one of my files and they were still corrupted, so I have no idea what I am going to do. Now I can make real logos for someone who needs them and I will know how.The only thing I was successful on was the letters. I showed creativity by making my own design. Everyone who did this assignment showed creativity because you had to create our name and logo.

Green Project - water efficiency



We are now starting a new project called the green project and the goal is to make to greenest houses we can. To start out this green project I took a picture of a low flow toilet that I inserted to conserve water and make the water more efficient. The next thing I did to conserve water was to slop the land toward my garden so when it rains my garden get watered by itself, (and so I do not have to water it myself)! The last thing I did to make my water usage more efficient was installed gutters and collected the rain water to use for water other plants I have around the house like I do beside my exterior doors.

Green project - Sustainable sites The second part of the green project is sustainable sites. Sustainable sites is just basically to prevent people from building on farm land, building on previous foundation and to build in an urban area. For my house I did not build on fertile farm land as you can see in the first picture, the second thing I did was built my house in an urban are so I can be next to buisnesses and rescources, also so people can save gas money by not going out into the boonies to get to my house. The last thing I did for the sustainable sites section was build on a previous foundation of an earlier house. I did this so I would not have to waste rescources to rebuild another foundation when I have a perfectly safe one ready to build on.

Green project - Materials and Rescources The third section of the green project is materials and rescources. This section is to enforce recycling and reducing the waste of materials. In this section I built my table out of recycled wood so I was not wasting any usable wood for a small thing like a dinner table, Next I used all recycled bricks either from other houses or something else that required brick. The last thing I did was put in a recycling room on the second floor for bottles and cans, paper, plastic, etc.

Green project - Energy and Atmosphere The fourth section of the green project is energy and atmoshpere. The basic idea of this section was to conserve energy and make the atmospere. One thing I did im my house was put in energy star appliances becuasse they do not use as much energy as some other appliances, I installed solar panels onto my house becuase With the solar energy from the sun I can run all of the electric stuff in my house and save money! The last thing I did in the energy and atmosphere section was add an electric furnace so I do not burn precious fossil fuels and it is a lot cheaper than oit especially with my solar panel.

Green project - Indoor Environmental Quality

The last thing to do in our green project was Indoor Environmental Quality. In this section I added a thermostat to control the heat in my house so it is not freezing cold and it is not so hot that you are wasting electricity on your furnace. The next thing I did like the first was put in multiple thermostats im different rooms so I can be comfertable and have a heat control scource in each room. The last thing I did was put in many windows so I can have natural heating in my house and save money on lights becuase I will have light from the sun.

The last project we were asked to do for the semester was called the home design project. This project was assigned to teahc us the benefits and downfalls of a single story home, two story, 1 1/2 sotry and a split level home. I chose a 2 story home becuase the cost of a 2 story home is much less. If you figure the cost of the land, foundation and the heating for the house it is way less expensive for a 2 story than a single story becuase you do not need as much land for a 2 story becuase you build up instead of acrossed and the foundation will be easier and cheaper to build. Yet again becuase you are building up instead of out. Although the downfall is the maintenance of the 2 story house becuase it is going to be harder to clean or repair windows and other stuff on the top story of your house. Another downfall is it is not handicap accesable unless you build and elevator and ramps in your house but that defeats the whole point of a cheaper plan. A two story house is easier to heat and cool becuase it is easily ventilated and heat rises so the upstairs will be easy to heat.