Affordable house-support drawings

In class, we made a drawing of our house and the plumbing plan going through it. The Red represents hot water, the blue represents cold water, and the green represents sewage.

This was a fun activity besides the fact that using microsoft paint is annoying. I had to write in the "plumbing wall" instead of using a text box because my font got all messed up so now when i type, it is like pressing tab.

Affordable house-site plan/sewers

We put our house on the site, and drew all of the plumbing and pipes in the street. we had to connect them to our house from manholes. We also put trees on our site.

This was a fun activity because it was simple, and you could put trees wherever you wanted to.

Affordable house- Electrical system

In class today, we drew lights, wires, and switches into our house plan. The switches are boxes labeled "s", and the boxes labeled s3 are 3 way switches.. the lights are circles, and the wires are dashed lines. This was a fun activity, but it was a little irritating because of paint.

Affordable house-Site Plan

 In class, we made a house on Autodesk Revit (Which was on an earlier blog) and we had to put it on a plot. we had to draw sanitary sewer lines and water lines. We had to connect them to our house.

This assignment helped me learn a little about sanitary systems and how they work in our homes.     

Revit house

In class we made a house for our partner on Autodesk Revit. We made sheets to fully show the details of the house.

This project was fun, but we did not have much time to work on it, and many people did not finish it when it was supposed to be done, including me. Other than that, it was a fun project.

Design Charette

Today we did a project in class that required us to get into a group of six and make a design charette. We had to build a city on 100 acres of land and we needed to meet specific requirements.

Our notes looked like this:
Nathan M was the cost estimator.
Ben was the Environmental Engineer
Michael was the Health and Safety
Matt was the Health and Safety
Nathan K was the structural engineer
Sebastian Swanson was the interior designer

The environmentalist says 3 trees per house.

“I’m the structural engineer, nothing I say helps much”
-Nathan Kuhlman

For every road, there shall be a sidewalk
-Nathan K

There should be a couple acres of park total.

We will have a playground, and a soccer field.

“we need an important thing in the center”
-bower

“PINEAPPLE”
-Nathan M

Hospital i the center of town, a mall, doctors, auto shop, grocery, gas station, mc Donalds, Old country buffet, Leann Chins

150 houses needed

(50*.25)=x

x+x+x+x= 50 acres

“ERRything better fit regulation”
-Bower

“That’ll setya back about a million”
-Nathan

“I finna build some parks”

We should make sure all the buildings have an efficient set up
-me

Ben talks about his awesome idea for a three way road.

“So we’re gonna make a 2 acre school”
-Nathan

“That’s one small school”
-Bower

“What, Why”
-Nathan
I learned how important teamwork is in design charettes is, and how bad it can be if a design charette doesn't work together. I like how we got to work as a group for this project. I didn't like our project because it was, in my opinion, one of the harder projects. If I were to do anything differently, it would be to work faster, so i would not have been rushed near the end of class.

Shed activity-Revit

In class today, we had to make a shed on Revit. We got the instructions and just had to follow them.

In this project, I learned how to use Autodesk Revit. It was challanging finding how to do what was described to me, and sometimes it wasn't very clear to me. Designing a shed is relevant because you might want to build a stable shed for your yard to store things in, and it is expensive having someone else build it.