Library site plan

Roof framing

Today, we added labels to the beams in our library ceiling. We needed to calculate all of the loads in lbs/ft.

Beam diagrams

Not sure what to say. I'll just edit this later

This quarter in class, we have been renovating a library. we needed to put in rooms and everything that you would normally find in a library.              

The rendering of my library



Floor plan of ground floor



Floor plan of greenroof and 2nd floor

East elevation view

North elevation view

South elevation view (roof slope indicated here)

West elevation view

       For the most part, this was a fun project. I liked making the rooms and putting the objects on the floor. I did not like exporting the pictures, and i do not enjoy writing this now.

Keystone library 2nd floor

In class today, we put a floor on the 2nd story in our library. We could either use precast slabs or cast-in place for our floors.

I liked this activity because it was quick and wasn't hard to do. I chose the precast because it is cheaper, faster, and easier, unlike cast-in-place, which takes time, and time=money.

Structural efficiency activity

Today in class, we made an 8 inch tall structure out of playing cards of tape that was required to hold at least 5 lbs.

 

       Image of your structure

 

We were in second place for the weight, which was 7861 g. Our structural efficiency rating was 225.69, which was about average. In our preliminary tests, we just made sure it held about 2200 g. which is about five lbs. We didnt revise our design.To improve structural efficiency, we could have made the cards half circles for more support and used less tape for less mass.       

Keystone library Roof

Today we made a greenroof on the 2nd floor. we also put a roof above the other half of the building. We had to put specific layers in the green roof, like grass, and dirt.

It was fun because the requirements were pretty loose, we could choose the thickness of some of the materials and design the upper roof.

Affordable house-Thumbnail Sketch

Earlier in this project, the class had to create a thumbnail sketch of our house before we made them on Revit. We had to give it dimensions, furniture, and rooms.

This was my sketch of the house. It was fun because we could create the house how we wanted as long as we followed the house building codes, like how many bedrooms were needed, the square footage, bathrooms, and other rooms.

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.

Roof project

Last week our class worked on a project. we had to build a roof out of sandpaper, glue, cardboard, tissues, and popsicle sticks.

I learned that the glue burns when you get it on your hands. I liked using the glue guns and gluing things together. I didnt like it when i got glue on my hands or using the rounded popsicle sticks. If i were to do this differently, i would make sure everything was the same dimensions because the roof turned out a little curved.

Engineering career

The project that we just finished was about our career 10 years in the future. we had do describe our job, how we got there, and we had to interview a professional engineer(PE). I interviewed a PE at gaston engineering gaston@gastonengineering.com. I learned how much work it takes to become a PE and the benefeits of becoming a PE. I didnt like how difficult it was to find information about college courses. I would not do the project any differently.

Greek Revival Architecture

The past few days we have been working on a project in class. We had to build a model of the architectural style we chose.

I learned that the Greek revival style has a symmetrical shape, narrow windows, and a symmetrical shape. I liked making the pieces of the house, but gluing the pieces together was annoying because you had little time to set the pieces before the glue cooled down. if i could do it differently, i would have made it a bit smaller.