Assessment 3 Design Resolution

Part 2 of Assessment 3 will focus on 2 components:

Model Making and Elevation

You must complete the final presentation drawing of the floor plan from Assessment 2 before commencing on Assessment 3.

Submission Requirements:

A form board model demonstrating your design in three-dimensional representation of built structure (Exterior Wall, Interior Wall, Openings, and Roof), you don't have to make a representation of any excessive structure from your floor plan (eg. Swimming Pool, Verandahs, Garden Beds).
A digital front facade elevation with black and white materiality render in Adobe Illustrator, pay attention to line work hierarchy.

Component 1: Model Making

Step 1: Set Up the Ground

Glue your printed/photocopied floor plan (1:100@A3) to a piece of form board, this will serve as your base map. We will only be focusing on the site area, so you may discard the title bar and dimensioning from your photocopy.

Step 2: Map out the exterior walls and Create Openings

Measure your floor plans to get the correct dimensions for the exterior walls, then cut out the corresponding size from a piece of form board, label the walls if necessary. Go back to your floor plan and measure the width of the openings, decide the height of the openings (normally 1m -1.5m, or please specify if you have a full wall height of glazing), then cut out the pieces from the external walls. (You might want to leave gluing to the end until you have finished some internal walls).

Step 3: Assemble your walls

Glue parts of the External Walls OR leave all the walls to assemble at once. In this video, I glued parts of my external walls for demonstration purposes. You may choose whichever process that suits you best. Make sure the wall is fully attached before adding another piece.

Step 4: Creating Internal Walls

Repeat step 2, but this time, find some cardboard to showcase the thickness for internal walls. You need to create openings for internal walls as well. Once you finished the internal walls, you may start gluing wall pieces onto your model base.

Step 5: Adding details (Optional Step)

You may want to create doors or adding perplex on to the window openings. If you decide to add doors, please do not cut through on the long edge, so the doors could swing open.

Step 6: Adding Roof

Go back to your elevations and measure out the overarching length and width of your roof. Cut them down in pieces, if you have dormers, it is time to assemble them to the main roof. Use the pitch as a guide to glue your major roof pieces together. Hold onto the joint area for approximately 1 minute until fully dry. You may attach your roof to the walls, or leave it as a detachable roof to showcase the inside design. (See types of roof on the right hand side)

For Gable, Valley and Saltbox Roof, you are looking at a roof angle of around 30 degrees.

More Resources on Advanced Model Making Techniques

Component 2: Elevations

An elevation drawing is an orthographic projection drawing that shows one side of the house. The purpose of an elevation drawing is to show the finished appearance of a given side of the house and furnish vertical height dimensions. Four elevations are customarily drawn, one for each side of the house (North, South, East and West).
Elevations will normally include the consideration of materiality and minor rendering.

Elevations may address:

- Overhanging rooflines

- Openings, including windows and doors

- External stairways

- Key dimensions for overall sizes, rooms, doors and windows where appropriate

- a title block including scale, date drawn, author’s name, drawing number and site address if applicable

Some Sample Black and White Elevation Drawings are attached below:

Never Used Adobe Illustrator Before? (Click on Here)

Please complete the Practice Tasks: "Adobe Illustrator Basics" on Compass - Learning Task, before heading towards the Digital Elevation section below.

Digital Elevation in Adobe Illustrator

Step 1: Set Up Your Work Space

Open Up Adobe Illustrator and set up your workspace for Elevation. You need to create a A3 page for your elevation and set the units and file names correctly. Switch on the Rulers and Grids, adjust them accordingly, then create separate layers to organise the photo and outline.

Step 2: Tracing the Outline

Tracing and fixing any inaccuracy using the Pen Tool and Direct Selection Tool in Adobe Illustrator, make sure your image is at the correct scale and proportion before proceeding.

Additional Step: Interior

Adding more refined interior feature to enhance the presentation of your elevation. This is an optional step and might require your physical model. You might also choose to do this step at the end.

Step 3: Adding Texture, Vegetation and Title Bar

Add more details to enhance your digital elevation presentation, add some final touch to your finished line work to make the perspective seemed realistic. Remember to change the information on the title bar and submit to Compass.

Need Brick Veneer Texture?

Follow along this video to create your own Brick Veneer Cladding, and add it into your Swatch for future use.

Extra Task: Finished the assessment early?

Try this Collage Rendering Technique in Adobe Photoshop to take your Elevation to the next level.

First and foremost, get rid of your added texture from Illustrator and save it as an Adobe PDF file, then open it up in Adobe Photoshop.

Follow this video tutorial to create your own collage render for your house design. You might want to google some seamless texture online.

OR, you may check out the texture and people cutouts from here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nEN8r1r_AI9TWYHpbelMvqbJgwhBPquh?usp=sharing

Alternative Variation: How To Draw Elevations (Hand Drawn)

Step 1: Preparation

Make sure you have a clean floor plan, with accurate scale 1:100@A3, 2H and 2B pencils, rubber, a ruler, and pieces of A3 Tracing paper.

Step 2: Guidelines & Layout

To set up guidelines, extend the outer edges of your house using dashed or 2H thin lines towards all four sides. Consider your layout for all 4 elevations as well.

Step 3: External Wall

The normal ceiling height for residential housing is 3 metres (3000 mm), which will be 30mm on 1:100 elevations, draw four boxes representing the size of the external wall.

Step 4: Roof and pitch

Consider the roof type, what kind of roof best fits your house? You will also need to consider the pitch (if applicable, between 15–25 degrees in Australia). See below diagram for roof types

Step 5: External Features

Construct more guidelines to locate your openings. Use the drawing conventions attached below to sketch them on elevations. Windows are normally 1m above the ground.

Step 6: Materiality

Consider the materials of the house, what kind of render will you apply on the elevations (Select approx 2 materials for the whole house).

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