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Objective
Objective
I think it was the first week of November when Mr. Daab assigned my class this project.
Basically, Mr. Daab prompted us to create a house, specifically a "dream house", complete with drawings of the house, blueprints, floor plans, and a OnShape (a 3D printing CAD software) representation of the house. The due date was around December 1.
*CAD = Computer Aided Software
The plan; it was an AI generated image (my house didn't come out similar to it, that's why I named it "Bootleg California Mountain House")
The Plan
The Plan
The funny thing is, I didn't spend much time brainstorming, but I think I spent well over 10 hours on the CAD representation part of the project. This was because I have been thinking of a dream home a lot just in general for the past couple of years: it was one of those rich California mountain homes that have giant balconies that have a lofty overlook of a busy city (like the house shown above). I've always wanted a modern home that has a high view of a lively city, and that's the type of home I went with.
For our dream houses, we were required to have:
Foyer/Entry
Living Room
Kitchen
Dining Room
Powder Room
3+ Bathrooms
2+ Full Bedrooms
Outcome and Reflection
Outcome and Reflection
All in all, I got a 100%. I remember when I stayed up late on certain nights when I was creating the floor plan; not even the 3D part! I wanted for this project to be perfect (kinda), which ended up in a lot of hours spent on subtle details like doors, even though they wouldn't be seen in the final result (the ceilings and walls cover most of them).
I also ran into countless problems during the process, like how I couldn't make the stairs in the 3D representation.
Even though I emailed my engineering teacher about the problem, I didn't get a response, so I had to make my own solution after thinking about the problem for a few days.
I wasn't sure what was making my 3D representation so hard to display...
So I had to make do with a subtle, but crucial detail to the stairs in order to fix it's 3D representation.
This could've been me at school
This project honestly surprised me, for it taught me more life lessons than what any other project has ever done:
The extra mile is great, but useless when you don't get credit: I created a mountain house which had its top floor as its entrance floor, which was one of the idiosyncrasies that my house had, compared to any other house that could've gotten the same 4 (equivalent to a 100%) that I had gotten.
Perfection is a hindrance: Similar to what I said before, I was trying to put extra effort, trying "to make my house perfect". But after looking up a description of my dream house on an AI image generator, I felt humbled by how much my house could have improved compared to the computer-generated image (the one shown in the "Objective" section).
Health should be put before school: Don't worry, I wasn't sleep-deprived, but like I've mentioned before, I've committed quite a bit of my time to how detailed I wanted the house to be, even though it was almost all in vain. I could've spent some of my weekends hanging out with friends (or trying to), or learning something new instead of overly working on this project.
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