Daily Calendar | Design Drawing and Studio Skills | Modeling | ISU [Mechanical or Industrial Design] | Architectural / Interior Design | Summative 

Overview

Your summative project is to design a house that is only a 1 storey or split-level home (there is a gentle grade on the property - you can either accentuate it, or flatten it). There is no size limit, but remember, the bigger it is, the more you have to draw. It may NOT be under 1200 sq.ft. and may not be over 2200 sq. ft. The house will be built on a lot located at right and below, just off Greens road and Jock Trail road west of Richmond.

Specifics

Step 1: Design Brief

You are to interview a client (up to you who you interview, but bear in mind you're building a house for them). Include the results of this interview in your submission. Ask them basic questions like 

• How many people in the family

• Their interests/hobbies

• Their work hours

• How many bedrooms they want

• How many bathrooms they want

• What kind of kitchen they want

• Special features they like (e.g. 'great room' vs. cozy living room etc...)

• What kind of garage they think they want (e.g. 1/2 car, workspace or not, storage space or not etc...)

You are to include any major site features, a rough cost estimate for the clients 

• The estimated cost of the building will be:

  • heated area 74 x $540.00/sq m =$39 960.00

  • unfinished basement 74 x $80.00/sq m = $5 920.00

  • garage 20 x $260.00/sq m = $5200

  • Total $51,080

 Include as Appendix 1: Design Brief to your final architectural package submission 

Step 2: Plot Plan

After doing the Design Brief, you are to complete the following in order to satisfy the plot plan requirements:

Included as Sheet A-1 from Assignment #11.

Add to it:

• Ensure you add any relevant utilities, septic, mature trees, and your final overall house design including rough landscaping and roof-peak to your already completed assignment.

• ​A professional title block around your project and plot it as a PDF from AutoCAD.

Step 3: Bubble & Block diagrams

• Ensure that you maintain proper traffic flow patterns and keep the finished spaces of the house to the size restrictions. Assume that the family intends to use the space behind their home in some sort of finished back yard.

• Obey the general rules for livings spaces (work, sleep areas)

• Make sure to orient your house so that it can maximize solar heating

Include as Appendix 2: Room sketches (Appendix 2a is Bubble Diagram and Appendix 2b is Block diagram)

Step 4: Sketched Floor Plan and Sketched Elevation

• Complete a floor plan sketch of your property so that you are able to generate a sketched elevation

• Complete a sketch of the front view of the home but do NOT include much detail, this is after all just an impression of what the front of the home and rough landscaping might look like.

Include as Appendix 3: Floor & Exterior Plans 

Step 5: 3D Model (Sketchup or Revit)

• Translate your sketches to 3-dimensions. Complete a detailed model with realistic materials and appropriate dimensions.

If you used Sketchup include only the front elevation plan as Sheet A-2 (choose Camera>Parallel_ Projection and then Camera>Standard View>Front then save the image as a jpg and put it in a title block in AutoCAD)

If you used Revit then include the front elevation plan as Sheet A-2 as above, but skip the floor plan of Step 6 and use Revit's floor plan directly as Sheet A-3

NB: all schedules/plans should be in architectural title blocks 

Step 6: Floor & Foundation plans

• You are to draw a full scale floor plan in CAD. The floor plan should include relevant dimensions and major furnishings. If you used Revit this step is not necessary.

• The foundation plan included is from Assignment # 12

• The footing detail included is from Assignment # 13

Include the floor plan as Sheet A-3

Include the foundation plan from Assignment #12 as Sheet A-4 and the text answers from Assignment #12 as Appendix 4: Foundation details

Include the footing cross-section (from Assignment #13) as Sheet A-5 

Step 7: Typical Wall Cross-Section

Include the typical cross-section of a wall from Assignment #14 as Sheet A-6 

Step 8: Model

• Plan the modeling of the lot to harmonize with the style of the house model.

• This model is part of the overall presentation and the completion of the assignment. Therefore, your model must be coordinated with all the other drawings.You will need approximately 3 sheets of foam core (30” X 30”) to complete the model building. Use one as your base to create the landscape and to layout the positioning of the house. The remaining 2 will be needed to build the structure.

• You can find patterns for exterior walls, windows, doors and may forms of stone work for walkways or decking on the internet. Print and use for the model.