In class today we continued learning about zoning and took notes on the common symbols used when drawing a property. We afterwards used that information to construct a model of our property. We then constructed a massing model of our house and fit it to our property model. After constructing this we took them outside to understand how the angle of the house effected light exposure and where the shadows formed. When we went back inside we began working on a very detailed and colored version of our property from a zoning perspective. Today we started by learning what setbacks are on a site plan and how they work. Then we continued a basic site plan we started yesterday and we used the documentation we printed out on our specific zones to draw in our setbacks onto the site plan. Also, we learned about benchmarks on property corners and how to read the property line descriptions. We ended the class by creating a site plan from the textbook on AutoCAD. Using the property line description, we typed in the direction,angle, and distance(EX.@60<S30E) to create property borders for the site plan. Today we found our zoning codes and our parcel numbers for our own homes. To do this we had to look up our houses on zoning maps and real estate databases. We also took a look in a book about architecture and read about some key terms like property lines. Mr. Walker printed out index cards with make believe building restriction lines or "BRLs" and gave us an example of how a piece of property may not be as flexible as we thought and you really just have to "deal with it" . To end the class we drew out an example from the architecture book onto a blank notecard and wrote our zoning codes at the bottom.
by Chad Whitelock "I've been waiting for this class all day." Well everyone, it's that time of the year again. We all set our alarms to a time way earlier than would be appreciated and drag ourselves to school like zombies, instead chanting "GRADEESS" instead of "Brains". Lucky for the ARL, our paper bag lunches have finally put enough energy into to run smoothly for a nice "Hello" and a smile. It was a good first day in the Senior Architecture Program. Even though we prayed not to have to do it, the expected still life sketch composed of two chairs and a ladders. How Mr. Walker thought of this "work of art", I have no answer for. After decent amount of time to put a dent into our sketches, we moved on to talk about the usually conversation you get on the first day of any class. "Here is the schedule", "Have your parents sign this", "Turn this back in tomorrow" and so on. Exciting enough, we breezed through all that mumboo gumboo and got to do some learning. In the Architecture Academy, "learning" is not like it is in typical classes. It's fun and very useful. The topic of the day was property lines and building restrictions. We got to work our brains to try to figure out some of our very complicated property lines of our houses. Poor Kira and her power line situation. But all in all, today was a very satisfying day. Warm-up:
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