Sorry you will be unable to attend class at the ARL today, please take the time to read and complete the following assignments. See you tomorrow! Mr. Walker.
Read the following: LINK Answer the following questions: 1, What type of foundation do you have? 2. Why do you think your home has that type of foundation? For the next couple of questions please use a home with a basement in mind. 3. If this home was in Florida what type of foundation do you believe your home would have and why? 4. If you were to change this home to a crawl space, what would it affect? Would your floorplan have to change at all? (washer, dryer, water heater, etc.) 5. Name 3 pros for each of the type of foundations. 6. Name 3 cons for each of the type of foundations. 7. Research a product that would improve the construction of one of the foundation types and explain why it would be positive . 8. Estimate the cost of the following example: Basement: 8' tall wall constructed out of 16"x8"x8" blocks. The dimension of the basement is 40'x24' and each block cost $2.14 what is the cost of the concrete blocks? Do not worry about waste material. Sketch: Generate one good cross-section sketch of each of the types of foundations.
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Google maps, Sketch up, Ponds, and Hacky Sacks:
Today we learned about how Google Sketchup and Google maps can work together pretty effectively (who would've thought that would happen) but besides the synergy it's difficult to get an accurate design of where you live, one of the reasons mainly being because you don't know the exact measurements and for bigger buildings sometimes you don't know the exact number of windows or number of doors. Some of the other problems we had were that people weren't able to get their buildings filled because they built it on different elevations Google sketch up isn't user friendly once you start to do some of the complicated stuff but besides that it has a lot of useful and unique features. Afterwards went outside to see how accurate the Google maps terrain was vs. the real life terrain, it was pretty accurate. We then were given some time to finish our CAD drawings. Oh and we also briefly played hacky sack. Today, we continued working on plot drawings on AutoCAD. Most of us just needed to finish hatching the drawing, and adding layers of hatches. We then printed out our finished plot plans, so we can move on to making them on Sketchup.
Flaming Toilet?!?We began class by completing the drill which was to find an interesting article amongst the piles of magazines and answer three questions about said article. Somewhere along the line in the drill, the conversation came up about incinerating toilets and thus the reason behind the title, flaming toilet, was born. Next Mr. Walker introduced us to a new AutoCAD command playfully dubbed as its spelled, the SPLINE command. With the introduction to this newest command, we were cast away to the barron outskirts of the classroom where we slaved away for hours creating masterpieces on AutoCAD; creating the plots of which our homes are on in any way we wanted to.. then by using another new command, Hatch, we used a variety of colors and texture patterns to give the 2-D drawings vibrance and life. Then we ended class by rushing to put all of the magazines back and turn in our drill papers to Mr. Walker for stern review of our answers
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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