D Edwards TILT Architecture 1

Purpose: As part of the design process, students learn the tools necessary to develop floor plans and a site plan and to understand the role they play in an architect's building design. Students practice considering principles of organization, scale, proportion, and rhythm as they develop their graphic skills necessary for success in the building design industry. Having already written a program for this project, analyzed the site, and developed bubble diagrams the next step is to create the floor plans and site plan. The development of these plans takes place in three steps. Step 1 is known as Schematic Design (SD). In industry, they are then taken through Step 2, Design Development (DD) and Step 3, Construction Documents (CD). This meets Course Learning Outcome (CLO) 4C  of Floor Plan creation as well as Program Learning Outcomes (POL) 1, 3, 4 and 5.

• Understand fundamental architectural drafting concepts and methods.
• Demonstrate competencies in the development and output of residential construction documents.
• Investigate relevant components of the International Residential Code and apply.
• Distinguish the sequential steps of the design process

 Being able to interpret and create floor plans and a site plan is essential in an architecture office because as drafters, intern architects or architects, you will be interpreting and creating these plans.  Graduates working in construction management, landscape architecture or engineering (structural, mechanical, electrical, civil) will need to be able to interpret floor plans and site plans. 

Design Phases:

Knowledge: This assignment will help the student to become familiar with the process of generating floor plans. The student will develop their ability to understand orthographic projection and how the floor plans relate to the 3D model, the elevations and the other plans. The student will become better acquainted with how architects use line weights to communicate effectively. The student will also learn the necessary components of a site plan for the early phases of the design process.The student will also learn what annotation and material designation is appropriate at the different phases of the design process.

Skills: The student will be able to create floor plans using features in AutoCAD Architecture: wall, door, window, dimensions, leaders, text. The student will be able to create a site plan using AutoCAD. The student will also be able to evaluate whether the floor plan layout coordinates well with the site plan.

The student will also be able to evaluate their work to check that the floor plan for each level coordinates with the floor plans on the other levels.

Task: The student will create floor plans in AutoCAD Architecture.

1. Create and edit walls using the wall command
2. Insert and modify doors using the door command
3. Insert and modify windows using the window command
4. Add casework, stairs, etc. using the line/arc commands
5. Use blocks for the furniture, plumbing fixtures and appliances
6. Modify layers of all drawing content to meet industry standards of layers and line weights
7. Add necessary notes using the leader command
8. Add room names using the text command
9. Add dimensions using the dimension tool

Draft floor plans for each level of each of your three condominiums using AutoCAD Architecture.  Use correct layers to generate correct line weights when printed out at SCC as well as enabling plan selection (ceiling plan, roof plan, furnishings plan, floor finishes plan). Show basement walls as 14” thick (8” concrete and 6 inches of furring). Above grade walls to be 6 thick for exterior and plumbing and the rest make 4-1/2”. Align and justify text for a neat and organized appearance. See notes below.

Criteria for Success: This assignment will be graded and you will earn points based on the finished product. See examples of work and rubric below

Notes:

Link for building codes

https://up.codes/viewer/washington/ibc-2015/chapter/1/scope-and-administration#1 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Links to an external site.

https://up.codes/viewer/utah/ibc-2015/chapter/1/scope-and-administration#1 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Links to an external site.

Using AutoCAD Architecture, design your condo units. It is up to you what you have as your size of units (3 units minimum). As an example, one unit could be ADA, at least one small unit and at least one large (multiple bedroom) unit. The objective is to think of this as a reinventing the way that we live to be more sustainable. Be creative. Try to make this the coolest project ever designed by anybody, ever.  Use the bubble diagrams to help you position the rooms. The final product does not need to match the bubble diagram if you determine that you did not have a workable layout.

You will be incorporating the things that you have learned from "Building An Affordable House" book to make the house less expensive to build, but I don't want cost savings to stunt your creative process. We have an unlimited budget, we just want to not waste materials or have unnecessary labor costs. For example, you could attempt to make the footprint of your buildings so that the outside dimensions are on a four foot module. Try to group the plumbing together if possible without ruining your design. Try to simplify the footprint of the condo and try to reduce the amount of material used. If you can't manage four foot increment, use a two foot increment. Save the file to the CCS Links or attach in Canvas folder by 12:15 PM on the due date.

Some Do's and Don'ts:

Front door and laundry room door need to be 36 in. Interior doors can be 30" or 32". Consider when appliances have to get through doorways, a 30" door is very small. All exterior doors must swing in. There must be a door from the garage into the house as well as a 36" man door from the garage to the outside. Pocket doors are allowed but you must provide an adequate amount of wall space to the side of the door for the door to slide into. Also pocket doors cannot slide into a wall or partition with plumbing. Exterior sliding doors should be 6'-0" wide.

Kitchen counters are 25 inches deep. Bathroom counters are 22" deep.

Hallways must be at least 3'-6" wide but 4'-0" is better. Aisles around island in kitchen need to be at least 4'-0". Stairs should be 4'-0" wide and 14'-0" long. If the staircase is descending toward an exterior wall, you must allow for a landing at the bottom of the stairs and must consider that the basement wall is 14" thick. A rule of thumb is to have 18'-0" from the outside face of the wall to the first riser.

Dishwasher needs to be directly adjacent to sink.

Walk-in Closet should be a 6'-0" wide and a minimum of 6'-0" long. Room for water closet should be a minimum of 3'-0" wide and 5'-0" long.

Guests must have access to a bath or powder room without going through a bedroom. There must be access for children to get to a tub and shower without going through the master bath.

Some clients prefer the access to the master walk-in closet to be through the master bath but you can also have access to the walk-in closet from the master bedroom.

All bedrooms must have an egress window. The amount of glazing for all habitable spaces (living, dining, kitchen, bedroom) must be at least 8% of the floor area of that room. There should also be operable windows that have openings that are at least 4% of the floor area. Egress windows (for bedrooms) must have a sill that is no higher than 44" above the floor. The opening in the window must be 24" minimum, the width 20" min., and the area 5.7 square feet minimum.

All units must have at least one designated parking stall on site. Two stalls per site is preferred. See rubric below for grading.