Contents
This Weebly will contain my project overview, construction drawings, and summary of my Habitat for Humanity house.
Project Overview
In this project, I am designing a 3 bedroom house for my client, Reginald Midley. In this house I must include, no more than 3 bedrooms, only 2 bathrooms, and a deck that wraps around to the front of the home. I also have to follow the and implement the constraints/guidelines of Habitat for humanity, the Building codes, and the Universal Principles of Design.
Some requirements of this project included having to interview a client in order to find the design of the house while still considering the different codes we had to follow. For example, my client, at first, requested a home that was 1,800 SqFt. This was not possible because of the Habitat requirements that say three bedroom houses have to be 1,070 SqFt.
Getting familiar |
We spent time in class learning and getting familiar with all the guidelines and requirements that we had to implement into our project.
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My interview with my client, Reginald Midley, went very smoothly. Everything stayed professional and I was able to come up with a design that satisfied both the requirements and the Build codes.
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Interview with Client |
Bubble Sketches
This my bubble sketch of the first floor plan that I designed.
Revisions
Some revisions I had to make were;
- Changing the sizes of the bedrooms to fit in the available square feet
- Making the entrance of the house on the side instead of the front
- Adjusting the size of the 2nd bedroom to make space for a 4 foot wide entrance
Requirements
Followed requirements from Habitat for Humanity
- Wall construction - fully sheathed 2 x 6 construction
- All hallways - 42 inches wide frame to frame
- Passage doors - 32 inches wide
- Every bedroom has at least one window and the kitchen has two
- Energy Star Certified
- Ceiling height of habitable space is more than 7 ft
- 21 inch clearance in front of toilets and sinks
- Natural ventilation through windows and doors
- Opening in a kitchen must not be less then 5 ft
- At least one egress door shall be provided for each dwelling unit
- Flexibility in use - Wheelchair accessible
- Simple and Intuitive Use - HFH requires it to be simple and easy
- Size and Space for Approach and Use - Hallways are the required width for comfortable living
Construction drawings
This a snip of my site plan where my house would hypothetically be built in real life.
This is the outside rendering of my fully designed house.
This is the fully dimensioned floor plan of my house.
These are the 4 elevation views of my house including the bottom of stairs, floor, and roof levels.
This is the inside rendering of my complete kitchen.
This is the typical wall section that shows the inside of my wall and roof.
This is the room tags and schedule for the house. It includes classifications of structures in the house and the schedules for those structures.
Summary
This project was one of the rougher projects I have done. It was rough in regards to the time limit. With us also learning lessons of the Residential Design unit as we were building and designing the house did create some setbacks, but at the same time, we needed know that information in order to construct our houses. With the information we learned we were able to implement the major requirement codes of Habitat for Humanity, the building codes, and the Universal Principles of Design. Implementing these codes into my design was a bit challenging at times. For example, in the Habitat for Humanity Construction guide lines, a three-bedroom house has to be equal to or under 1,070 square feet. This was hard because it meant that I had a very limited space to work with in regard to the inside dimensions of my house. Other than that, I do not think I had many other problems implementing the codes into my design. I was able to meet all or most of the criteria of the project and my client with this design. The only criteria of my client that I could not follow was the construction of a deck that is accessible from the living room, but that can always be renovated in a couple months too a year later after a bit of the mortgage has been payed off. My designed house is a three-bedroom, two-bathroom home. It includes 1 master, 1 bedroom, 1 guest room, a living room, and a full kitchen. Some of the calculations that we did for our houses that are not on this Weebly are the plumbing, rain water runoff, water supply, solar orientation, and LEED credit calculations. We have learned a plethora of different lessons while we were designing this house that helped us improve and make the design better. From learning about heat load to rain water runoff, we did it all. While working on this project I did run into some problems though. The problems ranged from some minor technical difficulties with the Revit program, to leaving my flash drive with my whole project on it at home, therefore losing a whole day of class time that I needed really bad. That caused me to have to stay over after school once, which was a bit complicated in itself. One time during the start of the project, I had already made my outside walls and felt ready to move on to make my inside walls. So, I made the inside of my walls just to figure out a couple minutes later that the out outside dimensions had changed because I had not locked them. I thought it would be quick fix but the program would not let me edit them after adding the inside walls, so I had to delete it all and start again. Overall this project was very interesting. I enjoyed most of it, but there were some parts I definitely did not. If I could something different next time, I would not spend so much time on the little things regarding the house because I realized that is wasn’t as important than I thought and unnecessarily wasted some time.
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