CADD - Architectural Design CPU
Objectives
Activity 1
1-1. Test your preexisting knowledge
of the course material.
1-2. Discover the field of
architecture and the importance of the modern architect’s role in
society.
1-3. Become introduced to the various
styles of residential architecture.
1-4. Consider the number of
encounters you have with architecture everyday.
Activity 2
2-1. Discover the way computer-aided
drafting and design (CADD) has affected the world of architecture.
2-2 Become introduced to the Envisioneer software interface.
2-3. Create a simple cottage with Envisioneer
software.
2-4. Evaluate the usefulness of CADD
given your creation of a simple structure.
Activity 3
3-1. Read more about the importance
of freehand sketching.
3-2. Recognize the many elements of
floor plan design.
3-3. Identify the different styles
and manufacturing methods of interior and exterior walls.
3-4. Discover the different styles
and dimensioning techniques of staircases.
3-5. Begin drafting the floor plan of
your ranch house by completing the interior and exterior walls and
the staircase.
3-6. Consider your own residential
structure and its implementation of floor plan elements.
Activity 4
4-1. Define sleeping area.
4-2. Examine the specifications of
designing sleeping areas.
4-3. Discover the methods of window
design and installation.
4-4. Define rough opening.
4-5. Inspect the sleeping area rooms
in your ranch house.
4-6. Install windows into your ranch
floor plan.
4-7. Draft a Floor Plan Priority List
and explain your decisions.
Activity 5
5-1. Define living area.
5-2. Examine the specifications of
designing living areas.
5-3. Discover design elements of
fireplaces and define flue.
5-4. Identify methods of door design
and installation.
5-5. Inspect living area rooms in
your ranch house.
5-6. Install entryways, doors, a
porch, and a fireplace into your ranch floor plan.
5-7. Consider the various functions
of your own living area in context to the many titles living area
rooms assume.
Activity 6
6-1. Define service area.
6-2. Examine the specifications of
designing service areas.
6-3. Define and discover the methods
of calculating a work triangle.
6-4. Discover the methods of floor
design and installation.
6-5. Inspect service area rooms in
your ranch house.
6-6. Install room-specific flooring
into your ranch floor plan.
6-7. Officially name the rooms in
your ranch floor plan.
6-8. Describe a “walk-through” of an
ideal service area and why its design supplements the overall house
efficiently.
Activity 7
7-1. Identify different roof designs
and their various installation methods, including chimney
construction.
7-2. Define hip roof.
7-3. Discover ceiling construction
and installation.
7-4. Install a hip roof, with
chimneys, on your ranch house using Envisioneer.
7-5. Install ceilings into your ranch
house using Envisioneer.
7-6. Define elevation, and discover
methods of producing elevation drawings.
7-7. Produce a front view elevation
of your ranch house.
7-8. Consider the usefulness of CADD
software in light of its significant difference from tangible
structure construction.
Activity 8
8-1. Identify the significance of
plumbing plans and electrical plans to residential architecture.
8-2. Draft a plumbing plan for your
ranch house.
8-3. Draft an electrical plan for
your ranch house.
8-4. Explore the professions of
electricians and plumbers.
8-5. Assess CADD software’s ability
to offer intricate detailing options to CADD software users.
Activity 9
9-1. Define foundation.
9-2. Discover the significance and installation methods
of foundations in residential architecture.
9-3. Identify the different types of foundations.
9-4. Define foundation plan.
9-5. Create a foundation plan for your ranch house.
9-6. Explore the carpentry profession.
9-7. Given your experience with CADD, make a prediction
about how difficult a task you could complete with CADD.
Activity 10
10-1. Discover interior design as an art and how it
operates in tandem with architecture.
10-2. Identify interior design tactics and approaches
used in sleeping, living, and service areas.
10-3. Add room labels to your ranch house.
10-4. Design the interior of your ranch house’s master
bedroom, master bathroom, living room, and breakfast room.
10-5. Add external dimensions around your ranch house.
10-6. Explain what you’ve found most interesting about
architectural design and drafting, and/or interior design tactics, using
specific terms and ideas from this course.
Activity 11
11-1. Define presentation drawings and walkthrough
animations and discover their significance to the architect.
11-2.View a walkthrough animation of your ranch
house.
11-3. Add brief landscaping elements to, and around,
your ranch house.
11-4. Create a presentation drawing of your ranch
house.
11-5. Generate a walkthrough animation of your ranch
house.
11-6. Consider the significance and appeal of rooms
and room combinations in terms of walkthrough animations.
Activity 12
12-1. Begin challenges to meet several high-level
problem-solving objectives.
12-2. Consider and explain why you chose the
challenge that you did.
Activity 13
13-1. Continue working on challenges to meet several
high-level problem-solving objectives.
13-2. Consider how and why your learning about
architecture has colored your impression of architecture as an
artform.
Activity 14
14-1. Continue working on challenges to meet several
high-level problem-solving objectives.
14-2.Write a cogent paragraph arguing for
architecture’s being an artform or a learned skill.
Activity 15
15-1. Select appropriate vocabulary terms based
on the definitions provided.
15-2.Test your comprehension of concepts gained during
this course.
15-3.State and explain your opinion of the CADD—Architectural
CPU.
The objectives for the challenges in Activity 11
through Activity 15 of this CPU include:
Challenge 1
You will conduct research on a career of your choice in the CADD—architectural field. Share your findings in a presentation.
Challenge 2
You will install interior design elements to the
basement of the ranch house you’ve drafted throughout this course.
Challenge 3
You will accommodate the ranch house you’ve
drafted throughout this course—or another structure you’ve designed
yourself—for people confined to wheelchair mobility.
Challenge 4
You will refer to Activity 10 in this
Student Guide to help you design your own walkthrough animation
depicting the interior and exterior of either your ranch house or
another structure you’ve designed.
Challenge 5
You will design a floor plan for a two or three
story house and draft it using Envisioneer.
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