Final Presentation Drawing

Week 10

Monday April 25-
Easter Monday

Tuesday April 26-
Today we continued to work on our house project and we looked at the floor plans for the St.John's addition.

Wednesday April 27-
Continued to work on house project. Finished layout on AutoCad, moving to Envisioneer.

Thursday April 28-
Today I added windows and doors to my presentation drawing of my house on AutoCad. I also added text and other details.

Friday April 29-
Absent

House Floor Plan - First Draft

Chapter 12- Hands on AutoCad

House Planning & Research

http://www.korel.com/
http://andyshowto.com/home_design.htm
www.thehousedesigners.com
http://www.homestyles.com/http://www.homeplanner.com/design_details/ 

I used all of these websites when researching for my house design and liked this set up in particular. My house is has a similar design but I omitted a few rooms and changed around a few things.

Bubble Diagram

My house will be a two bedroom, two and a half bath, one story house. It will be an approx 2000 square foot bungalow with an easy accessibly kitchen and living room. Plenty of storage and a covered porch outback. Good size bedrooms and a two car garage will also be included.

Week 9

Monday April 18-
Today the grade 11's watched the grade 12's give us a presentation on Sectional Drawings.

Tuesday April 19-
Today we completed quizzes for chapter 12, which was hands-on AutoCad. Then we continued to work on our house assignment, starting the floor plan.

Wednesday April 20-
Today I finished the first draft of my house plan on AutoCad, ready to start on Envisioneer.

Thursday April 21-
PANCAKES

Friday April 22-
Good Friday

Rhino

By watching a tutorial on youtube, we were able to do some modeling on Rhinocerus and create some 3D shapes.

Graphics Communication

Engineering Design Process

CAD Software:

Common basic features:

¡Commands to generate geometry

¡Functions for controlling views

¡Modifiers for changing drawing geometry

¡Annotation Commands for adding text, dimensions, and notes

¡Others

Terminology

 ¡CAD: Computer Aided Design

¡CADD: Computer Aided Design & Drafting

¡CAM: Computer Aided Manufacturing

¡CIM: Computer Integrated Manufacturing

¡CAE: Computer Assisted Engineering

¡CAPP: Computer-Aided Process Planning

¡MRP: Material Requirement Planning

¡EDM: Enterprise Document/Data Management

¡CAE: Computer Assisted Engineering

¡Blue Print Reading: Interpreting drawings made by others

Week 8

Monday April 11-
Today we had a lesson on Graphics communication and graphic design. Then we posted the notes onto our blog.

Tuesday April 12-
Today we learned how to use the program Envisioneer to start to build a house. This is part of our architecture unit.

Wednesday April 13-
Today we watched a tutorial on how to use Rhinoceros and started to learn the basics of the program.

Thursday April 14-
Today we finished doing a few small assignments on Rhino and then started to do our research for an upcoming project where we will design a full brochure for a house we design on AutoCad and Envisioneer.

Friday April 15-
Today we started to design a floorplan for our houses by doing a bubble diagram to deside how we want the rooms to be set up.

Architectural Styles

Architectural Styles in Canada

The architecture of Canada is, with the exception of that of Canadian First Nations, closely linked to the techniques and styles developed in Canada, Europe and the United States. However, design has long needed to be adapted to Canada's climate and geography, and at times has also reflected the uniqueness of Canadian culture. In the period after the First World War, Canadian nationalism led to attempts to proclaim a unique Canadian architecture, distinct from that of Britain and the United States. One style promoted as distinctly Canadian was the Château Style, also known as Railway Gothic. This style first appeared in the late nineteenth century with grandiose railway hotels such as the Château Frontenac and Banff Springs Hotel. It was a mix of Victorian Gothic Revival with castles of the Loire Valley in France. The railways were seen as symbols of Canada, and the mix of French and English ideas was also considered distinctly Canadian.

Architectural Styles in America

Exterior styles and related building forms and floor plans are in part a product of cultural tastes and values that reflect a particular place, time, and population.Postmodern architecture is generally characterized by an unrelated and exaggerated use of historical styles, or imitatated reproductions of older buildings. The current rise of postmodern historicism has coincided with a revived interest in traditional town planning practices known as "neotraditional" development, or more generally, the New Urbanism. A return to city centers in high-rise, mixed-used lofts and condos is now occuring, and hundreds of neotraditional neighborhoods are under construction or are already completed, with designs that variously emphasize walking, mass transit, mixed uses, community livability, public space, and -- hopefully -- affordability.

North American Influence

In the United States, 'Victorian' architecture generally describes styles that were most popular between 1860 and 1900. A list of these styles most commonly includes: Second Empire (1855–85), Stick-Eastlake (1860–ca. 1890), Queen Anne (1880–1910), Richardsonian Romanesque (1880–1900), and Shingle (1880–1900). As in the United Kingdom, examples of Gothic Revival and Italianate continued to be constructed during this period, and are therefore sometimes called Victorian. Some historians classify the later years of Gothic Revival as a destinctive Victorian style named High Victorian Gothic. The Painted Ladies are an example of Victorian architecture found in San Francisco, CA. (Picture on right).

Neoclassical architecture was an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century, manifested both in its details as a reaction against the Rococo style of naturalistic ornament, and in its architectural formulas as an outgrowth of some classicizing features of Late Baroque. In its purest form it is a style principally derived from the architecture of Classical Greece and the architecture of Italian Andrea Palladio. In form, Neoclassical architecture emphasizes the wall rather than chiaroscuro and maintains separate identities to each of its parts.An instance of this neoclassic revival style is reflected by the Lillian Massey Building in Toronto, Canada. The building resides in the Bay Street Corridor neighborhood and has stood the test of time since 1913, when it first opened as the University of Toronto's Faculty of Household Science.

The Keating Millennium Centre at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada, completed in 2001 (Picture top right).

Week 7

Monday April 4-
Today I wrote the unit test that I missed on friday. Then continued to work on my logo.

Tuesday April 5-
Today we watched a movie about the engineering of the Twin Towers and the attack while our blogs were marked. Then we had a assembly in the caf.

Wednesday April 6-
Today we finished watching the Twin Towers movie and then updated our blogs.

Thursday April 7-
Today we did an assignment on Architectural Styles of Canada and America. We had to put information about them onto our blog and their influences.

Friday April 8-
P.A. Day