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Activity 2.3.6 Residential Electrical Systems

• What is daylighting?

Daylighting is the use of windows and skylights to bring sunlight into your home
ambient, task lighting, accent lighting

• What are some advantages to providing daylighting?

Improved Life-Cycle Cost, Increased User Productivity, Reduced Emissions, and Reduced Operating Costs

natural day light

• Describe the best orientation for windows in a building in order to take advantage of daylighting.

South-facing windows

Review your affordable home floor plans. Consider how you can better incorporate daylighting into your design. Mark at least one change on the floor plan(s) that will improve the energy efficiency of the home by increasing the daylighting. Make the change on your 3D model.

Locate an electric meter (typically mounted on an exterior wall) and sketch your proposed location for the main panel on the print of your affordable home floor plan. Choose an accessible interior location for the panel that is hidden from public view – perhaps a closet or separate space. Include the electric meter and main panel in your 3D model.

Sketch a preliminary electrical plan on your affordable home floor plan(s).

Sketch the location of outlets, lighting, and switches so as to comply with the Residential Electrical Code Requirements. Think about how each room will be used, what appliances and equipment are needed, and where extra convenience outlets should be placed.

Connect each lighting fixture to at least one switch (or as required by the Residential Electrical Code Requirements) using a switch leg (dashed line). Consider the need for three way switches.

Locate exterior outlets and lights as required by code.

Comply with all New Construction Guidelines for Habitat for Humanity.

Include an electrical service line on your electronic site plan.

(Optional) Revise your Affordable Home Project drawings to include your electrical design. You must determine the best place to show your electrical plan. Sometimes it is easiest to place it directly on a floor plan; other times you will need to prepare a separate electrical plan.

Conclusion

1. How did you incorporate daylighting into your project? Skylight
2. Why are some electrical plans placed on a floor plan and others on a separate sheet?  so you can see them better cause of the furniture.
3. What is important for an architect to know about electrical plans?
4. How does the design of the structure affect the electrical layout?

Essential Questions

1. What is the difference between R-value and U-value? When are they used?
R-Value is the value used to indicate the resistance to the flow of heat while the U-Value is a measure of the heat transmission through a building part or a given thickness of a material with lower numbers indicating better insulating properties. To determin the amount of BTU's

2. What are some leading causes of solar gain?
Heat going through windows and doors.

3. What key areas of a building can minimize heat loss?
The walls with insulation.
4. Why is a cost estimate important to create before starting a project?
so you can expect what to pay for the project.

Essential Questions

1Why is wood so often used for residential buildings?
Cheap

2. What alternatives to wood frame construction are available and what are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
concrete -stronger

3. How are trusses able to span large distances?
cause of the triangleular shape

4. What framing systems are used to support residential roofs?
Hip roofs gable roof


5. How are different roof styles and pitches related to different architectural styles?
The type of roof depends on the type of architectual cause some astyles might have a flatt roof like international style

Key Terms 2.2

 

Compression Strength
The maximum compressive stress a material can withstand without failure.

Concrete
A solid, hard material produced by combining Portland cement, aggregates, sand, water and sometimes additional mixtures.

Design Temperature Differential
The difference between the indoor temperature in winter and the outdoor design temperature in winter. The design temperature differential or design range is used in calculating the space heating requirements of a dwelling unit under the engineering-based methodology.

Fascia
The finish board covering the edges of rafters and eaves.

Footing
The lowest, widest part of the foundation that distributes the load over a broad area of the soil.

Foundation
The lower part of a building, which transfers structural loads from the building to the soil.

Heat Loss
The energy needed to warm outside air leaking into a building through cracks around doors, windows, and other areas.

Radiant Heat
Energy radiated or transmitted as rays or waves, in the form of particles.

Rafter
Member of a roof structural frame that supports the sheathing and other roof loads.

Rebar
Steel bar used to reinforce concrete.

R-Value
The numerical value used to indicate the resistance to the flow of heat.

Sole Plate
The plate placed at the bottom of a wall.

Square (Quantity of Shingles)
In roofing, 100 square feet of roofing material.

Tensile Strength
The maximum stress a material subjected to a stretching load can withstand without tearing.

Thermal Conduction
The process of heat transfer through a solid by transmitting kinetic energy from one molecule to the next.

Thermal Convection
Heat transmission by the circulation of a liquid or a heated gas or air.



U-Factor
A measure of the heat transmission through a building part (as a wall or window) or a given thickness of a material (as insulation) with lower numbers indicating better insulating properties.

Utility Shed

Project 1.2.2 Design Charrette

Conclusion

1.    Why is it important to recognize challenges and barriers during the charrette and then identify solutions?

It is important to recognize the challenges and barriers during the charrette is so that you can find the best way to approach and to accomplish the task

2.    Among the ideas or thoughts that you prepared for the charrette, were there any that were disregarded by the group? Why? Do you think it was the right decision?

 

There were some ideas that were disregarded because they were to expensive in design or to complex. I think the right decision was made overall.

3.    What is the value of using a charrette to investigate the feasibility and development of a building project? Describe specific advantages over a traditional approach in which the client meets with an architect and the architect develops the plan.

The value of using a charrette to investigate a building project is that the people you work with might come up with a better idea than the one you may have thought of. The specific advantage is that you come up with more ideas as a team than alone.

4.    Identify and explain a potential drawback of the plan your team drafted.

 

The potential drawback of our plan is that it might not be 100% effective cause one of the students could walk in the school counseling a weapon.

Your Career questions

1. What is your age?

48

2. Where do you live?

Fort Wayne, IN

3. What do you like to do outside of work?

going camping

4. What is your job title?

design architect

5. When and why did you choose your career path?

At the age of 8 cause i found out that i like to design and create different things

6. What is the name of your company or employer?

MSKTD & Associates

James R Kratzat

7. Describe your primary duties and skills. [Cite your source(s)]

     my primary duties are design structures meat with potential or current clients on the design and occasionally visit the construction site. (bls.gov)

8. Describe your physical work environment.

 I mostly stay indoors during the day but on certain occasions I go out to the construction site and view the progress 

 

9. What is your favorite part of your job?

   designiong different types of buildings

10. What is your salary? [Cite your source(s)]

$76,750 (bls.gov)

11. Which accredited school did you first attend, and what was your degree? [Cite your source(s)]

Ball State University

Master's Degree in Architecture (bsu.edu)

12. Describe in detail three of the courses that you took which are closely related to your current career. [Cite your source(s)]

ARCH 418 - Structural Systems 3.

Continuation of Structural Systems 2. Introduction to wood, concrete and masonry systems and their application to design of horizontal and vertical building systems. Discussions of alternative structural building materials and systems

ARCH 502 - Architectural Design 2.

Graduate design course involves architectural problems of increasing scale and complexity and requires solutions that are thorough in their conception, development, and execution. Multiple studio sections are offered each semester. Prerequisite: graduate standing

ARCH 614 - Design Studio 4.

Integration of design determinants with emphasis on building tectonics including structure, natural and mechanical environmental systems, building materials and methods of construction, and building systems. Understanding thorough design of the inherent logic of technical systems and how these systems influence architecture form, space, meaning and function. (Bsu.edu)

13. Describe the two courses that you considered most challenging. [Cite your source(s) and include a course listing from the appropriate degree program]

ARCH 502 - Architectural Design 2.

Graduate design course involves architectural problems of increasing scale and complexity and requires solutions that are thorough in their conception, development, and execution. Multiple studio sections are offered each semester. Prerequisite: graduate standing

ARCH 614 - Design Studio 4.

Integration of design determinants with emphasis on building tectonics including structure, natural and mechanical environmental systems, building materials and methods of construction, and building systems. Understanding thorough design of the inherent logic of technical systems and how these systems influence architecture form, space, meaning and function. (Bsu.edu)

14. What resources did your school have available to help you get through the most difficult courses? [Cite your source(s)]

     

15. Regarding the two most challenging courses how did you persevere?

  determination and dedication 

16. From what school(s) did you receive graduate degrees? [Cite your source(s)]

   Ball State University

  

17. What was the title or titles of the degree(s)? [Cite your source(s)]

    Masters Achiterture II (bsu.edu)

18. What licenses do you have and what were the exams required to receive those licenses? [Cite your source(s)]

     Registered Architect

19. How would your clients and co-workers describe you?

   Hard working determined dedicated 

  

20. What do you hope to accomplish at the conclusion of your career?

   be a well known architect and have a well known building as well 

 

21. Why should a high school student consider a career in your field? What important contribution(s) can they make?

    they should consider this career cause there is different ideas they could contribute to other architects or design some of the most well known buildings.

 

Conclusion

1. You described a career related to civil engineering and/or architecture. Is this the career field that you are currently most interested in at this stage in your life?

     

2. Rank and describe the three most important characteristics that you value in choosing a post-secondary school.
   1 Location
   2 student life
   3 academics

     

3. Rank the following in the order of importance to you regarding a career: job satisfaction; salary; making a difference; level of responsibility; titles; benefits; hours; co-workers; supervisors.
   1 Job satisfaction
   2 benefits
   3 salary
   4 level of responsibility
   5 making a difference

6 co-workers

7 titles

8 Supervisors

9 hours

1.2 Key Terms

ABET- the recognized accreiditor for college and university programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and technology


AIA- this is the professional society representing the field of achitecture and others working in the field

ASCE- this is the professional engineering society representing the field of civil engineering and others working in the civil engineering field

Building Code- legal re





Charrette





Construction Documents





Municipality





NAAB





NCARB





Stakeholder





Zoning Ordinance

This is your career

This is a video of what I intend to be when i graduate from collage and form 30 years from now.

Questions

Architecture


1. What advice would you give to a person who is interested in architecture?

2. What type of buildings do you design and how long do they usually take to complete the design?

Civil Engineering


1. What is the most satisfying thing about your career?

2. What is a typical day for you?

Key terms

Aesthetics
The quality of an object that deals with art, beauty, and taste.

Arch
A curved structure for spanning an opening, designed to support a vertical load primarily by axial compression.

Architect


Balance
The pleasing or harmonious arrangement or proportion of parts or elements in a design or composition.

Bearing Walls
Solid walls that provide support for each other and for the roof of a structure.

Civil Engineering

Color
The aspect of the appearance of objects and light sources that may be described in terms of hue, lightness, and saturation for objects and hue, brightness, and saturation for light sources.

Contrast
A visual principle associated with change made in size, shape, color, or tone of graphic elements.

Design Principles
The rules that describe how designers might put together various design elements to create an aesthetic finished product.

Dome
An arrangement of several arches whose bases form a circle and whose tops meet in the center.

Element of Design
A basic visual component or building block of designed objects.

Emphasis
Stress or prominence given to an element of a composition by means of contrast, anomaly, or counterpoint.

Façade
The exterior face of a building.

Form
The shape and structure of something as distinguished from its substance or material.

Keystone
A wedge-shaped stone placed in the crown of an arch.

Line
The edge or contour of a shape.

Lintel
A beam supporting the weight above a door or window opening.

Movement
The effect or illusion of motion conveyed by the relationship of structural elements in a design or composition.

Pattern
An artistic or decorative design, especially one having a characteristic arrangement and considered as a unit.

Post-and-Lintel Construction
Wall construction utilizing a framework of vertical posts and horizontal beams to carry floor and roof loads.

Repetition
A principle where some graphic elements are repeated throughout the entire design.

Rhythm
Movement characterized by a patterned repetition or alteration of formal elements or motifs in the same or a modified form.


Shape
The two-dimensional contour that characterizes an object or area.

Space
The dimensions of height, depth, and width within which all things exist and move.

Texture
The feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface, substance, or fabric.

Unity
The state or quality of being combined into one, as the ordering of elements in an artistic work that constitutes a harmonious whole or promotes a singleness of effect.

Value
The relative lightness or darkness of a color.

Vernacular Architecture
Culturally and climatically relevant architecture using locally available materials and traditional building techniques.

Voussoir
Any of the wedge-shaped units in a masonry arch or vault, having side cuts converging at one of the arch centers

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Essential Questions




1. How did the art and science of architecture and civil engineering evolve over time?



2. Describe three structural systems used by architects in historical construction projects.



3. How have historical innovations contributed to modern civil engineering and architecture?



4. How are visual design elements and principles manifested in architecture?

Project 1.1.4 Architectural Features

1.How did the time period from which your feature was most prevalent influence the feature?





2.How did the feature you modeled meet a human need?




3.Describe the use of the principle of design best represented in the architecture of your model.



4.Explain how one of the other models in your class has similar characteristics?

Greek style