Designing A House

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This report is being written as if you were to fully design my senior project. These are all

the steps and procedures you would need to take to properly design it. First thing you would need

to do would be identifying specific landmarks of surrounding land or lot. You would note down

anything and roughly measure marks approximate to house location, this way you would have a

general idea of where the house would be. If there are no big landmarks, such as nearby houses

or roads - you should note small markings such as trees or pathways, anything to help you

identify the location of the house. Also, you should note climate, that can be a factor.

After you’ve surveyed the entire scene you should write down all ideas having to do with

what the house will need to be habitable and reference surrounding buildings for notes. For

example if a building near the house lot has a high angled roof, that could be because of heavy

snow or rainfall. Don’t be afraid to ask questions or extensivly look up ideas.

Next will come your rough draft, this is basically self explanatory. You will create

preliminary sketches of floor plan with rough dimensions, and sketch a view of the house

dimensioned from landmarks. The information on your rough sketch does not have to be exact,

but it must be more informative then the notes you had taken earlier.

After getting specifics from the consumer, you will begin to construct your floor plan.

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While it is your (our) job to create convinience and simplicity in the house design, you must

consider the consumers ideas and needs. When you do this plan you must label all doors with

Door tags, these will be used later. When putting dimensions in your floor plan make sure they

are specific and detailed. Try not to over dimension, but do not underdimension, carefully check

every dimension, to see if it was duplicated or noted beforehand. Now will come the basement

plan, dimension everything accordingly and show all needed floor supports. The needs for this

house are different because of it's large design, lolly columns are neccisary. Label everything.

When your done with the basement and floor plans you should construct a electrical plan

and plumbing plan, the electrical plan is necessary in this project, but the plumbing is not. "Now

day's you count on a licenced plumer to come in, they are the experts and they'll know whats

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