Contents
- Project description
- Site plan
- Rendering
- Floor plan
- Four elevations
- 2 interior renderings
- typical wall section
- Room schedule
- Summary of experience
Project description
In this project we had to sketch and design an affordable house for a certain client of our choosing. The house was then created using the Habitat for humanity codes and requirements. Each house would have a limited area they could use depending on the amount of bedrooms they could include, for example a three bedroom home could only have 1,070 square feet. We were to use our knowledge and skills of revit to create a 3-D model of our house.
Construction Drawings
Site plan
Rendering
Floor plan
Four elevations
East,South,North
2 interior renderings
Typical wall section
Room schedule
Summary of experience
I was able to meet the project criteria by following the Habitat for Humanity building codes and requirements, while also following other codes for example electrical, foundation and plumbing codes and requirements. For my house my client wanted a three-bedroom house with an open kitchen, a front porch and an area in their room to read peacefully. According to habitat humanity requirements a three-bedroom house could only have 1,070 sq ft with a 1-1/2 bathrooms. To abide by these requirements i designed my house in a square shape with a length of 32 ft and a width of 32 ft, with a total of 1,024 ft^2 as my total area. To allow three bedrooms in my house i placed them in a " L" shape with two bedrooms on the east side of my house and one on the south side. Then to accommodate the 1-1/2 bathrooms i placed the 1/2 bathroom in between the two rooms, and the full bathroom on the bottom corner of the house next to the third bedroom. Some problems that i did run into began when my client didn't agree with my first sketch of the house placing me behind schedule, however after some thought i was able to create a new sketch that my client approved. Another problem i ran into was when creating my house in revit my space in-between rooms was very tight, so i changed the size of my original house which had an original area of 889 ft sq to 1,024 ft sq. My biggest problem was making sure that my house fit all of the codes and requirements that had to be met. Some new things I learned during this project were how to apply a foundation underneath my house and how to create a site plan for my house. I also learned that it is very important and useful to create bubble drawings when designing a home and how difficult it can be when trying to build your own house because of all the codes and requirements you would have to follow. I had a lot of fun with this project, learning about all the codes and calculations that are needed for a building, and especially when we began using revit. Revit was a lot of fun to use and I had so much fun creating my house, furnishing it and being able to create a final product that I am satisfied with and helping others with their houses. I had used revit once before in another class in 8th grade called gateway, and back then I didn’t understand revit that much but now after coming back to it and using it for a day or two I understood it completely and enjoyed creating my house on it. If I could do something different next time I would maybe try a different floor plan for the house and I would also try a different siding on the outside of the house with a different color. I did not like the color of the outside siding of my house and if I could would change its color to a dark blue horizontal siding. I hope that in the near future that we will be able to use revit again for another project.