Thursday, January 28, 2010

More Lake House Questions

6. What impact will the property have on the surrounding area if it is developed?
The impact it will have will be the production of more plants and trees as well as grass.

7. How do you know if your design is ready for implementation?
If everything is completed and the measurements are pricise and accurate.

8. How does the use of software and other tools aid in the development of an idea?
It allows the production of the design to be easier, quicker, and accurate.

9. What design ideas would you incorporate in your vacation house versus your year-round house?
The vacation house would have fewer items and be more plain and simple.

10. What is something you learned today that you did not understand or know before?
How to use the revit system and the tools that it contains

Monday, January 25, 2010

Lake House Questions

1. As a designer, in what ways did you try to influence your client?
Telling him the things that i knew i was capable of making so he didnt give me something that i was unsure of designing.

2. How did making the sketches when working with your client help the design process?
It helped by giving me a good layout of what i was going to design and the steps i would take in needing to create it.

3. What relationship do the various drawings and renderings have to each other?
They all give a different view or design of the lake house.

4. How did the existing plot plan limit your design?
I couldn't add everything the client wanted because of the lake house being 500 square feet.

5. What are some of the things you would do differently? How would you change the process to accomplish them?
I would of probly added more to the rooms of the house, maybe more furniture. By adding the features while constructing the room.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Essential Questions

1. Being put on doors, roofs, windows, and sidings of the structures.
2. Cape Cod is used in New England residential, Greek is used for government buildings, and neo ectric is used for comercial.
3. The neo ectric is most commonly used which consistss of many styles
4. If population size is small then there are smaller buildings, if size is big then there are bigger buildings

Essential Questions 1.1

1. No, civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment. Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and constructing space that reflects functional, social, and aesthetic considerations.
2. Civil engineering was only thought as building smaller things but it has evolved into the creations of many things. The pyramid hotel in las vegas took shape from the ancient pyramids.
3. They make all of the designs and ideas of the creation which affects everything.
4. Looking up colleges and buisnesses for oppurtunities online.

Friday, January 15, 2010

Concept Map

1. What distinguishes Civil Engineering from Architecture?

Architecture is the process and planning of the product.

2.Identify three events in the evolution of Civil Engineering that you think are important to know and that help you understand Civil Engineering.

Pyramids, Collesium, and skyscrapers

3.Identify three events in the evolution of Architecture that you think are important to know and that help you understand Architecture.

Dwellings, Mayan City, Parthenon

Thursday, January 14, 2010



1. To take time on each step and make sure i know what i am doing.

2. Something i would change would probly be to add more details to the playhouse. For instance, change the design of the roof and maybe the shape of the house.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Shed Activity Questions

1. An aspect of the design process that is most efficient and that I remembered was to take my time and only do the things that I had learned.

2.I would add more features to and inside of the shed if I could do it again. Maybe add a different door, window, siding, or even add a cabinet or shelf on the inside.

6 Questions

What are the high school and college courses needed to become a civil engineer?
Is civil engineering one of the most common engineering positions?
What is the difference between architecture and civil engineering?
What things revolutionized civil engineering?
What things revolutionized architecture?
What are some current things that were designed from ancient creations?

Wednesday, January 6, 2010