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Architectural Drawing & Design 2 48.5460099

Prerequisite: Architectural Drawing 1
10th - 12th grade

Course Description

Architectural Drawing 2 is the third and completion course in the Architectural Drawing Career Pathway. This course builds on the skills developed in Architecture 1. Emphasis is placed on schedules, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, presentation drawings, plot/site plans specifications and building estimations.  Students utilize both AutoCAD and Revit, a 3-D architectural design software.

Equipment needed for this course is a USB drive.  You are responsible to have your supplies in class every day beginning with the first Monday of class.

You will be required to have a Google g-mail email account in order to facilitate document sharing and blog access.  Your email address should be professional and recognizable.  Either use a combination of your first & last name or first/last name and a number.  The blog will become a portfolio demonstrating your work. You will be communicating with professional designers through the blog and having a proper email address is important. If your parents would like to discuss this with me, then please let me know and I will be happy to contact them.

If you have not done so already, I recommend that you join the Autodesk Student Community and download a student license of AutoCAD and Revit.  I will email you the instructions on how to do this after classes begin.  This will enable you to continue working at home should you be absent.

Once you begin the design projects, you will contribute to a project blog. This will be an on-going assignment that demonstrates your ability to communicate in a written format.

Textbooks are not assigned to bring home, but there will be homework in this course. 

The grading for this course is as follows:

5% Blog
15% Final Exam
20% Section Test
20% Class Exercises
40% Design Project

Syllabus

Instructor:

Jack R. Reece                                                                                        Telephone: 770-578-3266

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Room 002

Office Hours:  daily 7:30 – 8:20, 3:30 – 4:00

“What is Engineering Drawing & Design?” Engineering Drawing & design is a series of courses that teaches how to express, plan, specify and evaluate ideas through the language of technical drawing.  These courses will also familiarize the student with the procedures and practices common to the industries that use drafting.  Some of these career fields are Aeronautics, Architecture, Civil Engineering, Geology, Mechanical Engineering and urban Planning to name a few.

Behavioral Expectations

You are in high school now.  You are preparing to go on to college or enter the work force in a few years.  I am here to help you learn skills that you will use as an adult functioning in our society.  I expect professional behavior at all times.  I will enforce the student code of conduct as it is stated in your student handbook.  Briefly stated, I expect you to be present in class every day and to work each day for the entire class period.  There will be no bathroom breaks nor going to the counselor’s office during class period.  Be forewarned, if you choose to break the rules, you will suffer the consequences.

Lab Rules

  1. Follow directions the first time given.
  2. Pick up your folder and equipment and be seated in your assigned seat before the tardy bell rings ready to begin the day’s assignment.
  3. Respect other persons and their property.
  4. Stay in your work area unless you have permission to do otherwise.
  5. All drinks, food, gum, candy, computer disk/CDs, electronic devices and cell phones will be disposed of before entering the room.
  6. No internet usage unless you have permission from the instructor.

Safety Issues

  1. Be familiar with the fire exit plan and other emergency drills.
  2. Do not lean back in the chairs.  Keep all chair legs on the floor at all times.
  3. Be extremely careful when using pointed or sharp instruments.  Never turn a compass or razor knife so that it points toward the face or body of yourself or another person.
  4. No horseplay!  This means no sports, pushing, wrestling, running or throwing.

Grading System

All engineering Drawing classes have lectures, demonstrations, group and individual work.  As your skills increase, so do the complexity of the projects.  All work has a deadline.  Any assignment turned late will lose ten percent of the highest possible grade for every day it is late.  No assignment will be accepted after 5 days.   Students and parents can see their grades on Pinnacle.  Do not ask me in class to see your grades.

The coursework includes the following categories:

  • Work Ethic and Professionalism
  • Daily Exercises
  • Assigned Drawing Problems
  • Section Test
  • Comprehensive Final Exam

Scope & Sequence

WEEK

TOPIC

CHAPTER

GPS

1

Not So Big House

  • Research
  • Ideas paper
  • Home evaluation

Model home light study

 

ADDI-1

 

2

Model home changes

 

ADDI-1

 

3-4

Electrical plans

  • Symbols
  • Building code requirements
  • Service calculations
  • Lighting requirements & schedule

17

 

ADDII-1

 

4-5

Plumbing plan

  • Symbols
  • Piping size
  • Waste & vent
  • Fixture schedule

18

ADDII-1

 

6

Revit software introduction

  • Software Tools
  • Quick Start
  • User Interface

AutodeskDesignAcademyTutorials

ADDI-1

 

7

Revit Software

  • Applying Standards
  • Walls
  • Doors & windows

AutodeskDesignAcademyTutorials

ADDI-1

 

8

Design project

  • Use Revit to create Building Information Model of last semester’s home
  • Floor plan

 

 

 

 

ADDI-2

 

9

Revit Foundations

  • Footings & foundation design

 

 

ADDI-2

 

10

Revit Roofs

  • Roof design & finishes

 

ADDI-3

 

11

Revit elevations

  • Exterior trim and finishes

 

ADDI-4

12

Revit floor framing plan

  • Floor system

 

ADDII-2

13

Revit Electrical plan

  • Lighting
  • Power

 

ADDII-1

14

Revit Section Drawings

  • Building sections
  • Wall section
  • Footing detail
  • Floor system detail
  • Roof system detail

 

ADDII-2

15-16

Model building

Digital multimedia presentation

 

ADDII-4

17

Site plan

 

ADDII-3

18

Final exam

 

 


 

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