Residential Construction
Residential Construction is a half year (20 week) course. The course will go into the processes involved with building and maintaining a house. Students will learn everything from buying, planning, building, and maintaining a house. Click on the links below to stay up to date with course content, handouts, projects, and presentations.
The Block Plan
Architects don't think of buildings in isolation
Hands-on Practice
Gaining practice in all forms of house construction. Foundations, walls, utilities and roofs.
The Site Plan
The location of the land and how a building sits on the land is just as important as how it looks, who uses it, or how it stands up.
Details and Maintainence
Trim work and Maintaining a house
The Floor Plan
How a building is laid out
Capstone
Shed/ Gazebo/ Playhouse/ A large construction project will be built.
What is Construction?
Light Construction
Commercial Construction
Industrial Construction
Civil Construction
Tools, People, and Processes of Construction
-The 7 Elements of Construction
People
Careers in Construction
Time
Information
Construction Management (making bids)
Construction Stories
(arch handbook)
Tools/ Machines/ Equipment
Capital
Energy
The Block Plan
Architects don't think of buildings in isolation
F10 House Block Plan Q's
Color Code the block
Sketch your ideal block plan
Figure ground vs. Street map
Topographic Map creation
Pop-up Buildings
The location of the land and how a building sits on the land is just as important as how it looks, who uses it, or how it stands up.
The Site Plan
Sunlight Model Write-up
How a building is laid out
The Floor Plan
Hands-on Practice
Laying out a foundation
Concrete work/ concrete stool
Walls
Lets make stairs!
