CAD 3030 - Residential Architecture I

1.  Intro

• Understand the different aspects of architecture.
• Identify different styles and types of architecture.
• Relate how the development of materials and construction methods influenced architectural styles.
• Identify drafting careers and occupational concepts.
• Utilize drafting equipment, instruments, and drawing supplies.
• Perform freehand lettering and sketching.
• Produce line conventions used on architectural plans. 

B.  Planning and Design

• Understand and plan all aspects that make up the necessary architectural drawings.
• Understand the design processes that make up the architectural drawings. 
• Apply design principles for room planning.
• Understand environmental factors that affect the design of a structure.
• Identify architectural abbreviations, codes, symbols, and terms.  Identify architectural abbreviations, codes, symbols, and terms.

C. Materials and Methods of Construction I

1. Describe basic techniques and fundamentals essential in erecting wood frame, steel frame and reinforced concrete frame buildings.

2. Understand and plan the various phases from site investigation through finished work.

3. Understand and use of appropriate technical terminology in construction.

D.  Solid Modeling and Visualization

• Describe how solid models are used in engineering, design and drafting.
• Describe how solid models support the design/drafting process.
• Build solid models of simple assemblies/structures.
• Create two-dimensional drawings from the three-dimensional models.

E.  Plot Plans

• Understand and draw plot plan using a floor plan as the structure.
• Identify major elements used in site design.
• Understand basic dimension using acres, feet, yards.
• Understand legal descriptions.