Description:
The professional architectural drafter’s responsibility is to convert architects’, engineers’, and designers’ sketches and ideas into formal drawings. This course will help students learn how to prepare formal drawings by providing students with the basic guidelines for drafting layout and minimum design and code requirements. The concepts and skills learned in one section of the course will help students in the next section allowing students to learn how to prepare complete set of working drawings in residential and light commercial drafting.
Outcomes:
Students will be able to draw plot plans, floor plans, foundation plans, elevations, perspectives, and sections with detail. To accomplish all of the above students will use the Revit, AutoCAD LT, and Sketch Up programs as well as learning traditional drafting and sketching techniques. Students will learn individual problem solving strategies along with presentation skills and how to work with a team. A capstone project, in which all students must take part, will be presenting a group presentation to a panel of Architects at the firm of M+H Architects.
Content:
· Introduction to Architecture
· History of Architecture
· Site Plans
· Floor Plans
· Electrical Plans
· Plumbing
· Elevations
· Residential Exterior Styles
· Sectional Views
· Visit to Architectural Firm
· Visit from Architects
· Presentation Skills
Method of Evaluation:
Graded Drawings, tests and quizzes, presentations, reading assignments, M+H Architects capstone project, final exam
Textbook:
Architectural Drafting and Design Fourth Edition (Alan Jefferis and David Madsen)
Supplemental Reading
The Look of Architecture by Witold Rybczynski
Homework:
Students will be required to spend extra time in the drawing room.
Late Work:
Students may turn in work late but a penalty will be assessed for each day the assignment is late.
Cheating:
The only way to get a 0% on a submitted drawing assignment is to cheat. If a student gives their work to another student then both students are guilty of cheating.
Conduct:
This course will follow all rules and regulations for behavior, dress, and absences or tardies as established by the St. John Vianney Parent/Student Handbook
Architecture Competition:
In collaboration with the firm M+H Architects St. John Vianney High School’s Architecture Competition is a unique learning experience for its students. M+H Architects provide a mentor for each group of students to lead them through a design problem. At the end of the semester students present their solutions to a panel of who provide assessment and feedback. Each presentation must contain site plans, floor plans, elevations, section views, and renderings.
The professional architectural drafter’s responsibility is to convert architects’, engineers’, and designers’ sketches and ideas into formal drawings. This course will help students learn how to prepare formal drawings by providing students with the basic guidelines for drafting layout and minimum design and code requirements. The concepts and skills learned in one section of the course will help students in the next section allowing students to learn how to prepare complete set of working drawings in residential and light commercial drafting.
Outcomes:
Students will be able to draw plot plans, floor plans, foundation plans, elevations, perspectives, and sections with detail. To accomplish all of the above students will use the Revit, AutoCAD LT, and Sketch Up programs as well as learning traditional drafting and sketching techniques. Students will learn individual problem solving strategies along with presentation skills and how to work with a team. A capstone project, in which all students must take part, will be presenting a group presentation to a panel of Architects at the firm of M+H Architects.
Content:
· Introduction to Architecture
· History of Architecture
· Site Plans
· Floor Plans
· Electrical Plans
· Plumbing
· Elevations
· Residential Exterior Styles
· Sectional Views
· Visit to Architectural Firm
· Visit from Architects
· Presentation Skills
Method of Evaluation:
Graded Drawings, tests and quizzes, presentations, reading assignments, M+H Architects capstone project, final exam
Textbook:
Architectural Drafting and Design Fourth Edition (Alan Jefferis and David Madsen)
Supplemental Reading
The Look of Architecture by Witold Rybczynski
Homework:
Students will be required to spend extra time in the drawing room.
Late Work:
Students may turn in work late but a penalty will be assessed for each day the assignment is late.
Cheating:
The only way to get a 0% on a submitted drawing assignment is to cheat. If a student gives their work to another student then both students are guilty of cheating.
Conduct:
This course will follow all rules and regulations for behavior, dress, and absences or tardies as established by the St. John Vianney Parent/Student Handbook
Architecture Competition:
In collaboration with the firm M+H Architects St. John Vianney High School’s Architecture Competition is a unique learning experience for its students. M+H Architects provide a mentor for each group of students to lead them through a design problem. At the end of the semester students present their solutions to a panel of who provide assessment and feedback. Each presentation must contain site plans, floor plans, elevations, section views, and renderings.