Ryan2A

This past week I've been working on furnishing the interior of my house. The week before that I was working on the walls and foundation of the actual structure. The skills I've learned involved kitchen cabinetry, appliance placement, creating soffits, and rendering camera views. These skills would be helpful in the real world if I ever decided to build my own house. I might be able to save some money on construction workers by doing things myself with the aid of my CAD class skills. A problem I had was with the cabinet above the fridge. The cabinet wouldn't go against the wall, instead it was just floating in front of it. I was able to fix this by making the cabinet smaller so that it could slide in between the soffit and the top of the fridge. Once it was in and against the wall I was able to resize to it's normal proportions. I successfully created a kitchen room. To be successful in the future I will keep doing what I'm doing because it's worked good so far. I wasn't too creative this week because I kept the cabinets and appliances the default appearances instead of changing how they looked.
 * __Assignment A:__**

__**Assignment B:**__ This past week I've been furnishing the interior of my house as well as creating a porch and deck. The skills I've learned involved creating a porch, deck, vector camera views, and roofing. These skills could help me in the real world if I ever wanted to put a deck on my house. I could design it myself instead of hiring someone to do it for me. I didn't have any problems this week other than minor orientation issues with some of the objects I placed. I successfully furnished my house and created a porch and deck. To be successful in the future I will keep doing what I'm doing because it's worked good so far. I was creative this week by adding my own furnishings along with some of the book's recommended objects.

This week I've been focusing mainly on the exterior of my house, as opposed to mostly the interior last week. I learned some valuable skills in landscaping, lighting specs, and render view cameras. These skills will help me when I get around to designing my own house. They could also help me save money on hiring a landscaper since I'll have had experience with landscaping design already. I didn't run into any problems with my design this week, and I was very successful in all aspects of this chapter's goal. To continue being successful I can keep doing what I'm doing because my design execution strategies haven't failed me yet. I was creative this week by designing my yard according to what I like rather than using the book's pre-planned terrain design.
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This week I've been working on creating a print view of my plan layout to show various angles of it and the dimensions. I learned a few valuable skills that will help me in this class in the future. I learned that anything put on the zero page will be placed in the same exact spot on every page. I also learned it was important to get the scaling right so that the image isn't huge or really small. I didn't have any problems creating these print views. I was successful, but not creative since I did exactly what the book instructed me to.
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This week I've been working on creating a new house with terrain shown in this picture. I learned to construct and edit terrain around my house which will be helpful when I design my own house later in the class. These skills could be applied to the real world if I ever become an architect. I had a problem with my terrain not looking like it was supposed to but I realized it was because I clicked on the wrong button, which was easy to fix with ctrl+z. I was successful in creating my house and terrain. I used my own creativity to change the looks of the windows becuase I didn't like the book's default look.
 * __Assignment F:__**

This week I've been continuing my work on the vacation cottage I started working on last week. I learned skills in logo design and creating final project views. Logo design could be applied to the real world if I ever wanted to start my own business. I could use my knowledge of logo design from CAD class to make myself a catchy logo. I ran into a problem when I tried creating my deck. The extension of it didn't look the same as the original deck that only covered one side of the house. I was able to fix this by deleting the two decks and making a new one as a whole in its place, rather than two separate pieces. Overall, I was quite successful in creating my vacation cottage. I was creative this week by making the roof of my house have different peaks than what was showed in the book.
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 * __Assignment I:__**



In redesigning the library, I tried to keep in mind the budget was low. So I looked for ways to move around furniture since that doesn't cost anything. The client, Mrs. Gamble, said that she'd like a bookstore cafe feel, that still can be used for educational purposes. In the new design, I placed all the couches towards the back for a lounge space, and left the tables in a sort of conference layout in the middle and front of the library. This way, there is a place for meetings and research, as well as a fairly isolated area to read or study in. There wasn't too much that could be done with the new arrangement, since unmovable shelves cover most of the back walls, as well as a few shelves built into the ground. The computers also all need an outlet for obvious reasons, so they couldn't be moved more than a few inches. I focused all of the movement in the middle and front of the library, since that's where the most movable space is. I based my creativity in moving things along what was aforementioned. Overall, the plan is quite an easy and inexpensive change, since it only involves moving and replacing furniture. This plan is better than the current layout because it not only meets the client's needs, it also offers a fresh arrangement to the library that may attract more students to it.
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