Ledyard, Justin
ARCHITECTURE II
In the second level of architecture, students will improve on their technical skills as well as expand their general knowledge of architecture. Basically the students will retrieve their AutoCAD plans from Architecture I and recreate them in a black and white industry format using lineweights and layering. The students will also explore the basics of architectural residential structures in a unit focusing on framing. At this point, students will then transition from AutoCAD to Autodesk Revit software. The 2-bedroom house project will be completely reconstructed in Revit through a series of tutorials designed to check students' progress at various intervals. The result of this class is a more refined, better prepared student who can utilize a variety of tools to generate a complete architectural design. This is explained in some detail below and some examples of student work are shown in the Architecture Student Project gallery on the previous page. The curriculum by which each lesson plan is created is available for download in the RESOURCES tab. At the end of this course, students will have enough skills for an internship position or possible paid summer job.
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AutoCAD - Additional Skills
AutoCAD is still an industry standard. Each year the students need to be exposed to tools and techniques to refresh and advance their skills. Level II students are required to retrieve their plans from Architecture I and begin the semester by updating the layering system and the object line weights to that used by a typical architect. All remaining plans in each architectural unit are then created using the new standards. Once finished with the complete set of plans, each student will plot and bind the plans for their portfolio. Each plan is also exported as a pdf to be posted on student web sites.
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Google SketchUp - Framing Unit
In an effort to teach students structural integrity related to architecture, they will complete a series of framing units in Google SketchUp. This unit allows students the opportunity to not only improve their SketchUp skills, but it also to helps them understand how a typical residential building is created. Information on lumber, framing layouts, codes and materials is included. The first unit is a floor framing problem, followed by a typical wall construction exercise, then a truss structure. The final exercise in the framing unit is a small structure which the students must create based on their learned knowledge and skills.
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Autodesk Revit
In the final semester of Architecture II, the students are introduced to the Autodesk Revit software through a series of individual tutorial exercises. In the tutorials, the students create a simple garage structure from which they learn how to use the Revit tools. The students will sequentially recreate their entire 2-bedroom, 1-bath project again in Revit and generate each of the plans that were previously created in AutoCAD. The result is a model which utilizes all the technical aspects of sketching, Google SketchUp, and AutoCAD all in one.