1. How do you achieve a balance between cost-saving measures, important features, and environmental responsibility when designing a residential structure?
This combination of features is best accomplished by creating a small living area with the essentials. Also it may help to design the house and combine many common areas such as kitchen and dining.
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using 3D architectural software rather than creating hand-produced plans?
Advantages of 3D modeling software include being able to see everything and exactly how the structure will look. Disadvantages would include many flaws and errors in the software like glitches and such. Also 3D software may take a while to get familiar with.
3. Why are organizations such as LEED important?
Organizations like LEED are important in making affordable homes and buildings more energy efficient and more environmental friendly.
4. When planning a project, how does the availability of public utilities impact the design?
The availability of public utilities may require you to be more in depth with you design. You will have to plan out how these utilities will get in and around the building.
5. What options are available for the management of wastewater from a building?
The two most common options for wastewater management are city sewage and septic systems. Septic systems are for private homes out of the district of city sewage lines.
6. What are the important considerations when design a plumbing system?
You must consider how the plumbing will get around the building, via walls or crawl space. You also want to avoid running hot water through the outside walls of a buidling for long distances, the temperature on the outside may cool the hot water greatly.
7. Why should a designer know about the different types of lighting and their applications?
The designer should know the different types of lighter so that he or she may incorporate this in his or her designs. The designer needs to plan for how the electricity will get about the house. The designer should also be on the lookout for ways to save energy through the lighting, like daylighting and techniques like that.
8. What are the important considerations when designing an electrical system?
It is important to consider how big the room is, how many lights will be needed and such. It is also important to consider which switches are just one-way or more than that, and where to place the switches is also another idea to plan out.
9. What information is important when documenting the design of a building?
When documenting the design of the building it is important to know the landscape around it, how the environment is and how the building fits in the environment. It is also important to think about how the building has been designed to helped better the comfortability for the people that will be occupying it.
