Habitat Home
Introduction
This project was meant for my class and I to understand all the requirements architects and civil engineers have to take into account when building a house and for us to get an understanding of how to use Revit. Revit was the program we used to design our homes for habitat for humanity. Habitat for humanity is an organization that helps families with low incomes by providing them with a house. My home was designed for a family of 3, a mom, dad, and son. They wanted three bedroom if possible. The habitat for humanity requires that a three bedroom house should be 1070 square feet or less. My client also wanted a patio, two bathrooms, a large living room, and an attic. I was able to include all of these features for my client. My client also wanted there kid's room to be near the washer and dryer because he likes the sound of them. I was also able to achieve this request and still have an effective layout for the house. The location of the home will be in Noblesville, Indiana next to 10th street and Maple street. This was also important to think about when designing my house so that I could save energy be having more windows on the south side of the house and to make sure my room layout was good in comparison to the property and how the house would be placed on the property.
This is a rendering of my kitchen inside my house. I was having difficulty making the room brighter but still believe the rendering come out pretty well.
This is the 3D view of the house I created. This is also the way the house would be placed on the property and how the landscaping and drive way would be deigned.
This is the floor plan of my house which is just the 2D view of the inside of my house. I tried to create the most efficient room layout by trying to keep my bedrooms to one side of the house and my living room and kitchen on the other side of the house. Depending on how you look at it, you could argue that I did or didn't achieve this goal but in my view I did as the kitchen and living room are in one corner and then the bedrooms a line the other two walls. I also tried to achieve most, if not all of my clients request.
This floor plan includes my room schedule. The room schedule allows the client to better understand the layout of the house and also allows the client to see the sizes of the rooms in square feet. My room layout achieves all of my clients request.
These four views are the elevation views for my house for the north, east, south and west sides. This allows me to see a 2D view of the outside of my house for every side and allows me to see the height of my house as well.
This is what my house would look like on the property as well as the layout for the landscaping and driveway. I placed the house like this since it seemed like the best way according to my clients request. The only problem with this layout is one the bedrooms in facing the street instead of an alley way but to make this better a place the house so that the side facing the street is far away from it.
Other drawings
Bubble sketch.
Rough sketch.
Section view.
Dimension view.
Window and Door schedule.
Rough sketch.
Section view.
Dimension view.
Window and Door schedule.
Calculations
The area of the driveway, house, and lawn in acres.
The peak runoff rate.
The waste water management calculations such as crown elevation, ground elevation, distance from the building to the main, etc.
*All my calculations meet the requirements*
The peak runoff rate.
The waste water management calculations such as crown elevation, ground elevation, distance from the building to the main, etc.
*All my calculations meet the requirements*
Conclusion
I learned how to use Revit and most of its tools. I also learned that there is a lot of requirements that you have to account for when design a house. My favorite part of this project was creating the floor plan in Revit since we got to choose where we wanted to put certain rooms as long as they meet the requirements. My least favorite part was finding the calculations for the waste water management and any other calculations that we had to find. What I would do differently next time would be to take a better look at the property and decide where I wanted to place my house before designing it so I could make a more even efficient layout.