What: Produce a scale drawing of your apartment (or another location)
Who: work alone or with one partner
When: due date is Friday, November 15
How: see guidelines, be creative (note: sketches must be handed in also)
Grading: projects will be judged on
· Accuracy
· Appropriate level of detail
· Neatness
Proposals will be accepted on Monday, Nov 4. Preference is given to teams of two. In your proposal, you must address: Who will work together? When will you do the work? What materials will you use? What level of detail will you show? Why should your proposal win?
1) Make a rough sketch (indicating all features you want to include on the drawing)
2) Decide on units of measure (feet/inches are better for buildings but m/cm makes calculations easier)
3) Measure all important distances (in nature), writing results on sketch
4) Decide on the scale:
a. What is the longest distance in nature (eg. 50 feet = 600 inches)
b. How large is your paper (eg. 8 ½ ” by 11 ”)
c. Divide longest distance by size of paper (eg. 600 / 11 = 54) and round up to a convenient number (eg. 60)
d. In the above case, you might use a scale of 1 : 60 , meaning 1 inch on drawing represents 60 inches = 5 feet in nature)
e. Make sure the width will also fit on the paper (calculate !)
5) Convert all measured distances to plan scale
a. Convert each measured distance to inches (eg. 9 ’ = 108 ” )
b. Divide the number of inches by the scale factor (eg. 108 ” / 60 = 1.8 “ )
c. Convert to inches plus eights of inches (eg. 1.8 ” is approx. 1 ¾ ” )
6) Draw the longest side first
a. Make a pencil line exactly parallel to the long edge of the paper
b. Decide on one endpoint
c. Measure the length on paper exactly for the other endpoint
7) Draw in all the remaining detail in pencil
a. For rectangular shapes, always draw lines precisely parallel to edges of paper
b. Measure distances on paper
8) Add scale, title, author, date, annotations, and north (compass direction).
Scale must be rendered three ways:
a. English sentence (eg. 1 inch on drawing represents 5 feet in nature)
b. Ratio (eg. 1 : 60)
c. Scale drawing (eg. draw a bar of l inch length and label is 5 feet)