Challenge

Project 1 _Creating an Architectural plan for the provided plot size and develop relevant basic structural drawings

Design and Draft a layout of a residential building with the following details:

a.Plot Size: 60’x20’ (18.3m x6m)

b.Orientation- Facing East

c.Develop the following:

1.Architectural Drawing (Floor Plan, Elevations, and Sections

2.Structural Drawing (Column, Bean, Footing Plan)

Aim- To draw the residential building of dimension 60’×20’ with the following drawings

  1. Architectural drawing
  • Plot drawing
  • Ground floor plan
  • First floor plan
  • Elevation view
  1. Structural drawing:
  • Section view
  • Footing layout
  • Column layout
  • Beam layout

Introduction: The residential building to be drawn with plot dimension are 60’×20’. The plinth dimension are selected as 30’×18’. The G+1 floor is designed as duplex house with stairs inside the home. The plot is east facing. The building is planned with following rooms-

Ground floor great room

Kitchen

In ground floor two bed room

Staircase to first floor

First floor great room

In first floor two bed rooms

Balcony

Staircase to roof

Building is planned with prime door at the north east facing north and main gate at east north position. In the beginning layers are generated for all the components of the house. The dimensions of the components of the house are as follows.

Walls-

Thickness of prime walls is taken as 9’’

Inner wall thickness is taken as 4.5’’

Columns and beams-

All the columns size are 9’’×12’’

All the beams size are 9’’×9’’

Rebar specifications

Doors-

Doors are types are utilized

Main door (D1) size is 4’×7’

D2 door size is 3’6’’×7’

D3 door size is 3’×6’

Windows-

Windows are two types are utilized

W windows size is 6’×5’

W1 windows size is 4’×5’

Ventilators-

Ventilators are only types are utilized

V ventilators size is 2’×2’

Staircase-

Inner staircase contains of 21 steps

Thread and raiser are taken as 10’’ and 6’’

Hand rails are 2’’ in diameter and height of 3’’

Compound wall-

Height of compound wall is taken as 6’

Thickness of compound wall is like to wall thickness is 9’’

Procedure:

Open AUTOCAD

Change units as your needed

Type UN in command box and press ENTER

Change units type of decimal and precision to 0.00 and insertion scale to millimeters.

Next type D in command box and press ENTER.

Change dim style as based on units

Command used in this-

Units command

DIMSTYLE command

LINE command

TRIME command

REC command

DIM command

OFFSET command

CIRCLE command

BLOCK command

BEDIT command

INSERT command

ATTRIBUTE command

TEXT command

In above drawing all the lines are drawn by utilizing the line command in the below command section. All the texts in the above drawing are written by utilizing the line command.

DIM command is utilized to give all the dimensions to the drawing

TRIM command is utilized to delete unwanted objects from the drawing.

REC command is utilized to draw the tables.

OFFSET the templates all the templates are generated as blocks

All the blocks are saved by different names to different blocks.

The texts inside the blocks are edited by utilizing attributes.

Then insert tool and we can insert the generated blocks in the drawing by utilizing insert command.

Circle command is utilized to draw all the circles in above drawing.

To set the drawing units of the sheet.

To drawn the horizontal and vertical lines by utilizing the CONSTRUCTION LINE COMMAND.

To generate the corner by utilizing the TRIM command.

To generate outer wall of 250mm thick by utilizing the OFFSET command.

To generate the rooms as per needed room sizes by utilizing the OFFSET command.

To generate the internal wall of 150mm thick by utilizing the OFFSET command.

To delete the extra lines by utilizing the TRIM command.

Type hatch in command box and click on hatch command.

To generate the section lines as your needed section A-A.

To projection the line as per section line by utilizing the CONSTRUCTION LINE COMMAND.

To draw the final section A-A by application of projection lines.

The parapet walls are drawn as per the dimensions by utilizing needed commands.

Type hatch in command box and click on hatch command

RESULT:

ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING

1 PLOT DRAWING

2 GROUND FLOOR PLAN

3 FIRST FLOOR PLAN

BOTH

4 ELEVATION VIEW

5 SECTION VIEW

STRUTURAL DRAWING

1 PLINTH BEAM LAYOUT

2 GROUND FLOOR BEAM LAYOUT

3 FIRST BEAM LAYOUT

4 CENTER LINE DRAWING

5 FOOTING LAYOUT

6 COLUMN LAYOUT

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