Challenge

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

VVamshikrishna Padakanti26 Feb 2023

DESIGN

AIM :

TO DRAW A 60' X 20' RESIDENTIAL BUILDING WITH THE FOLLOWING DRAWINGS

1) ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING PLOT DRAWING FIRST FLOOR PLAN ELEVATION VIEW GROUND FLOOR PLAN

2) SECTION VIEW OF A STRUCTURAL DRAWING
LAYOUT FOOTIG
SECTION LAYOUT
A BEAM LAYOUT

Vastu Shastra Followed

Entrance of the house is provided at the North-East position.
Living room is provide at the North-West position of the house.
Master bedroom and Guest bedroom is provided in the South-West position of the house.
Kitchen is provided at the South-East position and hob is placed such that cooling is done with facing east
Pooja room is provided at the East.
Bathroom placed in the west.
Staircase provided in the North- west.
Balcony is provided at North and East positions.

In the first 7 steps, all the drawings are drawn. At the end of each step, result of that step is shown. Using step 8 hatching is done for all the drawings. The final result consists of all the drawings of the residential house with hatching.

All dimensions are in feet and inches
Dimensions are assigned accordingly
Text is assigned for all the required components

INTRODUCTION : BUILDING IS DESIGNED WITH THE MAIN GATE AT THE EAST NORTH POSITION AND THE MAIN DOOR AT THE NORTH EAST FACING NORTH. LAYERS ARE FIRST CREATED FOR ALL OF THE HOUSE'S PARTS.
THE HOUSE'S COMPONENTS HAVE THE FOLLOWING DIMENSIONS.

The residential building to be drawn with plot dimensions are 60' x 20'.
the plinth dimensions are chosen as 30' x 18'
the g+1 floor is designed as duplex house with stairs inside the home.
the plot is east facing.
the building is designed with following rooms
ground floor great room
kitchen ( open )
in ground floor two bed rooms
staircase to first floor
first floor great room
in first floor two bed rooms
balcony
staircase to roof

walls

thickness of main walls is taken as 9"
internal wall thickeness is taken as 4.5"

columns and beams

all the columns size are 9" x 12"
all the beams size are 9" x 9"
rebar specifications

doors

doors are three types are used
main door ( d1 ) size is 4' x 7'
d2 door size is 3'6" x 7'
d3 door size is 3' x 6'

windows

windows are two types are used
w windows size is 6' x 5'
w1 windows size is 4' x 5'

ventilators

ventilators are one types are used
v ventilator size is 2' x 2'

staircase

inner staircase consist 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 similar to wall thickness is 9"

Commands Used in this challenge

Line
Xline
Polyline
Rectangle
Circle
Arc
Trim
Move
Offset
Hatch
Layer
MatchProp
Multileader
Fillet
Copy
Explode
Dimlinear
Dimcontinue
Dim break
Dim update
Hide pallets (POFF)
Show pallets (PON)

Procedure:

Open AutoCAD

In Start-up settings start from scratch select Imperial (Feet and Inches)

Open grid and snap settings

Change snap and grid spacing to 1’
Change major line every grid line to 10
Turnoff adaptive grid

Type ‘un’ in command box and press enter

Change units’ type to decimal and precision to 1’1/16” and insertion scale to inches

Step 1: Creating Layers

Open Layer properties and create new layers by clicking on new layer or right click on any layer and select new layer to create new layer

Layers are created as follows

Change the current layer to wall layer

Draw a rectangle of dimensions 60’X54’9.625” at any point on the screen
Draw a line vertically up from top left corner of distance 21’
Offset the left and bottom line of rectangle drawn to distance of 2’ right and up respectively
Offset the top line of rectangle drawn to distance of 18’ to downwards
Offset the right edge line of rectangle drawn to distance of 18’ to downwards
Trim off the extra portions of inner rectangle

Step 3: Creating Ground Floor Plan View

A. Creating Walls

Change the current layer to walls layer

Draw a rectangle of dimensions 60’X54’9.625” at any point on the screen
Offset the left and bottom line of rectangle drawn to distance of 2’ right and up respectively
Offset the top line of rectangle drawn to distance of 18’ to downwards
Offset the right edge line of rectangle drawn to distance of 18’ to downwards
Trim off the extra portions of inner rectangle
Offset both rectangle to a distance of 9” to inside to give the wall thickness

Draw the inner walls of thickness 4.5”
Offset the bottom inner wall edge to a distance of 12’
Offset the last offset line to a distance of 4.5”
Offset the last offset line to a distance of 4’7.5”
Offset the last offset line to a distance of 4.5”
Offset the left inner wall edge to a distance of 14’
Offset the last offset line to a distance of 4.5”
Offset the last offset line to a distance of 4.5”
Offset the last offset line to a distance of 4’3”
Offset the last offset line to a distance of 4.5”
Trim off the extra lines to obtain the figure as shown below

Create the front door inside the top right corner as shown in below figure

Create the main door opening of the dimension 4’

B. Creating Stairway

Change the current layer to stairs

Draw a thread of stair line of width 3’6”
Offset the line to distance of 10” to upwards
Change the direction of stairs after 5 threads of stairs
Draw another 16 threads lines of width 10” as shown in figure

C. Creating Doors and windows

Doors and windows are created as blocks and then added to the drawing

Doors

Create all door 1 using rectangles and arc of required width as shown in following figures

Convert the drawing into block using block command with name “Main_Door_4’ ”

Open the block editor and add flip states by adding parameters and actions as shown in the figure

D1: 4’-wide(Main Door)

Windows and Ventilators

Windows are created by using rectangles and offset lines from center

Top and bottom lines are draw using wall layer and rest in window layer as shown in figure

Block is created using block command

Step 6: Creating Section Views 1 and 2

Section View 1-1

a. Walls

Rotate the drawing to 270^o

Using ‘XLINE’ command draw the extension lines at the all the intersecting points of section line and walls
Draw compound wall of height 6’ and walls with floor height of 10’6” of the section view as shown in figure
Parapet wall of height 3’ is draw at the top as shown in figure

c. Doors

Doors of main bedroom and bedroom-2 are drawn using door layer and from the projection lines
Dimensions of both doors is 3’6”X7’
Doors pattern is imported from the challenge 8
Doors are added as shown in figure

d. Windows and Cupboards

Window for the guest bedroom is drawn with dimensions 1’6”X 4’
Cup boards for the kitchen room and the guest bedroom are drawn using C.B layer created
Kitchen Platform of height 4’ is drawn along with top cupboard