Challenge

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

AAmruta Khunte24 May 2023

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

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

Plot Size: 60’x20’(18.3m x6m)
Orientation- Facing East
Develop the following: 1. Architectural Drawing (Floor Plan, Elevations, and Sections) 2. Structural Drawing (Column, Bean, Footing Plan)

Procedure:

The residential building to be drawn with plot dimensions 60’X20’.The G+1 floor is designed with stairs outside. The plot is east facing. The building is designed with following rooms

Ground Floor:

Living Room
Kitchen (Open)
Dinning
Bedroon(2)
Store Room
Staircase to first floor

First Floor:

Living Room
Kitchen (Open)
Dinning
Bedroon(2)
Store Room
Staircase to Terrace
Balcony.

Below are the dimensions used:

Walls:

Thickness of outter walls is taken as 9”
Internal wall thickness is taken as 6”

Columns and Beams:

All the columns are of size 9”X18”.
All the beams are of size 18”X18"

Doors:

There are three door types

Dimension of Main entrance sliding door is 8’X8’.
Dimension of doors of all bedrooms are 3’X8’
Dimension of doors of all toilets and store room are 2’6”X8’

Windows

Windows W: 6'X4’.
Windows W1: 2'x3'.
Windows W2: 3'x4'

Staircase:

Thread and Raiser are taken as 1' and 6” respectively.

STEPS:

Open AutoCAD

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

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

Step 2: Creating Ground Floor Plan View

Change the current layer to wall layer

Draw a rectangle of dimensions 60’X20” at any point on the screen
Draw the Walls by using Offset Commands of 9" and 6" respectively.
Draw the bedrooms, living, kitchen, store, toilets by using offset commands.
Create a column of 9" by 18" and place it at the required locations.
Now trim the unwanted lines.
Now create a lock of doors and windows and place it at the required locations.
Draw the Stairs and provide the R:6" and T:1'.
Draw the kitchen Slab of 2'.
Create a dynamic blocks of doors and place it at required locations.
Annonate the respective rooms.
Provide the respectives layers to every components.
Insert every components required for the plan from the adc command i.e design center.
Design center command is used add home furniture, kitchen equipment, and plumbing equipment for the rooms.
you can also downloads various designs of furniture, kitchen equipment, and plumbing equipment for the rooms for the various websites and use it as you like.