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

Aim: To draw residential building of dimensions 60’X20’ with following drawings

• Plot drawing
• Ground Floor Plan
• First Floor Plan
• Elevation
• Footing Layout
• Beam Layout
• Section View

• Introduction:

  The residential building to be drawn with plot dimensions 60’X20’. The G+1 floor is designed as duplex house with stairs inside the house. The plot is East facing. The building is designed with following rooms

  • Ground Floor Living Room
  • Parking
  • Kitchen
  • Main Bedroom
  • Staircase to first floor
  • First Floor Living room
  • Drawing Hall
  • Balcony
• The dimensions of the components of house are as follows

• • Walls

    • Thickness of main walls is taken as 230mm
    • Internal wall thickness is taken as 100mm

  • Columns and Beams

    • All the columns are of size 300 X 300
    • All the beams are of size 230 X 300

  • Doors

    There are two door types

    • Dimension of Main door and entrance 1m X 2.1m
    • Dimension of Toilet of all bedrooms are 0.75m X 2.1m

  • Windows

    • Windows to the side of main door are taken as 1.5m X 1.2m
    • Windows in staircase and in both halls 1.0m X 2.5m
    • Ventilators as 600mm X 300 mm at lintel level i.e 2.1m

  • Staircase

    • Inner Staircase consist of 18 steps in flight direction making it single flight straircase
    • Thread and Raiser are taken as 200mm and 150mm respectively.

  • 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 0.00 and insertion scale to meter

  • 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

  • Step 2 : Creating Ground Floor Plan View

• Change the current layer to walls layer

  • Draw a rectangle of dimensions 18.28m X 6.09m at any point on the screen
  • Offset the left and bottom line of rectangle drawn to distance of 230mm right and up respectively
  • Offset the top line of rectangle drawn to distance of 230mm to downwards
  • Offset the right edge line of rectangle drawn to distance of 230mm to downwards
  • Offset inner walls of 100mm
  • Trim off the extra portions of rectangle
  • 
• • Step 3 : Creating Front Elevations

    For obtaining the proper front elevation view from the north, vertical mirror view copy of the ground floor is created

    • Change the current layer to extension lines
    • Create vertical extension line at all the wall edge points
    • Draw all the wall with their thick
    • Each floor height is taken as 3.1m
    • Trim the extra portions
    • 

  • Step 4: Creating Other Drawing layouts

    1. Column Layout

    Change the current layer to wall layer

    • Draw all the walls of the plan view excluding doors and windows

    Change the current layer to column layer

    • At the bottom left corner draw a rectangle using column layer
    • All the columns are of size 300mm X 300mm
    • Columns are placed along the direction of wall in some cases
    • Draw the columns at all necessary points
    • 
  
• • 

Result:

Residential G+1 floor design consists of plan view, column and beam layouts, elevation view and section views are drawn. The house consists of 1 bedrooms, 2 living rooms, kitchen and balcony. Layers are created in the first step and assigned accordingly. After drawing plan view one horizontal section and vertical section lines are drawn named as section 1-1 and section 2-2.