Sticks+or+Stones

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Sticks or Stones?
Area of Interaction: Environments Significant Concept: The environment that surrounds us influences the end result. Unit Question: How does the Environment change or shape you?

Requirements:
 * Follow instructions given to create a practice house while learning Sketchup.
 * You will participate in a class activity to find your design specifications (type of house, location, etc).
 * Using those specifications, you will research the best design for your given situation.
 * Using Google SketchUp you are going to design a house to meet specific environmental requirements.

__ Criterion A - Research and Analysis __
As a class we will go through and learn the basics of Google Sketchup. In order to get full credit for Criterion A, you will need to follow instructions while creating the practice house.

Upload Practice House here.

We will do an activity as a class to determine the design specifications of your house. Location: // Seattle, Washington // Shape: // A Square //

Number of People: // 6 People //

Using the Internet, you are going to research your assigned location to determine if there are specific building requirements.

http://www.seattlemodern.com/
 * seattle**times.com/html/realestate/2012259469_realsmall**house**04.html

1. What material should be used in building your house? (ex. wood, brick, concrete) Probably brick or concrete, because of flooding and the rainy season. 2. Is there land available for a large home? Or does the location require a smaller house? average house size is 1,460 square feet

3. Will you have a multi-level house? I will have a 2 story house, with a main floor and a second story.

4. What kind of roof will your house need? A slanted, triangle roof, because of the rainstorms.

= __Criterion B - Design__ = Now that you have the specifications, you are going to use the Design Worksheet to create a blueprint of your house. You need to include front door, windows, bathrooms, kitchen, bedrooms, living room, and any other feature you are going to use in your design.

--Remember: You will need to justify any changes made to your design blueprint when you are designing your house.--

Must turn in your Design Blueprint worksheet to receive credit for Criterion B

__ Criterion C - Create __
 Your design/blueprint should be all complete and ready for you to create the Sketchup house to fit the plans.

For this house you are starting with a blank file and not using a previously built house. Here are the requirements that you should have in the house: --Walls --Windows --Doors --Bathroom --Kitchen --Bedroom(s) --Living Room/Family Room --Walls Painted --Some kind of flooring --Windows filled in (either transparent or with a window component) --Front Door component --Furniture in the entire house (as if a family could move in today) --Anything else you decided to include.

Once you have completed your Sketchup House, upload the file here.

Answer the following questions - 1. Does your house follow the design/blueprints? If not, what changes did you make and why? I had to switch two rooms and fix the bedrooms because of a lack of space. At first, I was going to have a 2 story house, but then I realized that I didn't have enough space to do that, so I changed my design to one story. I also had issues with the windows, the windows in the kitchen were silly and didn't want to be windows. They wanted to be pieces of abstract art. So the windows in my kitchen were incomplete. Other than that, I flipped the kitchen table around... and had 2 doors for the bathroom... so that the whole family could get to it.

2. What did you like most about this project? (name at least one thing)  I liked the element of freedom that we had, and all of the work time we were given. I learn more if I'm hands-on and doing things, instead of just watching a lecture. So this was really nice because I got to be more hands on.

3. What would you change about this project for the future? (name at least one thing) If I could change one thing about this project, I would take away the requirement for windows (aka abstract art) and make it so that we could have had more space to work with. Other than that, this project was pretty fun. 

Criterion D - Evaluate
1. How did the environment you were assigned (location, number of people, shape) affect the type of house you created? It made it so that my house was more realistic. I had to house 6 people in a small amount of space, and that was hard. The location didn't really affect my house (it would have affected my roof, because of the weather in my location, but we weren't supposed to build a roof) other than the size. If my location was something like the Rocky Mountains, I would have had a completely different house.  2. Would you have built a different house if those specifications hadn't been given to you? Why or Why Not? If I had been told to just build a house, it wouldn't have been anywhere near that realistic. I probably would have built my dream house, and my dream house is 3 stories tall. This would have given me much more space to work with, and my house would have been completely different.

Unit Questions -

3. How has your own personal environment shaped/changed you? (at least 3-4 complete sentences)    Living here in Utah has definitely shaped part of my religion, and I live close to a lot of family- so that has shaped me. I probably have a stronger relationship with my cousins than a person with all of their family living in another state. It has also shaped my education- I live in a place where my parents could send me to an advanced classroom (the ALPS/SALTA program), and this has affected who my friends are. Most of my friends are the ones at school, because girls in my neighborhood are at least 6 months older or younger than me. They also attend a different school, so most of my friends are the friends I see almost everyday at school.

4. What can you do in your own environment to guarantee the future that you want? (2-3 complete sentences) I can continue to get a good education, so that I can pursue my dream career (whatever it is....) And keep my friends close, so that I can continue to have their good influence in my life. I can continue to learn about my religion, and I can keep my family close. I can do many things to guarantee the future that I want.