Individual Presentations on Materials / building techniques

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Individual Presentations (4 Marks). You are to present in 10 minutes a detailed presentation on the topic assigned to you.

Make sure you are including the all the following points.

  1. Raw materials and its sources, qualities
  2. Detailed Specification and costs of construction (very important) 
  3. Where is it applicable and how?
  4. Precautions and Architectural details of use (Very important) 
  5. Delivery time and construction time
  6. Examples (photos) of use in 4 built projects.

Make your presentation on google Slides, or upload your slides and upload them before class 10:00 am.

Place the link of your presentation here. You can ask for a review of your presentation before the date of presentation.

Introduction to Sketchup

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Fast learning!

Detailed learning!

http://sketchup.google.com/support — SketchUp’s online help system.

http://forums.sketchucation.com —The SketchUcation forums, a user-based world- wide community.

Concepts covered

  • Where to get help with SketchUp
  • Program interface and workspace customization
  • Program and model preferences
  • Working with templates
  • Navigating SketchUp’s 3D workspace
  • Aids for accurate modeling
  • Groups and components
  • Applying materials and using other common tools
  • Best practices for working with SketchUp

We shall be modelling Casa Farnsworth in full detail in 3 hours. You will download related cad Files here

 

Homework

To complete the following elements of casa Farnsworth (6 points)

Do not model the curtain walls (glass walls and mullions on the exterior)

Submission procedure

You are expected to bring your files to class and your instructor will view your files on your screen. Work is individual.