PBL Architecture: 10 Iconic Buildings!

PBL Architecture: Richie Rich Narrative

 Imagine you are Richie Rich from the movie, write a narrative where the setting is your mansion.

(outside/front yard): 

As I shut my eyes on a cold and eerie night, I drifted off into my thoughts of something staggering, wild & unbelievable. A mansion, the mansion was at least 80,000 acres big.

The front yard had a sensible measurement, such as 40 meters wide. Instead of real grass the front yard had fake rows of grass which pricked my feet as I strolled across the field of grass. There were double driveways which would merge around the fountain with my name encrusted on the fountain's rear. After seeing these insane details,  out of my curiosity I wandered deeper into the back of the mansion. 

(backyard): 

As I arrived in the backyard there was a stream filled with eels & fish. The stream led me to a koi pond, I shed a tear out of jealousy and walked my way into a tree scattered place, like a forest. The forest was scattered with animals of all sizes.

I strudded a few meters down a steep hill and I encountered a tunnel. I threw a rock down the tunnel and it took roughly 5 seconds for it to hit the ground. Without thinking I slid down the tunnel and walked for a few minutes to find myself inside a luxurious building. It took awhile for me to come to my senses, I was inside the mansion! 

(inside): 

I trudged out of the tunnel's end and walked further inside the building. As I walked past a big white door, I ended up in the main room/living room at least I thought it was. There were very old artifacts, they looked incredible. Out of amazement I fainted, it turned pitch black. I don’t know how long I was unconscious for but shockingly, I awoke to the same dream. I knew for a fact that this was a dream because in reality I live in a small, single story house.

Back to the mansion, I took a left turn into a room which looked like a kitchen. At this point I didn’t know what to think because the kitchen in the mansion was as big as my whole house! I couldn’t believe my eyes, I ran up the stairs, with a glimpse looking up I saw a chandelier, it looked so elegant I wanted to cry.

I went further up the stairs which led me to a room, I glanced a look at the room door and told myself ‘’you're getting way too curious just turn back and try to wake yourself up’’ I don’t know what It was about the room but my body ached to get inside the room but my brain was telling me not to. I tried to turn back but I just couldn’t.

I ran into the room and the door shut behind me. As I opened my eyes I saw another label with my name encrusted on the headboard of a oh so modern and tidy bed. I don’t know what was up with this dream but it was both insane & irresistible knowing I wanted to see more. Knowing all these details I needed to know more. I wanted to get every single detail of this house while I still remembered this dream to search up if this was a mansion in the real world or if it was just my imagination. I left the room stinging to know more. As I walked down one of the hallways upstairs I found another room which I couldn’t resist.

I saw a golden aura which felt like it was pushing me to enter that room. This time I had to resist, as I walked a few steps away from the door I took a wink. As I popped one of my eyes open I was at the same door I tried to resist. Since this was my dream I couldn’t stop thinking about the door. At this point I thoroughly gave up, I latched my hands around the door handle and pushed the room door open. I couldn’t believe my eyes, they must be playing tricks on me. Inside that room was an indoor pool, It had L.E.D lights placed inside the pool, the pool was as long as a giraffe’s neck!

All these details were making me sick, as soon as I dipped a toe, no not even that, the tip of my toenail in the pool I awoke in my shriveled up bed. It creaked as I walked up and out of my bed. I opened the door and I was in the mansion from my dream!

PBL Architecture: Jargon Words

From the articles you read, create a list of words, with definitions, that are “jargon” in the housing industry.

PBL Architecture: How Houses Are Designed And Built

 How Houses Are Designed And Built?

How are houses designed and built, you say? Based on my research, designing a house can be a bit tricky, so I've heard . If you’d want your house to be as accurate as possible, you could make a 3D model design of the house you're willing to build. Building a house also sounds tricky, for example, you’d have to follow the build code, pay a considerable amount of money to be able to pay your Architects, Carpenters, Urban and Regional Planners, Electricians etc, etc. Anyhow let's start off with Designing a house!

Designing a house.

As I mentioned before this process sounded tricky based on my research, but let's get started shall we? When designing a house it's important to have a floor plan. A floor plan is a 2D version of a house, minus the roof with a bird’s eye view.

The reason why this is so important when designing a house is because if you were designing a house you’d need to plan out how many rooms are there gonna be, how many bathrooms, is there going to be a basement, where are the rooms going to be located inside the house? and so on. When you have a floor plan it's easier to see the draft of your room/s and figure out approximately how big the house is going to be. Once the floor plan is finished then you could start by figuring out what type of materials you’re going to use for your house and you’d have to get it ready.

Also keeping in mind floor plans don’t have enough detail in what the builders have to construct, meaning floor plans are useful but blueprints have better use when constructing a house for it’s more inclusive when providing information for the specific builders you’ve hired. Now that this is said and done let's move on to building a house.

Building a house.

Building a house is a long process which is why it is the 2nd process I’ll be explaining. First and foremost you’d have to prepare your construction site. Once that’s done, then you can pour the foundation. The foundation is basically the outline of your house on concrete.

Further on you can make your rough framing. Framing is the wood layer that holds up the house. Usually you could see the framing in action when you're out and about in the car. 

Following on you’d need to install pipes, wires, sewer lines, vents & water supply lines. Once the shell is done the roofing & siding can be installed. All that was said above is compulsory for it is all part of the building code & will be expected in the inspection. At this phase the drywall would be delivered to the site!

Furthermore the drywall should be hung and taped, usually when the drywall is placed then the homeowner starts to visualize where their furniture is going to be placed & visualizing where certain things are going to layed out.

When finished, further on in the house building process the driveway would be placed. Since we’ve come this far, the mechanical related objects will be placed such as toilets, light switches, outlets, sinks, faucets etc. Finally the final walk through will be made, the finishing touches will be done! 

My Source: Guide To Building A Home.

Today's Kiwican Lesson!

Today for kiwican I really enjoyed this lesson because we talked alot about how we're responsible for ourselves and for that we'd need to use our integrity. After our little talk we froliced in an activity called Buddy Up. 

The aim of the game is to listen to the instructions which Mrs Mac gave out. She chanted out the instructions and we followed by doing a gesture with our buddy that was in front of us. From this activity I learnt to be actively honest when I knew I was out and listen carefully now to make the wrong move. After we chatted about what goals we're currently working on. Later we got sent off to write down out short term goals we're willing to work on for the next 3 weeks. 

My Goals Were: 

- Participate & have fun

- less distractions, more finished work

- try new things out of my comfort zone

- finish work by the due date 

- don't give up on the things I want to do/say.

Overall this lesson was great !