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.