PROCESS highlights
Before starting my process I did a brainstorming on the topics I would research on, as well as specifying and choosing what my final product would be.
Accomplishing my goal
Investigating
Inquiry Questions
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Which are the needs disabled people have to take into account while designing a house?
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How can we help improve disabled people’s lifestyles through the design of a house?
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Which is the process it takes to design a house?
To answer each inquiry question I had to make sub questions that helped me improve my research, communication, social, and reflective skills.​
The different sources I used throughout my extensive research
Planning
Research Action Plan
For my project to be successful I created two action plans, one for my research and another one for my product that would help stay on task and organize my time wisely.
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The first action plan for my research is divided into four sections. For each of my inquiry questions I ask myself :
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What?
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How?
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When?
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What happened/ To do.
Product Action Plan
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Taking action
The making of the virtual and physical scale model
Watch me explain the difference between the process of making a physical scale model and a virtual scale model!
I then went to the app FLOOR PLANNER and copied the sketch I made, making some adjustments, then placing the basic furniture to get an idea.
I then had a Zoom meeting with my architect cousin in which I showed her my process and idea, and she told me what things I needed to change and improve, making rooms bigger and having a much bigger haul before, making me think of the air transition through the house.
I started doing the walls of each room according to the measurements I have set up, I also implied the certain measurements for each accessible room and requirements for an accessible bathroom. I then started making holes in which I was going to place the doors.
I started placing the furniture, I had trouble finding the correct furniture, and it was taking too long to upload the different furniture online.
DIFFICULTY: The program started crashing and took too long to load and open. I then placed different furniture I liked and applied it to a modern house.
Finally, I created the garage with is certain space for the person to get in and out.
I had my second Zoom meeting with my architecture cousin in which I showed her my process, and then I shared my work with her, so she could help me fix things.
DIFFICULTIES:
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When I was trying to send my work to her, it was taking too long to load
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She then helped me rearrange the kitchen and gave me some tips on how to make it stop freezing my screen so much. She corrected the walls I made in different groups, and put them all in the same group, so I can remove them and see only the furniture and vise versa.
Process of my physical scale model​
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I first decided to do my scale model on a scale of 1:50
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After deciding I started measuring each wall and multiplying by 2 and then drawing out the shape on straw cardboard.
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I continue doing the walls until I finally get 22 walls in total, which takes me more time than expected as I had to cut down 2 pieces of cardboard together and not one.
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Furthermore, I then cut down windows, doors, and garage doors using brown cardboard, to make the scale model have different tones.
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I then created the entry path and garage area with paper and painted it with pastels.
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Finally, I get 3 reusable trees I had in my house and paste them on their corresponding spot.
