My logo

I haven't shown my logo to this blog yet, we were asked to design a logo for our projects. I worked on some designs which I wasn't particular happy with. With a help of a logo generator I was able to create this logo. MAD mean Michaels Architectural Design, I have created it in a way that makes it memorable, MAD it a quick reference to my works.

Surveying land

We were given three different sheets that consist two grids one on the bottom one on the side and in the centre there was a scaled map with heights of the land. I managed to complete one page in our lecture time, after few struggles I managed to get the technique and the other two were completed with a lot of ease. Practice helps a lot, I can see how useful this technique can be in the future when surveying the land on which I will design.

Tomorrow we are going to be using digimap, which is something that I am unaware of, I will receive a feedback on this homework tomorrow and hopefully its a positive one.

Combined assignment

Although we have different modules, they all combine at some point. As for architectural surveying we used a lot of maths to workout the dimensions which were then later used to produce an elevation drawing, technique we learned in Visual Studies but due to the nature of our course we are using what we learned there in our Architectural Surveying assignment.

Elevation drawing of the Vulcan works, I am doing the drawing for the third time right now, technical drawings such as these need to be very precise and accurate, I made few mistakes in previous drawings such as using the fine liner too early, the quality of lines being too thick or thin at some points and inaccurate use of compass. Early in the course I got to understand that in order to be good in this industry I have got to be accurate and produce quality drawings.

Sketch of the location

Scaled drawing of the building, elevation so do speak that will be used as a draft for my assignment, I will work on from this drawing to improve it and create a clear drawing. This will also be helpful in my visual studies homework, elevation of Vulcan works.

Surveying the building

So after a visit to the location I have gathered important data, took pictures of the location, established the size of the brick and also got to know the place. Firstly we measured out the length of the building, then the width of the bays and what's in between them.

This is what I have come up with, drawings of the building, brick and also a section of the building. I had a look through the widow to see what's going on inside and estimate the floor heights etc..

Above are photographs of us visiting the site, bottom left shows how we used Pythagoras thereon to measure out the heigh of the building, using the laser tool. So what we did was we measured out bottom of the triangle, taking the tape measurer out 2 metres, then we used laser to calculate the distance from one end to the top of the building. 2000 x 2000 (the distance on the ground) then took away it from the sum of the longest side of the triangle, which gave us the number that was later on divided by itself, this gave us the height of that bay. We did this for every single bay. It was a good method to calculate the height but to double check I have counted every brick from the ground up.