I. Describe the Assignment and Goals
For the Apartment Project we had to create a floor plan for a single apartment room that was in the area of 600 - 800sqft. We made it on graph paper where 1 square equaled 1sqft. We had some required rooms but after our designs were finished we got into groups of 3-4 people and then had one person from each group go around and give their opinions on others plans. Then we would decide as a group which design to pick. After came the main part where we got a massive sheet of paper and we had to take that floor plan and replicate it across the paper using different transformations.
II. Why did you choose this Project for your Portfolio
This project has had many layers to it which has made it very interesting to work through each of these layers one by one. It's a very long process but it creates a lot of thinking going on between each group member which in return makes for a very good design/project. Therefore making it a cool project just since it's been quite relaxing but also interesting.
III. How it Represents a 21st Century Skill
This project represents Financial & Economic Skills because we actually were required to create prices for these apartments. Now to do this we had to look at what our apartment had to offer such as the square footage, and certain features. Once we got our main points/features for our apartment we went online looking at different places around the U.S. that were very similar apartments to ours and compared many different prices.
IV. How it shows my Current Growth
This project shows that I can look at a lot of information that I had researched and take all of that in to figure out or calculate in this instance the average amount of money paid.
V. Area of Opportunity for New Growth
I would like to design bigger apartments and maybe even be able to make a design of it in a CAD program.