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Environmental design and floor plans

"Environmental design is the process of addressing surrounding environmental parameters when devising plans, programs, policies, buildings, or products. Classical prudent design may have always considered environmental factors; however, the environmental movement beginning in the 1940s has made the concept more explicit.

Environmental design can also refer to the applied arts and sciences dealing with creating the human-designed environment. These fields include architecture, geography, urban planning, landscape architecture, and interior design. Environmental design can also encompass interdisciplinary areas such as historical preservation and lighting design. In terms of a larger scope, environmental design has implications for the industrial design of products: innovative automobiles, wind-electricity generators, solar-electric equipment, and other kinds of equipment could serve as examples. Currently, the term has expanded to apply to ecological and sustainability issues." -from Wikipedia

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Assignment

For this next section of the assignment you will turn in the following:

 

  • Floor plan drawing of space and exterior of building

  • Floor Plan: 8.5 x 11 inches or 11 x 8.5

  • Resolution: 150

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  • The floor plan should be the layout of the museum space.  If you are doing something different from a build you will have to come up with a map. This could be of the area the your exhibits would be shown, if online the structure of the online space.

  • Should have a compas, legend and scale

  • Rooms should be labelled for the purpose

  • Elements of accessibility should be identified and labeled

  • Environmental considerations should be identified and labeled

  • Save as  lastnamefloorplan.jpg

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1. What is Passive solar design

2. Explain Building orientation and window location is important

3. Discuss one feature that is an additional low-cost passive design features.

4. Choose one of the more complex design options and explain why it would be a good option to use in your building.

5. Choose one of the additional conditions for environmentally responsible building and discuss how you could add this into your floor plan

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