J.T. Pennington - Week 10 Lessons Learned

Week 10 : October 30th - November 3rd

Lessons learned/reflections:

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Monday October 30th - Finished all of the interior elevations for a private residence in Sullivan's Island except for the master closet, which is highly customized to the client. I've drawn interior elevations before at previous companies, but these elevations for a residence are at a larger scale (1/2" = 1'-0" instead of 1/4" = 1'-0") so they show more detail, but have less keynotes and annotations.

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Tuesday October 31st (Halloween) - Sullivan's Island Private Residence: I didn't realize that the second interior elevations were all at least 12" lower height from the building sections. First floor is 9'-8" AFF; second floor is 8'-8" minus the sloping conditions from all of the steep roof pitches - including the gabled areas and hip roofs. I spent some of the day adjusting the second floor interior elevations.

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Isle of Palms Project: We had a project from 1993 that was directly next door to an active project that we are working on now, and I was asked to call the professional land surveyor to see if they had a digital copy of the survey done 24 years ago - which seemed like a stretch to me. I called a company with the same name in Florida - then was able to track down from the Better Business Bureau that the surveyor had closed their original business and the woman had retired. I ended up tracing the existing site survey lines that were recorded on the plat in the county clerk's office then using a dimension on the survey and scaling my linework I was able to overlay the site boundary points to show the adjacent neighbor position to our current project.

Wednesday 11/01 - While working on CD redlines, I talked with Kate (my mentor) and Batton (my coworker) about how the building sections will read at 1/2" scale = 1'-0" on a sheet; it was a good conversation thinking about construction document legibility and making the technical information clear and easy to read for us, for the building department, and for the contractor. It reminded me of the blog entry I had just written the previous night for my architecture studio design-build class, which you can find here.

I also received redlines back from the electrical plans I had previously worked on and thought about how I had misunderstood wall outlets and floor outlets that were drawn perpendicular to the wall location instead of matching the symbol legend. I'll get it right the next time.

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Thursday 11/2 - I had to speak to Batton regarding some of the dimensions he had taken for a private residence renovation in downtown Charleston. Our client is coming to the office this morning so with the additional information from a conversation I was able to finish the existing plan drawings that Beau and the client will use to discuss conceptual and schematic design today. This was also good for me to work on because this was advancing my goals - preparing presentation drawings for approval of clients or authority having jurisdiction. Beau Clowney Architects has an open air office environment so I was able to overhear the conversation with the client even though I was not at the conference room table discussion.

Images of work completed:

Private residence renovation in downtown Charleston, SC - existing plan information first floor:

Private residence renovation - existing plan information second floor:

Client meeting drawing - first floor:

Client meeting drawing - second floor:

Client meeting drawing - third floor:

Private residence in Isle of Palms, SC - site plan drawing. The red line footprint at the bottom of the drawing is the 1993 survey drawing that I traced and scaled to show the adjacent neighbor relationship regarding the setback conditions and discussion on the site placement within the lot. The left hand side of the image is the edge of street and the right hand side of the drawing dashed line is the start of the dune with the Atlantic Ocean beyond. There are a lot of black squares on this image that I protected absolute location data, street names, and lot numbers for client privacy - but there is enough of the drawing for you to understand the concept that I am trying to describe: