Design Journal Entry - Module 11
Your Design Journal entries this week should highlight your design thinking and process in modeling:
- your power system elements
- your lighting system elements
I chose to model power and lighting fixtures in my four exhibitions rooms on the first floor. As these are large rooms with high demand, each room has a separate panel it connects to. These panels are located in the small electrical room by the staircase. Power outlets are located in each room about every 6 feet as per code. They are not placed at curtain walls, large windows, or doors. A system of overhead skinny lights are spaced out in each room, choosing ceilings as the host. These four systems also feed into their corresponding panels in the electrical room. The light switches are located next to the entrances of each room.
Challenges:
- When I first placed my lighting system, the calculations of average estimated illumination were not appearing in the space schedule. After a long analysis, we realized that the lighting fixtures were placed upside down so they were not registering in the rooms associated with the space schedule. A quick fix of flipping their orientation solved this problem.
- At first I did not have an electrical room on the first floor. Instead, there were individual panels in each room. After advice from Sahil, I modified my floor plan to incorporate an electrical room on this floor. This allowed for all the panels and circuits to feed back into a central location.
- Lastly, when checking the model coordination view, I realized my ceiling does not extend all the way to the end of the room. I went back into my electrical model to extend it; however, I was not able to find the ceiling element. I am not sure how to fix this problem.
