Make It a Home Design Challenge

Greetings judges I am a rising senior from a rural school in ga I always had a passion for engineering and architecture I was always found it fascinating the way that people would make building the impossible to the first suspension bridge to the bergie kalifa and engineering fascinates me to the Sketch's of da Vinci's to the modern day car I have been using cad mostly auto cad that my dad got me for my 13th birthday and have been self thought with trail and error and YouTube videos and this challenge is a great way for me to see how far I have come and a great for my future as a architect or engineer

1. lenvo IdeaPad Flex5
2. Creality K1 Max
3. PETG fillement
4. soil(from outside my home)
5. moss( also from outside my home)
6. paper
7. pencil
8. paint
9. paint brush

Program:

1. Autocad
2. Orcaslicer

Many people in around the world have, are experiencing a shortage of housing or the increasing cost of housing. In a study taking by the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development's on homelessness it shows that "in the United States, 653,104 Americans were homeless in 2023 this was a 12 percent increase to last year and a 10 percent increase over the average in the years 2007-2022 and has beat the record surpassing it by 1 percent."

Another Issue that I have encountered is green house gasses the avg carbon footprint of a home is 7-8 metric tonnes this number comes for the energy and we get it and use it most homes get there power from enegry plants and burn coal and fossil fuel mix this with poor pealing leads you to using more energy and you have a larger carbon footprint this has shown to cause higher temperatures and to meth the ice caps the earth natural shield for the suns uv rays

A third issue that I have encountered when reaching this is the amount the people lose when trying to keep there home cool in the summer or trying to keep there homes warm in the winters from an article the U.S Department of Energy is states that " The average American spends 2000 paying for energy annually 200$-400$ could be going to waste from drafts, air leaks, or from outdated heating and cooling systems

Sources :https://www.statista.com/chart/24642/total-number-of-homeless-people-in-the-us-by-year/\

(Sources for the pictures to)

https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/why-energy-efficiency-matters

There are multiple solutions to these problems but this is the way I will tackle this problem is by make my building using a tech of 3d printing building, passive heating, earth tubes and recycled furniture, and solar panels all effective way to make a moke more sustainable and cheap

When researching the ways I will construct my building I found 3d printing homes and with his technique of 3d printing homes I was fascinated by how something used to make toy or tools can also be used to make homes/building and there are some many benefits to having a 3d printed home some examples are faster building times, reduced labor cost lower material waste and design flexibility and these are just some of the benefits of having a home

source of the pics: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43452-020-00038-w

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/the-rise-of-3d-printed-houses/21803667

Earth Tubes are a way to heat and cool your home with out using your ac unit this helps you save on money on electricity which is a driving force in the increase in green house gasses

these are some notes I took over the video so some it up the house has to leak proof thick wall left side facing east

With all the building techniques mentioned in step 3-5 now it time to pick a out a location for my building/ house and I have chosen Hawaii you wouldn't think Hawaii more specifically Honolulu Hawaii the state know for vacations, palm trees and the beautiful scenery would have the highest percent of homelessness with 80.5 people out of every 10,000 experienced homelessness during 2024 according to usafacts and the cost of living is also being one of the highest being 81.85% higher then the average us state and 85% higher then the national average. This is because homes are expensive and limited meaning that there are very few people that can afford homes in Hawaii

Source:

https://www.apartments.com/cost-of-living/honolulu-hi/#:~:text=The%20cost%20of%20living%20in,36.5%25%20higher%20than%20US%20avg

https://usafacts.org/articles/which-states-have-the-highest-and-lowest-rates-of-homelessness/

Source of the pictures:https://www.civilbeat.org/2024/04/hawaii-housing-on-the-verge-of-getting-a-lot-more-expensive/

https://usafacts.org/articles/which-states-have-the-highest-and-lowest-rates-of-homelessness/

https://www.visittheusa.com/destination/oahu

On the left you see a sketch I roughly estimated where everything was going to go and it mostly stayed the same with 2 bedroom a bathroom a kitchen and a living room in the picture on the right you see the room then on the left you see how I arranged them

After roughy figuring out how my sq ft is going to end up I like to start on the outside of the house when I was design my house i was using the passive heating blur print mentioned in step 5 using this drawing/blue print I sketched the outside of my house

When makeing any building real size building or model it is important to know the dimention of a human these measurements are called Anthropic measurment theese measurmment help the archetiect to deturm the size of everything relative to a person to make sure that the cabinets are high and the celling isn't to low

Using autocad I was able to make rooms according to the sq ft mentioned in step 9 this helps me be more effecting with my time and makes sure that everything is to scale I first start off by make in a arrangement that fits all the rooms and and leaves a little space of a hallway the rooms I have included is a kitchen living room master bedroom bedroom bathroom and a utillity room enough space of a family of 4 there you can see that everything is marked to the walls to the bathroom

With the Math done we can now have an rough idea on what is might cost in the real word lets start with 500sq ft home it says on (renofi) it will be on avg to make a home of this size a avg of 50,000$-150,000 (source:https://www.renofi.com/adus/500-sq-ft-adu-cost/)

Next is the price of passive heating is says on (ProBulider) it will cost 5-10% more to make your home a passive heating home but this investment in the long term will be a offset the cost is also states that make a heating passive home will help you reduce you carbon footprint by 60-70% Which is great for the environment which helps with the problems mentioned in step 1 (source:https://www.probuilder.com/business-management/financing/blog/55195791/can-building-a-passive-house-cost-the-same-as-a-code-built-home)

the cost of setting up earth tubes will be around 2,000$ if made diy (I couldn't find any numbers on it being profectianly done)if done diy I can give roughly 23% energy save(source) this is and extra bonus on top of the passively heating element of the home

solar planes the avg cost to set up according to (energy sage ) 16,189$ for a 500 Sq ft home the benefits of is Hawaii give a 35% tax credit for people that have solar panels and with the high prices in Hawaii this will pay it self back

(source:https://www.energysage.com/local-data/solar-panel-cost/hi/)

with everything the total comes out to be 50,000+5%=52,500+2,000$(If earth tubes are made diy)+16,189$ = 70,689$-123,189$ this may seem a lot but compared to the 500 Sq ft home which cost 620,000 my home cost 1/6 of the price and in the long term my building will help you save in the long term with A/C and electricity not to mention a tax break.

I press pulled the wall 8 feet to start making it in 3d and begin printing it out and I added a floor of 6 inches and for the roof I made the longer wall 35 degrees and I made the smaller wall by 30 degrees to give it that passive heating home look

Once have the wall set up i stared with the windows 4 feet from the floor I used a cube to subtract it from the walls

once I put it in orca slicer I enable supports and gave it slime tree and this I how it came out ounce it was done

After both ends where 3d printed I put the two pieces together

once in side I got my water color and paint brush to paint the home/building I used a hairdryer to dry out the pain so I can apply sever coats of paints then I went outside to dig up some moss to simulate grass and I put it in a old 3d print I made

After everything this is how the house looks like this was made to help reduce the scarcity of home and help reduce the price not only in Hawaii but also around the world and not limited to a home.