How to design an Old Age Home?

How to design an Old Age Home? The video sets out three steps for the design of old age homes. Step One : Research and Casestudies Research includes understanding old age homes and who are they for. What their purpose is? Casestudies include literature casestudy and live casestudies. Literature casestudy includes gathering information about old age homes from the internet and books. Live casestudies include visiting and documenting an actual old age home. The importance of comparative analysis cannot be undermined. It is important to do more than one casestudy to help you understand the differences in the two design and figure out the thought process of the designer behind the designs. Finally, getting feedback from the staff and residents of the Old AGe Home with a view to understand any missing needs that you might want to incorporate into your design. Please watch the video to understand it better...

VIDEO: Design of an Old Age Home - Part One

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Structural Design Disaster | Building Construction

A lesson for all the Civil Engineers to learn

"Structural Engineering is a field that deals with the analysis and design of structures that support or resist loads".

In this article, we will discuss a project in which Structural Design (Column Layout) had already been executed on site which was absolutely incorrect. After the erection of columns, the owner hired an Architect to design a Hostel for him.

I feel that not only Civil engineering students and civil engineers must understand the importance of making correct column layouts for the buildings. It is also the job of an Architect to give the column positions in the plan which works like a guideline for the Civil Engineer.

Now we will move on with our discussion on the reaction of the Architect after analyzing the Column Layout made by a Civil Engineer...

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