Sketch a section

Start by standing in front of the wall where your bedroom window is. Take a piece of A4 paper and fold it in half. On one side of the paper sketch the outline of your home as you see it. This drawing is called an elevation. Now, imagine you have stripped away the side of the house you have just drawn, and you can see into the rooms with a wall facing you. Think about which rooms face this side of the house and draw what you think this would look like on the blank side of the folded paper. Make sure you label each room, for example your bedroom. Add some furniture and maybe a member of your family. This drawing is called a section. Unfold your piece of paper and compare the two sketches. Can you see how the pieces of the puzzle fit together?

If you take a building, lift off the roof and strip away the outside walls, what you see inside is a series of blocks, or rooms. Each of these fits together to make up the whole building. Here we take a look in detail at the blocks that make up your home.

Size up the section Remember how you used your arms and feet to measure your bedroom? You can do the same with each room in your section drawing. Go back inside and work out the dimensions of the other rooms in your sketch. You need to do this as if you are looking at them from the side, so take the following measurements: The length along the outside wall that you stripped away; and n The height, try comparing this to your height, for example the room might be 1.5 times higher than you.
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Make a note of these measurements on your sketch. Set the scale If maths is your thing and you completed the scale drawing task in My space, then try the next task for size making a scale drawing of your section sketch. To recap, if your drawing is 50 times smaller than your actual house, the scale will be 1:50. So if the wall is as long as 13.5 x your foot, which is 20cm, then 13.5 x 20 = 270cm. Divide this by 50 and the wall in your scale drawing will by 5.4cm.

Instructions
Re-draw each room on card, adding 2cm wide panels to each edge. Adding tabs will help you fix the panels together to make the box. Before cutting the room out, write some information on the side panels.
What is the room called? What do you do in this room? Who uses this room?

Rooms

What is this room called? What do you do in this room? Who uses this room?

What is this room called? What do you do in this room? Who uses this room?

Draw pictures of the people who use this room. Cut out with a tab on the bottom, and insert.

What is this room called? What do you do in this room? Who uses this room?

What is this room called? What do you do in this room? Who uses this room?

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Turn these figures into someone you know by adding clothes, hair or glasses

Think outsid e the box. Yo u dont have to buil d your tower insid e the lines. Make it you r base.