Architectural Interview

Interview Question:

Can you walk me through your experience in architectural design and project management?

Candidate's Answer:

So I'm going to watch you to one of the project that I was done in, Icon Architects.So the building is a.Nine story residential and commercial building which is made made use and Metro is building located at 71990 Sheppard Ave. West.In this page that you are seeing in is indicated on all assembly that it's within this within this project.For example, here is a is an exterior wall assembly with the storefront glazing 2 layer of the rigid insulation and so as a substrate. Maybe you you can have the concrete block or concrete wall as well.With 25mm air space to provide air barrier and thermal barrier barrier as well.In the following pages uh, you can see the interviewer partition like here. Is the different type of the partition offering that is being used in this project from falling from failing start to 6492 and 52.My daughter start.Partition.For the current page it shows it shows the floor assembly and the and the ceiling and roof assembly site plan, site plan in this page and this is the status of the project.This is one of the one of the important information that this package included. Include each for the permit we need to have the prepare this fire fire rating and.The fire hose coverage and travel distance, which I'm sure I will show you in the following pages.So.So as you are more aware of that, so for the commercial between the global commercial unit I I have one hour priority, in the residential I have one hour for rated separation which is which is which are shown in all different layouts.That you can see it here.For exit I have two hour fire separation, for electrical closet 2 hour, for garbage show 2 hour. So I I indicated all of my required required for fire rating tags in this layouts to show the examiner.That.We we meet all the we comply with the OC code so I have building section. As you know that the fire parking is F3 so it should be two hours separated from the rest of the building so.In order that in order to in order to have this.Fire fire hose coverage that which is maximum 30 kilometer I specified with the dashed line and the travel distance which is maximum 45 meter is specified with this bold line that is shown here. It shows here.This is the P2 level which is parking, parking, floors.The two parking floors on the P2 level P2 parking in the West as based on the structural drawing I use the stable and grab 100 limited slip on grid and the other other floors is 200 but in the great I have to to model the better step on it.So from this page from page to 300 to 390, I have the overall floor plan with the.Directing director space is the ceiling for the intake and exhaust air and then from.309 two 320 to 329 I have the.In large room flat with more information on it like for example voltages and door tags and other requirements required information such as suite area and the type of suite like one bedroom or two-bedroom and this kind of information.Also the 1.11 of the challenges that I faced during this project was.Because of the to meet to comply with the green * green designer standard in the.Meanwhile that we bought, we I was preparing preparing the permit package. We noticed that I noticed that I have to change the heating system of the building to the geothermal heating system.To. So in order to do the do in order to do these changes, I had to change I I was a come up with this question. OK, so why when we want to change this heating system, do we need to exist?Still have the boiler or chiller because in my mind that I was, I was I I knew that we don't even when the mechanical consult and do the do the calculation maybe we don't know we don't we don't need to have the boiler or chiller so that's why that coordinate with them.And after that they did the calculation with the geothermal consultant. So they come, they come to the result that so we don't need them any boiler and chiller in this project. So which is which it saved us a lot of money for a lot of budget.Your client because for that kind of the mechanical room with the, with the, with the that much boiler that's boilers that we had before. So to we don't need any floating roof under this of this mechanical device to prepare.Acoustical isolation and so and vibration isolation as well and so, so all these all these extra thing is it's been gone by each by these changes.At the first point I thought I I thought so I thought that it's going to be.Very type, it's going to be challenging but after that we come to this conclusion and we made I made the client satisfaction with this saving budget and so he was very happy to to to for for possible.Was very appreciated for from us to for me to.I have this idea of.And.Remove these and replace these.Mechanical room that we we had before to the solar panel, so again to helping to the green design standards.So in these pages that in the in the in the pages that I'm going to show you now I specified the I I'm going to show you. Now I show the elevator sections with the landing and all the data items. So.For the contractor or subcontractor or my elevator manufacturers to the company TB ever of that be to completely describe the information that they need to install elevator.Also, they will avoid type at the addiction of the voltage at the rooftop sitting.So for the, so here is the North and South elevation and then.Because in this program so since I have two torn off the color shade in this in this project for the window wall glazing. So I need to use this different color hash for the elevation which is.More understandable for contractors.In this uh in this elevation in this window I have I showed the the height that we need for the third friendly windows.Which is 6th floor.I prepared 6 building section for this building.To describe more about the project and if everything that if there is anything is that.Kind of tricky so.All they can refer to this building section to know what's going on in this project and for this part of the, the, the, the, the tricky part of the project like for example this loading area and.This part of the building.Uh, which is uh, which has the like the three key overhead issues. So I prepared the wall section so to minimize any describes discrepancy discrepancy during the construction of the project.So this is the different LOLI wall assembly that I show you here. So and also another thing that another charges the charges that I was.Needed to do to do to do it. Meanwhile that I was preparing the permit package and 30 package is.Align the design did the allied the stairs because this project the initially was done at before initially start to design at 2018 so and then from that from that time to now the the code.And just the maximum.Rise out of the stairs from 2:50 to 200. So in order to in this case. In that case I needed to change the design of the.Stairs layout and section to comply with the new code. This is the one of the the other challenges that I had with the within this project. So here I have the section in detail like for example this is the terraces that you see that curbs and then based on the structural drawing.So I have the rigid insulation with the slope between 1% to 2% the slope. And then here I have the I show the insulation which is cool 600mm below the foundation wall, below the ground floor below the paving.So to prepare better Taiwanese duration and water barrier insulation.This is the plan that day for the for the.Sub point that like for example if there is a 22 material they're gonna they're gonna connect together.Connect connect together to for the different subcontractors to see that how they like. For example, a storefront is connected to the.Laminated wall panel like this kind of things that there is two different subtract subcontractor involved in this project I made.Plan detail to describe the connection between these two different material or everything that it's a tricky like for example.Saab disconnection.Which I'm going to show you or shooting or the wall around the garbage should this part.I showed that I create the plan details.So here I have the video, the schedule to prepare the shop drawing and after I received the shop drawing, I again reviewed the with the architecture drawing.To not miss any error at any mistakes from to to keep.From happening.There's leverage drawing based on the structural drawing that I showed here, which is very helpful for the contractor to know that to specify the grid line or grid line and for the construction of the grid of the building and the.To relocate the, locate the building.Construction very precisely.And it will be helpful for them to use this established drawings.

AI Evaluation:

Your answer was very detailed and thorough, showcasing your experience and knowledge in architectural design and project management. You effectively walked through the various aspects of the project, highlighting challenges and solutions you encountered along the way. You also demonstrated your understanding of building codes and standards, as well as your ability to coordinate with different subcontractors.

To improve your answer, you could focus on emphasizing your specific contributions and role in the project. For example, you could mention any innovative ideas or strategies you implemented, or how you effectively managed the project timeline and budget. Additionally, you could give more specific examples and details to support your points and make your answer more engaging.

Overall, I would rate your answer a 4.5/5. You provided a comprehensive overview of your experience in architectural design and project management, but could have added more personal insights and examples to make your answer more impactful.