The reason for the preparation of this article were real events. A friend of mine approached me with a request to find among my colleagues–builders experienced specialist who can comprehensively help in the construction of cottages (the cottage is not for himself but for a friend). And, of course, would agree to participate in this project with modest funding. Agree, the task is not easy. However, we can say that she was lucky. At the time I had in mind a specialist, completing your current object.
It took several months until the customer and the contractor got used to each other, sketches replaced each other, and along the way changed the requirements of the customer. This is not surprising, let alone reprehensible. They went through dozens of options, tried different architectural forms, but it was not too moving: his eyes ran, and the customer was difficult to determine the final decision. The contractor then suggested a proven option to leave planar solutions on the flipchart or the screen and refer to the bulk and scale modeling.
Thus, you are reading not a canonical article from the industry encyclopedia, covered with dust of lack of demand, but almost reportage information about the project started. At the moment, the layout of the future cottage transferred to the Customer for clarification and approval.
How to choose the design of the garden?
So, how does a summer resident usually choose a project of an atypical house? Maybe not even a project, but a prototype, which the future cottage should be like? In the course of the study is a hefty packs of illustrated magazines, gradually giving the palm industry Internet portals.
Can a computer help?
Not every family is so lucky when the family is headed by an extraordinary Creator, who can lay out a brick wall and design his house in 3-d without help.
And both are performed at a very decent, professional level.
Since we have already mentioned computer-aided design, it is advisable to dwell on it a little more closely.
How many of reading now these lines from the monitor screen are able to work on the computer in the mode of construction design? I think units. At least, I didn’t manage to master it at the proper level. Of course, computer design is a good help in the development of the architectural concept of the future house. Let me remind you that the computer renderings that we see in glossy catalogs are made by experts of extra class. And if you rely on ordinary “masters” of the Network, ready to make a decent visualization, the result will be a loss of money, as the real quality for a negligible amount of remuneration can not be expected.
Labour lessons
However, there is another way, having spent little money, to get a decent, textured result in all senses of the word. It’s prototyping. I would add to this term an additional definition – desktop design.
I am sure that most of our readers can still remember the lessons of work. So I propose to shake the old days and build your future home in miniature.
The most wonderful model for this material — foam Board. It is sold in sheets of size 50×70 cm and a variety of thicknesses. They depend on both the quality and thickness of the sheets.
By the way, in the right hands, and so far from the layout of the material as extruded polystyrene can also be a help in the layout of the architecture. By the way, in the above photos the layout in orange colors is made using expanded polystyrene.
And here’s what it looks like “in brick”:
For household creativity are needed:
- joiner’s glue;
- stationery knife, scissors, and ruler with pencil;
- accuracy and patience (and what summer resident does not possess these enviable qualities?).
Craft tips
Two words about the size of the layout. Usually it is done in such a way that it is conveniently located on the desktop. There are even town-planning scales. However, we will not swing at them. As experience shows, well obtained layouts “desktop” scale-that is, 1 m length ” in kind “is depicted on the table in the form of 3 cm”house”. Strictly speaking, the scale is written as 33:1.
I do not delve into the details of the layout Assembly, I leave them to the imagination and creativity of interested readers. Moreover, the diverse photos in the article show the possibilities of cardboard architecture.
One of the advantages of having a layout-the ability to” play ” it different lighting scenarios: morning, noon, sunset. Moreover, this game will tell more precisely optimum placement of the house on a building spot. That is, putting in Sunny weather on a real plot layout of the house, you can follow the movement of shadows on it from the textured elements of the house and choose the most advantageous position of the cottage on the site.
If the weather and climatic conditions you do not have the opportunity to arrange the layout, the heavenly body will completely replace the table lamp aimed at the layout at different angles. Of course, the solar Eclipse it is necessary to arrange in the darkness of the Studio. This game will allow you to feel the necessary light level in each of the rooms. Moreover, even the size of the roof overhang can be partially determined thanks to a variety of lighting play.
Especially valuable layout when planning the roof. The secrets of the crossing and the junction of the inclined slopes of neighbouring roofs, and the organization ends better planned it on the layout. For this model was made two architectural solutions of the roof with different size of overhang:
This layout already in advance allows you to place the existing or planned to purchase furniture and find her your “corner”. Moreover, the layout allows you to move the walls and adapt the layout of the cottage under the existing furniture.
And if you spend in the layout of low-current electricity, it will turn into a creative nightlight. Have you ever seen one of these before?
I do not exclude that the method you like will push you to create a layout of the entire garden plot. At least those of our readers who are thinking about the optimal layout of their possessions.
At the time of preparation of the article the decision of respected customers is not yet known. I hope in the comments to keep you informed.
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