BEFORE THE ARCHITECT – HOME DESIGN AND HOME DRAWING
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HOME CONCEPT DESIGN
"Things home designwise have two parents: construction and art. Construction serves. Art satisfies." AG
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In Concept Development (aka "massing" to architects), you'll see block shapes of what's already there and what's to be added or changed. The barest house plan details are sketched in, the essential elements of outline. No windows sills. No wood grain. No house plan details and dimensions. Just shapes of things done and things to come. You see architects develop concept work in the plain box shapes they build in order to make sure things fit, look good, and go where they're supposed to. The only difference is that the AG uses a computer where the architects use scissors, glue, and foam board.
Concept home design programs ought to be simply, quickly done. Before The Architect encourages our clients to sketch concept home design of what they're after to have home designed-in.
Home Concept Development can be either 2d or 3d home design presentations (usually 3d).
Ask the Autocad Granddad about Home Concept Designs.
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CASE STUDIES
Home Plan Design Program — First Additions. As background, the Autocad Granddad is creating Concept home design for a major home remodel to both the front and the back faces of a Garrison Colonial home with a split-level foyer front entrance. The owners have two problems with the home itself:
Visually dull from the curbside;
Too small inside to enjoy the pleasures of home ownership and babies to come.
These issues are explored in 2d and 3d home design of conceptual modeling.
Home Plan Design Program - Second Additions. This study advances Home Plan Design Program - First Additions into further additions; namely, we're conceptually adding either a two-car garage straightaway or a two-car garage with a master bedroom as a 2nd or upper floor.
Bathroom Design and Master Bedroom Design - ADA Compliant. Offered to the Autocad Granddad as an added bathroom in need of bathroom remodeling ideas for small bathroom floor plans, this project has some interesting challenges: a.) we started with an e-mailed word description and no pictures until a much later date; b.) the room is to be barrier free. Home Drawing to follow is, indeed, Concept Home Drawing (except the first one to get our heads straight), albethey mostly in 3d home design drawing, not 2d home design, and not of the entirety of the project (a master suite remodeling from a two-car garage), but just of the bathroom.
Home Plan Remodel. The Autocad Granddad is translating hand-drawn sketches of a 2-story home preparatory to remodeling. You will see the first few pics of basic floor plans develop into Concept Home Drawing to cut down on both Model Home Drawing and Builder Home Drawing. For the Concept Home Drawing, the exterior will be the primary focus, though we could go inside, too.
Home Remodel - Second-Floor Addition Design, Roof Design. The Autocad Granddad's clients plan to add a second floor to the center section of the home they just bought. This addition will leave two flanking wings at single-story level. Now there's a roof line that these clients are partial to; however, all the king's horses and men that they've gathered around ye olde home drawing table just can't get it to fit. This is a good one for the geez. Go geez. It is written that roof planning work is the postgraduate classroom for a home designer's Ph.D. It is so written wisely.
Craftsman Farm House Facelift. This home facade remodel, or, more particularly, facelift, is on a tight budget. Very tight. All the client needs from Before The Architect is a sense of what some changes would look like in simple terms, in order to pick and choose between drawn elevations just exactly which things can be changed now, later, or never. Gustav Stickley and Henry Greene – look out fellas – here comes the Autocad Granddad to the rescue.
Craftsman Style Home Design Tutorial. Today, we’ll work with the physical exterior, home design of the Craftsman Style from the Arts and Crafts Movement in North America.
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