BEFORE THE ARCHITECT – HOME DESIGN CONSULTING
GRAPHICS GULCH IN HOME
DESIGN
They say that the devil's in the house plan details. Hell's bells, that's all there is to a good home plan set well done. I think folks find that devil in there by peering through their fog of ignorance and seeing their own vacuous, vapid stare looking right back at 'em - like the train light at the end of some dark tunnel. AG
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Introduction
Off the clock, the AG has gnawed through several days and day parts to understand that which has in the end eluded him; namely, in the elevations of our home and breezeway and garage, within AutoCAD how can one more responsibly represent the elements of different sizes and at different, known offsets of depth to each other than by applying the conventional, elevations method of graphic presentation?
Background
We represent our
facades in so-called “elevations”, that is, in 2 dimensions – width and
height, but not depth, whereat some of
which (depth) is ascribed in acculturated imagination, intellectual arabesques.
Superimposition and the learned expectation of the depth or arrangement of
things front to back give up senses or surrogates of depth perception.
What to do, what to do,
what to do when you’re faced with that with which we’re faced – three
home designing elements – home, breezeway, and garage – that are next to
each other and not overlapping? 3-dimensional home drawing
offers perceptional relief in a fuller representation of depth than
2-dimensional home drawing. We use 3-dimensional home
drawing
frequently – in almost all of our own roof design and to check some
2-dimensional work. With our project, particularly
with the home itself – the elaboration
and articulation of exterior elements would torture this old boy up a tall
wall to get all the twists and turns where they ought to be to do 3-D and that means
beaucoup time and beaucoup bucks . . . . mucho beaucoups (that’s
Spanfranglish, you know, for the multiculturally inclined).
The Literature
There’s a heap o’ text and home plan diagrams on the web to guide the artist and the astrophysicist to glorious presentations of depth of painted cows in a painted meadow and for the positions of planets in the vastness of space.
Having recently
survived immersions in both realms – the artist’s and the astrophysicist’s –
the AG returns to his perspective puzzle weary but not wiser. The AG did
learn that among experiences of higher-order pain, one can count with
confidence –
artists exposing their
mathematical wherewithnot and
astrophysicists’ simplifying
quantum mechanics and the time continuum so that we all can get it.
The Nerds
The AG polled three well-respected, very popular, internationally attended Autocad forums, plying our question of appropriate methodology to perform a depth (pseudo-)perceptive, 2-dimensional home drawing. He got –
 | No reply at all from one forum. So punitive. |
| A puerile reply from another that the AG had better suck it up, get real, pay attention to 1:1 elevations, because that’s what they’re there for (you old ninny, AG), and not look up from his daily grind lest he find naught but a lump of oily coal in his Christmas stocking. So expulsive. |
| A pedantic reply from a third that the AG’s interests are obviously and thoroughly as an anathema to the cause and course of authentic home designing presentation, that good-old traditional presentation in elevations should satisfy all responsible inquiry. So anal. |
Penance
Shame on AG. Bad boy. Bad boy.
The Dregs
So here’s what we’ve got for arm’s length viewing –
· We have a 32’ high ridge on a home (not counting two towering chimney caps) next to a 16’ high breezeway standing 33” back at its front face from the home front face next to a garage which, if fully two stories and, on the same grade level as the home and breezeway, stands 25’ back from the home, is 9’ narrower than the home as measured along the home long-axis, 29’ tall at its ridge. (Data are approximate.) All this is on a 2-dimensional, same-plane basis; it is as though we made cardboard cutouts of home, Breezeway, and Garage, and pasted them up on a warehouse wall.
· We can be sure would that any one of us looks at our three structures, that the farther back from the home front of face we go then (no matter the physical mass) the smaller the farther-back elements appear relative to the home itself; however, given the sorry state of Autocad and graphic technologies, we’ll have to pretend it’s so when we’re judging the depth relationships of and between the pieces.
· In our elevations, our viewpoint is not quite a hundred feet in front of the home at round-about 15’ or so over grade, looking out from one flat-screen eyeball not greater than 7 millimeters high and nigh unto 150’ wide. In other words, our three Front Of House elements could be rightly arranged in-line on the horizontal and vertical next to each other cheek by jowl or in different counties and there’d be no telling. The AG bets that even George Eastman couldn’t have envisioned our Kodak moment.
That’s as good as it’s going to get. Hoo-rah.
Well, that’s almost as good as it’s going to get. There are home artists. Yes, there are artists who (artfully) draw only (or mostly) homes. If you’re moved to hook up with one, let’s first narrow-down the field of possible draws.
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