BEFORE THE ARCHITECT – DESIGNER HOUSE PLAN DESIGNS AND DRAWINGS
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DESIGNER HOUSE PLAN DESIGN CONCEPT DRAWINGS
"House design style has two parents: construction and art. Construction serves. Art satisfies." AG
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At the earliest stage of things to be built — that's where designer house plan Concept Drawings come in. Designer house plan Concept Drawings take basic guesswork out of planning and building. Most building projects benefit from designer house plan Concept Drawings, most projects pass them by. Doesn't matter the project — room additions, area enclosure, room remodeling, major house additions, deck building, small home plans or large home plans, tenant build out, interior build out, new facade, etc.
In designer house plan Concept Drawings (usually, a/k/a "massing" to architects), you'll see block shapes of what's already there and what's to be added or changed. The barest details are sketched in, the essential elements of outline. No windows sills. No wood grain. No 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.
Designer house plan Concept Drawings ought to be simply, quickly done. Before The Architect encourages our clients to sketch concept drawings of what they're after to have designed.
Designer house plan Concept Drawings can be either 2d or 3d design presentations (usually 3d).
Ask the Autocad Granddad about designer house plan Concept Drawings.
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CASE STUDIES
Home Plan Design — First Additions. As background, the Autocad Granddad is creating designer house plan Concept Drawings for a major home remodel to both the front and the back faces of a Garrison Colonial house with a split-level foyer front entrance. The owners have two problems with the house 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 designs of conceptual modeling.
Home Plan Design - Second Additions. This study advances Home Plan Design - 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 custom 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. Drawings to follow are, indeed, designer house plan Concept Drawings (except the first one to get our heads straight), albethey mostly in 3d home design drawings, not 2d home designs, 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 residence preparatory to remodeling. You will see the first few pics of basic custom floor plans develop into designer house plan Concept Drawings to cut down on both designer house plan design Model Drawings and designer house plan Construction Drawings. For the designer house plan Concept Drawings themselves, 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 house 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 drafting table just can't get it to fit. This is a good one for the geez. Go geez. It is written that roof work is the postgraduate classroom for a home designer's Ph.D. It is so written wisely.
Craftsman Farmhouse Facelift. This residential 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 drafted 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 Design Tutorial. Today, we’ll work with the physical exterior, custom house design of the Craftsman Style from the Arts and Crafts Movement in North America.
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