It seems that about every year or so I start designing houses. Recently it's because I don't really like the house I currently have; it's too expensive to heat and cool and it's a boring ranch house.
If I were to build a new house, I would probably go with a Victorian inspired straw-bale construction house. Straw bale because for about the same price per square foot of a "normal" balloon frame house you can build a super-insulated house. Victorian style because they are so much more interesting than the cookie cutter houses of today.
Here is a video of two of this year's house design crop. And yep the first house is complete crap and the second has the worlds most needlessly complex roof. I guess I'll be sticking with software and not real-world architecture for the foreseeable future.
This is my first video production, and yes I know you can tell that. The music in the background is the first 40 seconds or so of my prime melody described in an earlier post.
Here are some pictures of some of the rest of this particular crop.
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I may not have come up with a great house design yet, but I did get a lot more proficient with Sketch Up.
I also did a lot of thinking about why we formally design things instead of just diving right in.
Only two reasons that I can think of:
- The design must understood by someone else. Either because they will be involved in making it or they need to understand what will be built in order to approve it.
- It's less expensive to change the design than to change the object being built.
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