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Model Building - Roof Help! FezHasLotsaToes 05-17-2006
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Posted by Bob Morrison on May 17, 2006, 8:20 pm
In a previous post Don wrote...
> BTW: I'm not defending the OP's roof design, for I don't know the
> intricasies of how it was designed (and FWIW I do have an aversion to very
> small offset & stacked hips like on the OP's model), just the fact that what
> to some may seem complex, to others is run of the mill.
>

Don:

I'm not saying that houses shouldn't have unusual shaped roofs. I've
worked on plenty of those. I was trying to say that the roof appears to
unnecessarily complex. As others have pointed out, that is usually a
function of poor architectural design not a "feature". In my opinion many
of these complex roofs look like a stack of weird mushrooms and are not
all attractive. But then perhaps I'm getting too used to the Northwest
look of mono-pitch roofs with big cantilevers and exposed soffits.

--
Bob Morrison, PE, SE
R L Morrison Engineering Co
Structural & Civil Engineering
Poulsbo WA
bob at rlmorrisonengr dot com

Posted by Pierre Levesque, AIA on May 17, 2006, 12:30 pm
Are these at 1/16" scale or smaller?

If smaller you could always do good old fashioned clay models. Otherwise,
you could use thicker board or more solid core like strathmore board which
has uniform solid white layers that makes your roof edges straighter and
hides the seams somewhat.

Also, you could spray the whole thing with a fine white spray like gesso
spray which lightly fills the gaps and other imperfections

Otherwise, charge more for the models and spend more time on them.



> We are a small firm in Texas, and we have been designing homes for a
> subdivision that requires us to submit a scaled model for each home in
> a "design review" process.
>
> We have completed one model for this community, but have many more to
> come and would appreciate any tips and tricks you can provide us (been
> out of school too long around here)! Specifically, we're having
> trouble with the roof and it feels like we're just cutting out the
> pieces and folding them, making them work the best we can.
>
> Check out some pictures of our last model - ANY suggestions would be
> appreciated! It doesn't have to be fancy (obviously!), but we could do
> better.
>
> http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/7210/hpim16743tq.jpg
>
> http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/8763/hpim16707lk.jpg
>
> http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/5447/hpim16681iy.jpg
>



Posted by eds on May 17, 2006, 12:59 pm
A roof should unify the building, not break it up. Without plans, there is
no way to easily see how these roofs fit to the plan, but if there is really
no other way the plans are to complex. Think of the roofs that FLLW and H.H.
Richardson put on expensive houses, simple, simple, simple. Your developer
needs a design lecture. BTW why all the hipped roofs? Are they really
necessary?
EDS
> We are a small firm in Texas, and we have been designing homes for a
> subdivision that requires us to submit a scaled model for each home in
> a "design review" process.
>
> We have completed one model for this community, but have many more to
> come and would appreciate any tips and tricks you can provide us (been
> out of school too long around here)! Specifically, we're having
> trouble with the roof and it feels like we're just cutting out the
> pieces and folding them, making them work the best we can.
>
> Check out some pictures of our last model - ANY suggestions would be
> appreciated! It doesn't have to be fancy (obviously!), but we could do
> better.
>
> http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/7210/hpim16743tq.jpg
>
> http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/8763/hpim16707lk.jpg
>
> http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/5447/hpim16681iy.jpg
>



Posted by 3D Peruna on May 17, 2006, 1:59 pm
FezHasLotsaToes@gmail.com wrote:
> We are a small firm in Texas, and we have been designing homes for a
> subdivision that requires us to submit a scaled model for each home in
> a "design review" process.
>
> We have completed one model for this community, but have many more to
> come and would appreciate any tips and tricks you can provide us (been
> out of school too long around here)! Specifically, we're having
> trouble with the roof and it feels like we're just cutting out the
> pieces and folding them, making them work the best we can.
>
> Check out some pictures of our last model - ANY suggestions would be
> appreciated! It doesn't have to be fancy (obviously!), but we could do
> better.
>
> http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/7210/hpim16743tq.jpg
>
> http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/8763/hpim16707lk.jpg
>
> http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/5447/hpim16681iy.jpg


If you built 3D models, find a company with a 3D plotter (color) and
send the STL file to them... ;)


Posted by Warm Worm on May 17, 2006, 2:57 pm
3D Peruna > wrote:
> FezHasLotsaToes@gmail.com wrote:
>> We are a small firm in Texas, and we have been designing homes for a
>> subdivision that requires us to submit a scaled model for each home in
>> a "design review" process.
>>
>> We have completed one model for this community, but have many more to
>> come and would appreciate any tips and tricks you can provide us (been
>> out of school too long around here)! Specifically, we're having
>> trouble with the roof and it feels like we're just cutting out the
>> pieces and folding them, making them work the best we can.
>>
>> Check out some pictures of our last model - ANY suggestions would be
>> appreciated! It doesn't have to be fancy (obviously!), but we could do
>> better.
>>
>> http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/7210/hpim16743tq.jpg
>>
>> http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/8763/hpim16707lk.jpg
>>
>> http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/5447/hpim16681iy.jpg
>
>
> If you built 3D models, find a company with a 3D plotter (color) and
> send the STL file to them... ;)

If that's something like "rapid 3D prototyping", then that's exactly
what I was thinking. Kick ass.

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