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Classic American Craftsman Bungalow, original design. Portrait sketch "calls out" details of the exterior and some significant landscape elements. Proportioning, size, porch size, window styling, roof pitches, mixed materials, and use of some novelty elements like the porch rail and the porch piers, are all essential and standard elements of the classic style, which was a popular home style in the U.S. from around 1905-ish into the mid or late 1920's, built throughout America, small towns or large.This is one of two versions of the exterior. I also have two different plan options drawn up, a 2800 SF larger plan with alley-access garage and a smaller plan with side garage on the right.
File updated 4/14/2019
The other exterior and larger plan, and what it looks like with two other bungalow designs:
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8x5 steel beam seems a bit much? Does that ridge beam hold up the house?
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It's a long span for a porch beam, which usually sag on classic bungalows. It also supports the centered structural ridge which makes a point load in the center. 8"x5" steel I-beam should be perfect for no sag long term performance! Just encase in wood or synthetic trim material to create the "shape" at the ends. And ridge beam only supports the top ends of both pairs of rafters for the porch roof. Ridge beam maybe (2x) 2x10 is plenty.
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Well, then well done! No sagging!
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You'll get a clothing store in Montreal he he...no other website right now, just Facebook...
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Uh I think there is a guy with my name in Montreal with a clothing store...
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oh i actually typed in 'archiect' after your name
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and your style is far better than with CAD and 3D))))
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Computer generated has no character! Lifeless...
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Do u use some grafic programmes or always draw by hand?
anyway, nice project!!!
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I always draw by hand on tracing paper, over graph paper, very small scale, details larger scale, perspective drawings always by hand, no computer "modeling." Then, I scan to computer, clean up drawings, tweak contrast and color, arrange on page, add words, etc. I'm exploring using "GIMP" program now and getting more sophisticated effects with it. That should hopefully be apparent. I never use CAD or 3D programs, i don't even have them!
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What do you think, is better to work by hand or by computer in our days?
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Possibly both. Best to design by hand, make graceful curves, good proportions quickly, etc. Computer is good for 3D models and final construction plans, allows easy modifications. Illustrations ALWAYS look best as hand made watercolors and drawings, computer generated stuff is too stiff, photo-like, un-natural colors, not as pretty. Any designer or architect should be able to design a building with a piece of paper and a pencil, in an office, on site, or on front of a client. I always draw/sketch when I am with a client to show ideas.
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Well a female friend of mine here in town certainly would like to build this one too he he...
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oh! i lil copetition i see ?
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We'll build it many times. FOR EVERYBODY!
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Wow, great stuff!
This plan is SO different than what they make me do here, a developer would develop a seizure upon seeing something like this
I like that office-thingy near the entrance, very neat....and the master bedroom assembly is just grand!
One functionality 'remark', though - for someone to reach it, they have to pass through the entire house. On the other hand, you make sure that residents 'remain in contact', which is quite awesome!
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Good eye. I can't penetrate that long wall in common with the kitchen without disturbing the bed and two nightstands arrangement. I like to face the bed looking out if I can. HMMM It's a good point, not sure...
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S'okay, totally legitimate reason!
The thing is, the place where I was schooled has open modernist tendencies, so I guess it left a mark, 'funcionality first, $/%# everything else' and all that....and my "squeeze everything out of nothing' job has severely deformed my approach over the years, and I get very little chance of doing something in the opposite direction.
This is a very nice place. I wouldn't mind living in it
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Three commandments of architecture: function, durability, beauty. But they MUST be applied in equal measure. That's the key.
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Golden words!
Function is something I think I handle very well (one of the perks developed after working for developers for so long, and having to achieve maximum out of a very small usable area), durability is, well......I haven't met one structural engineer who'd leave anything to chance, so their requirements and running changes present an additional hindrance on top of all.
They have their valid reasons, but sometimes it can be just plain ridiculous...
...and as for beauty, now that's a tricky one.
The thing is, beauty as a concept is one of the most subjective things out there, if you know what I mean... Something that you find to be beautiful may as well be utterly hideous to someone else.
With money to waste and the need to feel fulfilled, someone will buy a gigantic white Hummer that's 2 parking spaces wide, and someone will buy a frail vintage Lotus convertible with a racing-green paint job.
It's the case with architecture as well.
Folks who build things exclusively for sale regularly couldn't care less about the final look, so there's a chance of making something look decent.....however, there's so much packed inside such a building so there's zero room for actually making it look decent. Function 100% dictates the look of the thing.
Folks who build for themselves, on the other hand are different...they DO care. A lot. But as it happens, I live in a place where only a small percentage of them will entrust something like that to a professional....I live in a place where EVERYBODY is a $&"%" expert, and has a VERY clear idea of what they want and come in with their own doodles of incredibly retarded floorplans and facades, and won't budge ONE bit. And each one has their own definition and concept of "beauty".
It's their money, and they "deserve" to get the full-fledged product 100% to their liking, they say. "Money is money and times are very rough" says my Boss, so it's a company policy have "no pride" in such cases..
..but if you happen to be a poor sod who spends his knowledge, time, skill and energy on something that looks like a cross between a disgustingly kitschy mansion belonging to a Gypsy duke and a Viking longhouse, woe on you...
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I like it! A contemporary Viking House!
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Ugh, if only
Longhouses were one single space, and this dude had an ingenious idea of one wide and LOOOOONG hallway accesed centrally on one of the narrower sides, symmetrical rooms, a bath and such accessed laterally from the hallway (some 7-8 rooms/spaces alltogether), and one HUGE (living) room at the end of the runway.
A single space would've been a far lesser damage, IMO
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We have a "shotgun shack," one long house you could shoot a gun through. Translate that into your language!
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Heh, the one from the 'Talking Heads' song..?
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My first rock concert (1982?) and one of my all-time favorite bands.
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Oh boy...back in '82, I think chew-toys were my thing
I like Talking Heads as well....in fact, "Remain in Light" must be one of my all time top 20 albums. Amazing music.
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'zactly, Remain Light and Fear of Music, top 20 for me...Excellent concert too, I was maybe 18 yrs old...
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oooohh, 'Fear of Music' is awesome too!!!
...but 'Remain in Light' is something really special in my book, such a seamless blend of 'white' and 'black' music, their principles and philosophies, in which NEITHER dominates, but both melt together to form a new amazing alloy with its own sound.......a masterpiece, really!
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Ever heard "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts?" by Byrne and Eno?
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Never heard of it.....but I've just looked it up, says it's from '81, which is an astounding period for Talking Heads, so for Byrne as well.....and with Eno in the mix, I can't come to any other conclusion than the album being made of pure awesome!
Wow, now I'm intrigued......let the hunt begin!!!
I LOVE when something like this happens!
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It's got lots of tape loops of weird voices mixed with primal rhythms, a masterpiece really of experimental rock, done very near period of Remain in Light, and before the dance oriented fifth T-Heads album. Try to youtube "The Jezebel Spirit."
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Wow, awesome!!! Now I'm even more enticed!
I don't have sound here on my office computer (company policy, gah), but I'll take a look at it as soon as I get home!
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