FINISHED - Architecture Project: Office/Apartment Building

demagogue on 22/4/2007 at 02:53

Awesome work, Digi.

It reminds me a little of the Wittgenstein house, sort of the heart of the Vienna Circle, except that the top lofts, windows, and palm trees definately let you know you're still in Florida.

Good luck with the presentation (if it's not already "over" by now).

Digital Nightfall on 22/4/2007 at 03:28

Thanks demagogue. The presentation on Friday, which was just to the class, was fine. Lots of crits and suggestions, but an overall "hell yes" still applied to the work. Still, alot of little crits add up, and this weekend I dug back in and have been working around the clock to try to resolve as many of the issues as I can. One of them involved moving the guest restroom in the lobby area of the office space over by about two and a half feet, which totally destroyed the drinking fountain area. I was able to get it back in, but it no longer was to disabled standards. I am hoping the professor either won't notice, or will let it slide - moving that restroom fixed too many problems to be hung up by a drinking fountain. Of course, if this was a real project, the handicap drinking fountain takes precedence over a conference room and product display area.

The "big" presentation before the jury is on the 1st of next month.

This is the west side of the building, the three four-story (five if you count the rooftop terrace) townhouses.
<a href=http://www.digital-nightfall.com/chanside/ohmeh.jpg><img src=http://www.digital-nightfall.com/chanside/ohmeh_800.jpg border=1></a>

The same corner, but this time in axonometric "sim city" style view.
<a href=http://www.digital-nightfall.com/chanside/sw_axon.jpg><img src=http://www.digital-nightfall.com/chanside/sw_axon_800.jpg border=1></a>

Ko0K on 22/4/2007 at 07:03

It's a great-looking building, although I'd want an infiniti pool for a million dollars. :thumb:

Digital Nightfall on 26/4/2007 at 11:26

1st floor, as done as it's going to get. There's still a list of problems with it, but the time's passed when I can tinker with it any longer.

<a href=http://www.digital-nightfall.com/chanside/424_1st.jpg><img src=http://www.digital-nightfall.com/chanside/424_1st_small.jpg border=1></a>

It should be self explanatory, but just in case: the office complex's reception area is at the south east corner. This is "as far as guests get" unless they're someone who's someone. On the west side are three small retail spaces, which can either be made part of the units (and used as a study/den) or leased out separately to commercial tenants. Three examples are shown of how these spaces can be used. (The folks who run the office are the people who own the building, and would be leasing out the residential/retail spaces to tenants.)

Floor 1 of 5 done.

This was made by exporting 2D geometry from the 3D model shown above, working it over in Autocad (for hours on end) to turn the raw geometry into something that visually makes sense to humans, and then finally "plotting" it to Photoshop (and working on it for more hours on end) to add color and text.

dvrabel on 27/4/2007 at 13:08

Where's the parking for pedal cycles? Building codes here in the UK require number that's a percentage of the number of occupants. Is this not the case in the US?

Turtle on 27/4/2007 at 15:33

This is America, we don't care about bicyclists unless they are holding up traffic because they insist on riding on the street instead of the fucking bike path that's right over there.

Fingernail on 27/4/2007 at 15:35

forget about bicyclists, it's the more extreme gaycyclists you really need to worry about.

AR Master on 27/4/2007 at 15:37

37637598 on 27/4/2007 at 16:04

Where's the torcher room??? and you really do need to add some torches

but GREAT WORK! looks good! I designed a door and am trying to get it patented

SubJeff on 27/4/2007 at 16:39

Tell us more. I'm interested to know how you patent a door.