As a result, I was going to try to find a balance between designing a house that was rooted in traditional massing and proportioning, but also had more modern elements to it. The clients want a modern house, but they live in a development that has aesthetic requirements that slant a bit more towards the traditional. I also started to consider where I was going to put in windows … and what sort of composition I was going to try to achieve with this elevation. The scale was all kinds of wrong, and the first thing to do was change the roof pitch. So here is what you get after a few quick passes – a lot of scale and proportion rework. I gave direction on vertical heights and roof slopes … and the image above is what I got.Ĭlearly, it needs a whole lot of attention. I had the floor plan I sketched entered into Revit (because I’m not a caveman) and had the exterior elevations blocked out. See that computer drawing above? It’s pretty nasty, isn’t it? I’ve seen potato salad left out in the sun that looked better than this elevation – but that’s okay – this isn’t a design elevation, it’s a study on massing and it is only the very first step of many that are about to happen. Other than that, the initial floor plan concepts are about getting the programming, room sizes, and adjacencies correct. Questions like: How does the approach to the house feel? – or – What sort of living spaces will be a part of this view? are the considerations for how the building massing will work and what sort of views I want to create from within the house. ![]() I think about the forms and the shapes, and I think about how the space around the forms is going to work. ![]() I generally have something in mind when I am putting together the plans on how I want the elevations to look – but the plans are the first piece of the puzzle.įor me, I start with the generic concept of how I want the building mass to work. I posted a sketch last week of an elevation study and was asked a simple question: do I design the floor plans first, or the elevations? The correct answer is that the floor plans get developed first, but there is still a lot of give and take when it comes time to develop the exterior elevations. ![]() Which came first – the chicken or the egg? Everyone knows the correct answer is the egg … and by “egg” I mean “floor plans”.
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