Some Council Houses!
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Dear Oliver,
A very nice presentation, but a pity about the architecture, and yes, I know it is not your design. Why do council houses almost always look like council houses. Is it a case that architects that can 'do', and those that cannot design council houses.
Kind regards,
Bob -
Hijack away!! no worries, i am also taking note of your comments.
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Sorry for hijacking your thread, Oli...
Just wanted to answer the questions posted by Twan...@pugz1983 said:
When replacing does the X-frog tree take the scale of the instance it is replacing ( or should it? ) because rescaling the trees can be a hard because of the file size.
No... The Xfrog trees doesn't take the scale of the component it's replacing...
It's more to give the user an option to place a component in SU and replace it using an instanced object in KT, hence the title proxy, almost...
@pugz1983 said:
I've tried this replacing instances thing, and it worked but the scale of the X-frog tree was to big.
Not sure I understand what you mean...??
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@unknownuser said:
Why do council houses almost always look like council houses. Is it a case that architects that can 'do', and those that cannot design council houses.
I really don't think that's the case. Remember Bob, the design is almost always diluted by the client and planning officials. And I'm pretty sure most Architects don't discriminate about what type of job they take on especially during the current economic climate (hate that expression). There isn't much picking and choosing! it would be nice though. A council house can still be a beautiful and fulfilling challenge.
I can't see a client saying "oh he's a bad architect, he can design our council houses!" quite the contrary.
Unfortunately, this is the situation we face in England. A plague of neo vernacular pastiche architecture.....a country of tacky dolls houses. Maybe I could change that!!
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Dear Oliver,
My comments were made slightly tongue in cheek, but only slightly. We have some really bad examples of council housing in Oxford, such as Blackbird Leys, and so I tend to rail against featureless shoe boxes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbird_Leys).
Talk me through this would you Oliver. You start with the same land, the same bricks and mortar and the same (or similar) man-days of builders effort, so why do many (not all) council houses look so dreary and featureless. When inner city building land is so scarce and costly, why is the roof space totally ignored (mansard roof?). Is it all down to the number of units on a particular site, the cost per unit, and the property developer trying to maintain his profit margin high by going for the cheapest build possible.
One last, and quite controversial question. Do beautiful presentations and renders promote bad planning and architecture by creating an illusion of a model community and a village-like atmosphere? Discuss.
Kind regards,
Bob -
Render = OK
Design = ???Who was it that thought that making the gable-ends of some small articulated forms 'lopsided' made them look 'nice' ?
Forms should 'follow function'... and also basic 'structural rules'... and common-sense...
A gabled-roof is at its most functional if it's 'symmetrical'... UNLESS there is some underlying reason that it should not be so [we see none
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"Occam's Razor" = don't make something more complex than it needs to be...Render scores 7
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Oli???
Mate in your last posted pic there is some crooke mapping of the entry tiles, mate this is not like you!!!!
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I know they are pretty damn ugly but really I can't do anything about it. I was literally handed drawings and told to "render this!" only had a day to model it. The roof pitches make me cringe.
Cheers for pointing that out Richard!
@unknownuser said:
creating an illusion of a model community and a village-like atmosphere
well if you got that impression my work here is done!!
TIG I agree entirely, but like I say it's out of my hands. If you cannot justify it then it shouldn't be there. thanks for the 7 out of 10! it could be worse!
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From me a 7/10 is pretty good
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Minor observation: the streetlight should be at the rear of the pavement next to the 50mm pin kerb
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7/10, 8/10, 9/10, then 1/5 2/5 etc etc...
We are reaching the bottom now, wowGreat work oli as always.
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cheers michalis, i just wish the subject had more balls!
@unknownuser said:
Minor observation: the streetlight should be at the rear of the pavement next to the 50mm pin kerb
yeah you would think that wouldn't you, its an existing lamppost, dunno why's it's like that.
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another site, another nightmare
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Dear Oliver,
In reality there is going to be at least two cars per household. What would that look like?
Kind regards,
Bob -
another site. difficult topography but 'archiland tools',' drape construction points' and 'triangulate points' were life savers! thanks all ruby developers!!
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@olishea said:
another site. difficult topography but 'archiland tools',' drape construction points' and 'triangulate points' were life savers! thanks all ruby developers!!
Nice renders Oli but goddamn, council houses never look any better do they?? Ouch! Designer needs to get some different sources of inspiration or something.
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tell me about it
bloody doll house! thanks for commenting. look at the view out of the ground floor window....brick retaining wall haha
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Oli,
The last images are really nice, Congrats. About the design, It is much better than what I have seen in Luton (After two years there)...OMG!!! terrible architect...
In France It's sometime terrible too, but looks more like "push-pull boxes"... -
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