Concept of a Residential Building
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I have made a residental building in sketchup recently, but i just needed some feedback of what you folks think of it ( see the attachements )
It is quite a modern design, and the idea is that the building is hanging on those 4 big pilars. There are 4 appartements at each level, and each apartement has a big garden.
And there is a garage for cars underneath the building.I also wanted to collect water on the roof, and heat this water so it can function as warming for the appartments. So all those tubes you see also transport this water to the appartements.
And what i also did is that the residents can trow their garbage in a shaft ( in the garden ) , which goes al the way to the ground, where it is suplied in an underground garbage box.
So residents don't have to pull their garbage in the elivators all the way down.
Just trow it in a shaft and you are ready.
So basically what i wanted was to create a very modern looking, building, which is also very energy friendly(it is not ready yet by the way)
poster: gforce
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Love the concept, very well done, materialisation could use some work perhaps some green walls, plants growing off walls etc etc. But the concept is great. Perhaps look into more ways to make it energy friendly. solar panals as sun screens or something like that, there are a lot of ways to do make a building more energy friendly. Perhaps you can make a stronger connection between the shape and the energy and eco friendly concept, that would really make the building worth more.
Also are the gardens in full sunlight? And could you provide us with a floorplan of the appartements?
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Where I live, in the 70s and 80s, big apartment buildings were provided with these garbage shafts. Very soon residents stopped using them because however careful you are, the bags get torn and garbage falling everywhere and getting stuck on the walls of the shaft so it became stinky on one hand and a perfect highway for roaches and such.
You may think this over.
Otherwise an interesting concept - maybe just one drawback; this way the gardens are shading each other as they are bigger and bigger as the building is hoóigher.
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@unknownuser said:
Where I live, in the 70s and 80s, big apartment buildings were provided with these garbage shafts. Very soon residents stopped using them because however careful you are, the bags get torn and garbage falling everywhere and getting stuck on the walls of the shaft so it became stinky on one hand and a perfect highway for roaches and such.
You may think this over.
Oke so it is actually not a new idea.
But talking about the problem you mentioned ,maybe by making it self cleanible from the inside by water or something this could be solved .
But you are indeed right that it migh be a mess in there in a short period.
By the way where are these appartement buildings you lived in ( which city )
Here in Holland i never heard of the garbage shafts, so that's why i thought i came up with something new.poster: gforce
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When you enter this site (Pécs, Hungary):
http://www.pecs.hu/varosnezes/index2.php?lang=1
you are facing north (the "É" sign on the top indicates it). On the left you see the cathedral with 4 steeples and behind it some residential blocks where I used to live for instance until about 10 years ago. There we had a shaft like this but we didn't use it.These buildings were built of pre-fabricated elements/panels - one whole wall for instance - when the city wa rapidly growing.
And yeah, we have those "terraced" buildings also (the reverse of your concept) I'm now living in one of those, too (top floor though so for me it would be all the same
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Love the concept, very well done, materialisation could use some work perhaps some green walls, plants growing off walls etc etc. But the concept is great. Perhaps look into more ways to make it energy friendly. solar panals as sun screens or something like that, there are a lot of ways to do make a building more energy friendly. Perhaps you can make a stronger connection between the shape and the energy and eco friendly concept, that would really make the building worth more.
Also are the gardens in full sunlight? And could you provide us with a floorplan of the appartements?
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Thanks for the feedback!
And yeah i could indeed make a stronger connection between the shape of the building and the energy friendly concept. I wanted to add sun screens , but i need to find a place for them
And yes not all the gardens are in full sunlight, and that is the main problem of this concept lol ( and the construction ). But i want to solve this with mirrors or something.
By the way i don't have a floorplan , but there are foor appartements at ech level, with an atrium in the middle where the stear cases and elevators are situated around.
( 2 stair cases and 2 elevators )poster: gforce
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@gaieus said:
When you enter this site (Pécs, Hungary):
http://www.pecs.hu/varosnezes/index2.php?lang=1
you are facing north (the "É" sign on the top indicates it). On the left you see the cathedral with 4 steeples and behind it some residential blocks where I used to live for instance until about 10 years ago. There we had a shaft like this but we didn't use it.These buildings were built of pre-fabricated elements/panels - one whole wall for instance - when the city wa rapidly growing.
And yeah, we have those "terraced" buildings also (the reverse of your concept) I'm now living in one of those, too (top floor though so for me it would be all the same
)Oke! , i can't see the building you are talking about ( it is to far away and i can't zoom ) , but the city itself look's beautifull. Looks a bit like boedapest.
And yeah working with pre fabricated elements is the one of the main construction way's in holland so i know what you mean. And we also have these terrace buildings, but not the way around i did it . By the way if you had a appartement in a top floor at my building you had a the biggets garden, and now you have the smallest garden, or not.
So it makes quite a difference :esmile:poster: gforce
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In London at Hammersmith Roundabout there is a building whose walls pitch out like yours, I can't remember its name but its quite famous. It produced a problem that nobody foresaw, the sound of the traffic bounced off the walls and was reflected back down to the local residents.
If you were to add louvres/fin etc. to break up the smooth reflective suftace it would prevent this problem. -
@unknownuser said:
...By the way if you had a appartement in a top floor at my building you had a the biggets garden, and now you have the smallest garden, or not.
So it makes quite a difference :esmile:Actually the terraces are of the same size - the apartments are getting smaller as you go up.
But since I'm on the top floor, my apartment is two-storey (plus the attick)Paul, see thet's now a very good "contribution" to this topic; a point maybe otherwise not thought of.
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@paul russam said:
In London at Hammersmith Roundabout there is a building whose walls pitch out like yours, I can't remember its name but its quite famous. It produced a problem that nobody foresaw, the sound of the traffic bounced off the walls and was reflected back down to the local residents.
If you were to add louvres/fin etc. to break up the smooth reflective suftace it would prevent this problem.Good point indeed, but this building is not one massive wall, the gardens are open, so i think it will not produce so much sound. But maybe i can put plant material on those walls or something.
poster: gforce
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The ceilings of the gardens could indeed reflect noise from the streets onto the gardens themselves so anything that breaks it would be useful...
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I now know what this building design look's like!
Look at Gizmo form the gremlins, this building look's like him a bit E Smile
( from the front i mean )poster: gforce
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Yeah, and he has his ears set up like your gardens to collect more noise!
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@gaieus said:
Yeah, and he has his ears set up like your gardens to collect more noise!
yeah indeed
ths bulding is gonna be the new home of the gremlins.
( they can't handle sunlight )But atleast i have a name for the building now; The gremlin, or gizmo.
poster: gforce
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I like your idea and concept, although im not sure if you could get enough sunlight into those gardens.
At the moment im finding the building not that pleasing to look at, but I think a lot of that is to do with your colours/materials. Im not keen on all that red and also those cross members in black. Maybe play around with these materials and it will look better imo.
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I also love the concept and agree with Dylan that it's a little harsh on the eyes right now. I also think getting more sunlight to the gardens using mirrors could be problematic, it could be very distracting to near by buildings and traffic. There was a thread on the pro forums I believe, concerning sun glare reflecting off of a building and becoming a safety issue for motor traffic and pedestrians.
Mike
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@unknownuser said:
I like your idea and concept, although im not sure if you could get enough sunlight into those gardens.
At the moment im finding the building not that pleasing to look at, but I think a lot of that is to do with your colours/materials. Im not keen on all that red and also those cross members in black. Maybe play around with these materials and it will look better imo.
Yeah you are right about the materials, i have changed it a bit.
Do you think it is better now? ( see attachements )poster: gforce
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The building is now almost finished.
It isn't very realistic anymore but it look's quite futuristic now.poster: gforce
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Ready to take off you mean?
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now all it needs is a render!
nice work BTW! i like the last version with the "lookout" posts on the pillars!
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