Roundhouse.

Mike Amos

A circular two floor dwelling with three bedrooms and one bathroom upstairs, library, kitchen, dining and living room downstairs.

Dining to library/reading area entry and kitchen,

Daniel

It would be nice to see more, maybe even a floor plan. Unfortunately, that one image doesn't really convey the "round" design. You might want to also reconsider the lighting; the lights give it a very institutional feel (think 2x4 fluorescents in a lay-in ceiling grid), and seem at odds with the shapes of the spaces.

pbacot

Render's very realistic, except which seem like light leaks or flares in some places around the edge of the ceiling, which make it looks like it is floating above the walls.

Mike Amos

Thanks guys, looking into those points. Having a difficult time working out the best angles etc.

Mike Amos

Overview. WIP.

Overview

pbacot

Thanks for posting the plan!

Mike Amos

I do not use plans, I do not have layout so everything develops organically.

Daniel

I'm guessing you have the same problem I have in real life when I am trying to photograph small spaces - it's just impossible to fit everything in the frame. You might consider turning off some exterior walls so you can position the camera outside. Did you consider small, round recessed lights?

Mike Amos

I have thought of those lights, round and recessed can be very effective, I just doodle until things fall into place. i also wondered about cutouts in the wall to make camera placement and viewing easier.

pbacot

@mike amos said:

I do not use plans, I do not have layout so everything develops organically.

I mean the 3d plan. That's fine.

Bryan K

Very nice!

Mike Amos

Thanks Bryan.

Bryan K

Looking forward to more.

tadema

Wow, great render, model and design mike

Mike Amos

Thanks John, I ran into a slight problem with textures causing the hdri background to be lost during render so it will take me a while to get back to that point. I am making something I would want to live in rather than a have generic plan to start from.

mwm5053

Looking good Mike. Nice idea about the round walls. Any ideas about how you could actually build one?

Mike Amos

There is only so much round in the house, I stuck with the 24 segments natively used in Sketchup. The paio doors will not work so will be changed to standard items. Few other problems and nothing that cannot be solved.

Just wondered if you meant the structure. There are external pillars around the ground floor, four of them. Each floor level would have a steel skeleton with potentiall concrete block floors but the walls would be composite panels bolting together. The upper floor overhangs the ground floor by about 5 feet.