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Construction Prints for the 0738 Spirit of Palo Alto House are done, ready for order, catalog page updated and ready to roll. Thank you everybody for your interest, and my apologies for the wait on this one.
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Continue reading "0738 Palo Alto - Done! Construction Prints available now"The construction prints for the 0738 Palo Alto house have been making slow but steady progress in the background while all our customers have been taking center stage with photos of their builds. But after all that is the way its supposed to be. No matter how many drawings we do, no matter how many renderings of a design we post, people always want to see a real house. For some seeing somebody else's house under construction is essential evidence of the viability of the plans, without which there is some undue risk that a house could not in fact spring from those paper sheets. Technorati Tags: house plans, modern design, modern house, Palo Alto House
Of course that notion is preposterous. It is a great benefit to be able to see that somebody else has built a given house, and that there is a photo record of construction images that you can access with your builder. It can help remove any uncertainty they may feel if they are faced with building a house that they may consider unusual. But this is an anomaly in an architects practice, that a design would be built repeatedly. Any architect must be capable of designing and documenting a house or building that has never been built before, no second chances, it must come together from the plans on the first try. They have to do that every day, as assuredly as you get up every morning, if they hope to be in business the next day. The vast majority of architects I know are very good at that.
So begone any hesitancy to build a house until you see somebody else build it first. You are doing nothing but delaying your own bliss. The documentation of our house plans are very consistent and the construction of any of them should be sufficient validation that the design practices and content of any of the other designs is just as viable as the ones already built. 
With that in mind I'd like to report that the Palo Alto construction prints are approximately halfway done. The drawing sheets have all been laid out, except for the wall detail sheet. They require notations and dimensions for completion. The holidays usually slow the pace of work which makes an opportunity to advance our work on house plans, so we hope that shortly after the new year the prints will be complete.
We are very pleased to introduce our newest house plan design.
The Spirit of Palo Alto, project number 0738 Design Prints are done, and available immediately from the new web page in our online catalog.
The rear facade facing the back yard.
The living room - please, somebody move in and hang something on the walls!
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Continue reading "0738 Palo Alto - Design Prints Available"This is it - almost done with the modeling.
I probably will not be posting any more progress shots. Once I finish the interior image shoot I'll prep the catalog page and the Design Prints. This is how its looking.
The front: very understated and private from the street.
The back yard: I'm trying to channel that mid-century atmosphere here!
The court/atrium: just beyond the gate is this sweet little courtyard.
Thanks for following along. I'll announce when the Design Prints are available.
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Continue reading "0738 Palo Alto - sneak peak"Much to do on the site model next
I have completed the schematic model of the house, but before I can proceed to create the catalog page for the web site, and the Design Prints, I have to model a context - a site model - to place the house in. Once this setting is complete I can place props in the house and make the final images.
If you recall, the Zeitgeist Group of house plans which includes the Palo Alto are designs that are intended to fit into contemporary neighborhoods. This means the kind of subdivisions that are commonly built today. One of the common suburban housing patters is the closely spaced houses, with relatively small front yards, often with walled or fenced rear yards. Houses to each side are close by and privacy is a concern. The Palo Alto is designed to fit that context. It provides a buffer from the street in the form of a entry court, and privacy from neighboring houses. At the rear the master bedroom and living spaces are wide open to the private yard allowing your life to move easily in and outdoors.
I think this house design is a sleeper - one I hope will have unexpected appeal. The only image that has been shown up till now is the aerial view in which the house just looks rather blocky. I think it will reveal itself as being very livable and comfortable when the images reveal what it is like to be there, rather than seeing it as an object.
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Continue reading "0738 Palo Alto - house model done"The model house is almost done.
The "model" house - its usually that dolled up sample home on the first lot in the subdivision - right? Well our "model" homes are on the internet !
Some work to do on the entry gate, and then the interior. You can see the trellis over the courtyard, or is it an atrium now? This gives the house that "butterfly" profile that was a question in one of the previous comments.
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Continue reading "0738 Palo Alto - coming along"The next design to be fleshed out to Design Print status will be the Spirit of Palo Alto.
One of the unfinished designs from our Zeitgeist House Group. The Palo Alto is designed to fit in the kind of neighborhood with tightly spaced single story houses, common in many southern and south western states. To that end the sides are designed for privacy, and the rear to open the house to a private yard. The entry is through a central courtyard which is a nod to the California Eichler houses - modern icons that we all turn to when we scratch our heads and ask "Why can't a commercial developer build a decent modern house?"
The house is just under 2000 sqft, with three bedrooms, and open living, dining, kitchen plan, and a two car garage separated from the house by a laundry/utility room.
I'm making headway on this right now, but no telling how long it will keep up! Watch for updates.
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Continue reading "0738 Palo Alto - new design in production"
