20th Century House Based on a 3D Model Design Based on a House in Indiana, United States

I made both a digital design and model of a 20th Century inspired house for my Architectural Design class.

Tools

1. Tinkercad.com
2. Printables.com
3. 3D printer
4. Laser Etching Machine
5. Handsaw
6. Xacto knife
7. Box cutter
8. Hot glue gun

Supplies:

1. Felt for the grass (16 in by 12 in)
2. Styrofoam for the base (16 in by 12 in)
3. Maroon and gray thin wood panels
4. Beige, red, light and brown filaments

1. Go to tinkercad.com
2. Start a create a new 3D design

1. Go to printables.com
2. Find the models for the mailbox, brick wall, walkway, door, wood floor, and roof (these models are not mine and huge thanks to those who made them)
3. Download them and import them into your tinkercad project

1. Take your grass and expand it to cover the base of your design (in my case it was a 20 in by 20 in)
2. Take the brick wall and duplicate until you have 10 of them
3. Using 4 of the walls to make a box to your size preference
4. Use another 3 of the walls to make a smaller box attached to the larger box (make sure that these walls are shorter also)
5. Take the final 3 walls and cut them diagonally (you will use them to fill in the gaps between the top of the roof and the top of the brick walls

1. Grab a box
2. Decrease the width of it and adjust the height and length according to your preferences (keep in mind that the size that you have it as on tinkercad is the size it will be when you 3D print it)
3. Grab 4 other boxes and set them as holes
4. Line them up with the solid box and union group them once they are even
5. From there duplicate them until you have 7 in total
6. Grab another 7 boxes and set them as holes and union group them with your brick wall for your window cutout
7. Place your 7 windows where you made the cutouts

1. Take the roof that you imported and duplicate it until you have 4 of them
2. Make it so that way two of them are the same length as your larger brick wall and two of them are the same length as the smaller brick walls
3. Raise your roof panels so they are right above your brick wall
4. Adjust them so both sets of panels are even and they meet in the middle
5. Use the three brick walls from step three in order to fill in the gap between the top of the roof and the top of the brick walls

1. Take a box and set it as a hole
2. Adjust it so it is the size of what you want your door to be
3. Slot it into the middle of you large brick wall
4. Union group it in order to make the cutout
5. Put your door into where the cutout has been made

1. Make sure that your mailbox and walkway are level with the grass
2. Add the walkway in so that way the right edge of it (from the front view) is where the door is
3. Add the mailbox to the right and a little in front of the walkway (also from the front view)

1. Use the link provided under this step or go to Tinkercad to find this house by Ella Zhong
2. Copy and paste the chimney from her project into your own
3. Move the chimney so that way it the way you want it to in your house
4. Now you are done with the 3D design for your Early 20th Century House

1. Gather of of the supplies listed above
2. Find an open area where you can work and have access to an electrical outlet
3. Get a place mat in case you spill hot glue

1. Get your felt and styrofoam
2. Spread hot glue around the border of the styrofoam rectangle and quickly place your felt on top
3. If the glue dries to quickly then you could use a dryer in order to reheat it with the felt on top (just be careful to not burn the felt)

1. Get the different colored filaments listed above for you 3D printer
2. From there take the model of what you want to print (window, mailbox, roof, chimney, door, or triangular brick) and print it using the corresponding colored filament

1. Make a new Google slideshow
2. Find a Jpeg of a type of brick wall and walkway that you like
3. Make sure it is to scale (you can use the numbers on the top and left-hand side of each slide to make sure, it is in inches)
4. before you start to etch make sure once more that it is to scale in the machine
5. From there put your thin wood panel into the machine and let it start to etch (this might take a couple hours for all of the walls and the walkway

1. Take a long piece of balsa wood
2. Cut it into strips that are the same length as the height of your walls
3. Add two wall to every one piece of balsa wood so they form 90 degree angles making a rectangle
4. Take your three smaller walls and do the same process
5. once you are done attach the three smaller walls to the larger rectangle like shown in the images provided for this step

Mailbox:

1. Take your hot glue gun and apply small drops to the tips of the mailboxes legs
2. Quickly put the mailbox onto the felt before it dries (if it does dry then just reheat it with a heater, ust be careful not to burn anything)

Walkway:

1. Hot glue the borders of the bottom of your walkway
2. Quickly put it onto the felt (if it dries follow the same steps as for the mailbox)

1. Take the 3D printed triangular brick
2. Apply hot glue to the bottom of it and stick it onto the top of your brick wall (not where the roof goes)
3. Make sure you put the small triangle brick on the small brick wall and the large on the large

1. Take both sets of 3D printed roof panels
2. Line them up so that way they connect in the middle
3. Get another person to help you hot glue it (one of you holds it while the other glues)
4. Do this for both sets of roof panels

1. Line the door of the house up with where you want it to be in relation with the walkway
2. From there hot glue the corners and press down
3. Wait for it to dry
4. You're done!!! Congrats on your new house model and digital design!!!