Designing a Architecture Model

This my passion project where I will take you step by step on how I fully design my dream home architecture project for my architecture class.

My home is a 1/8 sale model

1in=2feet

1/2=1feet

-Tsquare

-Ruler

-Wood

-Glue

-Foam

-pencil/pen

-Tinker Cad

This is where I began to brainstorm possible ideas for my home. I thought of all the rooms I would need in my home to be comfortable where I would live, like a garage or an office. This drawing is seen as a blueprint for my home. (Sorry about the drawing the sketch might be little too light to see in the images you might have to zoom in.)

After having the vision in mind of the rooms and layout of my structure I began modeling my house in 3D. I used the website TinkerCAD for all my modeling and starting coming up with all the various ideas on what I would like in my home like a pool and a balcony.

After having a 3D model to scale my drawing around I started to build the base of my structure. I used glue to attach the wood onto the flat cardboard on the bottom. The gap you can see in the image is for the entrance for a two car door garage.

Now that I have my base I started adding rooms around the walls of the house. When designing the house I didn't thought of connecting the garage and house together so midway though the build I removed some pieces, added a hallway, and connected those two rooms together. Now the house would flow more efficiently. During this process I made a mistake that I didn't accounted for but I learned that even though I might not have the whole thing planed out in my head I learned how to think around the problems and improvise on the spot.

I added support beams along the edges of the room to start to process of building a wall.

I would measure the length and width of the rooms and cut out the exact dimensions of each wall. I used a stiff cardboard wall to help maintain the appearance and acted as a sheetrock in real life. Having a stiff cardboard is very beneficial to building a architecture model because if any pressure was applied on the side or top the structure the house would still stand.

This is the final product on how each room will look like once I installed the walls.

Now that I have the rooms going I will start building the front entrance wall. I began measuring my base of the structure minus the front door and started cutting the cardboard piece. I draw out some windows on the cardboard and started cutting them out, adding some aesthetic to the house so you can view the house on the inside as well with windows.

I would now put glue along the base of the structure and support beams to help hold down the wall. I would now simply put the wall in front of the house and wait for the glue to dry.

While walking to school I notice a house was under construction on our block. I took notice on how they were building the second floor with the support beams and used it as a reference point in my project.

I would repeat the same process a couple of times putting in each wall for all the room in the house. I measure each room individually since they are all build different, cut out their exact measurements on cardboard, draw some windows, cut out the windows, apply glue to the base and support beams, and then wait for the walls to dry.

Now that I finish majority of the room I started adding in the side walls to the house. This was the exact same process of adding the front entrance wall.

This is the same process for the front and side walls as well.

While I was walking to school the house on my block was adding their roof onto their home this time. I was inspired seeing how I could relate to them since I was adding a roof onto my home as well. I used this as another reference point in my building helping me understand the similarities and concept between my model and a real life home. Looking at their design and seeing how they were adding their roof give me a clearer understanding and visualization on how I could use this when adding my roof.

Now that I already cut out my windows I would now use a clear sheet of paper and cut out small pieces of it. I would then glue the edges of the paper and attach it onto the wall to give the window a more aesthetic look. This allowed it to have a much better look than just a cut out window. By adding something behind the window it made it easier to resemble a real life model house.

When adding a roof I adding pillars in the same line for both the main house and garage. After waiting for the glue to dry holding the pillars in place I would cut out some wood in an angle to attach the two pieces together onto the pillar and repeat this process for each pillar.

I decided I wanted to add a pool to my house last minute so I made a small base to work around with for my pool.

After having the base I cut out a light blue cardboard to resemble the water of a pool. Having this done I added some grass around the pool to make it look nice and have that backyard feel.

Now that I thought I finished I realized I had a huge gap between the roof of the house and the wall so I had to cut out some pieces to fill in this gap to make it look presentable in front of people. I measure the distance between the roof of the house and the wall then measure the highest point of the pillar to see where the beams divide to have an even split of the support frame. After taken down the measurements I drew them out on the cardboard, cut them out, and attach them onto the house.

In this step I added a clear sheet of paper on the roof so people can view the house from the inside when viewing from above to see all the rooms and layout of the house.

This is the final product of my passion project for my dream home if I were to build my own house. I added some Hot wheels to the garage for fun.