Dream House Floor Plans
How to design a dream house floor plan
Follow these 10 steps, it leads and guides and a serious student of Design( Interior Designing ,Architecture or Engineering) to design a dream home.
Step 1-Design Brief for a dream house floor plan
A Design Brief is a list of requirements for of the home design , The size of of the brief is pending on the size of the project. The brief will correspond in its size requirements . For a large project a Design Brief may be as thick book listing all the requirements of design from Interior Designing ,Architectural, M&E and Civil and Structural requirements.
Request for a Design Brief before commencing to design .,Some clients may not have a proper brief, if so you may have to sit with them and assess the brief.
The Design brief may outline :
1)the details of the building and the Interiors
2)details of the interiors,
3)the quality of building construction,
4.)site conditions ,
5.)compliance to the building codes,
6.)studies that needs to be undertaken etc
Eco Green building site analysis
Step 2-Site Analysis for a dream house floor plan
A Site Analysis is a study of the conditions of site, its features. the characteristics of the site, the adversities of the site, the weather (wind directions) conditions, the topography features, the flood levels, the direction of sun path, the views and vistas, existing vegetation, slopes, building set back of the site and other conditions existing in the site.
In some instances the type of soil and ground conditions should be analyzed as it will affect the cost of building.This is refereed to as geotechnical investigation. Please read on..for site analysis for Net Zero Energy and Eco Green building design
Bubble diagram for a dream house floor plan
Step 3-Bubble Diagram for a dream house floor plan
A Bubble Diagram is a study of the relationship of spaces as required in the Design Brief (Step 1) and connecting with the site analysis( Step 2). The spaces are approximated in shapes of bubbles and those bubbles that are related closely by functions are placed closer to each other. and spaces that are affected by the site conditions are approximated and reflected in the Bubble Diagram.
Step 4- grid
The approximated bubble diagram layout is laid out over a grid line. A grid line either in 2 ft (600mm),4 ft(1200mm) or 8 ft(2400mm) grid are necessary and used to designing the building as it helps to minimize the cost of materials or structures in the building construction. A 2 ft (600mm), 4 ft(1200mm) grids lines are used with the intention to save material and detailing the interiors and 8 ft(2400mm) grid lines are used to save the construction cost of structure.
Step 5-Template of the room (spaces)
Draw a templates of the spaces( such as the bedroom, the kitchen, the toilets, the staircases, the Great room etc) as identified in the Bubble Diagram required in the client brief, and place them over the grid as your bubble diagram and the Grid lines and study the spaces and makes senses of the design layout plan.The design layout may seems like this.
house design layout
Step 6-Design Layout and Form for a dream house floor plan
In finalizing the design layout ensure all the requirements of the clients brief are met and correlate it with the form of the building. Make the adjustments in relationship with the form you have minded. Visualize the form with the layout as they correspond with each other.
Finalize the design layout in relation to the Form of the building or make adjustments to the Layout due to a Form or the adjust the Form to the layout. At this stage all the interior concepts should be integrated with the building, eg garden in the toilet, or garden in the Living, water pool in the building, water fall view from the Dining, BBQ areas etc.
toilet with Eco-green layout
Step 7-Details for a dream house floor plan
God is in the details and so at this stage ensure the details you have in mind are incorporated. Ensure the details are thought thoroughly such as spaces of storage, cabinets, shelves, interior layout ideas, Net Zero Energy requirements, Eco-green and sustainability requirements details…you may at this stage want to revise the above step 5,6 as you may discover a problem in trying to establish the layout or even so you may have difficulty in detailing a corner correctly. These steps are cyclical in nature you may want to revisit the layout with the forms as many times as you may want too. Check our how to design baths, how to design kitchens, how to use stones in designing,how to design swimming pools and how to select colors
Step 8- Architectural Styles and Appearance for a dream house floor plans
Design the style and appearances with the ornaments that symbolize the styles, such the Victorian styles have the front highly ornamented, the timber is crafted, the fascia board is crafted to illustrate a style.
3d Model with mapping material for a dream house layout
Step 9- Create a 3 D Model for a dream house floor plans
Create a 3 D Model and study the design, review the interiors in the 3 D model, you may review the layout to suit the forms proportions, or the required interiors are not attainable. I would recommend google sketch up software as it is easy to use and the warehouse downloads are just amazing, where almost any thing can be downloaded.
Step 10- Materials selections and Rendering 3 D Models
Select materials for exteriors and the interiors and start rendering the 3 D Models and review if you obtain the views you wanted, review the rendered interiors. I would recommend I-Render as a rendering software and Google sketch up for creating the 3 D model.
perspective of room Interior of Japanese House Floor Plan
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Prepared by Eco Green Architect and Net Zero Energy Architect Perumal Nagapushnam
