Townhomes

[OPEN_RANGE]

Have not posted anything here in a while. I seem to have had a streak of work that helps pay the bills but not worthy of posting here. Mass and scale stuff, retaining walls for road cuts, revisions to old projects etc. Plus generally experiencing a slow down, which is not all bad. Leaves more time for other pursuits.

This is a 9 building project. I modeled 6 of the buildings, there are 3 that are not visible from these angles. The plans were possibly the worst I have ever used. Only available as PDF. The front, side and back elevations did not match each other. None of the elevations matched the floor plans and none of the floor plans and elevations conformed to the site plan. East labeled as West, North labeled as South. Impossible to construct/model roof arrangements, etc, etc etc. I just "endeavored to persevere" and forged ahead making my own decisions about the intent.

I took the photo of the sky w/clouds while driving to a dentist appointment a couple of weeks ago. Driving towards that sky I was so captivated I pulled over and took a photo with my girl friends iphone. Backgrounds are Google Earth. Could not get usable photos from client and too far to drive to plus not enough time or budget to photograph it myself.

Client is very happy with these but I am always keen for any critique and comment from you all.

[glorybound]

Looks good. Those black mountains always get me. Why don't trees grow on them?

[OPEN_RANGE]

Thanks for checking these out. The landform is not really mountains, it’s a prominent geologic feature called the grand hog back. It is all sedimentary layers of sandstone and easily eroded. So no real soil to speak of and I think that is why no trees. The real mountains are nearby and plenty of trees on them. This is in western Colorado. Arid, high desert.

I just was informed that what I did looks off. The first floor elevation above sea level for each building were shown on the site plan. Also shown on the elevations as significantly different values. Using the site plan numbers made a lot more sense in relation to the topo lines.

Turns out there here was a third set of floor elevation numbers that I was not provided and those are the values that should have been used. The back/ upper two buildings need to raise up 6’ and the front lower set need to lower 2’.

of course all the drives, landscape and etc will need to be adjusted to match the new positions. I told the client it can be revised but would take at least a full day to do that and extra cost to be billed.

So probably updates coming soon.