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Post by tsimionescu »

simonjgreen wrote: post #230
artisinal wrote: post #223

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I really hope that one day I am so incredibly rich that I can hire a team like yours. It would be amazing to have a professional firm design a house for you. I’m guessing you have to be in the 1% for that.

This comment got me curious, as it felt attainable/more commonplace to me. I did some searching, and according to gov.uk stats 7-10% of homes in UK are custom/self-build homes. That is actually surprisingly high!

I would bet a lot of those are still not being designed by a team that is working for you specifically. It's also important that if the statistic is 7-10% of homes, that's very different from 7-10% of people living in such homes.

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Post by adfm »

wlesieutre wrote: post #211
NuclearPM wrote: post #208

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Start with a parametric program like solid works

Revit is parametric, but something like Rhino (going off reputation, never used it myself) gives you more free-form modeling control. It’s like starting with a pencil sketch instead of going straight to SolidWorks, once you start building that more nailed down drawing with its explicit flow of sketches and operations in relationship to each other, it becomes much harder to make large structural changes. https://help.…

Rhino + Grasshopper is the gold standard for all the curvy geometry in anything resembling Zaha Hadid’s work. It is also parametric. There’s even a plug-in to use it inside Revit. Solidworks is great for designing the chassis, but the body was probably sketched in Rhino or Maya.

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Post by Thlom »

tsimionescu wrote: post #241
simonjgreen wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This comment got me curious, as it felt attainable/more commonplace to me. I did some searching, and according to gov.uk stats 7-10% of homes in UK are custom/self-build homes. That is actually surprisingly high!

I would bet a lot of those are still not being designed by a team that is working for you specifically. It's also important that if the statistic is 7-10% of homes , that's very different from 7-10% of people living in such homes.

I would guess the majority is catalog houses.

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Post by supermatt »

I did something similar in 2020 when we constructed our sauna/guesthouse. Used a program called "LiveHome3D" to build out how what we were looking for, then exported as an OBJ and imported it via Google Poly into "Tilt Brush" on the Oculus Quest.

I also did some light simulations so we could see how the skirting roof around the building would allow light in for summer vs winter.

We have been very happy we used VR. It allowed us to iterate on what felt right, communicate exactly what we wanted to the builder, and the sunlight simulations have allowed it to be comfortably usable year round - letting light in during the winter, but keeping direct light out during the summer.

https://ibb.co/TD9Ygkpy

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Post by rickdeckard »

simonjgreen wrote: post #230
artisinal wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really hope that one day I am so incredibly rich that I can hire a team like yours. It would be amazing to have a professional firm design a house for you. I’m guessing you have to be in the 1% for that.

This comment got me curious, as it felt attainable/more commonplace to me. I did some searching, and according to gov.uk stats 7-10% of homes in UK are custom/self-build homes. That is actually surprisingly high!

> 7-10% of homes in UK are custom/self-build homes

Worth to note that there is a huge practical difference between a "custom" and a "self-build" home.

- On "self-build" you take full personal responsibility for finding land, securing planning permission, managing the budget, and hiring architects or builders.

- On "custom" you buy from a developer who already has pre-approved planning permissions, often for a huge serviced plot targeting 20-30 homes based on some copy/paste concept, managing all aspects of the construction while you can influence minor aspects of the layout, style, and interior finishes.

Custom-built homes are very common in rest of Europe. It's a common scheme to buy a plot of land, plan a low-cost project of very densely placed, similar looking houses, reusing as many elements as possible to simplify permissions, and then allowing customers to pay for additions within those fixed boundaries.

The possible individual modifications are usually minor then, everything that requires re-submission for (structural/council/...) approval is not economic.

Then there's the "I self-build, my dad is a carpenter and I just bought this toolbox" category, which is such a minefield of fatal mistakes that movies and reality shows were made around it.

I think the market for "self-build but fully outsourced to a premium developer" is the ~1-2% bracket only...

Re: The coolest use for the Vision Pro

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Post by ideasphere »

SirHackalot wrote: post #148
jondiggsit wrote: post #68

My team uses this technology on a daily basis at my company. I run a design / build firm in the Hamptons, USA. We start all of our design projects with a 3d-first approach. Schematic design starts in 3D using Rhino3D or Revit. We use visualization plugins, like Enscape, to render the models and stream to a Quest 3 headset. So when clients come in, and feels adventurous, we'll setup the headset, set the display height…

This comment almost made me quit my job and pursue my original passion in architecture. So the job was, all along, as fun as I imagined it… And the full-stack knowledge to make it happen is still rare? I am currently designing my house in Blender and was planning to import it into Unreal Engine to make it navigable. HN has a way of serving me the content I’m looking for at the right time…

Blender has a wasd controller walk mode. Shortcut is shift + backtick
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