Here is my first effort with Turbo Floorplan and I would appreciate feedback on the most efficient staircase layout.
I also had some challenges with the following
1. Adding a triangular window to the side of the tilted wall on the ground-floor
2. "Collision" on the roof
3. Staircases
4. This property is for a tropical climate, average of 29 degrees Celsius year-round but in the hurricane belt.
Hi and welcome to the forum. :)
You have done a great job as a first project as it is really quite a complex one with a number of challenging aspects.
1. The program does not yet allow tilting walls so I assume you have exported a section of wall inserting the window first. There should be not reason why you could not do that with a triangular one - it should work the same way.
2. Sorry I am not sure what you mean by this.
3. I am probably not the best one to answer questions about efficient staircases as i rarely use them. In Australia most houses are single storey although multistorey ones are increasing. Maybe some others can make suggestions here.
4. I wasn't sure if this is actually a question or just an explanation of what the project is about.
You may need to clarify 2 and 4 as I am not sure what the question is on these.
Allan
I don't know how to do a tilted window or anything about hurricane climates. When I looked that the perspective views I wondered how you plan to shovel 24 inches of snow off those roof decks. But on things where I might help:
2) I noticed that the roof over the 2nd floor is one roof over several sections. I found I could not do that successfully and had to use the 'roof by points' option to make each section separately. Walls extend to the roof that is above them and when the roof above them has multiple levels the algorithm seems to mess up.
3) the width of the mezzanine on the 2nd floor is not wide enough for a staircase and a passage beside it. I though of two solutions. (a) Get rid of the middle BR closet and part of the linen closet (later you can put them under the stairs). Put in the staircase on the middle BR side. But then you have to move the 3rd floor hallway to the LR side of the median. In your climate you could probably make it an outside hallway. but you would have to do some inventing to close up the LR roof and figure out where to drain rainwater. (b) suspend the staircase over the half bath on the 1st floor. It would start directly above the basement stairs, reach an open landing that u-turned to go over the half bath and up to an opening to the existing 3rd floor hallway. The existing LR roof would be in the way so cut an opening over the staircase and downward extend the BR roof until it covers the staircase landing. If the stairs were done with open beams, railings and balusters it should be a visually appealing feature of the room.
While looking at your building I used the 'View Filter' to turn off the roofs then rolled a quick 'corner' view so that I could look into the 3rd floor hallway at an angle. In that view the walls of the 2nd floor closets were penetrating the 3rd level floor.
Tom
Thanks for your responses!. Tom - no snow, just wet dry & hurricane seasons. Will review your suggestions more thoroughly tonight but the windows at the third level is to allow venting of the hot air (which rises) in a wind chimney effect to minimize any need for AC. Prevailing breezes flow in a diagonal direction on the plan from master bedroom to living room. External walkway from the master bedroom patio solves access to the roof deck (with its 180 degree Atlantic ocean views) but does not solve venting window access. Tropical rains are torrential and often diagonal trajectory. Didn't want to touch that horizontal structural beam under the clerestory windows.
Will adjust for the 3rd floor and 2nd flr closet levels.
Thanks Alan , I will try the triangular solution. Regarding 2, there are dotted lines on the 2nd floor over the walkway which seem to indicate roof points irregularity and it shows in the 3d but the walls are auto to the roof. And yes 4 was just an explanation.
Cheers, and thanks again for your responses.
tip: may be very useful for you to add more cameras and save their positions/views in the view manager with tabs at bottom of screen. Makes looking around quick and easy from familiar places without moving camera around (once they are setup)
You are making excellent progress for a new user.
Had not even considered the possibility. Thanks for a great tip Doug.S!
Lisle