Step by Step Designing guide (for clients) | RCD Article
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| A Client’s guide to designing their own home |
This blog post we’ll give you some hidden gems for the designing phase.
Our step-by-step guide for client’s that have no architectural or building background. :
- Do the vision’s work
- Get inspired
- Paint the big picture
- Develop a design
1. Do the vision’s work
Here you try to find out what you like? This phase has everything to do about getting inspired and finding out what you actually like about your favorite houses.
Checklist:
• Attend open house ’s
• Take a drive around to your favorite neighborhoods
• Visit your favorite neighbors
2. Get inspired
When phase one is completed than you’ve gotten inspired by house designs. The next step is getting inspired. Being specific what you like about the house designs and writing everything down about these specifications. Make your inspiration board with these specifications.
What do you need to remember?
• Remember if needed RC Designs Architectural Studio NV puts in writing what your inspiration specifications are.
• This is called the initiative phase in designing process for architects, where the vision board is made.
• Vision board is a picture board of your house design inspirations.
3. Paint the big picture
Now that you are getting specific about what you love and what you desire, it's time to focus. Put into words your house requirements.
Checklist:
• Where
• Size
• Layout
• Connection
• Style
• Energy/Eco
• Factors that Affect Cost
Where?
Every site has natural characteristics, whether in a town, a city, or the suburbs. Think about terrain, trees, foliage, weather, and man-made realities.
Size?
The size of your home is important to know. From entire home to the square meters of the different rooms in your home.
Layout?
A layout is a schematic image of a spatial area or object on a flat surface in a reduced scale. A layout is intended to indicate a location or to determine a route. In general, a layout is presented as a top view and the plan or design or arrangement of something laid out.
• Spaces and Functions
• General
• Kitchen/Dining/Great Room
• Bedrooms and Bathrooms
• Laundry/Utility
• Features
Connection?
The connection is meant the flow of the rooms and the interactions of the different rooms that are being used.
Style?
An architectural style is characterized by the features that make a building or other structure notable or historically identifiable. A style may include such elements as form, method of construction, building materials, and regional character. Most architecture can be classified within a chronology of styles which changes over time reflecting changing fashions, beliefs and religions, or the emergence of new ideas, technology, or materials which make new styles possible..
Energy/Eco??
Eco friendly building means using energy –efficient building system and using building materials that are not harmful to the environments.
What are the factors that affect cost?
• Describe your property
• Describe your site’s ground water
• The level of your property in relation to the access road
• Infrastructure: The access of your site
• Preferences
• Shape
• Roofs
What do you need to remember?
• Remember if needed RC Designs Architectural Studio NV writes down your house requirements.
• This is called the program requirements in designing process for architects, where the “PVE (Programma van eisen)” is made.
• A program requirements is a list of requirements that a building or house must meet. It contains exactly what is important of the building or house. An Architect uses that program of requirements to design.
4. Develop a design:
The last phase of this step by step is the designing phase. A design is a description of something new or a description of something existing. A design is thus a description (projection of model) of (future) reality.
Checklist:
• Consult a professional architect
• Sketch out a rough floor plan.
• Create a floor plan
• Delegate
Consult a professional architect:
The best way to make sure this (your dream house is realized) happens most successfully (and most cost effectively) is to bring an architect into the actual design process. Your part of the design is knowing what you want. His/her’s part is helping you make your design goals work, and steering you around design traps.
Sketch out a rough floor plan:
This will help you take your ideas from concept to concrete. Start by blocking out basic areas. You might find this process more fun and flexible if you make cutouts of the various rooms, and then move them around till you find a layout that works for you.
Create a floor plan:
There are software available for this. To create a truly workable design that takes in not just splendid design ideas, but considers such practical considerations as structural integrity, flood planes, drainage, slope, and all the other little details, it's important to work with an architect.
Delegate:
Stay focused on your design goals and know exactly what you want. And with this in mind entrust the right people. You'll need to work with the architect and your general contractor to turn your dreams into reality. Let the steady hand of an experienced designer take over the process of finalizing your plans.
What do you need to remember?
• RC Designs Architectural Studio NV currently offers our clients designs. These are 2D Design, 3D Design, Interior & Exterior Design. We also offer Cost & Planning. We use the program requirements for our designing process.
• Our motto is “LET US VISUALIZE YOUR DREAMS AND PLAN TO MAKE IT A REALITY!”
• Important to remember that mistakes made in the vision phase cost nothing. Mistakes made in the design phase cost you time. But carry those mistakes through to the building phase, and they could cost you more than your budget can even consider.
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