[OOC][Fun] Image thread? Image thread.

[robkelk]

Heh, I'm a little like Dartz.  For Aria House, I started by looking at the actual building, and then thinking about how they'd run plumbing to it.  Electricity can go everywhere, but sewage goes downhill.  Basically there are two apartment designs, one interior, and the other with windows on the side.  The ones with the exteriors are a little bigger, intended to be rented for a higher rate.  All of them have a sliding glass door and a balcony, so that pushes the living room away from the entrance, and towards the balcony where there is more light.

There are 8 apartments per floor, 3 floors.  The ground floor is parking, because it's California, and made of concrete.  Below that are piles driven into the sandy soil to support the building.  The plumbing set up so that the apartments are nearly mirror images of each other, so there are only four zones in the building you have to run pipes and ducts -- on the walls between the bathrooms and kitchens. There's also an elevator running up the middle.  It's slow.  Slow enough that people tend to take the stairs just to avoid riding in it -- but it's nice when you got a lot to carry.  Some of the folks on the third floor can fly so that's convenient.

I looked at some plans, and based on the size of the building, there's enough room for 2 bedrooms, a living room with an half-open kitchen, a tiny laundry room, and a balcony.  So that's what they get.  It's a bit like one of my apartments in college, but with less windows because "inner" apartments exist.  I've been wondering if I could fit in those tubular skylights into the inner apartments -- otherwise it's going to be hard to get natural light into people's bedrooms.  No central heat or aircon because this is coastal California.  (My house was built with no insulation.)  There's a wall heater in each living room which will get that room too warm, and the bedrooms still too cold.  It's gas, so thus it is near the kitchen.

Central heat is pretty much a given in Canada. Central air as well, if the place has forced-air heating. I need to remember to add some air vents to the floors or lower walls of the apartment... as soon as I can find some. At least the walls in the model are thick enough that one can assume the presence of air and water piping, and power and data cables. (I've seen digital models where the walls aren't even as thick as sheetrock. Those are not useful for this project, thank you.)

As for billing for heat, power, and water, Canada allows for an all-utilities-included rent plan. It's up to the landlord to pay all those bills. (Granted, this gives the tenants no incentive to economize on heat, power, or water, but it does give the landlord incentive to fix any leaking pipes or uninsulated roofs.)

...  The fact Alice doesn't have a four-poster bed like she used to is a continuing source of conflict.

You're just going to have to get her one for her birthday.

@Rob: Add a Ruby Rose for reference.  That's what RT does for all of their stills, so we can compare.

Alas...

Adding a person to the scene and then trying to render crashed my system - I'll have to do some research on why. In the mean time, no render with a person...