The Mountain Magnolia was designed for a couple
from Florida who plan to retire in the Valle
Crucis area of Watauga County, NC. The project
was designed with a specific location in mind
but this custom timber frame hybrid home may yet
need to be adapted to a different building site
in the future. For the time being, this
three-story 3000 square foot
arts-and-crafts-inspired home exists only as a
virtual model that we created on our 3D design
software while developing the project.
At Woodborne Design, we use a 3D modeling
program with rendering capabilities to build
houses in virtual space so we can think them
through and present them to our clients long
before they make their way into the material
world. The virtual model allows us to show our
clients what concepts we’ve been working on and
provides a visual point of reference about which
we can converse with our clients as changes and
developments in the house’s design are being
discussed and planned. Since our software is
designed for “solid modeling”, we can also use
the same model we’ve developed for visualization
purposes to generate shop drawings and machine
data that timber framers will find invaluable in
assisting them to build our timber frame designs
in the real world.
Many of our clients have difficulty envisioning
things in the absence of a drawing or a model.
Others seem to be able to see things in vivid
detail that exist only in their own
imaginations. All of our clients find the 3D
virtual model an extremely useful tool as we
work with them to flesh out the details of their
very own custom homes.
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