3-D Home Kit: All You Need to Construct a Model of Your Own Home or Addition (with Booklet "Architecture & Math Workshop Notes")
by Adventure Publications, Dan Reif
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Author: Adventure Publications, Dan ReifBrand: Design World
Edition: Misc. Supplies
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1998-09
ISBN: 1880301016
Number of pages: 21
Publisher: Gardeners' Guide
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Book Review: Wonderful gift for amateur designer
Summary: 5 Stars
I have used the 3-D Home Kit for the past four years as the basis for teaching the Architecture and Mathematics Workshop at the SummerMath program at Mount Holyoke College. My students are high school girls and they come from economically and culturally diverse background--from everywhere throughout the U.S. to Europe, Asia and African. They have little or no prior architectural training. Each student gets a kit and the opportunity to design and construct a model of her own dream home.
Students mostly work independently, sometimes help each other, and get my assistance as needed. Using the kit, they learn about space planning, size, scale and proportion, as well as endless design details including where to put a bathroom or stairway, furniture layout, and how to design a kitchen and a roof. Some students work on landscape design adding pools, patios, trees and walks. The students also improve their hands on skills including how measure, cut and glue. The workshop is one-and-a-half hours per day for two weeks.
Some students jump into the kit's design process in a moment, others take most of the two weeks to understand that making a mistake is a valuable lesson. Problem solving is the name of the game. When one design doesn't work, the student can scrap that approach and quickly measure and cut another sheet of the kit's building materials to actually see another option. The kit provides a wonderful way for the student to try several designs. The 3-D Home Kit turns each student's efforts into a realistic three-dimensional house model--and they love it.
I highly recommend the kit, and have used it to plan several of my own design and fantasy projects: my own home, art studio from a tobacco shed, and vacation home designs such as a seashore cottage and mountain yurt.
Summary of 3-D Home Kit: All You Need to Construct a Model of Your Own Home or Addition (with Booklet "Architecture & Math Workshop Notes")
Calling all aspiring architects! -- Have you always wanted to design a home? Are you planning on building an addition or doing renovations any time soon? Are you at the very beginning or your illustrious architectural career? -- The 3-D Home Kit provides everything you need to design floor plans and build a detailed, 1/4" scale model of a home or remodeling project up to 6,200 square feet! Building materials include siding, roofing, over 200 windows and doors, brick, stone, interior walls, stairs, kitchen cabinets, appliances, bath fixtures and much more. Also includes complete instructions, scale ruler, roof-slope calculator, floor plan grid, design notes and other helpful planning tools. -- Enhance your structural, spatial relation and mathematical skills while producing something tangible ? at home! -- For professionals or amateurs. Ages 14 and up. -- Check out the Home Quick Planner Peel-n-Stick Kit (#30309-85) and be your own decorator and interior designer!General Books
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