Architecture and interior design thread

Do it. One of the best houses I have seen.
Incredible potential.
Then I'd have to become Scottish, convince partner that up there is better than Berlin, and you can sell it to me when it's almost done.

It's about 100 yards from a major A road...

Having a look on YouTube you'll still need a type 1 mot base and a wacker/compactor machine.

It's basically a lot like laying a patio but with a few of the messy steps taken out.

Reminds me a bit of this Japanese apartment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i8WENruig0

This kinked wall detail is exactly what we were hoping to achieve with our extension, but the reality of cost to implement, and loss of internal space, put paid to it.

We sometimes use it at work on drives and heavy traffic areas, bikes, trolly. We dig out, membrane, mot, crushed limestone/gravel and the wacker it, with a wet top. It’s rock hard and lasts ok as long as you don’t turn on it. Light rain drains straight through, heavy rain pools and runs off. You also get light coloured dust everywhere in use and laying it. In low traffic areas like seldom used paths we just dig out, membrane, crushed limestone, level off and either hand roller it, hand rammer or just let the rain settle it. Rain runs straight through no matter how hard it’s pouring. Loose laying is a bit more maintenance as you have to give it a rake over and top up if it starts to dip or get holes in it.
Personally I think it looks awful and we get comments about when are we going to finish the tarmacing?

when are we going to finish the tarmacing?

Lol

I really like it, pretend it's a French boules court or something. Not right next to the entrance to a hard floor though. Gritty.

To be fair my aversion may be because I’ve had to lay and maintain it :/
Where as I love a good gravel garden, a few bigger pebbles, a big arse boulder and a load of semi tropical plants in sunken pot and I’m there.
Oh and the bastard that keeps whipping skids on their MTB on the drive can get in the bin.

Every person and business I've seen that has that either lets it go to weeds or has to regularly dose it with pesticides to keep down the volunteers.

Apparently you can use a steamer to kill weeds. I keep meaning to get it out to do our drive as I don't like using weedkiller unless necessary - plus you have to wait for dry weather. Whereas I guess you can steam kill in the rain.

It’s true, it’s the same as using a weed burner. You need to boil the roots, not just burn/wither the foliage.

Put down a membrane first.

You think they don’t? That works for the first season.

NOO! That just traps dirt on top, the weeds grow in it and then send their roots through and that’s it you can’t pull them up and through the membrane. The secret is to put a DEEP layer of gravel down then weeds can’t get a hold and can just be raked off or pulled out without effort.

They just need to remove all the soil that naturally accumulates. Then the weeds won't have anything to grow in.

That :)

too many money guns evident on the list

This. I think every single project on the shortlist is based in London too.

I know someone who won one of the 2020 awards. Amusingly, they moved the next year.

I’m just speaking from observation, the former location of my workplace for example. The site was professionally prepped including soil removal and anti weed mats on top. Our janitor had to go out there virtually every week, spraying illegal weed killer on the rocks and gravel that were spread over top to emulate the far north where our clients hail from. What a joke. On top of the ill-informed landscape architecture the rocks provided handy ammo for anyone under the influence who wasn’t allowed in. Cue broken windows and doors on a regular basis.

Sorry it was a joke.

I wasn't genuinely suggesting a maintenance routine of collecting soil that's blow or run into the gravel.

What would you do? Use an industrial vaccum to suck up the stones, wash, filter, and replace?

I would never install that kind of surface. Natural lawn or a veg/flower garden would be my choice.
Sorry I missed the joke, online subtleties are hard for me to catch sometimes.

Cross-post from the "How do I...extension" thread:

Any designers, architects, architectural technicians on here?

Is there a universal format for architectural drawings? Our architect is ok to release some partially complete drawings to us for someone else to finish off, but wants to know what format we want them in.

Is DWG the way to go?

Yeah DWG is the best format. AutoCAD2018 format or something on the off-chance someone is still using older software.

I think strictly speaking DXF is more transferable than DWG (but most programmes are ok with DWG).
I also had a weird thing recently where it turned out that using "AutoCAD Architect" or something was really messing up the transferability of my files (even exporting to old formats). Plain AutoCAD was fine.

Is DXF only for 2D drawings? What we ideally need to be able to do is generate sections, which I understood required 3D models (but I have virtually no knowledge on this).