I was given this model of our future home and would like to use it to visualize a change to the layout.
Initially, the taller central volume was pulled more toward the front elevation of the bedroom volume on the right. Not all the way forward, but it extended over the top of three smaller rooms within the lower volume on right. With the roof of that lower volume wrapping across the front of the taller volume to form an awning over the front den patio doors.
The central volume then had 13’ high ceilings. This design caused those smaller rooms (den, guest bath, hallway to bedroom) to also have 13’ ceilings. We would like them to be 9’ ceilings to feel more cozy.
So, I’ve managed to shift the central volume backward, raise it up about another foot higher so more of the central volume front wall is shown, and cleaned-up some of the effected roof lines over the garage.
My struggle now is with rebuilding the front roof angle of the lower volume that should wrap to the left, across the front face of the central volume (as it did before) and join appropriately with the lower garage volume on the left.
I’m not sure how to build and re-apply the front roof angle and then join it with the garage roof. (I assume something will need to be redesigned on the garage side).
Any help is appreciated!
Can someone give me some idea of the steps I should take and any specific tools I would use?
(I’m not concerned about all of the small issues and incomplete elements elsewhere, as we’re just want to visualize the new front elevation at this point).
Remove some of roof trim to get to basic roof line then use referring to extend and produce hips, valleys Model for Central Volume set back.skp (12.6 MB)
you could delete all of the roof, make the lower a group, upper a group. hide upper then trace the ceiling, use the generate roof from 1001 bits (extension warehouse) at pitch required. unhide to check Model for Central Volume set back (1).skp (12.4 MB)
I can see why you chose to extend the garage roof further to the right, forming an awning over the front door and entire walkway. (You may have seen my remnants from an earlier version where I was able to do that, but we didn’t like the look. Also, I wasn’t clear in my explanation above that its actually the lower volume on the right that should extend to the left to form a smaller awning, by connecting with the existing garage roof (no changes to garage roof design). As in this 2D markup.
The thing I’m stuck on is, I don’t know how to form the complex roof panels that are not perfect rectangles. I’ve tried several techniques from this forum, but nothing seems to work for my Web version.
So, all I have left to do is extend the wrapped roofline (now over the front patio doors) to connect to the backside of the existing garage roof at left…
Based on the change you made above to the front elevation, we decided ceilings for the central volume would need to be raised another foot to give the volume some definition. So I’ve raised the roof to make the rooms 14’ tall in the attached model.
The existing is probably chief architect, best to rebuild in Sketchup
There are many rooves to meet a need, the lower can have a box gutter, pitch change, different pitch points. However, an insight whether snow or heavy rain is a factor will determine the design
There are some alternatives, so can achieve the upper windows if required.
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