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- Design Your Own 3-D Model Home
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, st
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An Excellent Teaching Tool,
This kit does a difficult task admirably – it offers novice designers a clear and understandable path through the complex processes of house design and paper model-building. As a K-12 design educator who uses 3-d Home Kits with my middle school (math and engineering) students, I can tell the creator of this kit has refined the process by teaching with the kit many times himself.
The wealth of information (text plus illustrations) in the “Hands-on Design + Math” section teaches a good introduction to the design process for students and homeowners alike: program (determining your needs); site considerations; interior spaces; how to work in scale; and roof design. The “Model Construction section, a concise step-by-step guide, wisely includes a sample room addition with which to practice.
Homeowners creating their own home design or remodel should be taking their time with process; I would suggest absorbing what this kit can teach, then doing drafts and rough study models using other paper and oak tag, then using the kit’s materials to create an attractive and useful final model.
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|From the inventor of the 3D Home Kit,
After reading some strongly positive and negative reviews, I felt that as the inventor of the 3D Home Kit, I should provide an overview.
I invented the 3D Home Kit in 1983, to help homeowners construct detailed, three-dimensional, scale models of their own new home, addition and remodeling projects. The kit is based on my experience at Pratt Institute School of Architecture, from which I graduated in 1971, where I learned that constructing a model is the best way to design and visualize your building project. One of the first things I did with the prototype kit was to build a model house and compare it with a professional built model, costing hundreds of dollars; and when I saw that the kit model was similar quality, I knew that I had accomplished my goal.
The 3D Home Kit was an immediate success and over two-hundred thousand have been sold. As part of its success, the kit has been used in schools to assist in teaching architectural design, as well as math, history, writing, and home economics. I have been interested in pursuing the educational use of the kit and worked ten summers developing and teaching an architecture and mathematics workshop for high school students. My students thoroughly enjoyed the kit and their work has been outstanding as they designed and built wonderful models of their own dream homes.
When I worked with students, one question I had was whether to make a new “student” version of the 3D Home Kit. I spoke with several teachers who used the kit and one of them gave me the key: students are clever and quick to respond, and if you give them a professional kit they will give you their best “professional” effort, whereas if you give them a “student kit” then they will give you a typical student effort. Therefore, this is not a “student” kit.
In response to input from hundreds of teachers and students, I’ve added to the kit step-by-step model building instructions and a design primer with extensive lessons on home design. A new worksheet includes lessons on basic home design, roof design, as well as a section on designer and builder problems and solutions.
If you are purchasing the 3D Home Kit for a student under 14 years old, he or she will probably need assistance, and this presents a wonderful opportunity to work together on a terrific project. Working with the kit, you will experience firsthand some of the work and fun of being an architect. There is almost no limit to type of house you can build with this kit. For example, see the model and house photos posted by one customer. Please post your own model photos. Thank you. Based on feedback I’ve received from many customers, I rate the kit, five-stars.
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|new house project,
I purchased this kit in the first stages of planning my new home. I found it very helpful in planning the layout of the rooms, the roof design, and the locations of windows. The model helped me communicate with my architect and builder.
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