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Posted by AeowynFraser at Jun 30, 2016, 10:34:07 AM
Re: Atrium house
Nice! Yes, it appears to be very similar.

I kind of feel like I ought to explain where I got the idea for this house. When I first came up with the design of this house, I'd seen a TV show about ancient Roman houses (or at least a show that talked about them in passing) and it mentioned about the atriums in these houses, so while I was at work (for a company that sadly I had to move away from about 5 years ago) I doodled my fantasy Roman style modern house with an atrium in the middle. I'd not seen one like it before.


Here's my original doodles, using a notepad I'd had at my desk at the time. Really quite crude, but interesting. Also, the pencilled in changes were done much later.


Later, during a down moment at work I used the Word program to work on the same design; I didn't have access to a Paint program at the time.

Both of those sets of drawings were done prior to 2011. I had stuck those pieces of paper into my sketch book as a way of keeping my ideas all in one place. One day in 2013, I was going through my sketch book and came across these and thought about doing alternate take on it.


This is actually a page in my sketch book rather than a separate sheet of paper stuck in. As you can see, this is the version that I went with in this program - with a few minor changes. biggrin
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