Here's one of my first passes at Using SU. It's a stand alone outdoor hottub building that sits on top of a hill and looks out on the foothills. C & C are welcomed. I designed, and created presentation in about 3 hours.

Archytextural

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welcome to PPB2. Looks like you got the hang of it.

I like your building. The design looks like something you might see around my location. Its got good proportions and good use of restrained materials.

Another converto to SU boys.

BTW, you got it posted in Real Projects so lets hear about the particulars. location, program, context, etc.

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and, nice board layout too.

Its the first time that I see a project that can be fully explained with only one post.
You've done a very good work.
I wonder why the hot tub has a roof. The ones I usually see are open to the sky wich I think is much nicer. This project would block you from looking at the stars from the hot tub at night.

BTW welcome to the forum!!

thanks for the feedback.

The project specifics were left purposely vague because we're in the Construction document phase of the project, and the client is fairly hush hush about the specifics of their projects. I can tell you that it's a resort type complex on a golf course development in Colorado. This would be one of three spas on the site, but this one would be closer to some "cabin/cottages" on the site. basically they wanted a building with two restrooms (the wood siding area) and a room for all the spa equipment (the tall stone area) The roof is to protect the spa area from the accumulation of snow, and while I'd love to be able to add some more transparency to it, the client just wants a solid roof.

Wilson: So no, it's not going anywhere near us in Portland, although it would look really nice out in the gorge area, or even out on the coast. maybe I"ll keep the idea around for when i build my cabin.

Cacapis: thank you for the praise, and the warm welcome. I'm glad that you were able to feel you understood the building with only one post, it was a quick design study i did mostly for myself, but after i showed my boss this design, he let me run with it. And the client who is usually a little conservative in terms of design was very willing to give us a chance to flex our design muscles a little on this.

So I didnt see you were from here on your first post. :wondering Maybe just down the street.. :D

aren't most the architecture offices just "down" the street from each other here? Well if it doesn't stop raining soon we'll be up the river from each other actually.

aren't most the architecture offices just "down" the street from each other here? Well if it doesn't stop raining soon we'll be up the river from each other actually.
Rain..... we are at 23 days here. Excellent presentation,top notch comunication.

Tom
Nanaimo BC

yeah Tom, We're at 23 or 24 here also. I'm starting to work on a sketchup model for the arc I'm gonna build if it goes past 30 days. My buddy Noah has some hand drawn stuff he'd like to see in 3d ;) Thanks for the comments.

Archytextural

saw in the Oregonian this Am that some places on the coast has had 18 to 20 inches of rain in the last 14 days :o

I think PDX has had 4 to 6 inches. very soggy indeed.