The Colonial House
November 3, 2013
Using multiple model blocks such as the blue cylinder block in the image below I have constructed a colonial type house in a style similar to the White House in Washington D.C. As I began constructing the front entrance of the house, i made sure the blocks were all in their right position.
There were some difficult situations i ran into, for example, the blocks not all being their actual size. By this i mean some blocks were not correctly measured, therefore the house was completely unbalanced. Imagine putting a puzzle together and the puzzle pieces do not correspond to one another. Still not getting it? Try thinking about building an actual house using bricks, except the bricks are not the same size. It would be impossible to build the house. Although in sketch up everything is possible.
One thing i managed to realize is the necessity of maneuvering around the plane when constructing the model. From one angle, all the placed blocks look like they are in position but when looking in a different angle they could all be scattered around. I thought the idea of constructing such a structure because it was cool. It would be like building a house without all the toil and man work. It wasn’t easy work building this model, in fact, it actually required time and preciseness when placing the blocks together. Maybe not as hard as building an actual house but close enough. As a word of advice, you definitely have to change the angle of the screen when placing the blocks together, to make sure all the blocks are in their correct positions. As i stated earlier, everything will look like its in place but from a different angle you would see scattered blocks floating everywhere. Just Imagine gravity played a role in a situation like this. It would be raining blocks.