American Colonies Architecture Pack

[The Pilgrim]

I love all the togetherness. I will be posting the small house designs in the morning as well as the reference pictures. 




If I get a chance I will get the medium houses out as well.

[The Pilgrim]

So here we go...  




First up we have a house based on the Peak House in Medfield, MA.  Important notes on this house include the high pitched roof, the low profile chimney and the roof rail.




Second is the Cox House of Salem, MA.  Here the important features are the gambrel roof, without a roof rail, the more pronounced midline chimney and the exposed corner beams.




The third house is based on the Hoxie House of Sandwich, MA.  Note the upright "storie and a half" structure as well as the normal sloped roof with rail and tall narrow end wall chimney. It also has exposed corner beams.




 




Throughout the period several design features were relatively constant.  First would be the use of diamond pane, leaded glass windows without shutters.  Commonly the windows of the second floor are smaller than those of the ground floor.  Also, nearly all houses of this period have a rough wooden medieval style door.  The exterior of the houses would either be of dark brown natural wood shingle, or clapboard painted dark brown, dark red or gray.  All of the roofs would have been of a light gray wooden shingle, with the chimneys being made primarily of brick (though there is some question as to whether they we originally made of rough stone and later replaced with brick and mortar due to the rarity of lime with which to make mortar in New England).  All foundations would have been made of rough stone.




I would like to see all three structures made with f-variants in all 4 period exterior textures.  They all share the same footprint and could be made from one icon with a total of 12 variants




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[The Pilgrim]

I will have reference photos shortly of the 3 houses.

[The Pilgrim]

As promised...reference pictures.




 



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[ShockPuppet]

These look fantastic and should be quite straightforward to model in 3d, the sketches are brilliant as its easy to see them exactly from all sides. Well done.

[The Pilgrim]

Thank you good sir. More to come tomorrow. 




The easy thing about colonial architecture is that the Pilgrims and Puritans were all about simplicity, so as long as you pay attention to the few small details, historical accuracy is pretty easy. 

[The Pilgrim]

One more thing that just crossed my mind...  Whoever is modeling these, please keep the back and sides all the way to the edges of the tiles as building extensions will be integral to this mod. 




The front may be scooted back a bit to add steps or other decorative details though. 

[Necora]

Wow I didn't realize they would be so dinky in real life! Pretty cool little houses though, would look great in the game.

[The Pilgrim]

Before I move in to the medium and large houses... Has anyone started working with the modeling on these?

[thethirdapple]

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in my quick research there are many photo references to the use of planks for roofing and thatching, is this appropriate ?



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