Architectural Works for Sketchup: Micro-housing Design

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I had just started a design group with my buddy cklai@cklai to work on the housing design that could contribute to the future development of towns and city. We are both trained graduate architects who aim to make a difference for the future living environment. As of now, we are looking on how we can contribute our idea through Sketchup 3D warehouse plus the help of utopian-io@utopian-io to increase the publicity of the initiative.


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This initiative will be a continuous effort on innovating the housing design that we have now. For this, I also created a Github project link for this specific purpose. Please feel free to critic and comment on anything that could help me to realize this initiative as I have limited knowledge on how to set up Github stuff. Advanced thanks to you all!


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The first series of design will be focusing on micro-housing. The work above is my 1st attempt for this design initiative.

Why micro-housing?

The land has become lesser for us to build residential buildings. That is why we see our building are shrinking due to a high cost of land. Besides that, a single person will need around 10m² as a basic space to live, that includes all the daily activities like eating, cooking, sleeping, bathing and etc. So, to make a house affordable to the fresh millennials, it must be designed in a functionally inclusive but affordable manner. Thus, micro-housing could be a solution for that. Most of us want opportunities and that is why the population are flocking to the city. While the city itself faces a land shortage, that is why delivering a solution for the city and fresh millennials are critical.


Here are some examples of micro-housing currently available in the market.


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Case Study:
1. Muji's Micro-housing design
2. Sleeping Pods by CPID
3. Prefab house by Casagrande Laboratory


Design Process:
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1-Set up a base and the plinth area of 3x9m for the micro-house.

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2-Construct a volumetric space according to the plinth and with a height of 3.5m.

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3-Make openings for doors and windows.

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4-Insert the windows and door to the openings.

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5-Facade treatment and roofing for the micro-house to make the form interesting.


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Save before upload to the 3D warehouse.

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Fill up the details for the model.

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And tadaa, done! One design contributed :)


Working file: skp



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