Resort Design Progress

Shae and I have almost finalised the design of our resort, and will hopefully start making it during this week. We have decided to create the model of our resort on a smaller scale in order to focus more on the landscape, but large enough to get a good idea of what the buildings would look like. The resort will consist of several cabins surrounding a lake, with some mountains towards the back and streams leading into the lake. We are planning on placing a water wheel in one or two of the streams to provide some electricity.

The resort is going to be separated into several cabins. These will be designed to minimise the need for lighting during the day and the need for cooling or heating. This will be achieved by having the cabins facing north-east and north-west so that the sun will heat the rooms better in Winter. During Summer, the cabins can be shielded from the sun using sliding wood sunshades, which also allow breezes to flow through the room. Our idea for the design of the cabins came from the picture below.

In our next lesson, we are planning on drawing up the top view and side view of our resort and cabins, and when that is done I can upload the images of it. I am really liking our design so far and am looking forward to starting work on it.x