After a couple weeks of deviation, it’s time to get back to some houses. I tried a few new things this week and I’m quite pleased with the way they turned out.
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Category Archives: Models
Micropolis Monday: Armory Apartments
After last week’s community gardens, I decided that it was time to add some apartment dwellers. A lot of older cities have small apartment buildings in their neighborhoods, especially on the edges of commercial zones.
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Micropolis Monday: Community Garden
I’ve been building my way through a varied residential neighborhood, exploring different styles and densities. This week I built something a bit different.
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Micropolis Monday: Grey and Lavender Houses
What really makes a neighborhood great is variety, a mix of styles that catch the eye for different reasons. This week I built a pair of houses with very different personalities.
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Micropolis Monday: Open Square
This week’s build is a mix of things that I’ve been seeing around, with a cluster of small-and-talls on a on a single, large lot.
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Micropolis Monday: Blue Houses
Sometimes, I developer will buy two lots and redivided them into three. This kind of thing happens a fair amount in Portland, so I figured that I should represent another kind of urban infill.
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Micropolis Monday: Mismatched Houses
This week’s houses started with some roof experimentation. Rooflines can be hard to capture in the Micropolis scale, which sits at an awkward point where it is hard to do complex things like dormers, yet it is equally hard to get smooth slopes at many angles.
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Micropolis Monday: Tumble House
I’m finishing out my first month of Micropolis Mondays with a sprawling modern home: the Tumble House.
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Micropolis Monday: Big House
This model is based on a house from one of my old neighborhoods. I used to walk by this big house on a corner lot just about every day. It had this cool, quasi-georgian style too it. That house was a cool, older house that had seen better days and I wanted to build my own version of it.
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Micropolis Monday: Domino Foursquares
In a lot of cities, residential neighborhoods are getting denser. Last week’s house had a luxuriously large lot, but this week I’ve squeezed two houses and an ADU into a single module.
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