A New Urbanist Experiment

[CF221]

Please be welcome to our new Urbanist Experiment.



This is our second attempt at creating a realistic, dynamic, and community-based city. I understand some of you may be already participating in other projects. On the other hand, I do invite you to take part in this Urban Experiment, where we will be seeking to grow a small town into a sizeable city, attempting to provide always a good level of detail, while making sure we can all enjoy exploring the city as it grows, and being able to take renders of the project as it goes.

To make it work, we will need to follow a set of guidelines that spring from these main goals, in order to sustain the growing city with all the quality it needs:

1) Use enough details to make for a realistic building, while making sure to keep the file size low. Use of textures is heavily reccomended.

2) Each building's total file size shall not exceed 2 MB's. Exceptions will be granted by the agreement of the majority of all active members upon request.

3) Each entry shall be uploaded to the Sketchup 3d Warehouse, where it will be downloaded by each member, and placed in their city.

4) In order to foster the development of a city-wide architectural style, each member shall attempt to incorporate into their design as many architectural elements as they can from their neighbors' designs, while introducing their own creative ideas.

WHAT YOU NEED:

-Sketchup
-A fairly good knowledge of Sketchup
-A fairly good amount of experience with the Community city
-A combination of these

We will be working with a square white plane that is 1000m on each side (download it in the Sketchup's 3d Warehouse) . We can choose our favorite spot for a town/settlement and build our first structure there. Whoever comes after will build their structure wherever it is not built, and will have to connect it to the town using streets and passageways. This will provide for an intricate road network that can be manipulated and changed by most members, creating urban blocks where the majority of the construction can take place.This is how we'll create our houses, sidewalks, and roads:





That's about it. First, you trace the area of the building you are going to make (less than 4 MB's) and make a sidewalk slab in front of it that is at least 2 meters wide Then you raise a street bed right in front that is at least 4 meters wide.

. You can build anywhere, but the goal is to interconnect your buildings, streets, and sidewalks to those of your neighbors.

Once you have completed your building(s), then upload it to Sketchup's 3d Warehouse, give us the name of the file, and a picture or render of your structure(s), and then we will download it and include it in our town.

This is the map we're going to use:

Search for: "New Urbanist Experiment Map" in Sketchup's 3D Warehouse. Download, and start building

Building Regulations


:: Roads

Minimum road wideness: 4m

Road planning rerquires common sense. Do not just to a road around your whole house because you feel like it. Think how that road is integrating with the city. Think how it will effect the traffic. Too many roads will create a maze, too little will make driving from point a to point b difficult.

:: Pavements:

Minimum pavement wideness: 2m

[YingBlanc]

So shall I start the first 100x100 plane then? wait 100x100...to small, 1k x 1k :P

[CF221]

Yes you may! Make it 1000m x 1000m. Also, please remember to upload it to Sketchup's 3D Warehouse under a new name!

[YingBlanc]

Okays so Transferred your buildings plus my Bon Marshei

[CF221]

I will place the church in a new location, as well as the other small house.

[YingBlanc]

yokays I'll let it all be sorted out by you first then, just place the Bon Marshei in same same place it was relative to the church, wherever you move the church. x3

[CF221]

Roger that.

[CF221]

My first entry:

A small house:





Search for "NUE Small House" in Sketchup's 3D Warehouse, download, place, and enjoy.

EDIT: By the way, its only 758 Kb!

[CF221]

Ying Blanc, I still haven't decided where I'll put our previous works, how about we work out some projects before and connect the other works later?

[YingBlanc]

That'll do fine, also remember, you can do more than 1 story buildings x3 I mean when I get inspiration, permission to build on top of your building x3

[CF221]

SURE!

[CF221]

2nd Submission

Small Chapel.



Search 3D warehouse for: "NUE Chapel"

[YingBlanc]

Can I just remind you CF, we agreed that this time it won't be time based or height limited, and while your works are fine, people'll have to keep building on top of your work to make them fit in when higher buildings go up, which they inevitably will :P

[CF221]

I don't mind! We're starting anew. I'm trying to make it a cozy little town before I make some taller buildings. You can go ahead and add your buildings as you like ... Oh and by the way, I think limiting total # of buildings to 1 is a bad idea. I think we'll just get rid of it as well. The more buildings someone can make, the better.

[YingBlanc]

....there was a limitation xDxD I thought people could make as many as they want xD

[CF221]

Let's just say it was one of those "bad rules" ..

I'm still eager to see what you make next! (should I just place our old plaza anywhere?

[Dubai Skyscraper]

hey guys i just want to say, i really enjoy following this project and i hope you'll keep it up

[earthbuilder]

+1 this will be GREAT when it grows bigger!

[YingBlanc]

you 2 know it's just not me and CF, everybody can join in xDxD

[Dubai Skyscraper]

true but my architecture doesn't fit this project in terms of size, you know