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Try Before You Buy: Walkable Plans Offer a New Way to Visualize Architecture
These full-scale floor plans allow architects and their clients to take their designs for a test drive.
Nathan Bahadursingh
WOW! What an awesome, stupidly O B V I O U S solution to every architect's, designer's major
problem - how to accurately, simply and inexpensively convey the true realistic spatial realities of a structure to the client?
Once you see this you slap yourself upside the head and ask yourself, 'Now why did I think of that?'
This idea, this concept came out of Australia. Read this brief account of how it came to be.
I was a builder pouring concrete at Tempe for a customer, the customer is annoyed by the size of the building and wanted it to be bigger, he
didn’t realise how small the actual house was, even after looking at the plans for a long time.
I myself then wanted to build my own house and looking at the plans it was hard to wrap around the actual size of the building. I decided to draw the plans onto the ground in a park and was subsequently fined by the council. There had to be a cheaper way to view your plans life-size and that’s when it hit me. I rented out a warehouse, put up some projectors and was now able to walk through my house before it was built saving myself thousands from simples mistake, and now I am bringing this technology to you.
Bringing your architectural plans and your future house to a real-life size before you put $1 on building your home.
With the use of state of the art technology and tailored programs we are able to show your complete dwelling – including upper and lower floors, backyards, swimming pools and entertaining areas, along with driveways and parking spaces to a 'true' 1:1 scale.
You can park your car in the garage and walk around your whole property without annoying glasses or goggles. Your whole family can experience this all at the same time.