To make it a modern practical design is a challange ,what if you were to replace the wood beams with metal ones and add a lot of glass ? Anyhow ,good job.
HMMM sounds suspiciously modern. I would be more interested in trying to get a workable living plan into a very small footprint, four or five story house design, where the stairs alone, meeting proper code, eats up a LOT of floor space. Not necessary for steel when I have access to huge Douglas fir beams, very strong, and modern LVL laminated beams. By modern I meant plan, not modernist style.
I misunderstood then ,I thought you meant modernist(I'm no architect) ,I can see the problem with the stairs.What if you were to make one long staircase for every floor ,only takes up one side of the floor and then at the end of the staircase it could form a 90 degree angle with the next stairccase so it would spiral to the top of the house, but then you need a sort of hallway for each floor ,I don't know ,I'm no architect.Do you mind if I try to model try to model your design in google sketchup ?
Go for it. This is an actual building in Northern France though. But that shouldn't stop us. Important for me are actual dimensions. What are the ceiling heights? How much square footage on each floor? Minimum stair width to meet code is 3 feet plus a few inches for rail. I usually go with 10 and half inch across steps, about 7 and a half high, about 18 steps for 10 foot ceiling with one foot thick second floor, or 16 steps for a nine foot ceiling. See how interesting this gets quickly?
I am sorry to get you hiped up ,but I am in an exam period and I simply don't have the time for such a complex project ,I would have loved trying to model this
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