Property:Development:Construction:Planning
Summary
If you have money to burn, treat building a house like an 'adventure'. ie, a piss-poorly planned project.
A Solution Architecture is about investigating constraints, options, making informed decisions, progressing to specific outcomes, plans to achieve them, then circulating the plans to professionals for double checking before committing capital.
Basically, it's much less costly to practice-run using a pencil and eraser than a truck and a skillsaw.
Principles
Not all principles can coexist on all projects. Hence Decisions are needed.
- Cost:
- Prefer materials that can be lifted and installed by two persons or less, without mechanical assistance.
- Prefer pre-finished materials (eg: metal sips) to not require manual finishing.
- Era: build structures to the current era. Do not try to replicate the past (leave that to disney). Benefit from current building materials.
- Materials: prefer monolithic materials (stone, concrete, plaster, wood) to composite (plywood, plasterboard) to glued (osb)
- Materials: prefer lighter materials that can be man-handled