Many dream of own individual residential building, and it is more pleasant to those when these dreams begin to be embodied. When you have got the parcel before inviting builders, it is necessary to make the project of the house. If it is the house on one family, you can design it.
Town-planning legislation
Till 2004 for receiving construction permit of residential building the project executed by the professional architect-designer having the license was required. With the introduction in validity of the new Town-planning code, this requirement it has been abolished and if you are going to construct residential building for the family not higher than 3 floors, it is not obligatory to order the expensive project from the certified designers.
But it is impossible to build without project too as, only having the design decision you will be able to estimate base bid, to buy necessary amount of materials and to explain to builders that you want from them.
To designer
Now, when the computer is almost in each house, there is no sense in drawing the project and floor plans on paper. To make the project of the house from scratch, you can use the specialized software and create the three-dimensional model of your future house as close as possible to reality. The modern software products calculated on nonprofessional architects allow to solve quite professional problems. With their help you can not only design architectural construction, "having tied" it to situation and land relief, but also to develop internal planning and design of all rooms.
To design the house taking into account land relief, you will need survey of your parcel in scale 1:500 in electronic or raster look. On it you will be able to make three-dimensional model of the area and to choose on it the optimum place for placement of residential building and subsidiary buildings and also to design landscape design decisions.
Software products for design of residential buildings
Developers offer wide choice of products which will allow you to realize the architectural and design ideas. They, of course, differ at the price and functionality. For the novice user it is possible to advise the basic version of VisiCon package and also the 3D Home Design Studio 3.0 and ArCon Home & Landscape program. They have low price, the convenient, intuitive Russified interface. Those users who consider themselves advanced and, in addition, know English will like the FloorPlan 3D and Punch Professional Home Design Suite Platinum software products having expanded functionality. The last is especially attractive that in it you can design at once and utilities, both internal, and external.