Architectural House Plan Basic Package $760 (Was $950) & More @ Architopia

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AssociatedLtimh1980 on 11/01/2021 - 21:21 architopia.com.au (527 clicks)
Last edited 11/01/2021 - 21:48 by 1 other user

NY2021

The current offer is 20% off the Basic, Premium and Premium + packages using the code NY2021.
Architopia is an online platform that provides architectural house designs, specifically focusing on sustainable homes.
The basic package provides design drawings, sustainability features, basic plans, photos, 3D imagery and can be instantly downloaded. The premium packages include more detailed specifications and measurements etc..

This is a friend's company and I think it is well worth a look if you are thinking of building a house, especially with the current discount.

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  Melb69 on 11/01/2021 - 22:04

  Are they building designers or Architects?

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    stickymoo on 11/01/2021 - 22:06

    Good question

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    Associatedtimh1980 @ architopia.com.au on 11/01/2021 - 22:45

    Architects - They are a Registered Architecture Practice

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  [Deactivated] on 11/01/2021 - 22:07

  This looks like an interesting business

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    wangsk on 11/01/2021 - 23:09

    -2

    sure it is interesting but it won't make much money, please check how much an architect earns in Australia.

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      Sapiens on 12/01/2021 - 10:23

      True enough. Registered architect with 10 yrs experience ~ 80k gross plus super

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  wangsk on 11/01/2021 - 23:18

  +3

  Hiring an architect or getting someone to draft a plan isn't that expensive, the expensive part is the cost and process to get the house built. This is the reason why the project homes are so popular.

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    donkcat on 12/01/2021 - 08:47

    +1

    The reason project homes are so popular is because you can go an hire an architect or draftsman, do a design brief with them to determine what you're after, if you're lucky you might get some concept plans back in 6 weeks or could be months. Get the concept plans and assuming you have no changes to make you give them to builders to quote, then you wait another 2-6 weeks for the quote to come back and find it's 100-200k over your budget, all of a sudden you're sitting on 10k worth of plans that you cant afford to build.

    Or you can walk into a project builders office and possibly even through the same house you want to build with their display home, walk out with a floor plan, build cost (subject to site costs) and estimated start and completion time all without spending a cent and taking a couple of hours of your time.

    The convenience of project built homes vs conventional process is just too good for a lot of people to pass up.

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      Sapiens on 12/01/2021 - 10:22

      +1

      1st para describes process of draftsman only services. Draftsman will document whatever the client asks for without interrogation, hence 100k over budget. Arch goes through many more stages than outlined in first para.

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        donkcat on 12/01/2021 - 11:09

        Personally I see arch plans going well over budget more often than draftsman. When design practices begin to deviate from the norm (which arch plans normally do) then you get trades and contractors adding $$ to cover the risk factor associated with unknown labor content etc

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  thedriver on 12/01/2021 - 07:48

  +9

  Love the premise of this! Unfortunately I don't live the plans. The aspect and glazing on the Offset House are not anything special. It's poorly designed and could be easily improved by:
  * rotating the building aspect 100° counter clockwise which would give the bedroom pavilion northerly sun access through the glazing and the outdoor area easterly morning sun access (not the current southern).
  * moving the glazing on the dining room to now face north (after rotation of the house aspect, the existing glazing would face, a. the entrance and b. west) for passive solar gain.
  * adding glazing to the kitchen wall on the new northern aspect for passive solar gain.
  * changing to a skillion roof design on both sections of the house, to give the southern section passive solar access as well.
  * reversing the layout of the bedroom pavilion, so the master bedroom now has access to the private courtyard, instead of opening to the entrance door.

  I don't want to further explain why the other plans aren't so good, but they could definitely use some serious revision.

  The Australian Government released some beautiful architect designed home plans, free for the public, back in the 40s and 50s and there where similar ideas to this with commercial partnerships with architects to make well designed housing cheaper.

  These days though, there is the yourhome.gov.au which has an abundance of energy efficient design information and free home plans that are 7* NatHERS rated.

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    garage sale on 12/01/2021 - 08:06

    +2

    gets trickier on inner city blocks that only have 7-8m frontages …..very few ready to go plans or slightly modify plans for those blocks , yet not everybody wants to move to the urban fringes just to get bigger blocks of land.

    and if you do move to urban fringes they are often estates and you have builders with designs on the estates …. free designs as they make money on the build.

    if you want to make money as an architect, target inner city smaller blocks as land is expensive so design service cost become a small percentage …..

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  ZeeFlyingMonkey on 12/01/2021 - 09:48

  I'm assuming this is just effectively access to the platform ?