The Roof of I–House Katsufumi Kubota

[Anonymous]

Hello Everyone.
I am very new to Archicad and I have been told to model this i-house to learn the ropes.

I have got the walls, slab, glass etc but I cannot for the life of me get the roof and back wall (one piece)?

Any guidance at all would be greatly appreciated.
Should I make the shape in another program and import it as an object?

The roof has many strange angles on the edges and from bottom to top.

Picture can be found here and if you are keen it is called the i-house and it is under Works>House>i-House on this website
http://www.katsufumikubota.jp/html/index-e.html

Thankyou very much for your help.

Miked

[Gerald Hoffman]

If you go to the Flash presentation it indicates Concrete and Steel frame. You could perhaps achieve the edges including drip edges with embedded SS profiles which would give a nice clean edge. I suspect there is some kind of coating on the concrete as well. Very interesting.

Cheers,

[Anonymous]

OK, my apologies for getting clearly off topic; sorry; there, done.

Gerald, you have to be right about the coating. Post 9-11 the gov. sprayed open web concrete blocks with the rubberized spray on compound used to protect pick-up truck beds, the blocks could be dropped 12 feet onto a hard surface without suffering any chipping or cracking!

Mark
PS "Simplify, then exaggerate."

[Ernest Atanasiu]

What i'd really like to know is how he did the slabs on the M-clinic building.