It took a little while, but here it is, my first presentation of a model on Eurobricks.
Although it's only digital bricks, I still hope you like it.
Introduction
A while back when cafe corner was presented I fell in love immediatly with this scale of buildings. Really something inbetween the legoland buildings and the city buildingscale. The holes and pins on the sides of the building kept a promise that was soon forfilled. Marketplace was there, a magnificent set of modular elements that, other than cafe corner, could be freely rearranged and rotated. The trend was set, at least, I thought so. Then came the green grocer, the fire brigade, and the grand emporium, and all the flexibility that I liked so much about Marketplace, was left behind and brought back to the holes and pins on the sides. (not that I don't like the buildings)
Time for modular madness...........
Apartments
Where do all these city inhabitants sleep that get there vegetables at the green grocer, get there fresh croissants at the marketplace and buy dresses in the grand emporium. Well, here is the solution. Inbetween the grand emporium and the green grocer a piece of land was redeveloped, the old buildings just weren't good enough to renovate so they developed some modern apartments in place.
I proudly present to you, 2500 bricks of modularity.
according to superkalle's flawless ldd manager
2500 pieces ( yes exactly)
3616,7 grams
159 unique types of pieces
class LDD only
The set comes in 18 numbered bags containing one module each.
Basement large 2x (16x32)
Basement small 1x (8 x 32)
Ground floor office / retail / cafe Module 2x
Entrance apartments, staircase, mailboxes 1
Staircase 3x (one is topfloor staircase)
Staircase glass roof 1x
apartments 4x (2 are mirrored)
penthouse apartment 1x
roof garden 1x
roof 2x (one with solar panels)
The building is made in white stucco with wood as finishing on the balconies, acces galleries and roof garden. The staircase is separated from the apartments to gain flexibility. In combination with the acces galeries at the back of the building a lot of configuarations are possible without losing realistic connections to all apartments. The apartements and groundfloor office/retailspace can be mirrored, so that they can be connected internaly by removing the glass plates, or have glass on the outside so you can put the building on a corner as well.
To give even more flexibility to the building every floor is provided with holes and pins, so you can easily make a heightdifference in your layout of place the building as a gate over the road.
To finish my story I have made some screenshots of the apartment building in it's natural habitat.
( thanks Johnnhiszippy3, for using his ldd models of the modular buildings)
And
here is the lxf file to try it yourself. Can you come up with other configurations?
Or can you build this in real bricks? Be my guest.
Jan
Edited by Jan, 17 July 2010 - 02:06 AM.