Is there anyone making their own Lego apartment?

[ks6349]

Monotonous though, is anyone making this with Lego bricks? Probably 10-20 floors, with a lot of individual rooms/flats, each has their own toilet, kitchen and bedrooms, different flats may have some slightly different variations, and a lift driven by motors or without motor is fine and good enough

Edited January 22, 2022 by ks6349

[Johnny1360]

I have seen many mocs, here on this forum, that depict current or previously inhabited dwellings, they pop up from time to time. You just have to look around for them. I am even considering building my "dream" house/location as a future project. My current residence however would be quite boring to build or even look at though, so that's out, lol.

[Driver Brandon Grumman]

The 60291 family house (which looks more like an apartment building than a house from my POV) acts as a condominium in my town. I plan to get a few more of those. 

Edited January 22, 2022 by Poodabricks

[RichardGoring]

I've just finished the Seinfeld floor to make a five storey version of the SitComplex apartment block by LegoArtisan.

LEGO MOC SitComplex - The Jeffersons by LegoArtisan | Rebrickable - Build with LEGO

He's just released another floor for it, taking the total to 11. Each floor is unique and either a totally original creation, or based heavily on a LEGO sitcom set.

I may add Queer Eye as a sixth floor, but I suspect that will be it for me.

[koalayummies]

Check out EB member @wooootles's MOCs: https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/profile/7798-wooootles/&do=content&type=forums_topic&change_section=1 as they've built a number of 10+ story or large Minifigure-scale/Modular buildings:

https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/171386-moc-the-vybe-hotel/

https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/156303-moc-505-wasabi-skyscraper/

https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/160440-moc-corporate-plaza/

https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/169016-moc-the-magnolias-on-10th-apartments/

[Johnny1360]

Whoops, guess I misunderstood the OP, thought "their own" meant the apartment they are currently living in, sorry for the confusing response. It seems like we are returning to having apartments above shops these days, rather than single use apartment buildings at least around here, Midwest USA. 

[Aanchir]

2 minutes ago, Johnny1360 said:

Whoops, guess I misunderstood the OP, thought "their own" meant the apartment they are currently living in, sorry for the confusing response. It seems like we are returning to having apartments above shops these days, rather than single use apartment buildings at least around here, Midwest USA. 

Yeah, I've never tried building a full apartment complex — the closest I've come is either trying to add furnishings and interior walls for Modular Building sets like the Green Grocer, or trying to build LEGO versions of individual apartment units I've actually lived in.

In general, something I've observed with both sets and MOCs is that as far as interiors are concerned, having a whole lot of repetition can become boring very, very quickly. According to the designer of the Boutique Hotel set in this interview, that was part of his incentive for choosing to differentiate the rooms by making one a basic economy suite, one a business suite, and one a deluxe suite.

The same challenge presents itself when trying to design a LEGO apartment complex, school, hospital, prison, office building, sports stadium, etc. A realistic portrayal of these settings would often be repetitive to the point of tediousness — chances are, the details themselves will end up having less of an impact on viewers than amount of space, cost, and effort that building it clearly entailed.

And even though I do a lot of my MOCing these days using digital software, in which "copying and pasting" a section of a build takes just a couple of clicks and scarcely any time at all, that can quickly result in a model that is not NEARLY interesting enough to justify its size, piece count, and the cost it'd inevitably have in physical bricks. Before long, I can't shake the feeling that I'd get a better "bang for my buck" with fewer, more varied rooms and floors, even if it isn't strictly accurate to what that sort of setting would be like in real life.

All that said: one way to diminish that sense of monotony is to build in microscale. In a microscale build, even a repetitive interior floor plan can be fairly impressive, not so much for the size or level of detail as for how well you are able to fit the necessary rooms and their identifying features into place while minimizing the space, cost, and number of pieces required for each. The rooms themselves, not their contents, become the basic points of interest.

[ks6349]

On 1/22/2022 at 11:54 PM, Poodabricks said:

The 60291 family house (which looks more like an apartment building than a house from my POV) acts as a condominium in my town. I plan to get a few more of those. 

60291 is a largely simplified version. It only has two floors and it's not really detailed, I am talking about probably using tens or hundreds times more bricks than that of the 60291 and there are a few rooms clearly built for each flat. It's a whole different scale than 60291

[Driver Brandon Grumman]

44 minutes ago, ks6349 said:

60291 is a largely simplified version. It only has two floors and it's not really detailed, I am talking about probably using tens or hundreds times more bricks than that of the 60291 and there are a few rooms clearly built for each flat. It's a whole different scale than 60291

Ooooooh

[ks6349]

50 minutes ago, Poodabricks said:

Ooooooh

btw I also missed the best chance of getting 60291, when it hit to $31 last year. This deal has gone for good