Planning laws
Prior to 2004, to obtain permission for construction of residential house needed a project done by a professional architect-designer, licensed. With the entry into force of the new town planning code, this requirement was abolished and, if you are planning to build a house for his family is not higher than 3 floors, expensive project certified designers to enjoy not necessarily.
But to build without the project, too, is impossible, because, only having a design solution you will be able to estimate the cost of construction, purchase the required amount of materials and explain to the builders what you want them to do.
Himself a designer
Now when the computer is in almost every home, there is no point to draw the project and floor plans on paper. To make the project from scratch, you can use specialized software to create a three-dimensional model of your future home as close as possible to reality. Modern software designed for non-professional architects, allow to solve professional tasks. With their help, you can not only design an architectural structure, "tying" it to the situation and the terrain, but also to develop the internal layout and design of the premises.
To design the house with the terrain, you'll need a topographic survey of your land scale 1:500 in electronic or raster form. On it you will be able to make a three-dimensional terrain model and selecting the optimal location for a residential building and utility buildings, as well as to design landscape design solutions.
Software for designing houses
The developers offer a wide range of products that will allow you to realize your architectural design ideas. Of course, they vary in price and functionality. For the novice user it is possible to recommend the base version of the package VisiCon, and "Design Studio 3.0 3D Home" and "ArCon Home & Landscape." They have a low price, easy to use, intuitive interface in Russian.
Those users who consider themselves advanced and, in addition, he speaks fluent English and will love having advanced functionality of the software products FloorPlan 3D and Punch Professional Home Design Suite Platinum. The latter is particularly attractive because it allows you to immediately design and engineering services, both internal and external.