OK my Architecture brothers, how do ya'll feel about Stucco Quoins?

Since I dont use Revit Architecture but rather the regular Autodesk Architecture and since this was more or less a design question, I thought I would put it in here, the general thread, if that is alright with you Mark?

Here goes...I am designing a Stucco Georgian Home +/- 4800 sg ft. I know Quoins used to be the big thing back in the 80's and 90's on Stucco homes but I haven't designed a Stucco home before. I was thinking about the Quoins on the corners and have a couple of questions? Is there a function somewhere in AA2010 to put these on? Or would I use the Wall Styles? Or manually install them as blocks?

Thanks

Taylor

Having not used the Architectural desktop very much, this falls into the area of idle conjecture ...

but it does remind me of the slate roofed stucco home of my New England youth.

I doubt you will find a specific function for them, and it seems so easy to just model the 2 or 3 different types you might need and install them

using the ARRAY command perhaps. If you google QUOINS you will find a wealth of drawings of them, and they are all pretty straight ahead

for modeling. I didn't see any 3D models on the few sites I just checked.

Having not used the Architectural desktop very much, this falls into the area of idle conjecture ...

but it does remind me of the slate roofed stucco home of my New England youth.

 

I doubt you will find a specific function for them, and it seems so easy to just model the 2 or 3 different types you might need and install them

using the ARRAY command perhaps. If you google QUOINS you will find a wealth of drawings of them, and they are all pretty straight ahead

for modeling. I didn't see any 3D models on the few sites I just checked.

Thanks Dad...yea the building and placement arent a problem. I guess I was asking 1), if anyone was still building and designing houses with them any longer and 2), if I do decide to incorporate them into my design what would the simplest way of doing this to get them into my "wall styles" or should I just include them as an element within my "Building Shell" in my "Constructs"? But if I do that and I later have to change a parameter in my walls for some reason I will have to go back and change all those Quoins, but if I could get them into my "wall styles" some how........

I think they look very nice, from a timeless aesthetic point of view, having nothing whatsoever to do with

the contemporary quoin appetite.

It seems to me that a house of that size could easily accommodate a further nice little bit of detailing,

as long as the proportion and flavor suit the design.

If you create them on their own layer, then they can be turned on and off without having to redo your walls.

Yes, there may well be a way to create an exterior wall style which terminates with them.

Or perhaps the QUOIN itself becomes a new wall style which is used concurrently with your default stucco wall style?

My firm does plannig applications for several of the major housebuilders in the UK and quoins, both on the corners of walls and around windows, are one of the features we sometimes use to decorate buildings.

We have blocks made up of mass-element pieces in the appropriate sizes to go round corners (L-shapes at 3/4" thick, with the two directions on top of each other, which then get stacked to go up the wll).

dJE

Wow, now I know what ya call them things. Thanks guys.

Here in Florida, Quoins are more popular than white Cadillacs with tinted windows and ICE COLD air conditioning. Way overused here. Here in the lightening capitol of the western hemisphere, one is more likely to be sent to the ER by a falling quoin, than a lightening strike, but I think they make a stucco house look more finished and sofistimacated.

Nearly every house in the sunshine state is stucco, since they are all built of 12 x 16 concrete block and rebar to meet hurricane codes. Without some sort of decoration they look like bunkers. Especially the uglyarssed duplex I currently am ensconced within. Here at home I am utterly quoinless. Might someone send me a bag of 'em, please?

Lordy, Architecture puns should be a felony, and I should be wearing an orange jumpsuit and pink Adidas cross trainers.

Oh...me Dana...that is pretty good..LOL!!!

A quoin is a floating object you can grab to get a small bonus. Popular in the game Glitch.

So these floating objects are used to decorate houses in Florida? What a bunch of weird people you are.

A quoin is a floating object you can grab to get a small bonus. Popular in the game Glitch.

 

So these floating objects are used to decorate houses in Florida? What a bunch of weird people you are.

I am kinda partial to hanging robot parts on my walls.

Better those than bull thingies.

Better those than bull thingies.

Down here we do Gator thingies too.

But up here We "DAWGS eat Gators!!!...LOL

But up here We "DAWGS eat Gators!!!...LOL

Yer welcome to 'em dude. I've only been a Floridian since July. I'll see if I can find a Gators fan around somewhere to come and give you some trash talkin' I'm still a Terps, Redskins, Ravens fan. And, yes. I am used to being a loser.

EDIT: it is easier to find a gators fan than a saw palmetto around here, and there are 4 of those in my yard. Not a lot else to do this far from the beach, I guess. There is no such thing as a retail establishment down here that does not sell Gators paraphenalia. I even got a free Gators hat for buying a tank of gas at the 7-11 last week.