ben_p

Will do! thanks again guys! :D I've got to do 7 different schemes for Thursday so I'll post some ideas when I'm done! I'm doing a fair bit of sketchup so if I can get some nice printscreens I will - not worth rendering at this stage. Is about 4m (roughly 13ft) a good enough height for when you guys said high roof? Floorspace I've set aside for the whole smithy building/room of the house is just under 9mx6m (about 29 1/2 ft by 19ft) so hopefully its a decent size for a home smithy (thats an average between the schemes some are smaller or bigger) I was wondering whether it would be a good idea to use darker bricks like blue or black ones rather than the obvious red bricks so the discolouring from the soot and stuff is less obvious

Thanks everyone!

Hi everyone, As the title suggests, I'm a first year architecture student at the University of Bath in the UK who has a uni project to design a brick house, part of the brief stated that one of the people had to work from home and we were allowed to choose the occupation.I chose blacksmith as I had recently seen some of the amazing wrought iron architectural details that metalworkers make in a museum in London. I also chose it as I was wondering whether I could use the huge amount of heat generated from the forge to heat the rest of the house in some manner (e.g. waste heat heats up the water) or a forge that doubles up as back of a hearth? I've done a little bit of research into the big (as in relevant for designing the space) equipment needed and narrowed it down to forge, anvil, extraction hose/blower, work bench, vice, tool rack/table and possibly power hammer? - if I've forgotten anything please say! I've also seen a few plans here such as this one: but I just wanted to ask a few things:'?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>> Anyway, I just wanted to ask a few things: 1) any particular reason for the arrangement of the equipment? should the forge be in a certain spot etc.? 2) rough dimensions (only really need floorspace occupied and maybe heights) of the equipment 3) does anyone have a workshop attached/on the same site as your house? does this make any differences? and finally: if you were the client are there any things any of you guys would specifically want/need? Obviously, there are fire safety issues which would probably make getting planning permission a lot harder than if I'd chosen something like painter as many of my colleagues have, but since I'm only first year we don't have to go too in depth into that, it just has to not be ridiculous and clearly set on fire. But I'm probably going to separate the smithy from the main house so as to negate those issues. Any other comments or advice would be welcome Cheers! Ben