Build-n-Share Challenge # 33 - Olympic village
Thread for this week’s challenge: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/173492.page
This Week’s Challenge Specifics:
Pulling up to the large green lot, you are greeted by an impressing looking group. Seeing their matching track suits, no one can doubt this is a group of serious athletes.
You reach for the door only to find it’s being opened for you.
“Hi, I’m Elanora,” the pretty girl in yellow chirps. “Thank you so much for coming today.”
“We’re so glad you could come to meet us here,” the guy in blue chimes in. “We wanted you to see the lot in its natural beauty. We hope to preserve a lot of that green with this build.”
“Don’t worry about the other kind of green,” the guy in green appropriately continues. “After the debacle with cost of the other village, we’ve decided not to set a budget. That way we won’t be ridiculed if it goes way over.”
The girl in red grits her teeth at the mention of the budget, but she continues smiling.
“So you want your own Olympic village, basically?” you finally get a word in.
“Exactly!” Elanora is back in action. “We brought this picture to show you how we’d like the main building to look. It’s the Italian athletes’ building in Vancouver.”
You take the picture and give it an approving look. Then you pause.
“Wait, the main building?”
“Oh, yes.” The guy in green picks up the conversation. “We’re quite ambitious with this project!”
“So how many buildings will there be in total?” you ask, trying to remain calm.
“Three,” the girl in red replies. “We’d like a main apartment building, kind of like the picture you’re holding.”
“You can use orange as the accent,” Elanora is back in, “but we’re open to another color or colors if you think it would work better.”
“The other two buildings,” the girl picks up right where she left off, (you reflect these athletes are difficult to keep up with more reasons than just the speed of their gait) “are for recreation. So there’s an apartment building, a wellness building, and we’d like a ‘Living Room,’ kind of like the concept we’ve read about from the actual Olympic Village in Vancouver.”
“From what I’ve read,” she continues, “The Living Room is like a big family room and rec room all in one. We’d like a place to gather, watch all the big games, and play some games, too. In this building we’d also like a coffee lounge area and a little internet 'café' with a full kitchen so we can make meals here, too.”
“The wellness center building,” the girl in black has joined the conversation, “should include workout options, including a pool. We’ve also read that they have a meditation room with a fireplace in Vancouver. We’d like one of those in this building as well, if possible.”
“OK, so you want your lot to be like an actual little mini-city village? I think I can manage that. What would you like for the actual apartment building?” you ask.
“Well,” Elanora seems to be most set on a ‘vision’ of this aspect of the build, “we’d like the exterior to look like that picture. We also want 8 apartments inside that all have their own entrance from a common lobby-like area. We want the center of the build open inside kind of like a two-story mall, where you can look down from one floor to the floor below. The center area should still be covered by a roof, but we’d like it donut-like inside. In the center of the donut we’d like a glass tower with stairs to access the rest of the floors … four stories total. From this tower would radiate little paths to the doors of each of the apartments. There are five of us, but we’d like eight apartments, in case we meet other similarly-minded friends.”
“Who might help with the bills!” the girl in red is in again.
“Yes,” Elanora dismisses her. "Each apartment unit should be two stories, and we’d like the second story in each one to include a loft area that looks down on the first story. Each will need a kitchen, living room, and bath. You can add more as you see fit.”
“How about colors?” you’re trying to visualize the overall look.
“We’d like mostly white walls, but in each of the five apartments we’ll live in, we’d like one wall in each room or area to have a splash of our favorite colors, with which you’re probably familiar. They are the colors of the Olympic rings and the colors we are wearing! So in my bedroom, for example, I’d like three white walls and one yellow wall!” she finishes.
“And you’d like it decorated and furnished as well, you mentioned. Any particular style?”
“Definitely modern throughout all three buildings,” the girl in black fills in. “We’d like them to have clean modern lines, wooden floors, and luxurious furnishings. The colors in the other two buildings are totally up to you.”
“And I have one last request,” the guy in blue seems a little embarrassed. “One of the things we really like about the Olympic village, again, is that it’s green…environmentally sound. We don’t really want any trees on the roof like they have there, but we’d like to maintain some green between the area that connects the buildings. We’d like it less florally but a more clean, modern green look. I have another picture to show you the concept, though it doesn’t have to look exactly like this:
“Finally, the Village has wooden bike paths connecting everything. We’d like to keep this bike-friendly as well, so we were hoping you might also find a place at each building where some bikes can be easily parked while we are inside.”
“So you want this all in a week, right?” You try to hide the absolute terror from creeping into your voice.
“Oh no,” the guy in green laughs. “You have a whopping TWO weeks for the project.”
You have to laugh at that. Two week, huh? “I’ll see what I can do!”
All five beam as you walk back to your car.
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Results:
Beginner Judge: Robodl95 http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/765/47204.page
1st Place: Ogopher
2nd Place: Soloushen
3rd Place: Quetpie!
Honorable Mention: Mathecat!
Intermediate Judge: Tota http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/900/47204.page
1st Place: Sutsugua
2nd Place: diamondgirl141
3rd Place: Palebisi
Advanced Judge: KitKat http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/750/47204.page
1st Place - Freynas
2nd Place - Linday
