Porch

Around 3 of the 4 sides of this mansion (everywhere but the front-door area) is a wide multi-story porch complete with many swings and even slides.

 

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Table of Contents:

  1. Orienting
  2. Introduction
  3. Dimensions & Layout
  4. Special Features
  5. Relevant Holidays
  6. 2021 Update
  7. Conceptual Images
  8. 2022 Update:  Minecraft 1:1 Build

 

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Orienting:

This is the tall and covered walkway that extends around most of the immediate exterior of the mansion.  It includes the ground-level and 2nd-story porches.  The porch-like patios near the roof, which are part of the 3rd-story guest suites, are counted separately.

  1. At ground level, it wraps around three sides of the house; all but the front where the driveway is.
  2. At the middle level (10 stories up), it wraps around the same three sides, although the porte-cochère’s rooftop patio could be counted as its 4th (though not connected) side, and it has two water-slides curving down into the closest swimming pool (curving ‘inward’ 90°; so that they eject sliders out toward the middle of the nearest pool, not toward the separation between that and the farthest pool).
  3. At the top level, it is only on one side, and has three separate sections; one for each of the guest suites on the pools-side of the mansion, and one curving around the bay-window-wall of the master bedroom.

 

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Introduction:

The lowest of this mansion’s three wrap-around walkways, each of which encircles its immediate exterior almost completely (with the exception of the A.I.O.W. turrets, porte-cochère, and a few other brief spots), this porch steps down and feeds out into the patio which encircles its two side-yard swimming pools.  Out there, circles of stone benches around fire pits, along with tanning recliners and picnic blanket spots on the yard are all available and wide open.

 

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Dimensions & Layout:

With the porch’s depth of 20 feet (from mansion wall to porch railings and ledge), it alone has a walking area of about 30,000 square feet.  Adding the smooth stone sections that make up the patio around the swimming pools out here, and that square footage easily increases beyond 90,000.  That’s more floor space than three giant mansions of the Outlands combined.

 

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Special Features:

Like all paved and hard surfaces in this realm, the porch and patio of this mansion are ‘smart’-surfaces which rapidly adjust themselves to prevent painful impacts, skinned knees or palms, and the like.  There are also many porch-swings, love-seats, and fire-tables under its ample covering.

 

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Relevant Holidays:

  • 18 Agharta (corresponds to Aug. 30):  Eat Outside Day (but not picnic)

 

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2021 Update:

Auz loves to relax on any of the swings out here, especially if it is rainy just outside the overhang.  He has also had his ICVs install some hanging circle beds, each with plenty of pillows and a blanket.  There will be many holidays coming up where he and many of his friends will be strolling or lounging out on the different levels of this porch system, holding something one of his staff just baked or grilled up for them back inside.

 

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Conceptual Images:

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2022 Update:  Minecraft 1:1 Build

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