Some first sketches with the main idea – starting with a tree-like structure – made of reinforced concrete – with small rooms made of wood suspended on the concrete branches. The main trunk would also work as staircase and fireplace chimney.
For the location, I think I will go with the stone pinnacles in Hunan (shown in a previous milestone post) – it would be interesting to explore the atmospheric effects and the deepness of the valleys. Vegetation is also an interesting part of it, to explore how it goes with the tree-like cabin.
The first sketch was in the ground, but then I tought it would be more interesting to climb up to the stone pinnacle and plant there the “tree”, like a pine suspended in a cliff 🙂
There are also some ideas for the rooms, which I’m still exploring.
What would you suggest with those sketches?
About the workflow – my idea is to learn or deepen knowledge in some software and try a different workflow. I will try to go like this:
– Concept development with hand sketching
– ArchiCAD – architecture modeling
– 3dsMax – add rocks, landscape, vegetation, assets from Megascans
– render – still to decide, but would like to try Lumion!
Good luck!
You can do vegetation, megascans assets, rocks all that inside Lumion, so you could skip the 3dsmax bit of your workflow almost entirely. I’m a max user and in this challenge I’m just using 3dsmax to model my assets and will try to build the whole scene up in Lumion. By the way, if you’re you going the Lumion route and want to chat about it, etc hit me up, I’m also learning lumion myself. cheers and good luck.
Thanks! So I will try that, using just Archicad and Lumion, it looks promising from what I’ve seen now. I will be happy to share information about using Lumion so that we can both learn more 🙂 Good luck!
Joao….if this was real, i would definitely be sold! Sketches look great.
Interesting ! I’ll be waiting for the progress
Interesting concept! Nice to setup personal goals, apart from the final aim. Good luck!
These rocks reminded me Avatar’s islands . Like this atmosphere.