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The 7th Architectural Visualization Challenge I’m running in partnership with Quixel as the marquee sponsor. The book CABINS by Philip Jodidio and the fantastic illustrations by Marie-Laure Cruschi served as the principal inspiration for this year’s challenge theme. That, and my love for prefab architecture design.
Here in Sardinia the most beautiful sea is far from the turistic villages. Out most beautiful beaches comes from the union of the hills and the sea and I wanted to build my cabin in this kind of piece of land. A place where you can feel the peace of the sea while you are still into the woods.
After being to Iceland twice – I can safely say that I’m completely fascinated and addicted to the gorgeous alien like landscapes & features that Iceland has to offer…. they are literally endless with vast white plains, huge mountain ranges and crazy shifts in weather …not to mention the amazing food they can cook up over there and of course, the aurora borealis 🙂
My last visit involved a hike up a glacier called Sólheimajökull, which in case you wondered – Translates to “Glacier of the sun”… but don’t ask me to try and pronounce it. The views it offered were absolutely stunning (see the photo I took in the cover photo) – This glacier just seemed to go on forever… and it was so BLUE! Simply put, it was one of the most beautiful sights I have ever seen.
For this reason, I’ll be basing the location for my cabin entry on a beautiful glacial lagoon known as Jökulsárlón, which is located in the southeastern area of Iceland. I have chosen this particular site as it has a wonderful mix of blue lagoony water, MASSIVE chunks of ice, black sand, grass lands, volcanic rock and great mountainous views – a perfect location for an Icey getaway… well I think so anyway.
As this will be a VR experience, if Yulio allows it, I will be showing several fixed point renders (not yet decided how many views i will do). Each view will be rendered in day and night, with the option in the interactive to switch between the two light settings using hotspots. I may also include the aurora borealis in the night time views 🙂
The sketch attached to this is a concept for the initial view with reference material i will be using. The experience will start a fair distance away, with hot spots that will allow the user to approach the cabin via a footpath.. eventually ending up inside.
I will do some more sketches with more detail on the Cabin design in another post – which i will post very soon.
Hope you like the idea (sorry for the essay) – and best of luck to all entrants!
Something I’ve become very interested in recently is the sport of skyrunning. This is, in essence, a cross-country trail race through some of the most unforgiving and inhospitable terrain in the world, where the elements can turn In a moment. My cabin concept is to provide shelter, and a safe-haven, for such a race high in the mountains. The cabin will be very utilitarian purely to provide shelter and the essentials to survive. Currently I’m undecided on what form the cabin will take but I’m fascinated by the forms and shapes of origami style shelters. Perhaps a more permanent version would be interesting.
The location is somewhere on the west coast of Vancouver Island. The goal is to maintain harmony between the cabin and environment. As of now I’m leaning towards a concrete residence with accents of wood planks. I also plan to incorporate large Marvin windows, green roofing and indoor vertical gardens.
My cabin entry will be located in the Louisianan bayous. Surrounded by beautiful Cyprus and Tupelo trees covered in Spanish moss, sitting in the dark murky waters of the swamp. The idea of a beautiful modern cabin nestled back in the trees is very exciting to me. These are the beginning of my collection of reference images for location and overall feel.
the main idea is to create a cabin that will integrate with its natural environment and that will interact with him by the choice of materials and architecture, the chosen composition will be divided into three parts, the foreground that will be of dense vegetation , the second shots will consist of the cabin and trees and the background of mountain and lake, these three plans will be structured by a forest track that will link them and add depth to image. I have not yet chosen the cabin model may be that I will move towards a reinterpretation of an existing project, more on his soon.
