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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.
Since my ‘school days’ I’ve been intrigued by the ‘theory of the primitive hut’. For this challenge I’m thinking of small hiking huts, as rest points or destinations, arranged in clusters or individually. The location will be a mountain lake in an area known for hiking. These ‘found images’ are a starting point, now to create topo.
Did a very rough blockout of landscape in UE4 and flew through it with cinematic camera to grab few interesting angles/spots. Should help with further iterations.
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!
Researching for inspirations, i stumbled upon the Archipelago of Stockholm in sweden und was beautifully stunned. I could already play the scenes in my head, running ideas and several compositions.
The location should be a sacred haven where sculptural rocks, oaks and pines dominate the landscape.
Using the inspirational examples uploaded, my concept is to take full advantage of the scenic ocean view whilst creating a place for leisure with a feeling of comfort and relaxation. The main cabin would most probably sit slightly back and elavated from the waterfront, half hidden behind the knotty pine trees. Facing the ocean would be a large area for socializing. The smaller moduls would sit along the waterfront.
(Optimized sketch in the works)
This entry is just some initial sketches (inspired by Ronen’s entry and the Fauves artist movement), some photos from my inspiration walk along the beach and some precedents from research online.
I’ve been really getting into that overcast rainy mood that January brings to the South coast of England and it’s really starting to influence my concept.
The concept behind the cabins thus far is to create a typical English seaside getaway on a cabin which sits out in the water along a completely sheltered strip of beach, surrounded by the chalky British cliff face.
This project will be the first one that I use 3ds max for. I’ll be using this project in order to learn 3DS to a suitable industry standard.
Just prior to learning of the CABINS challenge, I had been investigating naturally occurring stone bridges and arches. I took this as a serendipitous convergence of ideas and had to mesh the two together.
Hopefully, this idea won’t fall flat. 😉
