Electric Gym

My last academic architecture project. An old office building in Lisbon, belonging to an Energy Company, is adapted to a gym. The concept of energy production is applied, when harnessing the kinetic energy of the weights the athletes activate. This huge wall of steel profiles, the weights, is inspired on the old tall shelves used to store the electricity meters.

The Quarry Hotel

This is my first ArchViz project. I did it to participate in CGarchitect 3D Awards 2017 and I was about to quit on the eve of the submission deadline, because I only had the building modeled and textured and didn’t know how to create the environment in 3D! Fortunatelly, I spent the night in the good company of Photoshop, so…that’s me rowing.

I knew from the beginning how the shot was going to be: at water level, with human presence to show how colossal the scale of this artificial-natural landscape is.
I had a lot of fun with this project. I textured and rendered in Blender, with an imported model from Autocad.

Architectural Concept:

The recent industrial legacy was the motto for the development of this project, given its inhibiting potential for the urban development of Sines, which can only take place towards the North or East. One of the large urban scars identified was the quarry, however vacant, adjacent to the north of the industrial port. An urban void measuring 500x400m and 60m deep is the most immediate urban obstacle in the southeastern part of the city with a great visual impact as well, so it needs attention.
The selected program was a hotel aimed at those that the industrial sector often calls to Sines. The
intention is to transform the quarry into a potential destination, re-establishing a thriving connection
between this harsh territory and the people. The proposed building connects the upper level of the
promontory (city) and the lower level – where an artificial lake, a dam would be created for the population to enjoy, which at a later stage of planning could become a reservoir – creating a direct access from the city. Through this intervention, the intention was to create new perspectives and uses, creating a harmonious dialogue between architecture, the semi-natural landscape of the quarry and the artificial one of the terminal. The issue of memory and industrial identity of this colossal place was of extreme importance in creating an inter-relational language.

In an investigation of the industrial past of quarries, cataloging images that support a local identity, almost as Bernd and Hilla Becher did, a photograph by Tito Mouraz was preponderant in the development of this language. In connection with the huge cranes that tower over the quarry from the sea, the hotel emerged in a vertical proportion, in direct communication with them and in contrast to the irregular horizontal rings of the quarry, inspired by the K5 frame (3-Step Attractor) by Michael Biberstein. The two bridges that connect the tower to the rocky terraces recall the vertical structures from which the conveyor belts that transport the rocky material extracted from the quarry are stretched.

Brick House

The Brick House is my recent work. It’s a personal project, created with the intention of developing a scene with high potential for realism, with a subject that everyone likes; a forest home. Inspired by numerous hikes I take regularly I tried to blend the architecture with a naturalistic scenery.

I used quite a lot of photoscanned stones and rock, which added a lot of quality to the scene, as well as textures and furniture models. Nature was added by using Scatter and Vegetation addon which allowed me to populate the scene with large amount of high quality assets and still retain fluidity of the viewport. This project was rendered with E-cycles addon for Blender which speeds up rendering timer. GPU is RTX 2080ti and each picture took about one hour to render. Thanks!

Simple Interior

My first interior design project entirely done in Blender!

I was trying to make a photorealistic interior small room near a door to light the scene with natural light!

Hoshang Pearl Karachi Visualized by PIXARCH

Hoshang Pearl is built in the heart of the city by the sea – Karachi. Pixarch creatively built the visual representation of a brilliant architecture as promised by this project. It was supremely depicted through 360 views, highly captivating 3D virtual walkthrough, realistic 2D & 3D floor plans, carefully designed booklets and gripping TVCs all-encompassing visualizations.

It was pure thrill to design the project’s minutest details with elegance & perfection. The sole purpose was to creatively charm the on-looker into reaching a decisive clarity.

Titan One Karachi Visualized by PIXARCH

Pixarch has embraced “Titan One” as its own big thing to portray it in an elegant style of attraction, that simply can mesmerize the viewers. The project has owned the higher reputation to become an exemplary work of Pixarch, to be imagined and visualized in a way better than the reality itself! The minute details and reflection of the calibre, present the project as piece of proud for Pixarch.

From the monument’s extra-ordinary views to the alluring sights of the interiors and amenities, Pixarch has portrayed everything in a style that viewer can not simply resist and can get easily attracted to the charms of residence people already visualizing for themselves to move into their fancy life.
https://www.pixarch.net/projects/titan-one/