The Competition asked that the designers propose a design that would provide a comfortable living accommodation to a single person for 4-5 days. It had to be in operation for all seasons of the year, to contain a sufficient clear floor area for meditation. It also needed to include an area to store small amounts of food and water, alternative lighting options as well as a way to heat the place in the winter months.

Our design focused on being built in the forest area as well as around the small lake.

Although we didn’t win anything it was a fun competition to be a part of and a learning experience.

Howard Hughes looking to redevelop Lakefront District in downtown Columbia, MD. Working with Design Collective and Howard Hughes Corp, F13 Design Studio was commissioned to create visuals for the redevelopment of the Lakefront District. It will contain office, restaurants, retail, and luxury living.

The image was created using SketchUp and 3DS Max for the modeling and texturing and Corona Renderer as the rendering engine. Post production was done in Adobe Photoshop.

There were definitely challenges to this project as the terrain was already complex and then the geometry on top of that. I was running out of RAM because the amount 3D entourage I was using to fill the scene, mainly trees, grass, bushes and flowers. They were also proxies throughout the scene. The people and cars were less of an issue.

I needed an autumn image for our newsletter so I quickly generated this image for it. It gave me an opportunity to create something I normally don’t get asked to do. I used the paint tool in 3DS Max to scatter my leaves.