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Greetings to all, the design of my cabin is based on several references of homes of ancient cultures of Peru, homes immersed in nature, mimicked in their environment, such as The windows of Otuzco, Las Chullpas and The house of the Smurfs in Apurimac, In turn, use concepts of space, hierarchy and duality, present in these cultures. I hope to evolve my idea.
As the challenge is to use Megascans assets, I decided I’d use the branch atlases and bark texture to create some trees for the surroundings.
It’s not that easy to find trees that work well in game engines and look good so I decided to build my own. It took all my free time today but I’m quite happy with the results. I might share the tree on the asset store when I am completely happy with it.
It lacks variation when placed however so will create a few different shapes when I get more time. I need to focus on cladding the cabin itself now.
I decided to start reasoning about this challenge by letting myself think of a place where I would like to take refuge and find shelter from my actual life, a sort of ideal place where to escape…
A few words came up to me, even before becoming a clear picture, and they where:
shelter
light
rain
warmth
inside/out
child
Then I started sketching, without a clear idea on my mind, and several pictures came to me, all very much related to my childhood and to my dreams of living in the nature, far from the city, close to natural elements such as: mountains forest, water.
Sometimes it felt like this project had to become a house on a cliff, sometimes in the clouds, some others by the water… in the end it turned out that I felt comfortable with the idea of a little stilt house at the side of a big lake, surrounded by the mountains, with high pine trees and a beautiful view to the water there where the mountains seem to move aside to show the line of the horizon, at the end of the world.
The idea behind the shots I would like to reach, is about a cabin in the middle of a stunning landscape where I can express my passion for travelling, adventure sports and landscape photography.
I am a very big fan of Chris Burkard work, an incredible landscape & travel photographer, and It is his work what I will use as an inspiration for this competion.
I hope to finish on time with all the shots and make great images.
I am looking forward to make a living root bridge on a creek. One of the only few root bridges in the world is in Meghalaya (India). Creating such an environment is going to be tough for sure. 😛 Fingers crossed.
This is an idea with a mini cabin I’ve downloaded from sketchup, but in that scenario I’m planing to create my own.
