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Greeting. That’s just the very beginning. I would like to go with translucent, ephemeral, white cabins on top of Þórsmörk inspired mountain range. I want to find some striking contrast between those two. A lot of interesting materials and stunning landscapes to be recreated.
When I was a child I was on a trip to Ireland and there I saw the Giant’s Causeway rock formations. This place looked so magical and out of this world to me, that it stuck.
Trying to think of a concept, I remembered this place and decided to choose this as my location. I am not sure what my cabin will look like yet… nor how the hell I am going to create the landscape in Sketchup…
I will probably create a modern looking cabin to contrast the primal location.
Hoping for the best
My idea is to create a modern approach for the traditional cabins in the woods. I used the triangle shaped roofs as my main concept and used a second volume to intersect it. My main materials will be wood, glass and metallic panels. What do you guys think?
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!
