The challenge of Tomorrow entry by Gino Giampaolo

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– At what point in Human History we got into thinking that there was nothing to be afraid of but ourselves. At what point it became so natural to think of the future as something that could be taking for granted. We were the ones with the power to create or destroy entire civilizations, “no one” else had that power.

– Twenty years ago we learned how wrong we were, and we learned it in the worse possible way, by losing the ones we cared about. We understood how fragile humans are in their own ecosystem. We had to change not only our behavior and habits but also our way to react to things we cannot control or sometimes even see. Viruses.

– Cities started to prioritize health-related issues over human-packing architecture and started to rethink the use in some areas with one scope, fast adaptation and response to a similar situation as the one we experienced twenty years ago. For the Hudson Yards, the City Council decided one of those areas had to be around the Train Station, where there sat a huge parking lot. It was perfect at a strategic level as they could also work on the adaptation of one of the trains to become the first mobile UCI and sterile material transport to connect the emergency health care facility with permanent ones all over the city.

That’s how (very recently) I’ve been picturing the concept of a city in future years.

Here I’m posting the first baby steps I took during this last week. I started looking for references, then modeling the context and most recently finding camera angles that felt right with what I wanted to highlight from the Hudson Yards according to the concept. I’m uploading all of that but also took the liberty of including some of the tracks I’m listening to when working/thinking of the project, as I find 60% of my inspiration and motivation in Music.

Let’s see what this thing goes. Stay tuned!

Cheers,
Gino.

The challenge of Tomorrow entry by Gabriel Radakovitch

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Hi folks,
I’ve been working on the design of the square surrounding the pavilion. It has to be a secret garden as the idea of childhood was part of the design with the colourful pattern on the ground. A playful space but not a playground. Another thing I knew from the beginning was that the tower/pavilion could be converted into a scene for music bands to play on.

I came up with the idea of hills. They had many advantages : they are a playful feature but not naive, they are a screen to hide the road on the west and they act as stands for the public offering views to the top of the pavilion. The inspiration for the design came from a book by Tove Jansson : “Who will comfort Toffle” that I loved when I was a child.

I started with a floor plan. On the Hudson Yards floor plan, the square is used as a road, but there is another possible route for cars so I chose to pedestrianise it. I kept an access on the north for delivery vehicles and ambulances and I added a cycle lane. I grouped the trees in a cob, so there will be only one “soil sandwich” to dig. I used the floor plan to model the square. I liked the idea of the paving blending into the hills. I spent a lot of time deforming the pavement with FFD’s. Because of that, the paving slabs are curved and it isn’t realistic but I deliberately chose to keep them like that as I love the way the paving rolls around the surface of the hills. In the middle of the process, I did a quick test with Twinmotion to see if I was happy with the look of the paving. Real time render engines are a good way to try things, has you get an immediate visual feedback. After that, I chose to add more “grass holes”.

Next update will definitely contain the tower/pavilion, stay connected !

The challenge of Tomorrow entry by Roman Huzar

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Hello, everyone!

I am very happy to take part in this competition and want to share with you how my workflow is going.
I am huge fan of Elon Musk and my whole plan is based on one idea – to reduce humanity’s dependence on hydrocarbons through alternative energy sources. As well as greening the land and linking nature to the infrastructure of cities. Which is what I will try to do in my work.

Let me show you…

2027 – All transport on Earth will be on electric traction.
2033 – Solar energy will be the main energy resource
2037 – Global Greening of the Earth
2040 – We will build a colony on Mars
2040 – The AI is going to outdo the man.

These are some of the basic ideas on which I’m doing my project.

Have fun and good luck:)

The challenge of Tomorrow entry by flow

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Hi everybody
I decided to follow your suggestion and revise my first image’s composition (thanks so much to you all).
I wish I give more breath to the view so I streched up the size.
There’s much more work to do specially in modeling and texturing but I just wanted to be sure that I was on the right way.
So i exported a quick render and decided to paint over the image in PS to have a clear idea in mind.
then I had a look at the desaturated image to have an overview of lighting.
I know it could be better…but I haven’t a graphic table yet (should arrive soon) so I did all the work with a mouse…please have mercy on me.
On the other hand…It’s only a work in progress : )

The challenge of Tomorrow entry by Stefan Dimitrov

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Hello everyone,

The main element of my concept is the inspiration of nature. I spent a lot of time figuring out how to illustrate this and how to implement an organic form to the project. I modeled an element like futuristic leaf of a tree. Later on I will try to implement this symbol with the surrounding greenery to make them work together.

The purpose of the semi-aerial image is to illustrate the connection between the landscape and the main project buildings. The main function of this clay render is to study the position of the camera. I am still making a lots changes regarding the composition, trying to choose the one that fits best.

The other image – Aerial view is an update. I want to thank everyone that helped pushing this view to a better horizon, the feedback was highly appreciated.

I will aim to post an update regarding the third camera angle soon. I will try to adjust a well balanced human-eye level view towards the site.

Thank you for your time.

Have a great day,

Stefan