The 7th Architectural Visualization Challenge I’m running in partnership with Quixel as the marquee sponsor. The book CABINS by Philip Jodidio and the fantastic illustrations by Marie-Laure Cruschi served as the principal inspiration for this year’s challenge theme. That, and my love for prefab architecture design.

CABINS entry by a.valadezart

For the cabin I decided to give a little twist to the original idea by changing the location of it to the upper side of the mountain, supported by wooden pile foundations. The cabin is going to be built with stone walls, wooden columns and finally sloped roofs…

CABINS entry by Mateusz Sum

So why would you make it virtual in the first place? Do you mean it does not exist anymore so that you had to reproduce it? Is that really the only way to see it nowadays, to touch it and feel it?
And now you’re telling me that’s your little utopia?
Seems like it’s the only one left …

CABINS entry by BeebOH

Still working on getting a lot of content into the images. Working in Lumion has been somewhat of a double-edged sword. It’s incredibly easy-user interface makes it very easy to get objects into the environment, but I am approaching an upper limit on the amount of imported content from Quixel the program can handle.

CABINS entry by pjmielnik

Just posting a work in progress. Finally getting some foliage done and worked a little bit on the lighting. Also the building is finally there. Everything is twice as difficult since I am using Unreal for the first time and learnin literally everything but I am starting to become happy with the outcome. Huge thanks to Ronen for giving us some more time. Learning new software and trying to make it look good at the same time consumes a lot of time. Feedback highly appreciated.