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 JamieHolmes

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Over the last week or so I have revisited the design for the Cabin. It is the same shape and proportion but I have made it feel like it could be prefabricated. The previous design was as far off as possible in terms of prefabrication. The updated design shows the steel cladded trusses bolted into large concrete anchors on the beach allowing the cabin to cantilever over the water. I’m not totally sold on the colour or finish of the steel work yet. I have slowly been chipping away at the environment and its starting to come along now. All the main elements are there. Its really just the finer details so that everything looks seamless.

CABINS entry by Ryan Dashkevicz

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After taking a quick look a some inspiration imagery, I blocked out the form in Sketchup. Once that was done I imported an fbx into Unreal engine and sculpted a quick terrain that compliments the shape of the cabin and painted dense foliage around the site.

CABINS entry by adreyan

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I honestly have no specific memory about what was the landscape looked like in the real life back in my childhood place. What i remember is that there was a high hill accross the river, and there were alot of volcanic stones as it is on the mountain area.

I’ll add more stones on the landscape, but i think i should immediately work on the cabin interior

CABINS entry by Simone

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I started with the environment by using the paint deformation tool in 3ds max to create my terrain.
Afterwards I focused on the plants and rocks.

From Quixel Megascan I used several image atlases for the plants as well as 3d rock models.
I created some rocks and plants myself to complete my collection for the desert environment.

I started to place the items in the environment and I left some empty spots at the bottom of the mountain where the cabins will be placed, surrounded by rocks.