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 1equals2

…so as earlier mentioned, road will be a long one and use any moment when find free time to look out for cabins/buildings/sites to be inspired. Will stick to the preliminary environment concepts and will go outside the comfort zone by modeling terrain with variety of elements. Although huge fan of clean and straight forms, this time went bit further, driven by my passion of natural form. The design of the building /cabin is inspired by a crosswise modular small house situated on a hill, which found onto the internet. Decided it will be quite cool to have a building which opens different views to its occupants, and the cross like form will contribute in this direction. The approach towards it was rather unconventional – lying in bed, using phone and Autodesk Sketchbook to bring some rough concepts with straight box like volumes which seamlessly headed into the direction You can see at the attached concept. First few sketches were actually done using nothing but fingers and phone and then further elaborated with tablet in front of pc. Currently the building does not have a look akin to typical cabins, but the concept behind it is that it is built from pre-made parametric generated elements ( column and roof beam) forming a curve, which can be extended in time, thus growing from a small volume which can be occupied by 1-2 people to building- like space, which can host more than 10 people. Apart from this have highlighted some personal goals and milestones to follow a.k.a steps and secondary challenges which currently I am not familiar with and looking forward developing. Hopefully time will be sufficient!

CABINS entry by sverlo

It’s an Australian forest and believe me, when you are in a glass transparent cabin, here at night, and you know all those stories, and all those dangerous creatures around, and trees on top of you sounds like an ocean, you won’t forget this night…

CABINS entry by jeddbrendo

Started the general massing of the concept.
Kept it basic. Took some screenshots and printed them out to scribble over. Some of the ideas might work, others probably not.

Did some experimenting with Railclone for some slats that wrap up around the base of the Cabins. Did not go so well and decided to leave it for now and maybe ask on the iToo forum for help.

Will continue to work up the architectural design, while considering final camera positions.

CABINS entry by davepBK

My entry for the Cabins competition is set on a former lava flow on Kona, Hawaii. I visited the island last year and was stunned by the landscape. These are my reference boards for the environment and the design language of the cabin. I’m going for maximum contrast between a rough and alien environment versus a sleek and sculptural cabin.

CABINS entry by Derek Jackson

Concept

A cabin hidden in birch woodland, used as a weekend retreat as the summer ends and the leaves turn bright yellow.

The cabin itself is formed of two key materials. The bottom half is the remains of an abandoned red brick folly, saved from ruin by the intervention of the sleek modern metal-clad cabin inserted within, and extending out from, its footprint. A central courtyard provides an indoor-outdoor experience for the inhabitants.

Method

Model the base cabin in FormZ or ArchiCAD, and then export to Lumion 7.5 to build up the scene. Not sure on landscape yet. Use Megascans for leaf debris on the ground. Hopefully post-process in Photoshop.

CABINS entry by Henri Guillaud_Beauregard

Beside the potatoe choice, I’ve got a lack of rock and environment modelisation, texturing and rendering training. That’s why I chose this Icelandic picture. I also love “drama lighted” surroundings, and can rarely use it in my business work… Blue environment fits so nice with hot orange/warm colors brought by interior lighting or sunset/sunrise.
By the way, I’m still not an expert in picture composing, and I’m looking for making lots of tests so I can grow some experience on your kind feedbacks.