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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.
I was adding new nature objects to get more real everytime that I get into the cabin project. Any way I’trying to creat my own concepto of cabin, so I gues this one will be replaced at the end of the process. I’m using it for creating the sorrounding. 🙂
On mountain bike trails there are usually boardwalk sections. These are a lot of fun to ride on, and essential for the Mountain bike trails I am placing in my scene.
This is a perfect opportunity to use RailClone from iToo Software. It is an amazing plugin, very powerful. Even though I find it difficult to understand & manage this kind of modeling, I really wanted to push myself and try to get some basic parametric models going!
Played with the 2 different array generators. The Railclone style in the screenshot is made up of multiple generators.
The circular berm is 2d array.
The raised boards & supports are 1d arrays. The raised boards follow a spline but the deform in the Z axis with a low-poly surface that is non-renderable. That way I can easily give them twists etc.
At the moment I have 2 splines doing the work but and it gets pretty rough beneath the planks, with the support beams not touching them or intersecting badly. I hope to tidy that a bit and maybe have it all run by the 1 spline.
The planks themselves are just one box that is randomly being transformed & in scale & rotation. The uneven spaces between each plank are achieved by having a dummy segment that is randomly scaled and placed along the spline.
If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.
Thanks.
I spend a lot of time in In the field of interior designing, but I think that it is time to Benchmark myself in exterior designing, And most important of all I said I want to make my dream.
I place the cabin before anything else ynd with vegetation I took pictures in the shore and try to emulate the forest a characteristics of that environment.
Here in Sardinia the most beautiful sea is far from the turistic villages. Out most beautiful beaches comes from the union of the hills and the sea and I wanted to build my cabin in this kind of piece of land. A place where you can feel the peace of the sea while you are still into the woods.
After being to Iceland twice – I can safely say that I’m completely fascinated and addicted to the gorgeous alien like landscapes & features that Iceland has to offer…. they are literally endless with vast white plains, huge mountain ranges and crazy shifts in weather …not to mention the amazing food they can cook up over there and of course, the aurora borealis 🙂
My last visit involved a hike up a glacier called Sólheimajökull, which in case you wondered – Translates to “Glacier of the sun”… but don’t ask me to try and pronounce it. The views it offered were absolutely stunning (see the photo I took in the cover photo) – This glacier just seemed to go on forever… and it was so BLUE! Simply put, it was one of the most beautiful sights I have ever seen.
For this reason, I’ll be basing the location for my cabin entry on a beautiful glacial lagoon known as Jökulsárlón, which is located in the southeastern area of Iceland. I have chosen this particular site as it has a wonderful mix of blue lagoony water, MASSIVE chunks of ice, black sand, grass lands, volcanic rock and great mountainous views – a perfect location for an Icey getaway… well I think so anyway.
As this will be a VR experience, if Yulio allows it, I will be showing several fixed point renders (not yet decided how many views i will do). Each view will be rendered in day and night, with the option in the interactive to switch between the two light settings using hotspots. I may also include the aurora borealis in the night time views 🙂
The sketch attached to this is a concept for the initial view with reference material i will be using. The experience will start a fair distance away, with hot spots that will allow the user to approach the cabin via a footpath.. eventually ending up inside.
I will do some more sketches with more detail on the Cabin design in another post – which i will post very soon.
Hope you like the idea (sorry for the essay) – and best of luck to all entrants!
