Reviving the old Penn Station

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Penn Station was a historic railroad station in New York City, named for the Pennsylvania Railroad. It was considered a masterpiece of the Beaux-Arts style and one of the great architectural works of New York City.

Here at Nova Concepts, we wanted to revive the main waiting room with this vintage rendering. Our client ReThinkNYC promoted the idea and took us back to this Magnificent Architectural Landmark providing support and architectural details.

This production is made possible in part by funding from:
-The Achelis and Bodman Foundation
-The Mary Jane Wahl Greans Foundation
-The Morris and Alma Schapiro Foundation

Architectural support:
Richard Cameron
Cezar Nicolescu

www.novaconceptsny.com
www.rethinknyc.org

Project on Behance
https://www.behance.net/gallery/124912975/Reviving-Old-Penn-Station

4 On Ross

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A private Residence our Studio worked on from Architectural Concept Design, Documentation, Costing as well as Architectural Visualisation.

The whole project was designed using conceptual sketches in Morpholio Trace as well as Pro Create. Sketching was initially done over drone footage, these were later sketched to scale in Morpholio Trace, afterwards these were translated into conceptual and final construction drawings in Archicad.

The overall and general modelling was done in Sketchup whilst detailed modelling for specific furniture or appliances was done in Blender and 3DS Max.

Corona Render 8 was used, taking advantage of the new ACES OT tone mapping parameter. The raw renders were colour balanced and levels tweaked in Photoshop.

Hope you like it.

Cheers.

House in Suffolk

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“Designed to replace three existing structures of differing uses and scales:- an arable grain barn, a residential bungalow and a dilapidated piggery structure. The proposal was designed to re-tell the history of the site through its form; referencing the three existing buildings through form and materiality – and by hypothetically ‘pinching’ the buildings together to create one new building of three distinct forms, connected by permeable linking sections.”

CGI artworks created using Autodesk 3DS Max, Corona Render, iToo ForestPack and RailClone + Adobe Photoshop.

Nest Villa

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Khor city is located in Isfahan, the center of Iran, which has a desert climate, and the structure of houses in this area, like other desert areas of Iran such as Yazd, is based on the central courtyard structure. In these buildings, the use of windcatchers and water storage techniques can be seen, which reduces the temperature and ideal living conditions.
The nest villa is designed according to history and culture as well as modernism. The location of the building in the heart of the earth reduces the temperature of the building significantly, like the reservoirs of Yazd, and also many desert creatures build nests in the ground to escape the heat. The windcatcher in this building plays an essential role in the form and function of the building in such a way that the user spaces on the two sides of the central triangular courtyard are located linearly to benefit from the cool breeze. By designing patios that lead the building to the surface of the desert, the building finds the necessary potential for wind movement into the structure. every patio was subtracted from the desert according to its side functions, each had variations in volumetric experience, lighting quality, topography, and orientations towards site views.