Good to see you're continuing to post to your blog, some students are falling behind the weekly blog requirements Jeremy has been setting out.
Good to see some test renders of your model, it's particularly helpful in your case because you're dealing with the material qualities (and spatial effects) of transparency. It would be helpful towards your design if you defined what rooms are where in the building - try to fit all the spaces a house needs in the design, with consideration that there needs to be plenty of space for viewing the scenery. Keep in mind that there need to be some more private spaces like toilets and perhaps bedrooms with little transparency around them because you don't want people seeing in... Or if you do have transparency for them, make sure you have a good reason why! (eg, if this house is in the wilderness and doesn't have any other buildings near it, it wouldn't need to worry about privacy quite as much, so the only real concern would be keeping the bathroom private.)
Materiality is essential to your design, so make sure you get some really realistic bump-mapped textures for concrete, glass, steel, and sandstone (for the exposed parts of the cliff). After you get that, put greenery all over the cliff (but not in the building) to make the building really stand out as something special and artificial in the landscape.
I notice that you've got the building lifted up off the ground, not touching the cliff. What could prove more interesting is making the building jut out of the cliff directly, which forces a juxtaposition of the modern, artificial building elements with the raw, natural materials in the environment. For this design, you should make the difference between natural (sandstone, greenery, dirt) and artifical (steel, glass, concrete) very strong by putting those kinds of material right next to each other at the boundary between the building and the environment.
I hope all other progress is going well with your assignment 2.
Good to see you're continuing to post to your blog, some students are falling behind the weekly blog requirements Jeremy has been setting out.
ReplyDeleteGood to see some test renders of your model, it's particularly helpful in your case because you're dealing with the material qualities (and spatial effects) of transparency. It would be helpful towards your design if you defined what rooms are where in the building - try to fit all the spaces a house needs in the design, with consideration that there needs to be plenty of space for viewing the scenery. Keep in mind that there need to be some more private spaces like toilets and perhaps bedrooms with little transparency around them because you don't want people seeing in... Or if you do have transparency for them, make sure you have a good reason why! (eg, if this house is in the wilderness and doesn't have any other buildings near it, it wouldn't need to worry about privacy quite as much, so the only real concern would be keeping the bathroom private.)
Materiality is essential to your design, so make sure you get some really realistic bump-mapped textures for concrete, glass, steel, and sandstone (for the exposed parts of the cliff). After you get that, put greenery all over the cliff (but not in the building) to make the building really stand out as something special and artificial in the landscape.
I notice that you've got the building lifted up off the ground, not touching the cliff. What could prove more interesting is making the building jut out of the cliff directly, which forces a juxtaposition of the modern, artificial building elements with the raw, natural materials in the environment. For this design, you should make the difference between natural (sandstone, greenery, dirt) and artifical (steel, glass, concrete) very strong by putting those kinds of material right next to each other at the boundary between the building and the environment.
I hope all other progress is going well with your assignment 2.
Stephen Davey