[Galemp]

As some of you may know, I'm studying architecture in university. This is the first project I thought good enough to post here. Essentially, they give us a site plan and a whole bunch of requirements and restrictions to adhere to, then check up on our progress twice a week and offer advice, criticism etc.

This project is an island studio, in the middle of a large lake. There are five floors, from bottom to top, a boat landing, meeting area, studio, meditation area, and a belvedere. There were lots of restrictions, the most important of which is on the material we use, called 'poche.' It's like concrete, monochromatic, thick and solid. We had to use exactly 46656 cubic feet of the stuff. No glass or steel or anything, but it could be any color you wanted. After a few weeks of designing and refining I came up with this.











The design is perfect, in my and my critic's opinion. I'm going to spend the weekend rendering, setting up the presentation, and designing some furniture (apart from the FS stuff.)

Your thoughts?

[Stryke 9]

Looks pretty cool. I wouldn't wanna live on it (at least anywhere with wind or non-vertical rainfall) but it's a nice design.

What's the tube on one side?

[Knight Templar]

Pretty cool for not being able to use glass or anything.

What's the straw coming off the top for? To use up all the feet?

[Galemp]

It's not meant for living, just for working. It's a generic 'studio' for artists, writers, dancers, modelers, etc.

The really tall column on one side that I think you refer to is there for two reasons:
A) From off the island, it gives you a visual focus on the building. Otherwise everything sort of blends together. It gives you a reference point.
B) It eats up all the extra material I didn't use in the building.

[Nico]

should have used that "extra material" for an actual boat landing (?)
very nice but yeah, wouldn't like to be there, w/o any protection
still it does look cool.
very simple render tip: put a bright grey color as background instead of black, you'll see, only that makes the pic much more "warm"

[kasperl]

it looks very good!
i can picture this as a outpost or something for some desert based nomad-like race, like the vasudans, but in real life as an island studio it's even better!

[Black Wolf]

I like it as a visual design, but I'm nto sure I'd want to use it from a practical perspective. If it was windy, or raining it'd be useless (as said before) and those stairs'd stress me (You've probably done all the calculations and **** to etermine them stable, but thy still don't look very safe to me.

Plus I doubt it'd look very nice, being made from a single material. However, design wise,

[Knight Templar]

From what I understand, he wasn't allowed to use anything besides that one material, hence the no glass windows or anything of the sort.

[Black Wolf]

Yeah, as I said, it's excellent design wise, and given the limitations he had to work with, he did well. I just don't think that that set of conditions (and therefore, by extension, this building) would be particularly aesthetically pleasing.

[Galemp]

Well, I didn't choose the requirements. But I think I did pretty well considering the framework. It's like polycount limitations, you do your best considering what you have to work with.

BTW, I got an excellent review--top in the class, I'm going into the school-wide project review. Now I just gotta see to the rest of my schoolwork...