Today am going to blog a design I did last night. Though,
little bit time and energy consuming, but I think the money worth the efforts. Lol.
So, basically I got a request from a client (Indian) with a
pre-conceived style in mind and we worked with it. At point I wade in to let
him know that his design is a little bit of fourth generation. With his node, I
redesigned the building and added some concept which I felt was a mid way
between his concept and what I thought it should look like, and finally I arrived
at something he liked.(I don’t blog designs without the agreement of the owners,
because of copyright issues may later come into play, and of course clients
privacy must be protected).
Back to the building, from the simple plan design above, you
could easily see the modest 2-bedroom apartments respectively. The
roofing system was made like this for future use (when the needs of doing that arises). The usual design was done using
Rhinoceros CAD and then exported to 3Dmax using the (.3ds) file formats for
onward simulation of the realistic environment. The rendering was done using
Mental Ray rendering engine with sky-light, Omni light. Final gather and global
illumination was set on and preset to “draft” to reduce the rending time (owning
to my computer specification).
The outputted image was then fine tuned using adobe creative
suite 5 CS5. You could see different finishing of the same building; this in
one of the advantage of computer aided design, you could have options to choose
without additional cost.
N.B
Before you embarked on any house (building or structural
design, you should at least understand the basics fundamentals in design of structural members, material
properties, especially different standards of concrete design). Design optimization
could also come handy, because there is no room for “over-design’ or “under-design”,
which often leads to waste of money or lost of life.
