FMP Element 1-Exterior Concept Design October week3 & week4
week 3 2023.10.12
For exterior Design. first, I performed the layout build in maya. I came up with three different versions, the first one has a layout centered on a small pavilion, a gate connecting this pavilion to the main building – the restaurant – via a stone bridge, and two identical towers on either side of the main building, and a promenade running from the gate to these two towers. But then the pavilion becomes the main building, and from the viewpoint of the gate, the pavilion obscures the main building. In the second version, I turned the pavilion in the center into a stage, with the restaurant to the side and smaller pavilions in each corner. But this layout is a bit cluttered and doesn’t highlight the location of the main building and has too many similar building-pavilions. The last one is more simple and clear compared to the other two, and also conforms to the symmetry of ancient Chinese architecture, which is more suitable for my design of this project and more in line with the characteristics of Chinese architecture, so I chose the third version as the layout of the whole scene.
Version 3 Details
After building the 3D layout, I made some details on the original simple model and drew a black and white draft according to the perspective of the 3D model. At the center of the entire exterior is a pond with a bridge from the gate to the main building. In addition, there will be some flowers and trees in the whole scene. And the final render is a night scene, so I added some highlights to my atmosphere map as the light of the night lantern. Drawing an atmosphere map may seem simple, but in fact there is a lot of knowledge in it. In my previous projects, I didn’t get into the habit of drawing drafts of black and white scenes, which led to a lot of problems in the 3D modeling process, such as the size of the space, the proportions of the building, the overall atmosphere, and so on. This time, in the process of drawing the atmosphere map, I added a lot of ideas to improve my whole scene, so the sketch of the scene is a very key step, which can make me more accurate and visual in the next design.
Next, I started drawing the concept for the pub. This was my first time to draw an ancient Chinese style building, and there were some proportions and items I didn’t draw correctly, so the whole design took six hours in total, which was rather long. In the middle of the process, I also chose the roof, modified the scale and made a lot of references.