Twisting 40 storeys Tower for Rio de Janeiro´s Mauá Pier

AcesHigh

@chris fullmer said:

Nossa! Que legal, gostei muito Rogerio! Muito bem mesmo. O desenho e os renders sao perfeitos! Parabems! Quando vai ser construido? E como foi para trabalhar com "Cobra"?

Chris

(Wow! Thats cool, I like it a lot Rogerio! Very good indeed. The design and renders are pefect! Congratulations! When will it be constructed? And how was it to work with Cobra Command?)
I don't get to use my portuguese often enough. And to be honest, the translation was 50% so everyone else could understand, and 50% so he could read in English what I actually meant to type in Portuguese

haha, I forgot I left the Cobra symbol on the top of the building.

oh well, I made the complex for a Project Competition at Skyscrapercity Brazil forums.

After creating the building, at first the pattern of dark glasses was supposed to remember the portuguese mosaic sidewalks of Copacabana... but then, because of the shape of the building, it reminded me of a cobra... and then, well, since it was a fantasy building anyway, I created a whole fun story about the COBRA Corporation (the G.I Joe call them terrorists, but that obviously is a lie ) creating this tower in Rio to take care of their operations in South America (I read the wiki about GiJoe to have more info on the Cobra and stuff... it seems the COMICs were much more serious and well written than the cartoons, and the Cobra were really a corporation with a "legal" facet, lots of lawyers, etc)

free agent

hey awesome model, could you explain briefly how u went about building it?

Huggkruka

The more I see of this the more I like it. I think Chris Fullmer's comment(joke or not) says it all. "When will it be constructed?"

lucifer1101

Lets say about 40 years if the government thwere accepts the tower, maybe less but meh!...

AcesHigh

@unknownuser said:

hey awesome model, could you explain briefly how u went about building it?

I thank Freescale 2.0 for it.

To design the tower, I first tested some extreded shapes with varying degrees of twisting (using freescale 2.0). After I found a shape that pleased me for being unique... I used the same shape to create a floorplan.

I knew the core should have to be circular, or at least have a circular hallways (otherwise each floor would have to be different, since the core cant rotate too). So I designed the core separately and made an equivalent hole on the floorplan.

extruded floorplan to about 40cm and made it into a component. Copied it up a few times and rotated until I found the rotation that best matched the inclination of the test model.

got out of the floorplan component and created the exterior metal frame with the triangular glass panels. Created them STRAIGHT... basically, an "X" 3 storeys high. Copied it around one floorplan. Adjusted it. Obviously, they only matched ONE floorplan.

Selected all "X" metal frames, and using freescale 2.0, twisted them by 12 degrees (each floor rotates 4 degrees in relation to the previous. The X is 3 storeys high). There, now you have a metalstructure that matches the building rotation.

Basically, the rest was just a process of copying up the floorplans and rotating. And doing the same with the exterir metal frame.

Oh yeah, after that I separated a floor component to create some other details (those other windows, the "tip windows", etc...

basically, that was it.

free agent

thank you

david_h

you did this for fun???

Fred

Hello, Very cool
With what renderprogram did yoy rendered it?

Fred

AcesHigh

VRAY

Fred

And how long did you rendered each picture?

AcesHigh

about 30 minutes for external renders and some 1 hour - 1:30 hours for internal ones.

Fred

Wow!
How did you got so good with vray? What version do you use?

d12dozr

If this was for fun, what do make while you're working? ...I'm simply amazed.

silver_shadow

this twisted building must have taken you some headacked and time to build hey.
Nice modelling

JHuman

I like it, good job with all the renderings. A few comments I would suggest is the skyline (image 1). Do some post processing to make it not so much of a hard edge, or a waterfall. Also the building on the pier seems to need some structural reinforcement (Image 8), a building of that magnitude would not sit that easily on the existing pier. I would also put up a core inside the building (Image 5, where the stairwells and elevators are going to be) that way you cannot see all the way through the building. On image 13 I would add some people to make it look less vacant. On image 16 the car is floating along with the person walking. Image 04 in the atrium seems a little strange, mostly the placement of the people and the angles of them. Just a few comments to really make these awesome, I think you did a great job though!

gaucho

Eu tava adorando tanto o modelo quanto os renders ate o momento em que tu assassinou a bandeira do rio grande com essas cores gremistas... absurdo!!

I was really enjoying renders and architecture, untill you have completely assassinated my so loved State's Flag putting some blue and black colours on it... absurd!!!

Hehehe.... brincadeiras a parte, tah show de bola!
Abraco

AcesHigh

@gaucho said:

Eu tava adorando tanto o modelo quanto os renders ate o momento em que tu assassinou a bandeira do rio grande com essas cores gremistas... absurdo!!

I was really enjoying renders and architecture, untill you have completely assassinated my so loved State's Flag putting some blue and black colours on it... absurd!!!

Hehehe.... brincadeiras a parte, tah show de bola!
Abraco

ok, for english speakers, let me explain...

The poleflags texture I used is from my state flag. But the real colors are red, yellow and green. Although I love my state and admire the MEANING of the flag, I never liked very much the flag colors hehehe. So I changed the colors to black, white, blue... which are the colors of Grêmio, one of the biggest soccer clubs in Brazil. Now, it seems Gaucho is a Inter fan... (Inter Porto Alegre, not Inter Milan). Inter and Grêmio are both from Porto Alegre and are arch-rivals... thats why he is complaining about the colors

@Gaucho: I also made versions of the flag with germany and italy colors. Hehehe, quite funny. But my real masterpiece is the Pernambuco State. Pernambucans love their state flag, but I HATE it. So I made a nice, modern version of it. They liked, but still preffer their old one

Rio Grande do Sul State Flag Original

Grêmio Colors Version

Germany Colors Version (germans are a big and important ethnic group in the state)

Italy Colors Version (italians are another big and important ethnic group in the state)

Pernambuco State Original Flag

My heretic version

AcesHigh

@jhuman said:

I like it, good job with all the renderings. A few comments I would suggest is the skyline (image 1). Do some post processing to make it not so much of a hard edge, or a waterfall. Also the building on the pier seems to need some structural reinforcement (Image 8), a building of that magnitude would not sit that easily on the existing pier. I would also put up a core inside the building (Image 5, where the stairwells and elevators are going to be) that way you cannot see all the way through the building. On image 13 I would add some people to make it look less vacant. On image 16 the car is floating along with the person walking. Image 04 in the atrium seems a little strange, mostly the placement of the people and the angles of them. Just a few comments to really make these awesome, I think you did a great job though!

Thanks, I love these kind of tips.

I dont know much about post processing. What do you suggest exactly that I could do on Image 1, with the sky? Or you mean skyline like the ocean/water division? I do not understand what you mean with waterfall. You mean it LOOKS like a waterfall? (due to the hard edge)

One way or the other, please, what kind of post processing would you do? Some blur?

As for structural reinforcement I agree... I did a circle of larger, more robuts piles around the edge. But they are not easy to see. Anyway, I guess I would need another circle of piles, under the external perimeters of the building.

Image 16 I had noticed after rendering. If it was some professional job, be sure I would correct it. But since I did this one for fun only, I let it stay that way. But nice that you noticed it. Shows you paid attention. You are the first one to tell about the car, and I posted these renderings in 5 different forums

AcesHigh

Ok, I was thinking about the skyline hard edge you mentioned. What happens is that VRAY Sketchup doesnt have atmospheric fog/density (thus, its impossible to create godrays, light halos, etc). Far away things are not affected by atmospheric effects. I didnt even remember it when I did these renders. And the lack of such effects is what makes the skyline seen hard edge.

I wonder what kind of post processing I should make to create the atmosphere effect. It should turn whiteish/bluish the closer to the horizon you get...

dirkkkk

I there,

thats an nice render time... my I ask which settings you are using?

best regards.