Finalist in competition Maxwell-SU

[frv]

Hi, its always nice to know about a small succes with Maxwell in combination with Sketchup.

In a competition with 68 registered architects we were selected among four finalists and came out second in the second round. We almost won the competition according to the jury. Second is obviously the worst place to be really in architecture but still its mentionable. All modeling was done in Sketchup and renders in Maxwell. We did however study the design in Modo.

here is the link to the design.
http://web.me.com/fillieverhoeven/architektuur/dhub_3.0.html

The surface of the vessel was done with the plugin Soap Skin& Bubble. Later I realized I could have done that with a displacement mapping as well, and probably with less effort.
The design was about a building for a heat exchange station and heat storage vessel.
Francois

[brodie]

Very cool, thanks for sharing. 2nd place is certainly noteworthy and the renderings look very good. Did you have a chance to see who got first place? Any idea what they did better?

-Brodie

[frv]

Hi Brodie, tx
the winner is
http://www.architectenweb.nl/aweb/redactie/photo.asp?iNID=28741&PhotoID=229015

I think they won because of their strong conceptual sketches. We focussed a lot on the building itself. A mistake we often make. Its often better to set a design into its environment with a visionary conceptual idea. No need to render or get a lot of CAD involved. Our design has a lot of thought going into details, materials and techniques. Too much maybe. But we the jury told us they had a hard time choosing between us and the one who has won. The building itself is just a pumphouse and a hotwater barrel of about 16m. height and 22m diameter.
Francois