SU as design tool

Edson

I use SU essentially as a design tool in my architectural practice. it allows me to think in 3D and test the sun control in most situations.

this is one of my first tries at it, a study for a house addition that faces the sunset hence the movable sun screens. this is not meant as a final presentation image, but as something to convey the basic design idea for the clent's preliminary approval.

it was done in an oldish eMac 700 Mhz, 640 Mb RAM, and a meager NVIDIA GeForce2 MX graphics card with 32 MB (i bought a great iMac Intel since then).

regards to you all.

elmer

Hi Edson,

Just having a look through this new gallery, love your design, simple and efficient!

Let's see some more of your work

Patrice

Edson

patrice,

thanks a lot. I certainly shall post more of my work here, but will keep what was not done with SU out. that other stuff can be seen at my website.

regards.

elmer

Sincerely impressed!
How big is the team?

Patrice

Anssi

I like that very much. Also shows how a simple SU output is mostly enough - no need for fancy Photoshop effects.

Anssi

Mike Lucey

I have to agree that its had to beat native SU output .....
but again a good design also helps, nice work

Mike

Stu

Nice one Edson!
And as others have said, native SU is hard to beat for displaying design intent.
Stu

Edson

thank you all for the kind words. it is very nice to know that one's work is appreciated.

patrice, believe it or not, mine is a very small practice. it used to be just me and 2 students, now its me and 3 girls from the school where I teach. occasionally I team up with a colleague for a competition, but the pro work is done by myself with the help of the students. perhaps what explains the output is that I love what I do; I usually say that I am very lucky to be able to earn a living doing something I love, and being able to combine my practice with teaching.

by the way, technical drafting is done in vectorworks which is way better than autocad. however, I am not happy with its rendering companion, renderworks, and am thus looking for a rendering software that would not mean a huge time investment to learn. needless to say, 3D is done in SU by me. what is amazing with SU is that it allows me to create and refine a design while drawing, which I had not been able to do with other software.

my best to all.

not registered yet

Hi there,

You may like to try SUPodium for renderings http://www.suplugins.com

It works from right inside SketchUp, is very easy to use and delivers great results... the associated forum is extremely informative with many people willing to advise and help.

Zorro

otb designworks

Unfortunately, Podium is PC only.

Emahfuz, have you checked out Cheetah yet?

Wow, and office with just you and three female students, sounds awful..............you lucky dog

[kannonball]

utiler

@unknownuser said:

Nice one Edson!
And as others have said, native SU is hard to beat for displaying design intent.
Stu

Stu, What's with the frog?

Andrew

elmer

Hi Edson,

Lucky guy working with three girls!

I would recommend Artlantis for the ease of learning. I have been using it for many years now and just turned recently to Atlantis Studio, very good at moving ojects. Have you try it?

Regards,

Patrice