Recent Project
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Here is a link to a recent project of mine. A complete remodel and addition to a single family home.
Any thoughts about the project and Sketchup illustrations would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Phil Rader, AIA
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Phil...really nice design and looks to be a sweet model too!
The image compositions work quite well for me, but IMHO (since you asked :`) the straight SU output always has a hazy quality. I fussed with the first image a bit: first softened the whole thing to take down the textures a bit; punched up the color intensity across the image a bit by adding a couple of side-merged overlay layers (stronger colors fading to no change across the image corner to corner); then burned in a slight dot pattern texture overall to punch up the areas of flat color. If I had had your edges layer, I would have burned or multiplied that over the top to bring back some of the hard edges. Whadaya think?
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Yes that pops better. I am just such a lazy old fart I just hit export>>jpg from SU and that's it. I suppose I could create Photoshop actions and batch process a bunch of images but to individually open and alter each exported image would be too much time.
I do agree that the punched up contrast and saturated colors are jazzier.
Hey I wonder if this is possible with Ruby?
well anyway thanks for the comments. Your opinion is quite valuable.
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Phil, I have also found that the straight output from SU seems a bit flat. Since I'm also a lazy old fart, I run the output through Picasa. All I do is open the image there and hit Auto Contrast. that seems to do the trick most of the time. Ctrl+S saves the correction and I'm finished.
I like this house. Is it going to be built locally? If so, what does it take to deal with snow loads? I ask because my S-I-L is looking to replace her house which overlooks Medicine Lake and I've been trying to convince her that she needs to do something along the lines of what you've drawn.
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very cool design, phil... i like.
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It is a nice looking house and the sort of thing I really like.
One thing concerning the image. The barrel to the right, is it the correct scale? It seems quite large to me.
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Dylan that was taking a smaller barrel component either from Form Fonts or 3dwarehouse and scaling it up. I agree it looks too large but when your are modeling at 90 miles per hour sometimes you miss things.
I gather I could do some research on rain water cisterns and find something appropiate, but alas I'm to lazy.
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That's a beautiful house, and I particularly like the way the elevations turned out. One question: where does the overflow for the rain barrel go? Or is that a "for later" detail, once you're past the conceptual phase?
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I guess it will have an overflow drain at the top.
I have not fully developed the concept since it's most likely a project that will not be built as conceived.
http://www.rain-barrel.net/rain-catcher-water-barrels.html
http://www.rain-barrel.net/rain-catcher-water-barrels.html
That's what I had in mind but I guess I could think bigger and design an underground cisstern
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I used the same component for the exact same thing recently on a job
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