@pilou said:

Luxuous!

Thank you I appreciate it

This is a house I designed by making some triangles to form this home concept, its not complete but I think its a good start.

Here is a link to a youtube video of the house as it is now.

@daniel said:

@gubermensch said:

Epic Oligarch pad.

I was thinking Bond villain.
Impressive work, firstliight

Thanks I appreciate it, its the wildest house I've created so far

@gubermensch said:

Epic Oligarch pad.

Thank you!

@ntxdave said:

WOW - very impressive. I would love to be able to produce some work like this. In particular, I have some models where I need water movement like your waterfalls.

Hey! thanks for liking the design, I give thanks to sketchucation because most of what I know came from help I received here on this site on how to create more interesting roof shapes.

The water falls that are falling under the circular bridge are just selections in Lumion 5 they are already animated and you just pick one and place it where you want it.

The waterfall that's spilling from the top pool to the lower pool I had to model that one, and then again its the power of Lumion that makes it appear to move by selecting the waterfall texture and then adjusting the settings.

The front waterfall you can see on the video is again me modeling a waterfall shape and then applying the waterfall texture to it once inside lumion 5. (That waterfall I need to make better haha)

Thanks

@pilou said:

Animation made with Lumion, LumenRt...?

Its rendered with Lumion 5

Here is the video and some renderings of the house I designed that I now call the Dragon Estate because it looks so wild:) Hope you like it, its a little extreme .

@bryan k said:

Cool design. Very airy and soaring.

Thank you, I have a lot to do before they are finished.

@krisidious said:

Tony Stark Approves...

Ha ha ha

I just have to finish it for him, ha ha ha

I have not posted here in a while and have been learning a lot about sketchup, after I posted my Dubai Dream Home model I got a very good unbelievable job offer from a well established architectural design firm that has been on HGTV 3 times. I have been very busy with that and learning at the same time.

I will post a pic of three designs I am working on completely design by me sitting on the proposed building site in side google earth. (not complete)

One I call the cliff house and the other is called curvilinear, and then there's one I call the Dragon House.

What to you think of the designs at this stage of development? I have a lot of new house models some of them are available on the 3D Warehouse here is a link to my 3d warehouse page

3D Warehouse

3D Warehouse is a website of searchable, pre-made 3D models that works seamlessly with SketchUp.

(3dwarehouse.sketchup.com)

Let me know what you think.

peace

Aaron

firstliight

@box said:

You could have a look at Buildedge, but I'm not sure if it works with curves.
http://www.buildedge.com/tutorials/

Thanks Ill take a look at it.

@krisidious said:

No... It does not exist as far as I know... I had a tutorial around here somewhere on how to build them manually.

I think you're right.

@pbacot said:

I suppose the coolest tool would allow the wall to be drawn as the curves are drawn and allow controlled manipulation of the 3d form either in preview or after creation, something like a dynamic component. It might be able to adjust the walls curve based on some rules, or bezier manipulation. You have various curve tools for your layouts.

How you describe the program is what am looking for and don't think it exist

The program FormZ has a straight wall and a curved tool even Bezier walls with controls.

Take a look at this youtube of FormZ in action skip to about 13:51 in the video.

Thanks again

Hello I work for a company that designs many of its homes with curvilinear walls, I have been looking for a plugin that can create curved walls easily. the only thing I can find is straight wall creation but not curved walls.

Is there such an extension available?

Thanks

firstliight

Take a look at this youtube video of a program called formZ and take note of it curved wall creation tool.

Skip forward in the video to about 13:51 to get the part of the video that show the wall tools. then you will see the type of plug I'm looking for.

Move forward in the video to 13:51

@bryan k said:

Did you use a plug-in to create the roof and if so, which one?

Love the design!

Yes I did use three plugins called fredoScale, Fredo joint push pull and the Tigs extrude tools and toolsOnSurface plugin, I use them a lot.

I am going to get Artisan and the vertex tool so I can create even better organic roof and wall shapes.

Thanks for liking the design.

@kaas said:

If you don't know him already, look him up: John Lautner, an American architect. His houses for Bob Hope, Casa Marbrisa and Pacific Coast House might be of interest.

Hey yeah I do know of Launtner and love a lot of his work, specially Casa Marbrisa. The Bob Hope house I like the interior but not so much the big black dome on top of it.

The designer I like the most is Guy Dreier, check him out. at guydreierdesigns.com His work is what inspired me to get more creative with my designs

The Pacific Coast house if its the same one I know that made of mostly wood I like, its kind of like what I would call modern rustic.

I will be designing a ultra modern rustic home with a organic curvy shape, with light grey ash wood, white marble in a snowy environment, (winter scene) don't know if that mix will work but I want to try it.

@jonfar said:

very nice, cant wait to see the final result

but those curved lines would definitely deserve an increse of the "arc segments" to be smoother

Thanks! and I agree 100% about adding more segments. I always create a low poly sample to get a feel for the design and search out areas that need more attention.

Thanks again.

@solo said:

..and another home I'll never own.

Is it that bad that you'll never own it? hahaha

@pbacot said:

Looking great! Nice concept.

Thanks I appreciate it.

This is a sneak peek of my new design project I call the Ocean Estate. It has a long way to go as you can see. it doesn't even have any roof supports yet, nor many other elements I want to add. The interior is partially complete but needs much work.

Designed with SketchUp 2014 and rendered with Kerkythea.

What do you think?