...or how did I say in my introduction-thread?

Now I am SURE I will never start a church-project, 'cause I am too old to see it finished

Yes, you are right, most of my projects have a sculptural approach (no "form-follows-function")... this is the starting point... then I begin thinking about how to give those forms floor-plans and interior design that make sense... and of course that mostly has a major or minor effect on the primary sculpture... it is an iterative process.

Probably I can only work this way as I am not a real architect with real clients... with their expectations and needs, budget-limits, environmental conditions etc.... I always have to be my own client when thinking about a new project... what I like and hate. (With one exception where I did a design for a cityhouse for friends of mine, that perhaps will come to reality within the next two years, hopefully)

Here is another simple sculpture... just a few cubes... a three-story-home. Wait for 2008 what will happen to it.

Cheers,
Franziska

wow, looks great. Besides, a church as a project obviously would never let me stop working on it... just thinking about all the decoration work inside.......

Think i better keep my focus on "clean" modern buildings...

by the way... this might be a future project - just a study now, working title is "Megalomania Mansion" - This is the good thing with playing... you can design everything affordable or not

In my eye a project is rarely finished... I am crazy enough to find always some more details that could be added...

Perhaps it is good that I never went into architectural profession... my work probably would never come to an end - not good if you depend on someone paying you for results...

On the other side I am sometimes sad that I did not follow my dreams to get in touch with a kind of profession that has something to do with architecture or design in any way... but my parents did not want me to do that and I followed their plans and never corrected it. Well, it led me to skills in informatics and economics... and to a heavy burnout three years ago.

The consequence is I do not anything by profession at the moment... what gives me a considerable amount of time to play wih SU and such stuff.........

Cheers,
Franziska

Csaba, Mike,

thank you both for your feedback and the kind welcome greetings.

Yes I am glad having found this comm. I am sure I will find some inspiration and motivation here to continue with my "projects"... and every comment and feedback that helps me to improve what I am trying to do with SU is very welcome.

Here some pics of another building, no rendering this time... this is still work in progress and I am not sure when to finish it as two other ideas have kept me busy with SU the past weeks... I always tend to begin something, start another one, a third one... and so on. And never know when to finish something I started...

To all of you in this community a very pleasant and healthy 2008!

Cheers,
Franziska

thanks, Pete!

Some other impressions that came out as a result of my first Artlantis experiments with that building.

Cheers,
Franziska

...and two other views of the building.

new to this forum (and glad I found it as there have been already some answers to questions I do not need to ask anymore...)

My first picture shown here is from a model I did a few months ago. It has not been my first experience with SketchUp but it was one of the first renderings I ever did, using Artlantis.

I build all of my models just for fun so far. Maybe it is the continuation of my past childhood days where I spent years and years building houses with Lego bricks. Unfortunately I did not get in touch with architectural design by profession, so playing with SketchUp is a kind of therapy for me...

Please excuse, if my English ist not really good. It lasts back to school days and I did not have many oppurtunities to train it afterwards...

Cheers,

Franziska