by Alex Hogrefe | Jun 26, 2016 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 03 Crossroads Pavilion |
There are still some areas of Portfolio Vol. 4 that are missing information. One image that I just finished creating is an aerial of the train pavilion project that better shows the relationship of the new architecture to the iconic town water tower. I have several...
by Alex Hogrefe | May 15, 2016 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 02 Cultural Center |
As I rework some of the spreads for my upcoming Portfolio Volume 4, I find myself needing to develop several new illustrations to fill in some missing information or to help better tell the story. However, due to time limitations and the amount of images I need to...
by Alex Hogrefe | Mar 6, 2016 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 04 Cliff Retreat |
I wanted to have some fun with this image and create something that conveyed the scale of this project. Sort of a grand finale image. I have already generated a lot of close-up vignettes, but nothing really showing the project its totality. I chose a view that would...
by Alex Hogrefe | Feb 12, 2016 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 04 Cliff Retreat |
I was finally able to setup some interior scenes for the cliff retreat design. I decided to go black and white with these images to relate back to the black and white exterior images generated a few posts ago. However, the desaturated colors will also help play up the...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jan 24, 2016 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 04 Cliff Retreat |
For the past few weeks, I have been producing section illustrations of my cliff retreat design. As is often the case, the final result took a complete detour from what I originally set out to produce. I began the spreads rendering out two large detail perspectives...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jan 3, 2016 | Break Down, Fundamentals, Project 04 Cliff Retreat |
In part one, I discussed some quick study vignettes of the cliff retreat design. For part two, I want to go into more depth about how I used a Material ID render channel to speed up my material selections and generate these illustrations in a relatively short...
by Alex Hogrefe | Dec 13, 2015 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 04 Cliff Retreat |
The cliff retreat has been a fun project to design and I find myself constantly jumping back and forth between the macro and micro scales of the design. For the micro scale, the lack of detail in the model can make it difficult to visualize some...
by Alex Hogrefe | Nov 25, 2015 | Break Down, Project 04 Cliff Retreat |
A big part of this design is how the landscape slips under and around the structure. As a way for me to understand the relationship between the landscape and architecture, I put together a few diagrams. The success of this image relies heavily on the textures. The...
by Alex Hogrefe | Aug 28, 2015 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 03 Crossroads Pavilion |
I have been experimenting with some interior illustrations and wanted to post a breakdown of this image. Determining the view for this shot has been difficult because there is so much going on in the design, and I wanted to find a view that properly captured...
by Alex Hogrefe | May 3, 2015 | Break Down, Portfolio Vol. 4, Project 03 Crossroads Pavilion |
It’s been a while, but I am finally back. I have spent the last several months traveling, giving workshops, settling into a new home, and spending time with family. Needless to say, priorities shifted as they often do and this website unfortunately had to be put...
